Archive Content from Jan 2012

01/30/12 To Do List: Through February 5

WonderRoot’s filmmakers’ series continues at Plaza Theatre, and the High Museum screens short films from the MoMA.

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01/27/12 Atlanta Art Crush: Shara Hughes Returns to Atlanta

Shara Hughes, painter and founder of SEEK ATL, discusses her time away and return to Atlanta.

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01/26/12 Dodge & Burn: Full Radius Dance Performs Ethos/Pathos/Logos

Full Radius Dance presents The Path Beyond with choreography by Onur Topal-Sümer and music by Jon Ciliberto.

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01/26/12 Papercuts Dismantles Old Notions of the Art As Mere Decorative Craft

Papercuts demonstrates the capacity of a medium once dismissed as a minor decorative art to embody complex conceptual messages.

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01/25/12 Video from Miami, p. 2: Craig Drennen on Aqua and Art Basel

Professor and painter-provocateur Craig Drennen explains why Art Basel is such a great opportunity for Atlanta’s artists.

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01/25/12 Sexuality and Innocence in Benita Carr’s Morning Sun at Whitespace

Carr’s photography meditates on motherhood today, the role of “me time,” and half-asleep visions of demonic children.

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01/25/12 Drolen’s Hair Pieces Evocatively Resonates with Beauty and Repulsion

Rebecca Drolen showcases the presence of hair in our lives and the complexities characterizing our relationship to it.

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01/24/12 Our Front Porch: Would Atlanta Benefit from a Postcolonial Dialogue?

This week’s guest writer challenges the nostalgia of blackness at the Hammonds House Museum and other Atlanta venues.

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01/24/12 ARTSpeak: Off the EDGE Unites Local and International Dancers and Artists

Leslie Gordon of the Rialto Center for the Arts discusses Off the EDGE. Special thanks to AM1690.

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01/23/12 To Do List: Through January 30

This week launches the Off the EDGE performance series with events throughout Atlanta.

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01/20/12 Pangea at Beep Beep Gallery Calls for a New Generation of Arts Critics

Seven young artists present new works for 2012, calling attention to the need for a Walter Benjamin of this age.

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01/20/12 Ben Steele’s Paintings Capture Real Illusions at Kiang Projects

The works in Steele’s 16-Sided Crystal present portals into a multidimensional fractal space, recaptured with paint.

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01/19/12 Dodge & Burn: Atlanta Fringe Festival Reveals Featuring Performers

Twinhead Theatre is organizing the first annual Atlanta Fringe Festival, featuring performers from around the U.S. and Italy.

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01/18/12 Our Favorite Things: Remembering Atlanta Arts 2011

Our top favorite arts events of 2011! We’re mixing up the format and publishing in January rather than December. Surprise!

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