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Our Favorite Things: Best of 2009
Dear ATL, To continue the tradition we started with last year’s Best of 2008 feature story, BURNAWAY has recruited the talents of ten highly qualified, arts-savvy Atlantans to help ring the bells, bring in the fire, and shout the praises of the most inspiring arts events of 2009. Below you’ll find top picks by guest... »
Marcel Breuer at Central Library and Museum of Design Atlanta
Modernist buildings in Atlanta have a proclivity towards neglect and disappearance. At a moment of political unrest over a famous Brutalist building, the Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA) hosts a beautifully designed traveling show about renowned architect Marcel Breuer, whose last great building happens to be our Atlanta Central Library. The museum reaches out... »
At gifting’s end: An interview with Beth Lilly
For this year’s Atlanta Celebrates Photography (ACP) public art project, Gifted, curator Beth Lilly and volunteers handed out no less than 1,200 signed, limited edition photographs by local artists. Now that the month-long project is complete, I took the opportunity to interview Lilly and find out how it went. »
John Portman: Hand of the genius?
The High Museum recently opened a major exhibition highlighting the local, national, and international achievements of John Portman, Atlanta’s architectural golden boy. John Portman: Art and Architecture offers visitors a comprehensive survey of one man’s triumphs, from his innovative role as architect/developer in the reconstruction of downtown Atlanta, through his monumental interventions in other... »
Dorothy O’Connor’s Tableau Vivant
To say that Dorothy O’Connor is a photographer is an understatement. O’Connor’s recent one-night tableau vivant at her studio in Southwest Atlanta proved that additional titles are in order: costume designer, set builder, collector, and maybe even “imagineer” (but without the Disney undertones). Much in the same vein as other photography greats (Cindy Sherman,... »
Dorothy O'Connor's Tableau Vivant
To say that Dorothy O’Connor is a photographer is an understatement. O’Connor’s recent one-night tableau vivant at her studio in Southwest Atlanta proved that additional titles are in order: costume designer, set builder, collector, and maybe even “imagineer” (but without the Disney undertones). Much in the same vein as other photography greats (Cindy Sherman,... »
Video: Studio visit with Radcliffe Bailey
We sat down with Radcliffe Bailey at his Atlanta studio to discuss his current mixed-media exhibit at Solomon Projects, Looking for Light, Traveling at Night. The drawings and sculptures on view were created in the wake of a special guest artist program at the Glass Pavilion of the Toledo Museum of Art as well... »
Friday at Oakland Cemetery, a one-night art show in the greenhouse ruins
In a space that used to be a cemetery greenhouse, local artist Cooper Sanchez has established a temporary outdoor art gallery. It’s a garden under an invisible roof, filled with orange and yellow cosmos, moonflowers, and giant castor beans—plants that will perform well in the dark. Although most of us just sneak into the... »
Ways of seeing: Duncan Johnson in 3 interpretations
Contemporary art often resists description, baffling even those whose expertise is the written word. Part painting, part sculpture, the work of Duncan Johnson at Marcia Wood Gallery is no exception. The photographs don’t do the work any justice; we can’t see those intimate textures of wood, nor can we appreciate the literal depth of... »
Undercover: Performing and Transforming Black Female Identities at Spelman College
Currently on display at the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Undercover: Performing and Transforming Black Female Identities displays over 75 works that examine the social implications of race, gender, and disguise. The exhibition presents different ways and reasons people manipulate their appearance. The curators, Andrea Barnwell Brownlee and Karen Comer Lowe, assembled a... »
Best of Atlanta 2009
Best Local Arts Blog
(Readers Choice)
Best New Trend in the Arts
(Critics Picks)
Best Local Art Event
(Readers Choice)