In a letter to the editor, SHRINE founder and director Scott Ogden responds to contributor Madeleine Seidel’s recent review of an exhibition by Mary T. Smith at his gallery.
Features
BA editor Logan Lockner interviews curator Michael Rooks and the participants in Of Origins and Belonging at the High Museum of Art.
For the first installment in our new artist column Mood Ring, Brian Hitselberger writes about hate speech, queer hypervisibility, and the drag performance that inspired his current work.
After a season dominated by the banjo plucks and 808s of “Old Town Road,” the ascent of the Black Yeehaw Agenda is upon us. Jasmine Amussen reports from Atlanta.
Artist Yoon Nam considers I-85, the American Dream, and Alex Ito’s “God Has No Fingernails” at the artist-run space Good Enough in the Duluth, Georgia.
Art Review, Feature
A Photographic Inheritance: On Terence Price’s “Take Your Time”
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Ade J. Omotosho responds to a video by artist Terence Price II with a meditation on photography and time, family archives, and the voice of the matriarch.
Art Review, Feature, In Translation
Testimonio de la Realidad: Beatriz González at PAMM, Miami
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In her retrospective in Miami, the Colombian artist Beatriz González bears witness to the harsh realities of corruption and civil warfare with a critical yet playful approach.
Interview, Profile
Black, Soft, and Wavy : In Conversation with Azikiwe Mohammed
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BA assistant editor Jasmine Amussen speaks with Azikiwe Mohammed about soft ghetto aesthetics, memory and photography, and his solo show at SCAD Museum of Art.
In a group exhibition in New Orleans, eight women artists confront and reconfigure the largely white, male histories of Modernism.
Two scholars of Black culture offer close readings of paintings by Amy Sherald currently on view in her solo exhibition at the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art.
Artist Katya Tepper visits Mark Starling’s studio in Warrenton, Georgia. From caskets to pelvic bones, Starling’s work confronts human mortality head on.
Susan Mackey considers the stark contrasts of photographers Dawoud Bey in Chicago and Clarence John Laughlin in Atlanta.
Art Review, Feature
So Many Gardens of Eden: Folk and Photography at the High Museum of Art
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Artist Karen Tauches visits the unmapped highways and rural South in “Way Out There: The Art of the Southern Back Roads” now on view at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta.
Painter Holly Coulis sits down with Hannah Tarr and J. Michael Ford to learn more about their two person exhibition on view at Camayuhs in Atlanta.
Judy Chicago’s name is synonymous with feminist art of the 1970’s. Her solo exhibition at ICA Miami demonstrates why her work still resonates fifty years later.
Art Review, Feature, In Translation
La Creación de Significado: Rocío Rodríguez en el MOCA GA, Atlanta
Mar 27, 2019 0
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En su retrospectiva actual en MOCA GA en Atlanta, la artista Rocío Rodríguez presenta cuadros de los últimos treinta años. Leer una reseña por escritor TK Smith, en español e inglés.
Art Review, Feature
Shutdown: Bill Traylor at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Mar 21, 2019 0
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BA contributor Jordan Amirkhani considers what it means when the first major retrospective dedicated to an American artist born into slavery is interrupted by a government shutdown.
Art Review, Feature, MOMUS
No Outsiders: The 2019 Atlanta Biennial at Atlanta Contemporary
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The 2019 Atlanta Biennial collapses distinctions between “folk” and mainstream, past and future, making a case for art “inside and beside” the artworld. Read BA contributor Maura Callahan’s review, co-commissioned by BURNAWAY and our partner publication Momus.
