Editor’s note: In 2017, as part of our Legacy Series, ArtsATL writer Gail O’Neill profiled MOCA GA founder and CEO Annette Cone-Skelton. The story traces Cone-S...
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...
Larry Walker discovered his love for art at seven years old while listening to The Lone Ranger and The Shadow on the radio and drawing what he imagined the char...
August 6–12
ART + DESIGN
Larry Walker: The Later Years. A new exhibition, the second in a two-part retrospective, considers the later years of the Atlanta-based...
In Larry Walker’s Male Torso (1961), the lines rendering the subject become almost indistinguishable at certain points. While Walker’s lines are elsewhere clear...
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Winnie-the-Pooh: Exploring a Classic. The High Museum becomes the first stop in the US for the Victoria and Albert Museum’s exhibition exploring t...
Where would we be without the metaphorical campfires to which we instinctively gravitate, whether in celebration or when our sense of well-being is threatened? What would we do without art, the stylized expression of experience, and the people born with a gift for making something out of nothing? Who would we be without the creatives among us who are curious, inventive, avant-garde, imaginative, bold, industrious, driven, bright and utterly inscrutable— even to themselves sometimes?...
I don’t think of myself as exploring subjects. The “Wall” series grew out of the “Truck” series. The “Truck” series grew out of something else. The fact that one thing led to the other just kind of happened. It wasn’t something that I consciously sat down and thought about. It is fluid....
Larry Walker, Professor Emeritus and former Director of Art and Design at Georgia State University and solo artist has been named The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center’s 2016 Nexus Award Recipient. The public reception for the award will take place on Saturday, August 27th at the Atlanta Contemporary, in conjunction with ART PARTY, the organization’s annual fundraiser. This announcement comes just two days after Atlanta Contemporary’s announcement of the revival of the Atlanta Biennial, which will also open that weekend....
