There's too much to do this weekend (June 4-6). In addition to all the programs that occur regularly throughout the year (music at Eyedrum, say), the intersection of three big events -- "Art on the BeltLine" and Modern Atlanta's "Design Is Human" festival and the opening of two exhibitions at the High Museum of Art -- provides a happily daunting array of activities to cram into two days. To wit:
Hense: Mural on an underpass near Monroe Drive and 10th Street
"Art on the BeltLine." Strung along eight miles of the planned BeltLine project, this may be Atlanta's largest temporary art exhibition. Some 42 ...
There’s a basketball game going on in ACA Gallery of SCAD. But all you see of the match in Alexandre Arrechea’s video installation “Sweat” are the shots on the nets and backboards, projected onto two facing video screens.
Leave it to Arrechea to make a game with no people and no court action: breaking the “Rules of Play,” to quote the title of the show, is this Cuban artist’s métier.
Arrechea’s carefully crafted sculptures and deft drawings embody the illogical logic of a Rene Magritte painting by way of conceptual artist Mel Chin. The Cuban artist's approach, imagery and thematic concerns are ...
Atlanta Celebrates Photography (ACP) has announced its first major corporate sponsorship. Bank of America will be the presenting sponsor of the 2010 festival.
ACP's annual month-long citywide event, which takes place in October, works with hundreds of partners to present exhibitions, lectures, classes and special programs for audiences, from newbies to collectors, and photographers -- students and amateurs as well as a wide array of professionals.
The $20,000 sponsorship, which would be substantial for most arts organizations, is a huge leg up for ACP, which operates on a $236,000 annual budget. Another plus is the opportunity to build bridges with the bank's employees. ACP executive director Amy Miller says she ...
Kibbee Gallery is one of the DIY galleries -- that is, founded and curated by artists -- that now flouish in Atlanta. Preston Snyder has turned over the first floor of a house in Poncey-Highland to Ann-Marie Manker and Ben Goldman, who mount exhibitions that give mostly youngish artists a chance to show their work and use the gallery's quirky spaces to experiment with site-specific installations.
"Sprout," curated by Manker, features four artists -- Kelly Cloninger, Katherine Gaddy, Julia Kubica and Pam Rogers -- who share an interest in nature and its metaphorical possibilities but pursue it in distinctive ways.
The works are mostly small, as befits the domestic setting. They ...
June 5, 2010, may be remembered as the day modern design took Atlanta.
So begins my AJC article about the growing strength of contemporary design in Atlanta, which talks about some of the institutions and individuals that have contributed to its rise. June 5 serves as the watershed moment. Woodruff Arts Center is the place.
The opening of the High Museum of Art's “European Design Since 1985: Shaping the New Century,” which fills the Anne Cox Chambers Wing with innovative furniture, lighting, housewares and industrial design, makes a statement.
So does the slew of activities that will accompany it. Among them are programs mounted by Modern Atlanta, the organizer ...
Spruill Gallery’s “LATinGA” features eight Atlanta artists with Latin roots, but don’t expect insights or epiphanies about being Latin or Georgian. The artists come from different countries, and their origins play very different roles in their art -- and for some none at all.
That's OK. Gallery director Hope Cohn uses the theme as an umbrella rather than a scaffold, a way to corral a group of artists who merit our attention. The exhibit succeeds quite well as a series of mini-solo displays.
It's an opportunity to see the work of Lucha Rodriguez, who won the Forward Arts Foundation's 2010-11 Emerging Artist ...
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