The High Museum of Art has made partnerships with collection-rich European museums a cornerstone of its exhibition program. Intended to provide Atlanta audiences with great works of art and fill in the gaps in the High's permanent collection, the exhibitions have been a boon for the general public but a mixed bag for those who want more than a hit parade.
The small, laser-focused exhibitions of Italian Renaissance sculptures have been far superior to the large group shows in delivering substance as well as visual engagement. The Louvre series often hung on arbitrary themes to provide a semblance of coherence, with ...
Halloween, as skeletons and headstones on front lawns suggest, has its roots as a festival of death. Today, holiday treats sugarcoat the fears that our ancestors sought to appease through ritual. The ancient Egyptians, however, had a better idea: live forever. The Michael C. Carlos Museum, Atlanta's go-to institution for things Egyptian, explains it all in "Life & Death in the Pyramid Age: The Emory Old Kingdom Mummy,” on view through December 11.
The 4,000-year-old mud-brown figure (shown above) is the star of the show. He is, in fact, among the dozen extant mummies that date from Egypt's Old Kingdom, when ...
Atlanta Celebrates Photography, the annual autumn festival of speakers, exhibits and other events, is in full swing. In other words, you can barely turn around, let alone walk into a gallery, coffee shop or museum, without running into some manifestation of the photographic arts. This is a good thing. Many good things, actually. We've reviewed a gracious plenty; notes on a few more follow.
“David S. Johnson: Photographer.” The Hammonds House Museum showcases the work of the octogenarian photojournalist, who chronicled the life and times of San Francisco's Fillmore District during the late 1940s and '50s, when it was a lively ...
Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue, a New York-based organization that operates a national network of support for working artists, has announced the 15 finalists for its 2011 Atlanta awards.
They are Yun Bai, Daniel Biddy, Brian Dettmer, Craig Drennen, Sarah Emerson, Sarah Hobbs, Gyun Hur, John Q, Jason Kofke, Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier, M. Ryan Nabulsi, Joseph Peragine, Rocío Rodriguez, Micah Stansell and Jim Yarbrough. Seven of these artists, whose names will be announced in November, will win cash awards -- two of $15,000 and five of $3,000 -- and become part of Artadia's support network, which includes, for example, exhibitions in ...
Wednesday, a big night for performances at “Elevate: Art Above Underground,” will include the unveiling of "Reunion," a lighthearted but technologically complex multimedia effort by Neil Fried, Priscilla Smith and Sam Wenzer. Fried filmed Smith and others at the Five Points MARTA station using what he calls “encaustic video,” a form of image processing that siphons off portions of the video stream into a reservoir of memory that fades or fixes according to luminosity. The video will be projected onto a wall on the upper level of Underground, on which Wenzer and Smith have painted a mural depicting moments from ...
You know the story about the blind men and the elephant. Their descriptions of the beast depended on which part they touched. I feel that way about FLUX 2011. The experiences of those attending this year's version of the annual arts festival, on September 30, varied greatly depending on what they saw (impossible to see everything), what time they were there and whom they ran into during their wanderings.
Because of this, we invite people who were there to tell us about your experience in the Comments section below. We will also be publishing observations from other quarters in the coming ...
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