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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…

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.

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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…

In keeping with its name, the Forward Arts Foundation invests in the future with an annual award to a talented Atlanta artist who has had no major solo show and is not connected with a commercial gallery. The prize is $10,000 and a solo show at the Swan Coach House Gallery, which the foundation operates.

Cosmo Whyte, the 2009-10 winner, is a very good choice. If you saw his delicate, haunting drawings at Agnes Scott College’s Dalton Gallery or…

Exhibitions for newly minted MFA students are an annual affair at Mason Murer Fine Art. Never before, however, has owner Mark Karelson accorded a single student the primo spot directly opposite the entrance. You’ll understand why he’s done it now the minute you lay eyes on “Cash Crop,” the stunning installation by SCAD graduate Stephen Hayes.

The piece exerts a totemic impact, even from a distance. Arrayed in the large open space are 15 concrete life-size figures…

Got a spare wall that could use some art? Monica Campana would like to talk to you. She and Blacki Li Rudi Migliozzi are the duo behind “Living Walls: The City Speaks,” a colloquium and exhibitions using street art to address urbanism and public space, and vice versa.

Their ambitious project has attracted artists from three continents, who will…