Sprawl!: Drawing Outside the Lines at the High Museum of Art
Sprawl! Drawing Outside the Lines presents a compelling case for an expanded notion of drawing and draftsmanship in contemporary art. With over 100 drawings culled from artists and creative workers...
View ArticleAleksandra Domanović: Turbo Sculpture at Atlanta Contemporary
Aleksandra Domanović’s multidisciplinary work has captured the attention of critics and curators across the globe for its striking account of the aesthetic and political changes at work in the Balkan...
View ArticleSheila Pree Bright: 1960Now at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia
1960Now, on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, is an expansion of photographer Sheila Pree Bright’s continued interest in naming and documenting the unknown leaders of African American...
View ArticleJoel Holmberg: You’ll Never Know If You Don’t Ask Yourself at Atlanta...
Joel Holmberg’s newest installation, You’ll Never Know If You Don’t Ask Yourself, expands our understanding of what it means to watch, witness, and experience information through the infinite cyclical...
View ArticleInvisible Presence: Bling Memories at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center
On May 8, 2001, the funeral of William Moore, aka Willie Haggart, was a raucous affair. Abandoning the somber mood of a typical funeral, the ceremony was a giant party at the National Arena in...
View ArticleBasquiat: The Unknown Notebooks at the High Museum of Art
The High Museum of Art’s current exhibition, Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks, presents the viewer with a “portrait of the artist as a poet.” Although the art world has been well aware of the importance...
View ArticleBlack Chronicles II at Spelman College Museum of Fine Art
Born on the Danish island colony of Saint Croix with two generations of slaves behind him, the champion heavyweight boxer Peter Jackson cuts a lean and noble figure in his 1889 photographic portrait,...
View ArticlePaul Stephen Benjamin: God Bless America at Poem 88
Paul Stephen Benjamin’s current video installation at Poem 88 in Atlanta, Georgia, God Bless America (2016), is a monument to the ambiguous relations between cultural achievement and state patriotism...
View ArticleAfrica Forecast: Fashioning Contemporary Life at Spelman College Museum of...
Spelman College Museum of Fine Art’s current exhibition, Africa Forecast: Fashioning Contemporary Life, presents a small but dynamic assemblage of twenty designers and artists who blur the line between...
View ArticleFrom the Archives – Black Chronicles II at Spelman College Museum of Fine Art
“New struggles for civil and race rights continue to challenge and mine the unequal fields of representation within American political life.” So writes author Jordan Amirkhani, who explored this...
View ArticleAtlanta Biennial at Atlanta Contemporary Art Center
For the first time in nine years, the South has its biennial back. With the selection of thirty-two artists in the Atlanta Biennial (ATLBNL), the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center in Georgia continues a...
View ArticleFathi Hassan: Edge of Memory at Clark Atlanta University Art Museum
In his 1978 text Orientalism, Edward Said states that the “subtle and persistent Eurocentric prejudice against Arab–Islamic peoples and their cultures” is not just bound by historical clashes,...
View ArticleStill Raising Hell at Emory University
Gifted to the Stuart A. Rose Library at Emory University in Atlanta in 2002, the Camille Billops and James V. Hatch Archives—a remarkable collection of books, ephemera, and oral histories documenting...
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