Culture Grab: This week’s links to local and national A&E matters (4)
Stuff we’re reading that we think you should too
- Photo Credit: MarciaWoodGallery.com
- “Amber Got her Girls Back And Now They Live In The Abandoned Restaurant” by Chris Verene.
ArtsCriticATL’s contributing writer Jason Francisco reviews Chris Verene’s new show Family. The exhibit, currently at Marcia Wood Gallery, features a quarter century’s worth of photographs Verene took of his extended family in Illinois. Francisco calls Verene “a tragedian without an underlying faith in tragedy.” ArtsCriticATL
New York Times Magazine praised Atlanta’s cultural scene this week with shout outs to the High Museum of Art’s Peter Sekaer exhibit, the Dust to Digital record label, and Michael Schmelling’s forthcoming book Atlanta, which chronicles the “city’s ever-shifting hip-hop landscape” in photographs. The mag says the local art scenes “exert an illuminating influence over the rest of the country’s cultural landscape.” NY Times Magazine
Local artist Gyun Hur asks the question, “How do we make this city of Atlanta a great center of arts and culture?” The answer, she suggests? “Consider staying in Atlanta.” An analysis on why Atlanta has the potential of becoming a great city of arts, who the latest local visionaries are and why its worth giving this city a shot. Gyun Hur