Burnaway’s editors compile a selection of ten of their favorite online stories from the past year.
Features
Burnaway editor Logan Lockner unpacks the conceptual and material excavations in Noel W. Anderson’s solo exhibition “Blak Origin Moment.”
Kristina Kay Robinson explores the “cinematic third space” developed by Ghanaian-American filmmaker Akosua Adoma Owusu in works on view in New Orleans.
As Art Week Miami comes to a close, Jameson Paige visits an installation in Little Haiti meant to highlight the perpetually unresolved relationships between art and gentrification.
On this forty-ninth annual National Day of Mourning, Jasmine Amussen considers the work of Native artist Hock E Aye VI, or Edgar Heap of Birds.
Jasmine Amussen plays anarchic games in the library and finds an archivist’s fever dream on Auburn Avenue.
Two exhibitions at Tulane’s Newcomb Art Museum draw connections between the adverse effects of environmental racism in Flint, Michigan, and Gordon Plaza in New Orleans.
After being closed for three years and undergoing a multi-million-dollar renovation, the Asheville Art Museum reopens, offering a rich, layered picture of art in Appalachia and beyond.
Art Review, Feature
Through A Glass Darkly: Bryan Graf and Christina Price Washington
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Jeremy Bolen unpacks the material and methodical investigations into the history of photography in exhibitions by Bryan Graf and Christina Price Washington.
In recent paintings on view at Bureau in New York, Tennessee-based artist Tom Holmes contends with the versatility of artificial space and the freedom afforded by camouflage.
Hunter Braithwaite examines the music and drawings of self-taught artist Henry Speller, who recorded the sights and sounds of Memphis’s colorful nightlife.
Madeleine Seidel profiles Tennessee native Virginia Overton and considers the importance of site, material, and context in the artist’s sculptural works.
Annie Moye tells the love story behind a colorful artist environment in Mississippi and reports on efforts to preserve it following the artist’s death.
In a letter from the editor, Logan Lockner considers creative placemaking and collaborations betweens artists and developers and asks, “What is art for?”
As institutions around the world mark the centenary anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus, Diana C. Stoll reconsiders the school’s legacy in Appalachia.
In the second installment of our feature Take Five, Burnaway highlights five artists working in a medium with strong historical and material ties to Southern culture and craft: textiles.
In the final installment in our Art and Labor series with Scalawag, Jasmine Amussen reflects on joining the National Writers Union and considers labor organizing as a form of collective caregiving.
New Orleans editor-at-large Charlie Tatum and contributors Nic Aziz and Taylor Murrow report on the stand-out works in a pair of open call exhibitions in New Orleans.
