Reclining on a couch in a Castleberry Hill loft near his famed tattoo studio City of Ink, Miya Bailey takes a moment to smoke a cigarette and to talk about his latest venture before jetting off to a barber’s appointment. “This is the project that I finally get to do kind of solo,” he says…
Art on the BeltLine, the “largest free temporary outdoor art exhibition in the South,” is poised for a new chapter. New leadership accompanies a new request for proposals for fall 2018. Miranda Kyle has recently taken the helm as the newly installed arts and culture project manager, and ArtsATL sat down with her to get…
In the new group show Reconstructions at Swan Coach House Gallery through February 16, ordinary elements of the built environment serve as the springboard for examination of evolving urban landscapes. Many of the pieces resemble artifacts that have been intercepted somewhere along the path to becoming relics, recovered to help us rethink their presence as markers…
This December, as Atlanta braces for the fallout from a close and contentious mayoral runoff election, a contingent of the city’s artists are busy putting the finishing touches on work and making plans to appeal to a very different body of decision-makers one state away. Each year, art-market influencers — and those who aspire to…
We still have a long way to go in 2017, but Future’s “Mask Off” has already staked its claim as a Top-5 anthem.
While visiting The Broad Museum in Los Angeles over a year ago, I was blown away by both the prominence of featured artists, as well as the fact that I was able to have access to such work for free. Kara Walker, Jeff Koons, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Roy Lichtenstein, Keith Haring, El Anatsui, Jasper Johns, Barbara Kruger and Andy Warhol were just a few of the artists whose work presented by the contemporary art museum founded by philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad that opened in September 2015. By showcasing 2,000 works in a 120,000-square-foot, $140-million building, The Broad could easily get away with charging $15 to $20 for admission, I figured, but to offer it for free?
“Why do not more young colored men and women take up photography as a career? The average white photographer does not know how to deal with colored skins and having neither sense of the delicate beauty of tone nor will to learn, he makes a horrible botch of portraying them.” ~ W. E. B. Du Bois, Crisis, 1923
Standing approximately 120 feet high, Centennial Tower stands as an adornment along the I-75/85 connector.
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Fathers and sons often have a peculiar relationship. In the case of Thornton Dial, Sr. and his sons, Thornton Dial, Jr. and Richard, that relationship plays out in the plot of their lives and in the work they create. With similar inputs of location and materials, yet different outputs in the tone and gravity of…
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