By Guest Contributors | Jan 13, 2010
BY REBECCA DIMLING COCHRAN
Not all art is intended to find its way into a museum. In fact, millions of small drawings created by people across the United States will soon be headed to the Federal Reserve and Congress in Washington. The works are part of the Fundred Dollar Bill Project, a community action and performance piece that is the brainchild of internationally recognized artist Mel Chin.
Chin has asked people around the country to decorate one of his templates designed to look like a $100 bill. These fake hundred -- or “Fundred” -- dollars are being collected at sites around the country, where they are counted and bundled. Beginning Jan. 18, ...
By Guest Contributors | Jan 9, 2010
BY JERRY CULLUM
Editors' note: A well-known critic, poet and Art Papers staff member, Jerry Cullum has been a keen observer of the metro Atlanta scene for decades. We welcome him on our site. -- Pierre and Catherine
Venske & Spänle, whose fluid-seeming stone carvings don’t behave like “proper” stone, are showing at Marcia Wood Gallery through February 13 alongside Susanna Starr, whose astonishingly thin wood veneer sculptures behave more like the lace doilies that inspire them than like wood.
But the young German couple’s work deserves to be discussed in terms of its story, and their own, as much as in terms of ...
By Guest Contributors | Dec 24, 2009
Editor's note: We're happy to introduce Thomas May as a guest contributor to ArtsCriticATL. His books include "Decoding Wagner" and "The John Adams Reader," and he's written and lectured extensively on opera and classical music, from criticism for The Washington Post to essays and program notes for the Lucerne Festival, the Boston Symphony, San Francisco Symphony and many others. Atlanta readers will recall that Tom covered the Seattle Opera's "Ring" for the AJC in 2005, an event notable as conductor Robert Spano's Wagner debut. -- Pierre
By THOMAS MAY
Just a decade old, the UK-based label Opus Arte has built up a ...
By Guest Contributors | Dec 16, 2009
By Rebecca Dimling Cochran
Ever feel like your head is so full of things that it feels as if it will explode? I certainly have, which is why a smile spread across my face as I entered Chris Scarborough’s exhibition of new work at Marcia Wood Gallery in Atlanta.
“Orbital Debris,” positioned just inside the door, is an intricate
drawing of a young man in a John Deere T-shirt. Where his head should be is an explosion of fractured planes and shards of glass flying in all directions. The energy and fury are palpable as what can be seen as ideas, thoughts and ...
By Guest Contributors | Oct 19, 2009
By REBECCA DIMLING COCHRAN
Cell phones continue to evolve as an increasingly important tool of communication. “on the flip side,” an exhibition at Spruill Gallery in Atlanta, looks at artists who embrace these now ubiquitous gadgets and turn them into tools for creativity. Pushing beyond their common use of capturing digital photographs and video, curator Hope Cohn also introduces us to artists who draw, sculpt and compose music with these devices.
New Yorker Jorge Colombo sketches the urban landscape of his adopted city on his iPhone using an application called “Brushes.” These modern-day plein-air sketches have an astonishing painterly feel, even though Colombo does ...
By Guest Contributors | Sep 29, 2009
The critics have been all over the new Broadway-bound show by Twyla Tharp, "Come Fly With Me." The opinions are remarkably consistent. Here are some of the reviews of the world premiere production, running though Oct. 11 at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta.
ArtsCriticATL.com's dance critic CYNTHIA BOND PERRY brought a professional dancer's perspective to her review: "With Tharp’s acute musicality and her surprising ways of linking one movement to the next, every fraction of a beat -- each step, shift in the body, touch, gesture, glance and toss of a girl through the air -- furthers one of four complementary story lines that are ...
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