This two-part series asks tough questions and searches for historical context for recent controversies over public art.
Archive Content by Tag ‘New York Times’
11/09/12 Tanz Farm Thrives in Spite of Last-minute Challenges
Despite complications from Hurricane Sandy, gloATL and Goat Farm proved that their new season is here to stay.
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10/25/12 Author David Sedaris of NPR Fame to Appear in Atlanta Saturday
Atlanta’s NPR affiliate WABE presents an evening with David Sedaris promising a performance to remember.
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09/19/12 Theory in Studio: Judd, James, West, and the Future of Beauty in America
Will America resist its obsession with comfort, contentment, and convenience to explore new frontiers in art and beyond?
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08/02/12 The Science of Art: A Review of Two Books by Rothenberg and Kandel
In anticipation of his curator’s talk tonight at Whitespace, Jerry Cullum reviews two books that weighed in on his selection.
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12/13/11 Pacific Standard Time: Could Atlanta Adapt Los Angeles’s Model?
On a recent trip to Los Angeles, I was able to see some of Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980, a cross-institutional series of exhibitions celebrating the history of contemporary art in L.A. The brainchild of the Getty Foundation, the six-month event is composed of 68 museum exhibitions and over 70 galleries featuring more [...]
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11/01/11 Our Front Porch: What Happened to Political Art in Atlanta?
The idea for BURNAWAY originated from a front-porch conversation about the need for more dialogue about local art. Please welcome Louise Shaw, this month’s curator of Our Front Porch, a series of guest reviews and topics for open discussion with you, our readers.
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07/27/11 Flash Mobs: Artistic Movement or Marketing Ploy?
At the end of the spring semester, my friend Annie came over; we were working on final papers, but after a few minutes she called me over to look at something on the screen of her Macbook. Toby, her flaky German roommate, had sent her a video of the Black Eyed Peas performing I Gotta [...]
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06/22/11 Camera Phone Anxiety: Reflecting on Photographic Technologies
Hipstographs: Experiments in Hi-Fi Lo-Fi, an exhibition currently on display at Gallery M in Castleberry Hill, showcases a collection of nearly 450 small, square photographs by 39 international artists. The images, densely packed into the small gallery space, were all taken exclusively by camera phones, mostly via the iPhone. Before walking into the gallery, I [...]
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06/21/11 Tragédie: Myths and American Dreams Gone Wrong at Beep Beep
Life is made of more tragedies than comedies due to circumstance, point of view, or environment. Children are often fed stories to help them learn lessons that parents hope they never have to use when they grow up. Some of these are fairy tales and fables, but they also include true stories of friends that [...]
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06/15/11 MEGABLOCKS! Five Films about Fantastic Architecture at the High
Sometimes it seems that designer architecture is so far removed from the real struggles of people’s lives that it loses its humanity. One way in which it does this is by scaling things up to mega size. At the Rich Theatre, Modern Atlanta screened four short films from BIG Architecture and a single film about [...]
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karley: nice!
Jared: Excited for the Bowman collection. She is someone to keep an eye on
ruth: What do you do with difficult lines of memory? Fold them into a san
Beth Lilly: I know! That's exactly the type of work I had in mind with the call f
Jason Francisco: Davis' bulletin boards seem to me actually to be photographs themselve