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“The Irascible Muse: A Coming of Age,” at Bill Lowe Gallery through December, takes its name from a 1951 Life magazine article on the leaders of the New York School, which dubbed the pioneers of Abstract Expressionism “the Irascibles.” Although the 20 students at the Fine Arts Workshop whose work makes up this exhibition are diverse in age [...]

The Museum of Design Atlanta will commemorate World AIDS Day with continuous programs from midnight Wednesday, November 30, to midnight Thursday, December 1. Events will include poetry readings, a quilting workshop, a dance party in the wee hours and opera, dance and orchestral performances. For the complete list, visit MODA’s website. Docents will conduct tours [...]

With its maze of free-standing galleries linked or separated by open corridors, Mason Murer Fine Art was from the beginning meant to provide a range of essentially autonomous viewing experiences — but ones that are more nuanced than a simple “well, if you don’t like this, maybe you’ll like that.” The way this functions is illustrated [...]

As art and as media — without apology in the case of the former, less so the latter — photographs create meaning through severances. A photograph’s bounding rectangle formulates space by framing it, which is to say confining it within right angles and articulating it by way of optical geometry that lavishes the imagination with [...]

The art world is an interdependent system of artists, collectors, galleries, museums, government and the press. Like the engine in your car, when one piston goes out, the whole thing sputters. Galleries, for instance, are an essential link between artists and their market. Fulcrums for artists, they have their own hierarchy, from those that serve [...]

Printmaking occupies a curious position in the hierarchy of modern art. Unless an artist outside the field — Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella (whose remarkable prints were shown at the Bascom this summer), Kiki Smith (whose “Rituals” is at the High Museum of Art through January 22) — adopts it as a vehicle, it doesn’t command [...]