Archive Content by Tag ‘street art’

01/31/13 Announcing BURNAWAY Public Panel and Editorial in Creative Loafing

Please join us on February 9 for a live forum on art and public space. Also: a surprise in today’s Creative Loafing!

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01/17/13 Living Walls and the Perils of Public Space, Part II

Our esteemed guest writer returns with his take on the role of ‘community’ and how the democracy of art can take a wrong turn.

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01/11/13 Living Walls and the Perils of Public Space, Part I

This two-part series asks tough questions and searches for historical context for recent controversies over public art.

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10/17/12 Creative Mornings Meets Living Walls at the High Museum this Friday

Living Walls founder Monica Campana presents at Creative Mornings, a lecture series devoted to coffee and inspiration.

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08/29/12 Living Walls 2012: Was It a Success for Female Artists?

Despite some ambivalence in carrying out its feminist goals, Living Walls incites community through controversy.

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08/08/12 Living Walls 2012 Launches August 15 with All Female Street Artists

Celebrating street art and urbanism for its third year, the conference returns to Atlanta with five days of events.

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06/21/12 BURNAWAY on Huffington Post: Brad Downey’s Portrait of My Father

Our editor reviews Saturday’s airborne artwork, in BURNAWAY’s first article published on Huffington Post!

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02/15/12 Our Front Porch: Q&A with Living Walls and Indigo

In this week’s guest column, Living Walls interviews the globe-trekking street artist and general do-gooder, Indigo.

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09/20/11 A Pretty Good Accident: BORN Combines the Wild and Refined

I have great respect for street artists. It takes initiative, bravery, and detachment to be an indie visual producer in the public realm. There’s no money in it, only the potential for fame. Wildflowers of the urban meadows, these works offer a freshness and a spirit of freedom that is rather impossible to replicate in [...]

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08/09/11 ARTSpeak: Gaia on Living Walls and Street Art as Social Practice

Click the player above to listen to “Part 1: Living Walls in Atlanta and the Slums of Baltimore” (official broadcast), or click here to download the MP3. BONUS: Click above for “Part 2: Respect for History, not Rock Stars” (web-exclusive audio), for some fun pre-interview banter, followed by a brief pause cutting to the second [...]

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05/17/11 ARTSpeak: The Paper Twins share visions of Mississippi and Peru

Click the player above to listen now, or click here to download the audio file. Special thanks to AM 1690, The Voice of the Arts, our partners in producing ARTSpeak with BURNAWAY. The radio program broadcasts over the airwaves every Tuesday between 8-8:30AM and between 6-6:30PM. Episode 26: Jeremy Abernathy speaks with the Paper Twins, [...]

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12/24/10 Our Favorite Things: Best of Atlanta art events of 2010

Atlanta’s sprawling geography can be a double-edged sword: Navigating from point A to point B is an often-frustrating chore, but at least there are some nice visual distractions along the way. Our city has more greenery than most, and even the gray industrial zones have their own bohemian appeal. This summer brought big rain for [...]

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10/13/10 What remains of Living Walls?

In August of 2010, BURNAWAY featured an online panel discussion of the Living Walls Conference. Click here to read what our guests had to say! We recently went for a trip around the city to see what the walls of Atlanta had to offer. Much of the outdoor artwork created during Living Walls, the exhibition [...]

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08/18/10 Living Walls: Natives and newcomers share their thoughts

Update: BURNAWAY revisited the Living Walls murals in October of 2010. Click here to read what Santiago Junca and Karen Tauches had to say! One remarkable detail of the symposium portion of Living Walls occurred to me as I stood outside the auditorium. As I skulked about the courtyard of Georgia Tech’s College of Architecture [...]

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