The BURNAWAY Board of Directors Announces Staff Changes
The BURNAWAY Board of Directors announces the departure of Executive Editor Stephanie Cash, who has been with BURNAWAY since November 2013, and the appointment of Logan Lockner as Interim Editor. Lockner has been a contributor to BURNAWAY since 2015. He was a participant in the second cycle of BURNAWAY’s Art Writers Mentorship Program, and served…
Studio Visit with Carol John in Athens, Georgia
From the outside, the studio of Athens artist Carol John is a nondescript, monotone brick building whose ordinariness belies what’s behind its metal doors. Her space is flooded with natural light from skylights that highlights small and large canvases filled with swirling forms, bubbles, pop graphics, bursting flowers, and, most of all, saturated color. I sat…
Terry on the Town: The Somos Estrellas Edition
Every week in Terry on the Town, we catch up with the indefatigable Terry Kearns to see what he’s been up to, where he’s gone, and what and who he’s seen. If you don’t know Terry, he’s the bespectacled man with the tousled head of hair and a be-stickered Pixel 2 in front of his…
To Do List: Week of August 13, 2018
Your weekly list of art exhibitions and events throughout Atlanta and the South.
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Southern Self-Taught Artists Take the Stage at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
“History Refused to Die,” an exhibition of works by self-taught Southern artists at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, fills the space abutting the modern masters gallery—Pollock’s Autumn Rhythm is nearly within eyeshot—but it sings a humbler tune. On view through September 23, the show features 29 works by African-American artists, a selection…
Making America Do the Right Thing in Spike Lee’s “BlacKkKlansman”
If anyone deserves to be angry, Spike Lee does. And circa 2018, Lee should be his angriest yet, in the wake of Trump, and Charlottesville, Charleston, Philando Castile and any number of recent indignities and endless signs that America is backsliding into the Mississippi mire. And yet Lee is in a conciliatory and healing mood…
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“Chaos and Awe: Painting for the 21st Century” at Frist Art Museum in Nashville
A wide-ranging new exhibition of contemporary painting at the Frist Art Museum asks big questions about the medium and humankind, and the futures they may share together. “Chaos and Awe: Painting for the 21st Century” asserts that painting will continue to play a central role in envisioning, narrating and illuminating human culture in this new…
Lauren Greenfield’s “Generation Wealth” Exposes A Nation of Wannabes
The world, as most of us have by now deduced, is increasingly divided into the haves and the have nots. Add to that essential dichotomy a third classification that photographer Lauren Greenfield has often plumbed: the wannabes, the people who don’t have the means but want to have the bling or a sense of access…
“Changing Courses” and Self-Reflection at the New Orleans Museum of Art
Over the past two decades, the need for authenticity has become a visual battleground for New Orleans. The city’s tourism industry, while not inherently evil, reliably churns out pigeonhole iconographies that incidentally contribute to a plague of Airbnb pockets that eat away at local residential districts – the sites of genuine cultural generation. You can…
Van Sant’s New Film Considers the Healing Power of Art
The tagline of Gus Van Sant’s new film Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot promises a film about “the healing power of art.” But rather than an exegesis on transformative creativity, Don’t Worry is a gooey, sentimental and highly conventional therapeutic road to wellness. Based on the autobiography of countercultural Portland cartoonist John…
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Terry on the Town: The Somos Estrellas Edition
Aug 14, 2018
Terry on the Town: The whitespace Edition
Aug 7, 2018
Terry on the Town: The Midsummer Edition
Jul 31, 2018
Theory Decoded: Kant in the Age of Instagram
Jul 30, 2018
Terry on the Town: The Foliage Edition
Jul 24, 2018
Interviews
Studio Visit with Carol John in Athens, Georgia
From the outside, the studio of Athens artist Carol John is a nondescript, monotone brick building whose ordinariness belies what’s behind its metal doors. Her space is flooded with natural light from skylights that highlights small and large canvases filled with swirling forms, bubbles, pop graphics, bursting flowers, and, most of all, saturated color. I sat…
Q&A with MINT Founder Erica Jamison and New Executive Director Cory Klose
Atlanta arts non-profit MINT underwent several changes after leaving its location on North Highland in 2016, operating out of a temporary exhibition space in Downtown’s Flatiron Building that fall and announcing the resignation of creative director Candice Greathouse the following February. Originally founded by Erica Jamison in 2006 as an outgrowth of a community-based media…
Talking Heads: Tori Tinsley and Laura Vela Discuss Motherhood and Art-making
As if having a baby wasn’t hard enough, working women who are or plan to become pregnant are often put in the inexcusable position of having to defend their ability to create a family and still perform as professionals. Like the #metoo takedown of Artforum publisher Knight Landesman, the recent reports of MoMA PS1 rescinding…
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