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Thursday, April 26, 2012
Linkage When In ATL ...
Posted by Allison Keene on Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 3:40 PM
- Tumblr
- The agony and ecstasy of living in Atlanta, now in GIF form!
Do you ever sit in traffic on Freedom Parkway at 5pm and wish there was a way to accurately convey your rage? What about capturing that expression you make when someone says they live in "Poncey-Highlands"? And that moment you crave Chick-fil-A and realize ... it's Sunday.
The "When in ATL" Tumblr is your one-stop GIF reaction shop for all of the things - good, bad and ugly - that make living in the A awesome, terrifying and rage-inducing. Go through every page and bask in the glory of the truth. Then bookmark it.
Popcorn.gif, basically.
Which are your favorites?
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Visual Arts / Books / Art-icles / Linkage Culture Grab: An Atlanta Taskforce on Play?
Posted by Melysa Martinez and Debbie Michaud on Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 2:55 PM
- Courtesy Nikita Gale
- Photographer Nikita Gale, whose solo show is now on view at MINT Gallery
Art Nouveau's Kendrick Daye reflects on photographer Nikita Gale’s debut solo exhibition, BooleSh1t, at Mint Gallery. On view until Nov. 27, Daye calls the exhibit “sometimes shocking and always precise and thought provoking.” [Art Nouveau]
Susannah Darrow digs into Daniel Biddy's "endless visual conversation" for BurnAway. The abstract painter's foray into collage will "suck you into every frame," says Darrow. The show, Out of Context, was just extended until Nov. 27 at Barbara Archer Gallery. [BurnAway]
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Visual Arts / Art-icles / Linkage Culture Grab: Tacky NYC street art - literally
Posted by Melysa Martinez on Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 12:49 PM
- Luna Park via The Huffington Post
ArtsCriticATL's Cathy Fox reviews the Contemporary's three concurrent exhibits by Laura Poitras, Mia Feuer, and Jaimie Warren and Steve Aishman. She calls Poitras' contribution "an intense experience of the personal and political fallout of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the toxic cycle of suffering and revenge." [ArtsCriticATL]
"And black velvet everywhere rejoices for no longer being the most low-rent of painting surfaces," comments Gawker reader "Atilla the Bun" after learning about London street artist, and "minor" South Korean celebrity, Ben Wilson, who paints miniature scenes and designs on chewed and discarded pieces of gum. How tacky (couldn't resist!). [Gawker]
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Visual Arts / Events / Community / Linkage Culture Grab: How to write a 50,000 word novel in a month
Posted by Melysa Martinez on Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 2:17 PM
- 28millimetres.com
- Portraits of women in a Rio slum by TED award-winning aritst J R
Speaking of the masters, Oglethorpe University Museum of Art currently features the exhibit Nineteenth Century French Master Drawings and Sculpture from the Schlossberg Collection, which includes work by Delacroix, Renoir and Rousseau. Critic Jerry Cullum says "there can be few local resources as potentially rich as the 105 bronze sculptures and works on paper that [curator Lloyd] Nick has selected from [Atlantan] Dr. Michael Schlossberg’s brilliantly chosen acquisitions." [ArtsCriticATL]
Croissants on this guy: Parisian street artist J R, "a shadowy figure who has made a name for himself by plastering colossal photographs in downtrodden neighborhoods around the world" according to the New York Times, was awarded TED's annual $100,000 prize. [The New York Times]
FLUX 2010 has come and gone. Jeremy Abernathy and Alana Wolf discuss the annual one-night event for BurnAway and how it compares to its predecessor, Le Flash. [Burnaway.org]
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Visual Arts / Art-icles / Linkage Culture Grab: This week's links to local and national A&E matters
Posted by Melysa Martinez on Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 11:03 AM
- Photo Credit: MarciaWoodGallery.com
- "Amber Got her Girls Back And Now They Live In The Abandoned Restaurant" by Chris Verene.
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]
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Linkage Culture Grab: This week's links to local and national A&E matters
Posted by Melysa Martinez on Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 1:48 PM
- www.kehindewiley.com
- Thiogo Oliveira do Rosario Rozendo by artist Kehinde Wiley, now part of High Museum of Arts permanent collection.
