We recently wrote about Jonathan Lerner, the Atlanta novelist. Today, we introduce Jonathan Lerner the feature writer. A veteran of national publications, he's a man of many specialties, from architecture and urbanism to art and design to food and travel. He is volunteer media co-chairman for the 2010 Congress for the New Urbanism. Please visit ArtsCriticATL tomorrow for his discussion of the current exhibit at the Museum of Design Atlanta.
By JONATHAN LERNER
The Congress for the New Urbanism will hold its annual convention this week in downtown Atlanta. Organized with the assistance of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it has the theme ...
By Rebecca Dimling Cochran
For the past few months, internationally recognized artist, architect and filmmaker Alfredo Jaar has been teaching a class on "Public Interventions" to students at the Atlanta campus of the Savannah College of Art and Design. Last week, I spoke with the Chilean-born Jaar about the role public intervention plays in his artistic practice and how he brings that experience into the classroom.
RDC: The first time we met was in the early 1990s when we were installing your piece “The Fire Next Time” in the exhibition “Equal Rights and Justice.” Since that work is in the High Museum’s permanent collection and ...
Editor's note: ArtsCriticATL is delighted to publish articles, reviews and essays by Atlanta artists and leaders in the community. This is the second piece by Jeff Baxter, the choral administrator of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus, who's also a tenor in the group and was an assistant to Robert Shaw. Baxter's deep history with Bach's choral music and his anticipation of the ASOC's next "theater of a concert" performance makes his observations especially noteworthy. -- Pierre
By JEFFREY BAXTER
Last week, the Berlin Philharmonic gave a semi-staged, or "ritualized," performance of Bach's "St. Matthew" Passion, which was webcast live on the orchestra's exceptional ...
By JON ROSS
Marcus Printup, a trumpeter best known for his 17-year tenure with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, knows all the right things to say about his hometown crowd. Just as generations of performers before him have used variations of the line "I love you [insert city here]," the Conyers, Georgia, native can compliment an audience like a pro.
"The best audiences -- and I can truly, truly, truly say this -- the best audiences, the most soulful audiences in the United States, are in Atlanta, Georgia," Printup told me over the phone recently, his nose stuffed up with oppressive New ...
Editor's note: "Bloom," gloATL's Valentine's Day dance performance in Lenox Square, was the opening salvo of Flux Projects, a funding organization founded by Atlantan Louis Corrigan to encourage artists to push themselves and boundaries, and to engage the public in new ways. Not only a patron, Corrigan is a thoughtful and deeply involved viewer, as this analysis of "Bloom" will demonstrate. (All photos are by Adam Davila.)
By LOUIS CORRIGAN
There are many reasons that I’m gaga for Lauri Stallings and her gloATL dance troupe, but crucial among them is their fearlessness both emotionally and spatially. It’s rare to find such accomplished artists so comfortable embracing uncertainty ...
By JON ROSS
Just before intermission during the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra's Saturday night performance at Symphony Hall, saxophonist Ted Nash and trumpeter Marcus Printup broke away from the 15-musician big band. The duo moved upstage to perform a Doppler-esque bending of time in "Dali," the second movement of Nash's "Portrait in Seven Shades." Nash echoed Printup's stratospheric trumpet bursts on his alto, a nearly pitch-perfect, Simon-says feat that devolved into avant-garde wiggling of the fingers followed by, of all things, a cowbell solo by drummer Ali Jackson.
Nash's seven-part composition premiered in 2007 and is based on paintings in New York's ...
