weekend arts agenda
Friday, June 14, 2013
weekend arts agenda Weekend Arts Agenda: Cardinal
Posted by Wyatt Williams on Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 10:56 AM
- COURTESY RACHEL REESE
- Work by Lee Arnold will be included in 'Cardinal'
Cardinal, a group exhibition curated by Rachel Reese, opens simultaneously at Marcia Wood Gallery and Twin Kittens tonight Fri., June 14, at 7 p.m. We caught up with Reese earlier this week to ask her a few questions about the exhibition and her work as editor of BURNAWAY. Check out her interview for more details.
More arts events for the weekend after the jump.
Friday, June 7, 2013
weekend arts agenda Weekend Arts Agenda: Rashid Johnson
Posted by Wyatt Williams on Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 11:54 AM
- Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago
- "Triple Consciousness" by Rashid Johnson, 2009
Rashid Johnson's solo exhibition Message to our Folks, his first for a major museum, opens at the High this weekend. Johnson is the 2012 David C. Driskell Prize, a honor established by the High Museum to celebrate work in African American art. The exhibition will run through September 8.
More after the jump.
Friday, May 31, 2013
weekend arts agenda Weekend Arts Agenda: Artlantis
Posted by Wyatt Williams on Fri, May 31, 2013 at 11:18 AM
- COURTESY ARTLANTIS
The annual art and music festival Artlantis returns to Poncey-Highland on Saturday for a full day of tunes and artists tents on the corner of Ponce de Leon and North Highland. Artlantis has the distinction of being run by the good folks behind Beep Beep Gallery (and Mother in O4W), making it the only festival of artists tents in Atlanta where you are more likely to find an exhibiting contemporary artist than a guy who carves fish into driftwood. More details.
More arts events of the weekend after the jump.
Friday, May 24, 2013
weekend arts agenda Weekend Arts Agenda: Decatur Arts Festival
Posted by Wyatt Williams on Fri, May 24, 2013 at 9:00 AM
- DECATUR ARTS FESTIVAL
The Decatur Arts Festival returns to Old Courthouse Square with 165 exhibiting artists showing work throughout Memorial Day Weekend. Their website has the full rundown of programming.
More arts events after the jump.
Friday, May 17, 2013
weekend arts agenda Weekend Arts Agenda: The Campaign for Atlanta
Posted by Wyatt Williams on Fri, May 17, 2013 at 11:05 AM
- JOEFF DAVIS
- The Cyclorama
Queer "idea collective" John Q take over the Cyclorama this weekend for "The Campaign for Atlanta: An Essay On Queer Migration." We've got more details about the performance, which runs tonight and tomorrow at 6:30 pm.
Friday, May 10, 2013
Visual Arts / weekend arts agenda Weekend Arts Agenda: Wonderglo
Posted by Debbie Michaud on Fri, May 10, 2013 at 1:03 PM
- Dustin Chambers
- Wonderglo 2012
WonderRoot and gloATL join forces for the second time on Saturday May 11 to present Wonderglo at the W Hotel Midtown. Tickets range from $10 for access to the after party (presented by CL!) with tunes from DJ Vicki Powell to $50 for access to the art installations throughout the hotel and the after party to $250 for the total three-course dinner/art installation/dance party experience. There are a few tickets left.
There are lots of other things to do Saturday too, such as ...
- Courtesy BeepBeep Gallery
The opening of SHANA ROBBINS. INTO THIS WORLD: SHANAMISIMS at BeepBeep Gallery at 7 p.m. A fine show to take in between the eclipses.
Also, FUSE Art Center holds a fundraiser and opens the exhibit Tension, featuring 25 local artists. There's an Art-B-Que in Avondale Estates Saturday and Sunday, with bands and food and music. And finally, the High Museum will be open 31 hours straight from 10 a.m. on Saturday, May 11 to 5 p.m. on Sunday, May 12 for the closing of Frida & Diego. Things to help pass all that time include: Frida-inspired fashion show, salsa music and lessons with Sabor!, lucha libre wrestling, body-painted Fridas, photo booth, DJ Speakerfoxxx & DJ SourceOne, face painting, family activities, special exhibition tours.
PS It's mother's day Sunday - an important thing.
Friday, May 3, 2013
weekend arts agenda Weekend Arts Agenda: BFA Spring Exhibition
Posted by Egan Short on Fri, May 3, 2013 at 9:00 AM
This is the opening weekend for the BFA Spring Exhibition at the Welch School Galleries. The show opened last night with a reception from 5 to 8 p.m. and will run through May 10.
More after the jump.
Friday, April 19, 2013
weekend arts agenda Weekend Arts Agenda: Artistic License
Posted by Egan Short on Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 9:00 AM
- GOAT FARM ARTS CENTER
- Artistic License
Tonight from 8 to 11 p.m., The Goat Farm Arts Center will host Artistic License. The event will merge installation and intimate performance, billed as "an evening of boundary blurring," in which "artists test new ideas in the context of a seamless sensory experience."
More after the jump.
Friday, April 12, 2013
weekend arts agenda Weekend Arts Agenda: Seismic Reflections
Posted by Egan Short on Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 9:00 AM
- BETHANY SPRINGER
- "Signal-to-Noise Ratio," by Bethany Springer
This is the inaugural weekend of Seismic Reflections, a new exhibition of work by Bethany Springer at Twin Kittens. Springer calls her works - in photography, video, and sculpture - "experiments monitoring awareness in a constantly accelerating world." Seismic Reflections opened yesterday and will run through May 24.
More after the jump.
Friday, April 5, 2013
weekend arts agenda Weekend Arts Agenda: Under the Rainbow and At the Edge of Reflections
Posted by Egan Short on Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 9:00 AM
- WHITESPACE
- "Swan Song," by Ann-Marie Manker
Under the Rainbow, an exhibition of works by Ann-Marie Manker, opens tonight at Whitespace, with a reception from 7 to 10 p.m. In mixed media, Manker creates images of female figures poised between "desire and sexuality" and "destruction and war." The exhibition will run through May 11.
More after the jump.
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