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Tuesday June 1, 2010 07:14 PM EDT

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June is going to kick my ass in the best way. Between a month’s worth of Art on the BeltLine performances and installations, and, like, everyone having a gallery opening, it’s shaping up to be a deliciously exhausting month. The big kick-off: ARTLANTIS coming back to sing praise to the underground art gods on the stoop of Druid Hills Baptist Church on Saturday, June 5. Come get...

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Saturday May 29, 2010 03:00 PM EDT

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In a small but powerful solo show of paintings, photographs, and video at Marcia Wood Gallery, San Francisco Bay Area artist Kim Anno tackles abstraction with gusto for the painted surface. Uncompromisingly committed to non-representational painting, Anno says in her artist statement, “I want to make the last abstract painting I can before it becomes narrative.”...

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Saturday May 29, 2010 10:00 AM EDT
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Thursday May 27, 2010 11:46 PM EDT

Grab yer mama and all yer cousins and be downtown in June because it’s BeltLine Fest 2010!

Okay, I made that name up. No one is calling it that. But essentially that’s what it is: with the Art on the BeltLine installations having been completed, the BeltLine folks have announced an extensive lineup of music, art, family, and historical events along the BeltLine corridor for early this...

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Tuesday May 25, 2010 02:00 PM EDT

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By Craig Drennen

Re-purposed: The Use of Everyday Materials in Contemporary Art at Emily Amy Gallery has a premise that is so sweeping, it sounds more like a major museum show than a four-artist exhibition at a single gallery. So it’s not surprising that it doesn’t entirely live up to the scope of its own billing.

The spacious gallery provides three of the four...

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Tuesday May 25, 2010 04:00 AM EDT
Exhibition at Emily Amy Gallery doesn’t entirely live up to the scope of its own billing | more...

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Monday May 24, 2010 10:44 PM EDT
image-4Mary Richardson’s latest book, Truckers, falls somewhere on the line between a coffee table volume of photography and narrative journalism. While the pages are often dominated by black and white portraits of long haul drivers in their typical environs, sipping coffee at a truck stop or wrenching over an engine, Richardson’s prose illuminates the frames, using quick vignettes to glimpse... | more...

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Thursday May 20, 2010 09:32 PM EDT

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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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Thursday May 20, 2010 04:00 AM EDT
Series of exhibitions experiment with lines | more...

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Wednesday May 19, 2010 03:21 PM EDT

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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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Friday May 14, 2010 05:17 PM EDT

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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....

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Thursday May 13, 2010 02:00 PM EDT

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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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Thursday May 6, 2010 04:50 PM EDT

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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Wednesday April 28, 2010 05:26 PM EDT

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In the South, there’s a professed passion for the past and things that show the impasto of age: We understand the beauty of decay. This ideology is also found in the work of New York photographer Andrew Moore, who traveled to Detroit, Mich., seven times from 2008 to 2009 and recorded the city’s abject elegance. Economically, Detroit is way past its prime. The remnants of the auto...

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Wednesday April 28, 2010 04:00 AM EDT
Photographers Detroit series understands the beauty of decay | more...

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Tuesday April 27, 2010 12:00 PM EDT

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Now that winter is a distant, miserable memory here in Atlanta, our parks, neighborhoods, and gardens are filling up with the unstoppable blooms and fresh growth of summer. Sprout at Kibbee Gallery is perfectly timed for that botanical explosion, featuring four artists that explore nature in fascinating detail. Kelly Cloninger, Katherine Gaddy, Julia Kubica and Pam Rogers all work...

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Tuesday April 27, 2010 10:00 AM EDT
Cartoon Madness V: The Lunchbox Show satisfies | more...

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Tuesday April 20, 2010 07:43 PM EDT

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Micah Stansell makes videos that resist classification. His current work with collaborator and wife Whitney Stansell, Past. Perfect. Continuous., plays with narrative themes while resisting any obvious plot. The installation uses eight channels of hard-synced video, forcing the viewer decide where to focus and evoking an inescapable feeling that one is always missing some part of...

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Monday April 19, 2010 09:00 PM EDT

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Rarely do two-person shows create a true dialogue between artists. Kiang Gallery owner Marilyn Kiang has curated In Significance featuring Athens artist Annette Gates and Atlanta’s Pandra Williams, both known for their work in ceramics. The artists also share an interest in the natural world, both deriving their visual vocabularies from organic forms. Their contributions to In...

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Monday April 19, 2010 05:00 PM EDT
Artists collaborative Kiang Gallery show is a natural wonder | more...

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Thursday April 15, 2010 04:14 PM EDT
Too at MINT Gallery | more...

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Wednesday April 14, 2010 07:27 PM EDT

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A few of us here at CL hoofed it along the Beltline again Tuesday with Angel Poventud. We picked up the loop where we left off the other week at its Southeast edge in Glenwood Park at the corner of Glenwood Avenue and Bill Kennedy Way (aka the Glenwood Connector) and walked the 4-ish miles (about 2 hours) southwest to Adair Park. The most striking difference between this week’s...

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Monday April 12, 2010 08:00 PM EDT

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In 1946, photographer David Johnson moved from Florida to work with Ansel Adams and Minor White at the San Francisco Art Institute (then California School of Fine Art), where he was their first African-American student. Adams told his students to photograph what they knew. For Johnson, this meant documenting life on the streets and in the clubs of San Francisco’s Fillmore district,...

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Monday April 12, 2010 04:00 PM EDT
Retrospective of photographer’s work remembers life before hippies in San Francisco’s Fillmore district | more...

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Tuesday April 6, 2010 08:04 PM EDT



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Eyedrum’s latest art exhibit, Obscura, is inspiring other artistic mediums to express themselves. This Sun., April 11, Open Collision Dance performs new work in conjunction with Obscura. The exhibit plays with ideas of light and darkness. The dancers will migrate throughout the space much like a gallery walk. We caught up with Open Collision Dance founder and choreographer,...

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