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In small but mighty “Real Negus,” Fahamu Pecou honors new ancestors

TK SmithJuly 19, 2019

EYP/Gallery 100’s exhibition of Fahamu Pecou’s Real Negus Don’t Die, on view through mid-October, is small but impactful. The 12 drawings here will be famili...

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Art + Design in brief: Art on the BeltLine turns 10, begins July 21

ARTS ATL StaffJuly 16, 2019

The 2019 Art on the Atlanta BeltLine, the annual art exhibition that turns 10 this year, will include sculptures, murals, events and performances running well i...

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Shanequa Gay’s “LIT WITHOUT SHERMAN” proves that love never fails community

Shelley DanzyJuly 16, 2019

A community’s appearance can be rearranged, but its heartbeat -- the character of those who live community – cannot. Artist Shanequa Gay’s murals speak to histo...

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A trip to “Tobacco Road” with Norman Wagner, still creating at 80

Deanna SirlinJuly 12, 2019

Norman Wagner moved from rural Illinois to build a printmaking department at the Atlanta College of Art in 1963. For the past 41 years, he’s worked from his hom...

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With simultaneous solo, group shows, Krista Clark worth watching

Anna Nelson-DanielJuly 10, 2019

Atlanta artist Krista Clark has two exhibitions open -- a solo show at MOCA GA (through August 24) and the group show Recent Drawings at Sandler Hudson Gallery ...

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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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Art + Design in brief: High Museum goes “Speechless” in April 2020

ARTS ATL StaffJuly 2, 2019

The High Museum of Art will join forces with the Dallas Museum of Art for a 2019--20 exhibition titled Speechless, which will explore the myriad ways we use our...

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2018/19 Hughley Fellowship artists reflect, ponder and question in MOCA GA exhibition

Sydney BurrowsJune 27, 2019

To fully live in the present and prepare for the future, artists must first examine history. For this year’s WonderRoot Hughley Artist Fellows, reflecting on th...

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Today in street art: The ins and outs of collaborative muralist Lela Brunet

Kathy JanichJune 27, 2019

Art found Lela Brunet early in life, when her mom let her draw on the bedroom walls. They could always be painted over when Lela tired of the project, she reaso...

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Fascinating “Framing Shadows” endeavors to uproot the mythology of black nannies

Gail O'NeillJune 10, 2019

Based on some of the most enduring depictions of female African American caregivers and white children in literature, popular culture and advertising, it appear...

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