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Walking the Beltline part 3: Beltline art sneak peak Article
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A lot has happened since our last trip down the Beltline. Most significantly, the first pieces for the temporary installation Art on the BeltLine: Atlanta’s New Public Place were chosen. This week we walked north from Adair Park in the southwest to Washington Park, about 3.7 miles. (Peep the route here). This segment was considerably more overgrown in parts (You’re welcome...
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Artists who like making marks are constantly drawing, whether on fine acid-free paper, a napkin or an underpass. The artist’s hand is compelled to doodle, to inscribe, to tag, to draw. The surrealists called this “automatic drawing,” and saw it as a means of freeing the unconscious. The influence of surrealist automatic drawing is visible in the current exhibitions...
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Ron Hughes closes Composition Gallery Article
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After four years of operation, Ron Hughes has closed his Candler Park photography gallery for financial reasons. Composition Gallery’s last official event was its May Day Art Party for Haiti on May 1. Hughes will continue his involvement in the local gallery scene as gallery director at Jennifer Schwartz Gallery in the Tula Art Center.
“When people open galleries they’re...
Preview: Cheap Paper’s Solid Gold at MINT Article
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The Cheap Paper Collective made their debut in November of last year, transforming a huge loft space in the Old Fourth Ward for the one-night-only AXIOM: Baby Proof. With such a large and young group (Cheap Paper counts eleven members currently), it was unclear if and when they would collaborate again.
Now, almost exactly six months later, the Cheap Paper Collective is back...
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Art Seen: Street food at the Castleberry Hill Art Stroll Article
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The culinary arts were on display during last Friday’s Castleberry Hill Art Stroll. The Atlanta Street Food Coalition brought in four vendors to offer up quick bites between the galleries. The group is still working to get restrictive vending ordinances changed so that awesome, street-side food like this can be the typical, rather than exceptional, offering in Atlanta. There was...
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Preview Re-Purposed at the Emily Amy Gallery Article
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Re-purposed: The Use of Everyday Materials in Contemporary Art opens at Emily Amy Gallery tonight, featuring work from Sara Cole, Will Corr, Clayton Santiago, and Sherry Williams. The show is curated around the use of commonplace materials like coffee, tar, sawdust, and rust in the artistic process. We talked to a couple of the artists to see how this practice affected the work....
| more...Weekend Arts Agenda May 14 2010 Article
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Castleberry Hill is teaming up with the culinary artists of the Atlanta Street Food Coalition tonight for a street-food packed art stroll tonight, the Goat Farm hosts a Living Walls Conference fundraiser, and the Westside Arts District holds it down all day Saturday. Check out the details after the jump
| more...Breathing life into Living Walls Article
Citizens of Atlanta, watch your walls! Come August, our fair bare city will be given a visual face lift at the hands of a fleet of local and international street artists. Roughly a dozen blank city walls will become paint playgrounds for the artists of Living Walls, the City Speaks.
Living Walls is a conference on street art and urbanism scheduled for this August. This Friday, May 14,...
Ed Loves Bacon - Review: Super Street Fighter IV Article
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I still remember that spring day of 1993 at my friend Josh’s house when I first played Street Fighter II on Super NES. A higher echelon of gaming competition was introduced to me invoking a fury in my soul. I loved it. Most players of the game can confirm the cocky satisfaction that fills you after vanquishing your buddy with a well-timed shoryuken. Street Fighter II was the...
| more...Better by design (1) Article
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If you’ve been around Atlanta’s maze of art and culture long enough, you’ve run into the work of designer and artist Julia Kubica. Most likely you didn’t even know it. Kubica’s been producing design work for Atlanta’s art world, in addition to other clients, for the past decade and has made major contributions to the scene’s look and feel....
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60 Writers-60 Places at Eyedrum on Friday Article
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When poets Zachary Schomburg and Ann Stephenson read at Eyedrum on Friday, they’ll be followed by a screening of 60 Writers/60 Places, a film with an unambiguous title if there ever was one.
In less than an hour, the documentary features 60 writers reading from their work in, you guessed it, 60 different places. Each scene is separated by a black screen indicating a name and...
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All Gold Everything drops at Studioplex tonight Article
Pancakes and Booze brings the party to the people Article
The art world is a competitive place. Vying for the attention of the fickle fleets of gallery-goers is no simple objective - I’ve seen naked cater waiters and live bugs in drinks. And for the most part, it seems like everyone is just trying too damn hard to offer up the edge and flash that will bring the masses.
Yet somehow, edgy is getting tired. Time’s are tough! Galleries need to accept...
| more...Weekend Arts Agenda May 07 2010 Article
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Eyedrum is packing in two openings, Sister Louisa is bringing her disgrace to Aurora Coffee, San Francisco takes over Marcia Wood, and more this weekend in Atlanta. All the details after the jump.
| more...A few questions with Sister Louisa Article
image-1Religious folks like to say that God has a special plan for all of us. If that’s the case for Atlanta’s Sister Louisa, you can be sure that God has one hell of a sense of humor.
According to Sister Louisa’s biography, she was leading a quiet life in a convent near Baton Rouge, Louisiana until she met the janitor, “Luscious” Lamar Thibideau. Their love affair caused Louisa to leave...
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Speakeasy with Michael K. Manning Article
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Atlanta artist Michael K. Manning has little in common with the bicycle-seeking Pee Wee Herman, the dog-doo eating Divine or the daydreaming bureaucrat Sam Lowry. Nevertheless, Manning’s “Pop Surrealist” artwork has intersected with Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, John Waters’ Pink Flamingos and, as of May 4, Terry Gilliam’s Brazil, through his shows at the...
| more...Art Seen: VISPO at Eyedrum Article
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This delightfully cynical sign might be the most immediately legible piece in VISPO, Eyedrum’s juried show of visual poetry. Those big block letters mounted on a real-estate-type corrugated signage are paired with videos, a mobile sculpture, a container of burned book covers, and other playful twists on the border between image and text. Jeff Dahlgren said Eyedrum’s literary...
| more...Ed Loves Bacon - Boondocks focus on Obama in season 3 premiere Article
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Its finally here, yeah nucca - The long-awaited return on Aaron McGruder’s animated series The Boondocks kick off it’s third season Sunday, May 2, on Adult Swim. The premiere episode pokes fun at the hysteria and rockstar status of #44 - POTUS Barack Obama.
According to a recent post on Atlanta Magazine’s website, the episode entitled “Its a Black President, Huey Freeman”, ...
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