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Every so often I see something that is so visually enrapturing that I want to share it with you, dear reader. Remember the body painting of the Omo tribe in Ethiopia? Well, the animated versions of cells created by Harvard scientists and available on YouTube likewise blow me away. They are also eerily similar to Pandra Williams’ and Annette [...]

Ever since Stone Age artists painted herds loping across the caves of Altamira (and on through Damien Hirst’s bestiary), animals have served artists as subject and symbol. Three young Atlantans — Kelly O’Brien, Sam Parker and Nikki Starz — add their own takes to that long history in “Feral Flirtations: Artists Playing With Animals” at [...]

Venerable New York art dealer Ronald Feldman (below), who has spent 40 years championing cutting-edge and political art, will speak at 7 p.m. Thursday, November 18, in the High Museum’s Hill Auditorium. Feldman will discuss the history of his SoHo gallery – where he has shown, among others, Joseph Beuys, Hannah Wilke, Chris Burden, Leon Golub and Komar & Melamid – and how he [...]

By JASON FRANCISCO At least since the crusades of Alfred Stieglitz a century ago, art photography has been burdened by problems of intentionality: the ability of a photographer to convince us that her or his images are suffused with expressive self-consciousness. If, the thinking goes, we can accept photographs as deliberated illusions created by deliberate gestures, [...]

Children will be cavorting on a custom-designed playscape in downtown’s Woodruff Park next spring, courtesy of “Playable10,” an international design competition intended to encourage creative thinking about play spaces and equipment. The jury chose a design by Jeff Santos, a young video game designer in Vancouver, British Columbia, as the winner of the “Playable ART” [...]

By JASON FRANCISCO At least since the crusades of Alfred Stieglitz a century ago, art photography has been burdened by problems of intentionality:  the ability of a photographer to convince us that her or his images are suffused with expressive self-consciousness.  If, the thinking goes, we can accept photographs as deliberated illusions created by deliberate [...]