Archive for December, 2009

Dear ATL, To continue the tradition we started with last year’s Best of 2008 feature story, BURNAWAY has recruited the talents of ten highly qualified, arts-savvy Atlantans to help ring the bells, bring in the fire, and shout the praises of the most inspiring arts events of 2009. Below you’ll find top picks by guest...
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Tightly drawn shutters and obsessive arrangements are common to the subject of Sarah Hobb’s recent show titled Emotional Management, on view at Solomon Projects until January 9, 2010. Through seven photographs, Hobbs guides us from the public space of the gallery to view bizarre behaviors that have taken place within a private residence. Although...
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I’m sad to report that this will be the final events listing until January, 2010. Where did all that time go? As we bid farewell to the Year of Our Lord, 2009, please keep checking previous To Do Lists for recent shows that will reopen after the holidays, and feel free to add...
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There’s no need to ever take another picture of a house, a dog, or a sunset. If you open up a magazine or an old newspaper, or if you do an image search online, you will find plenty of what you need. This is a symptom of our age: We hastily cut and...
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Please welcome today’s guest writer, Edward Hall, who submits the following holiday book review. Authors have been “borrowing” from one another for centuries. For example, Cervantes wrote the second part of Don Quixote to challenge a literary pirate and assert primacy as the man of La Mancha’s originator. A far nobler form of literary piracy...
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With all the buzz I heard about the show, I really wanted to like Fahamu Pecou’s Whirl Trade at Get This! Gallery. His persona is fun and energetic, and he even sells t-shirts in bright colors that proclaim, “Fahamu Pecou is the Shit,” which makes me chuckle. As much as I wanted to like...
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Breaking news from Stuart Keeler: On December 16, 18, and 21, the artist will perform An Aerge to Walk, a Situationist-inspired street performance designed to reclaim the city in the name of pedestrians everywhere. Keeler will superimpose a “drawing” on the urban landscape beginning at the intersection of Peachtree and Ponce by using a...
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Modernist buildings in Atlanta have a proclivity towards neglect and disappearance. At a moment of political unrest over a famous Brutalist building, the Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA) hosts a beautifully designed traveling show about renowned architect Marcel Breuer, whose last great building happens to be our Atlanta Central Library. The museum reaches out...
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I’ve become a fan of DVD extras over the years. For that reason, I’ve provided a list of goodies loosely themed after Saltworks Gallery’s current exhibit. My review appears in today’s print edition of Creative Loafing. An excerpt: “But what does kung fu have to do with being black? Although Anderson’s mythology calls to mind...
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If you missed the yuletide festivities at Forever Green this weekend, you can still catch Whitespace Gallery’s annual December Show, opening this Friday, December 11, from 7-10PM. Forever Green included Christmas trees composed of “every material imaginable, except live trees,” craft collectibles fashioned from recycled parts, and even a live fashion show. Too bad...
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