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Shopping is not my thing. This is an impediment to enjoying the Hydra-headed art fairs spawned by Art Basel Miami Beach, which take over Miami for five days every December. If you remove the high-art gloss, it’s essentially a shopping mall, spread out in multiple venues around the city, filled to the gills with art. [...]

“Noplaceness: Art in a Post-Urban Landscape” By Jerry Cullum, Catherine Fox and Cinqué Hicks. Possible Futures, 260 pages. For some time, large metropolitan art hubs such as New York, London and Berlin have grappled with the magnitude and diversity of the work within their borders. Art scenes are often broken down into specific parts of a [...]

It is difficult, though certainly not impossible, to critique beauty by means of beauty — the emotional reaction so often forestalls the intellectual one. Moroccan-born photographer Lalla Essaydi, whose work is on exhibit through January 21 at Jackson Fine Art, has undertaken the even more challenging task of critiquing the misused traditions and aesthetics of [...]

Pretty soon, Atlanta’s High Museum of Art may have to develop an algorithm to keep track of all its partnerships. The museum has announced yet another: a four-year collaboration with the Louvre, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the Terra Foundation for American Art. The museums will mount an annual series of mini-exhibitions of American [...]

When Ben Steele moved to Atlanta in 2009, he knew few fellow artists. With a full-time job teaching at The Westminster Schools and an at-home studio, the Maryland Institute College of Art graduate tried to plug into the local artistic community by attending openings. Although he met many people, he didn’t feel that the social [...]

The Fernbank Museum of Natural History has the unenviable job of explaining why we can’t afford to think of the world as chopped up into separate academic subjects. Nature and culture aren’t independent entities; culture is a part of nature, regardless of whether the part of culture in question deals with food, clothing, family, society or [...]