Forget the ink blot. There’s no better Rorschach test than a work of art. Its interpretation owes as much or more to the personal and cultural baggage the viewer brings as to the artist’s intentions. Exhibit A: “Seepages,” an engaging group show at Whitespace, which I reviewed for the AJC.
Caroline Lathan-Stiefel, its curator and star, based the show on the theme of porous boundaries between urban, suburban and natural spaces, an idea that has animated her work for some time. The Atlanta native, now living in Philadelphia, invited artists who share her interests -- six Philly peers and Atlantan John ...
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Julian Cox, curator of photography at the High Museum of Art since 2005, has announced his decision to become the founding curator of photography for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and chief curator of the de Young Museum. Julian’s last day at the High will be Friday, August 20, and he will assume his new position in September.
UPDATE: read my ArtsCriticATL exit interview with Julian Cox.
Railroads run through Atlanta’s history. They birthed the city by intersecting their lines here, sped its development and led General Sherman to burn it down. The Atlanta BeltLine’s conversion of a 22-mile loop around the center city into a community amenity will add another chapter to the story.
Even as that chapter unfolds, two artists represented in the “Art on the BeltLine” project, on view through August 31, offer an engaging footnote. The women, who call themselves the Paper Twins, created “Wanderers,” a series of eight painted plywood figures depicting the people who ride the rails without a ticket.
Most of us associate train-riding with the ...
Flux Projects, an organization dedicated to supporting diverse and creative forms of public art, has selected 25 pieces for its 2010-11 season.
Many of the projects, which include video projections, performance, dance, music, sculpture and light and sound installations, will be mounted in Castleberry Hill during Flux, a one-night arts event coming Oct. 1. In keeping with Flux Projects' mission to merge art and daily life, others will show up anywhere from office buildings and restrooms to parks and parking lots.
Projects include "Lima Lives!", a roving video projection about a peripatetic zebra, by Ed Calhoun, Linda Calhoun and Ralph Brancaccio; Project 7 Contemporary Dance Company's "The ...
The High Museum of Art is planning a speaker series that will bring noteworthy contemporary artists to Atlanta. Although it has not released a full list, the museum has told supporters that Jeff Koons and Kehinde Wiley are on the schedule.
Koons will speak October 5 about Salvador Dalí, as part of the programming for the museum's "Dalí: The Late Work," set to open August 7. It's an inspired pairing. A showman and provocateur himself, Koons deliberately teeters on the edges of kitsch, pornography, sentimentality and commercialism.
For an equally intriguing match-up, Wiley, who has gained renown for his Old Masters-style paintings of African-American street kids, will talk about ...
Fashion forward takes on a new meaning in “On You 2,” a peek at the future of wearable technology, on exhibit at the Museum of Design Atlanta.
Consider the garments that float in the center of the gallery. Those elegant knife-edged pleats running down the trouser legs are more than designer detail. They're touch-sensitive devices to operate your cell phone, iPod or whatever mobile computing device happens to be in your pocket. Ditto the decorative pattern embroidered on the sleeve of a jacket.
The sequel to MODA’s 2008 “On You,” the exhibit highlights research conducted by Georgia Tech professors Thad Starner, director ...
