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Artists’ Studios
Finally able to get back to painting again after a couple of weeks of no reading, blogging or painting because of a second retinal tear surgery. It’s a huge relief to be working again – next week I’ll be able … Continue reading
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Tagged agnes martin, art, artist studios, emergency response studio, helen frankenthaler, joan mitchell, john emanuel, judy pfaff, lee krasner, luc tuymans, mark rothko, mobile studio, painting, paul villinski, Picasso, porthmeor, robert motherwell, sigmar polke, Stephen Duren, studios, willem de kooning
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ART: Local versus global and does it matter?
I attended part of a symposium yesterday at Emory’s Michael C. Carlos museum called “The Somewhere Summit, Connecting the Local to the Global in Atlanta Art”. In conjunction with Atlanta Art Now’s 2011 publication, Noplaceness: Art in a Post-Urban Landscape, … Continue reading
A weekend of music and art
This past friday evening I saw Dr. Kakali Bandyopadhyay on sitar and Anjaneya Sastry on tabla at the Schwartz Center. Both are fantastic musicians and it was a free program. Bandyopadhyay, who has been playing for twenty years, teaches sitar … Continue reading
Salon of Peaceful Shadows, Tender Flame of Eternal Youth – the backstory
Phil Elie – impresario extraordinaire – flew in from his home in Paris last week to organize this event with some old friends in the Pillowtex warehouse. Now used as headquarters for the non-profit group, Give Us Names, the founders … Continue reading
A bevy of exhibits
Continuing my goal to hit most of the new gallery spaces in town within my first year of being back in Atlanta, I visited Poem88 off Howell Mill road yesterday for an artist’s talk by Ryan Nabulsi. Nabulsi is a … Continue reading
The Decatur Book Festival
I spent all weekend at the Decatur Book Festival, reputed to be the largest independent book fest in the country. In its sixth year, the festival is now attended by more than 70,000 people who get the opportunity to hear … Continue reading
Posted in Art reviews, criticism and blogs, Daily meanderings, Music
Tagged arts residencies, atlanta journal constitution, decatur arts alliance, decatur book festival, dust to digital, eddies attic, georgia review, gina webb, holly tucker, john fahey, katharine weber, literature, michael graetz, poetry, reading, tayari jones
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What does being an artist mean?
The Brooklyn artist Chris Martin is showing immense works at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. Here, he talks briefly about the artist’s identity and how no artist, not even those in arts education, really knows what he … Continue reading
Origami at White Space
I believe art counts. I believe in its delicious, fibrous, textural insights. In the way it helps us understand the complexity of ourselves. I want to be a part of that. I step away for a deep breath, and I’m … Continue reading
White Space, a gallery in Inman Park
By far, one of the most charming galleries now in Atlanta is White Space, in Inman Park. Run by Susan Bridges, who lives in the grand brown and white Victorian at the front, the renovated 1893 carriage house has exposed … Continue reading