Just in time for the upcoming Oct. 21 lecture by contemporary painter Kehinde Wiley at the High Museum of Art, BURNAWAY'S Charles A. Westfall contemplates the artist being added to the High's permanent collection, and speaks to the museum's curator, Michael Rooks, asking questions like whether or not Wiley "exploits identity politics without really advancing the conversation." [BURNAWAY.org]
gloATL, the collaborative platform self-labeled "part choreography and part interactive art installation," will host "Hinterland," a light-based parade spectacle, Nov. 27, and will perform public previews Oct. 9 and Nov. 5. ArtsCriticATL's Cynthia Bond Perry breaks down the event, which will include a collaboration with Atlanta's very own Big Boi. [ArtsCriticATL]
Grant Henry, former bartender at The Local and the brain that creates Sister Louisa art, talks to PURGE ATL's Johnny Carroll about taking the next step in his art and in life with the soon-to-open Sister Louisa’s Church of The Living Room and Ping Pong Emporium, formerly Danneman's Coffee in the Old Fourth Ward. [PURGE ATL]
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Visual Arts / Art-icles / Linkage Worlds collide! More arts stories for everyone!
Posted by Debbie Michaud on Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 11:04 AM
But wait! There's more! If you're on BurnAway's homepage you'll be able to see the latest in Culture Surfing's visual arts coverage. So why share stories? Because we want to offer you — our readers — the best, most comprehensive coverage possible. You can thank us later. (Now's fine too, though, if you can't wait.)
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Linkage Culture Grab: This week's links to local and national A&E matters
Posted by Melysa Martinez on Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 1:34 PM
- Photo Credit: www.mankerart.blogspot.com
- "Sweet 16" from "Softcore War" by Anne-Marie Manker, at Whitespace Gallery through October 9.
Emory University's Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts will host a unique concert, called "Testaments of the Heart," in which all the music was composed in concentration camps. Collected over the last 20 years by Italian conductor Francesco Lotoro, the music will be performed by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the Georgia State University Orchestra, Emory's Department of Music and Lotoro himself. [Access Atlanta]
Do the arts need government funding to keep afloat, or are private sources the best route? The Guardian UK's Charlotte Higgins discusses the struggle within Britain's use of a "mixed economy" to run cultural organizations. [Guardian UK]
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Linkage Culture Grab: This week's links to local and national A&E matters
Posted by Melysa Martinez on Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 4:39 PM
- Photo Credit: Kenntwofour.com
- "Always Watching" by Kenn Two Four
How's the saying go? "There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein." Painful enough already without the involvement of a literary critic. But are critics really the bad guys, or do writers just take the commentary too personal? One author weighs in: "How writers review their critics." [Guardian UK]
Swan Lake this is not. Choreographer Blake Beckham addressed socio-political conflicts with dance theater in her recent performance piece American Muscle at Eyedrum. Find out why ArtsCriticATL's Cynthia Bond Perry thinks Beckham's a "a choreographer to watch." [Arts Critic ATL]
An interesting take on the portrait concept, Maine native Joseph Guay currently has an exhibit at Jackson Fine Art where video installations embedded in the minimalist portraits are played to reveal the actual memories in chronological clips. Click here for exhibit sneak peak and video interview with Guay. [Art Relish]
Art critic and icon Jerry Saltz may be, but the good news is it doesn't appear to have gone to his head. Saltz reaches out to people asking questions in his new art advice column inspired by his stint as a judge on Bravo's "Work of Art." This time around he talks "Elitism, Careerism, and Cronyism." [NYMag]
Take at trip Down the Rabbit Hole at the Emily Amy Gallery until Oct. 23. Wanna pre-screen the show before your visit? Two local art blogs give the rundown, with BurnAway reviewing the show as a whole, and ArtsCriticATL focusing on Jennifer Cawley's contribution. [Burnaway, Arts Critic ATL]
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Linkage Movies & TV links: Put down the auto-tune Trebek!
Posted by Debbie Michaud on Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 1:19 PM
» “Only in my dreams have I been able to have a catfight with Debbie Gibson…until now! This is soo MEGA cool!” said ’80s pop star Tiffany in a statement quoted on the New York Times' Arts Beat blog, where Dave Itzkoff reports that the two ’80s icons will co-star in the porny-sounding SyFy channel TV movie Mega Python vs. Gatoroid.
» New York Mag's Vulture blog notes that there is most definitely a difference between good and crap auto-tune, as showcased on last night's "Jeopardy!" in one of the show's — and Trebek's — most awkward moments. (And that's saying something). Vulture's also got one of the most frightening displays of photoshop we've ever seen.
» And holy cow wow are folks talking about Bristol Palin's upcoming cameo on the "Secret Life of the American Teenager," that Lifetime show where pregnancy's just something that happens these days after lunch and before football games. Wonkette's posted a clip Palin's performance, which is so creepy and monotone, you'd think she had some freakish, bad-analogy-making robo-mom or something. Full episode airs July 5 if you can take it.
» The Tom Cruise/Cameron Diaz spy-shoot-’em-up-romantic-comedy-thriller-blockbuster Knight & Day opened yesterday to mixed reviews. While CL's Curt Holman found the flick passable, NYT critic A.O. Scott basically gives the film the finger in a review that will remind you why sarcasm is fun.
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