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• Fresh entrance to the new international terminal at Hartsfield-Jackson

I’ve written a few times about my affection for the airport, mostly because I enjoy the art program there. This week I visited for a tour of the new terminal and the works created and curated specifically for Concourse F.

The new terminal is big and bright, almost blindingly so on the clear day I visited. Most of the installations take advantage of the abundance of natural light or at least were inspired by it. The security checkpoint opens up into a two-story atrium anchored by a suspended sculpture by Donald Lipski. Like a giant butterfly net made of Swarovski crystal, Lipski’s “rebilace” provides a sparkly focal point for the space and some visual balance for Uebersee’s massive installation hanging in the adjacent open lobby.

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• David Lipski's "rebilace" in the terminal atrium

GREG MIKE X REAL SKATEBOARDS COLLABORATION EVENT from ABV TV on Vimeo.

Atlanta artist and ABV Gallery owner Greg Mike is holding a party to celebrate the release of his latest collaboration with west coast skateboard company REAL skateboards.

Mike designed multiple skateboard decks for the project with REAL, including one for Atlanta's own pro skater, Justin Brock. Mike will also drop a design for a T-shirt with REAL and some stickers, making use of his infamous Loudmouf character. Stratosphere skate shop in Little 5 Points will be carrying all of the REAL products with Mike's designs.

Stratosphere's owner, Thomas Taylor, is building a quarter-pipe skate ramp on-site at ABV for the release party tonight which begins at 7 and goes til 11 p.m. Guests are invited to bring their skateboards to shred in celebration, brews will be provided by PBR.

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• BURNAWAY's Art Crush auction is this Saturday at 7 Stages in Little 5 Points

Every month BurnAway.org features an article on a person or group involved in the Atlanta art scene, dubbing them an "art crush." For the Art Crush Auction, Atlanta photographers, painters, writers, gallery owners, etc., have volunteered to donate a personalized event or date with them to the highest bidder. WonderRoot's Chris Appleton is donating an afternoon with him that includes a Appleton-prepared vegan lunch and a trip to a Braves game. Other goods up for grabs include contributions from members of Dance Truck and artist Lucha Rodriguez, who will customize (or "Lucha-fy") anything of the bidder's choosing in her signature pink style.

How about an evening with the adorable Shara Hughes: "Drink a bottle of wine with Shara on the roof top deck of the Telephone Factory Lofts and then have Shara paint a portrait of you and her famed Boston Terrier, Chicken Nugget."

Beep Beep Gallery's Mark Basehore and James McConnell will "guide you or you can choose your own adventure from activities ranging from: wine at Beep with a private showing of the gallery, cornbread at Eats, drag lessons at Model T's, the claw game at Murder Kroger, popcorn at the Local followed by private Foosball lesson, cupcakes at Kibbee Gallery, shoplifting at Young Blood Gallery, and more!"

The highest bidder for Bland Hack (Julian Modugno and Jamie Hawkins-Gaar's artist collective) will earn a walk-on role in Bland Hack's next film, where the winner will have his or her head blown up on screen.

All of the 20-plus items up for auction can be previewed at BURNAWAY.

Need more convincing? WATCH THIS:

Official Preview: BURNAWAY Art Crush Bash 2012 from BURNAWAY on Vimeo.

For tickets, follow this link.

Yesterday, the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art announced via a press release that it has been selected to present the exhibition Cinema Remixed & Reloaded: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image Since 1970 at the 11th Havana Biennial this summer in Cuba. This exhibition was awarded Best Art Exhibit in a Museum in 2008 by Creative Loafing.

• Image Courtesy of the Artist and Micael Stevenson Fine Art, Cape Town
• Berni Searle lives and works in Capetown, South Africa and will have work featured at the Havana Biennial

Havana Biennial director, Jorge Fernandez said in the press release, "This exhibition will mark the first presentation of a curatorial team from the United States included as a participant in the main program of the Biennial."

The Biennial will also be the first time that Spelman College Museum of Fine Art has been invited to create projects for an international biennial exhibition. According to the curatorial team, The Havana Biennial exhibition theme is focusing on the "assessment of the behavior of the relationship between visual productions and social imaginary."

The Havana Biennial is one of the longest running biennials with a concentration on art from Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa and Asia. According to the release, this year's goal is to 'bring art to all.' With plans to install projects around the city in public spaces like parks, city squares, and local art organizations.

The Director of Spelman College Museum of FIne Art, Andrea Brownlee, is also very excited about the implications the biennial will have for Spelman. "We value this unprecedented opportunity to participate in the rich cultural dialogue that the 11th Havana Biennial affords," Brownlee says in the release. Brownlee was also the the co-curator of the original Cinema Remix & Reloaded exhibition in 2007.

While the original exhibition featured 48 works by 44 artists, because of limited space, the revamped show will feature 8 works from 8 different artists at various points in their own careers. The artists included are Maren Hassinger, the collaborative artist team Bradley McCallum and Jacqueline Tarry, Tracey Rose, Berni Searle, Lorna Simpson, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum, Kara Walker, and Carrie Mae Weems.

Cinema Remix & Reloaded 2.0 is also being curated with the help of Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston's senior curator, Valeria Cassel Oliver (who co-curated the original 2007 exhibition as well).

In the release, Cassel Oliver explains the show is "based in part on the belief that social imaginaries and art practices are often strengthened by a collective and communal drive to expand the understanding and acceptance of the totality of our histories and their imprint in the social, political and cultural landscape. This project proposes that black women video artists are highly attuned to the broad concept of social imaginaries and for this reason often create works that are steeped in collective histories and social critique."

For more information on this project and the museums involved, visit the Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston here and the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art here.