http://burnaway.org Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:12:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_11906" align="aligncenter" width="494" caption="Ling Zhang, ink, pencil, watercolor, handmade paper mounted on canvas. Photo courtesy Whitespace Gallery."][/caption] Over its long history, China has absorbed the influences of myriad cultures, from Central Asia, India and the Himalayas, Mongolia, and from the many nomadic races which have made periodic incursions. These influences ... http://burnaway.org/2010/03/from-beijing-to-atlanta-at-whitespace-gallery/ [caption id="attachment_11864" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Jason "J-Trav" Travis is one of many local artists to take advantage of Dashboard Co-op's website. Above: Jason Travis, Jessica. Photo  courtesy Dashboard Co-op.org"][/caption] The last few years in Atlanta have seen an influx of the under-30 crowd starting galleries, organizations, collectives, and journals. It’s time to ... http://burnaway.org/2010/03/interview-dashboard-co-op-to-host-launch-party-this-saturday/ [caption id="attachment_11850" align="aligncenter" width="339" caption="Joseph Paragine's new solo opens Friday at Solomon Projects. Joseph Paragine, Untitled (True Adventures), 2007 Watercolor, Conté crayon, ink and pencil on paper 30 x 22 inches. Photo courtesy SolomonProjects.com."][/caption] See below for visual arts events beginning Thursday, March 18. THURSDAY, MARCH 18 Fundred Dollar Bill Pick-up Celebration Atlanta Contemporary ... http://burnaway.org/2010/03/to-do-list-66/ [caption id="attachment_11795" align="aligncenter" width="285" caption="Image courtesy the Global Health Odyssey Museum."][/caption] In 1905, German scientists discovered the corkscrew-shaped bacteria Treponema pallidum, the spirochete that causes syphilis. The following year, August Wasserman developed a diagnostic test for syphilis (known as the Wasserman Test), and gonorrhea diagnostics were being developed contemporaneously. But the ... http://burnaway.org/2010/03/vd-at-the-cdc/ [caption id="attachment_11774" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Michael Smith, From Sears Class Portrait #1 (1999-2007), Spring 2003. Pigment print, 16 x 13 inches. Courtesy the artist and Christine Burgin Gallery, NY."][/caption] As stand-ins for the real deal, substitute teachers often breed mischief: Kids can sleep through class, wear headphones, swear a little louder than ... http://burnaway.org/2010/03/substitute-teacher-at-the-atlanta-contemporary-art-center/ [caption id="attachment_11751" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Ben Smith, Seated Figure with Masks, 1969, woodblock print. Photo courtesty BenSmithArt.com."][/caption] Mason Murer's Mark Karelson and Twenty21 Collections' Erin Wertenberger have, as Wertenberger reports, recently decided to begin hosting a series of exhibitions intended to create a history of living Atlanta artists, beginning with legendary veterans ... http://burnaway.org/2010/03/benjamin-smith-retrospective-closes-this-saturday/ [caption id="attachment_11705" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="The BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in Lilburn, Georgia. Photo by Josh LeFrancois."][/caption] The BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir ascends in Himalayan splendor and South-Asian finery 70 feet above the banality of a five-lane stretch of Lawrenceville Highway, claiming its place as Lilburn, Georgia’s newest, most sophisticated landmark. The ... http://burnaway.org/2010/03/baps-mandir-politics-peace-and-harmony-in-atlantas-suburbs/ [caption id="attachment_11698" align="alignright" width="250" caption="Photo by Mike Germon."][/caption] Another video interview produced by Kombo Ch. The Plastic Aztecs present Grow at Beep Beep Gallery, opening this Saturday, March 13, from 8-11PM. See also BURNAWAY's Plastic Aztecs review from 2008 and these Grow preview photos on ThoughtMarker. // http://burnaway.org/2010/03/video-plastic-aztecs-preview/ [caption id="attachment_11670" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="The Plastic Aztecs' latest exhibition opens Saturday at Beep Beep Gallery. Photo by Mike Germon."][/caption] See below for visual arts events beginning Thursday, March 11. THURSDAY, MARCH 11 Abstracted Nature / Group show Swan Coach Gallery / 6-8PM David Johnson / Out of the Shadows Opal Gallery / Noon-7PM regular hours / ... http://burnaway.org/2010/03/to-do-list-65/ [caption id="attachment_11649" align="aligncenter" width="468" caption=" David Adamo, Untitled (Music for Strings), 2009 (Installation view, N.O. Gallery, Milan). Wooden stage, harp strings, nylon string, copper and brass fittings, wooden cane, wooden shavings, dimensions variable."][/caption] David Adamo’s whittled-down canes, which can be seen on the third floor of this year’s Whitney Biennial, could ... http://burnaway.org/2010/03/less-is-more-at-2010-whitney-biennial/