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Calling all ladders! Flux Projects would like to borrow yours for “Rise Up Atlanta,” artist Charlie Brouwer’s temporary sculpture (rendering at left), to be on view in Freedom Park from April 28 to May 31. Prominent tags on each ladder will identify its lender. The ladders will be returned to their owners or, if an [...]

What does a drawing sound like? Answering that question was the genesis for artist Craig Dongoski’s early work, and it resonates in the new drawings in “Attack/Decay/Sustain/Release,” at Whitespace through April 16. The pieces in the show begin as a single line. Dongoski responds to that line, and then to the line he has just [...]

Laura Noel is a compleat photographer. She knows how to build a picture, but her keen eye for geometry and color only partly accounts for the pleasure and satisfaction her work begets. The other part is her perspective, which, as she puts it, “skews sideways.” Her work delights us with corner-of-the eye revelations and epiphanies, [...]

The High Museum of Art will shift into high-design mode in June. The museum has commissioned pieces from two avant-garde firms in conjunction with “Modern by Design,” an exhibition that will chronicle the history of vanguard design and the Museum of Modern Art’s role in promoting it. Joris Laarman Lab, a Dutch firm, will contribute [...]

If someone were to write the art history of Atlanta, the creation of ”Source Route,” George Trakas’ sculpture at Emory University, would be named a seminal event. The 1979 piece — two pathways to the streambed of the Baker Woodland behind the Carlos Museum — was one of the city’s earliest examples of land art. Trakas, [...]

First, some related events at the Carlos Museum: Tuesday, April 5, 7:30 p.m.: Bonna Wescoat will discuss Polyphemus and other one-eyed mythic creatures. Tuesday, April 12, 7:30 p.m.: Guided tour of “Divine Intervention” by curator Jessica Stephenson. (At left: Hunter’s shirt from Mali.) Friday, April 22, 7:30 p.m.: Keynote address by Princeton professor Chika Okeke-Agulu, which kicks [...]