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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bicentenary of British art critic John Ruskin (1819–1900) reminds me of his thoroughly debatable -- most would say outdated -- belief that increasing ...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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Cullum’s Notebook: January brings new gallery exhibitions of special interest

Jerry CullumJanuary 10, 2019

The 2019 art season begins with a week of several particularly intriguing exhibition openings and the final days of equally intriguing exhibitions. Because of t...

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Metal artist Corrina Sephora explores meditations of midnight dreaming

Jerry CullumJanuary 9, 2019

The title of Corrina Sephora’s full-gallery installation Between the Deep Blue Sea and the Universe implies a passage from the mythic depths to the farthest rea...

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Cullum’s Notebook: At year’s end, Atlanta shows tackle weighty issues

Jerry CullumDecember 20, 2018

The waning weeks of the year, a time when some of us feel inclined to contemplate the world’s biggest issues, coincide in Atlanta with the final days of four sh...

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