Madeleine Seidel profiles Tennessee native Virginia Overton and considers the importance of site, material, and context in the artist’s sculptural works.
Features
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.
Kayla Goggin considers the formal possibilities of the flesh in works by artist Parker Thornton recently on view at Whitespace in Atlanta.
As part of our Art and Labor series with Scalawag, Ben Beckett reports on art workers’ unionization efforts and the history of right-to-work laws in the South.
Assistant editor Jasmine Amussen reminisces about skateboarding and uncovers tender moments in Tyler Mitchell’s early photos of young suburban skaters.
Ade J. Omotosho reflects on the history of the Black male nude, tracing the fraught influence of Robert Mapplethorpe on generations of queer photographers.
BA editor Logan Lockner considers queer sex and figuration the paintings of Philadelphia-based artist Jonathan Lyndon Chase.
In the first edition of our new monthly feature Take Five, BA highlights five photographers we’re excited about who are working in the South or are from the region.
Feature, Interview
A Parallel Song: Allison Glenn and Marina Fokidis in Conversation
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Curators Allison Glenn and Marina Fokidis discuss decentralizing cultural power in the Global South and reflect upon the 13th Havana Biennial.
Atlanta-based video artist Saige Rowe creates a series of GIFs, “us on grass on real grass,” for Burnaway’s artist column Mood Ring.
Feature, News, Scalawag
Scalawag x Burnaway: Art, Labor, and Struggle in the South
Jul 31, 2019 0
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Burnaway and Scalawag announce the first stories in their collaborative series on art, labor, and struggle in the South, including a survey of labor films and a video essay.
Paul Michael Brown visits the farmhouse studio of Kentucky artist Mike Goodlett, whose drawings and sculptures give playful form to queer desire.
In her exhibition “Base Line of Appraisal,” Atlanta artist Krista Clark translates two-dimensional compositions into architectural installations drawing on the city’s rapidly developing landscape.
