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Cullum’s July Notebook: Disparate parts make a whole at Hathaway

Jerry CullumJuly 3, 2019

Early in my writing career, I heard the maxim that in the South, artists can spend their whole career emerging. Midcareer artists who, by choice or accident, do...

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Cullum’s June notebook: New faces, new places and the return of familiar names

Jerry CullumJune 5, 2019

New galleries -- commercial, nonprofit, DIY or pop-up hybrids -- have been emerging regularly the past few years, but there's been a significant upsurge lately ...

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An appreciation: Artist Ruth Laxson, 94

Jerry CullumJune 3, 2019

Painter and sculptor extraordinaire Ruth Laxson was known to the Atlanta art world for two reasons beyond her internationally collected artist’s books: for begi...

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Cullum’s Notebook: Provocative couplings of nature and culture

Jerry CullumMay 13, 2019

Several exhibitions present art in natural settings this month. Several more present images of nature in a gallery, so the time is ripe for another go-round wit...

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Cullum’s April Notebook: Fay Gold returns; Lindsay, Shange converse

Jerry CullumApril 17, 2019

One of the most intriguing points of the new European Masterworks: The Phillips Collection at the High Museum of Art is its installation. It uses the unconventi...

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Sensuality, poetry, intellect beam from Donna Mintz’s golden Ex Astris

Jerry CullumApril 10, 2019

The stunning gold-leafed spectacle and deeply poetic work in Donna Mintz’s Ex Astris, at Sandler Hudson Gallery through May 4, recalls great moments of art hist...

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Cullum’s March Notebook: Nature, art collude in shows all over town

Jerry CullumMarch 8, 2019

The birth bicentenary of British art critic John Ruskin (1819–1900) reminds me of his thoroughly debatable -- most would say outdated -- belief that increasing ...

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Geometry, visual play in Tipping Point illustrate giant leap for painter Don Cooper

Jerry CullumMarch 4, 2019

Don Cooper’s The Tipping Point and Neutral Gray No. 6, at Sandler Hudson Gallery through March 16, is quite accurately named, for it marks a remarkable tipping ...

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At Chastain Arts Gallery, puzzling, rewarding I Am Both digs into dualities

Jerry CullumFebruary 7, 2019

Chastain Arts Gallery describes the two-person I Am Both (through March 9) as being about the “ideas and themes of duality, of systems that bridge personal and ...

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Cullum’s February Notebook: Identity mined at Carlos, CAU, Spalding Nix and more

Jerry CullumFebruary 4, 2019

Without anyone planning it, several exhibitions in Atlanta museums and galleries address the continuously contentious issue of identity -- American, ethnic, soc...

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