Scott Ingram’s current solo show at Emily Amy Gallery, Cusp, continues his twelve-year long series of nail polish paintings. Ingram has used the medium to take the aesthetics of mid-century painters such as Ellsworth Kelly and Morris Louis into a humorous pop-cultural context that explores how painting can still be relevant. I spoke with [...]

Edward Saïd’s seminal work, Orientalism, originally published in 1978, established the idea that the Orient was a construct fabricated and disseminated by the West via representations of the Other as a means of asserting power over the Middle East. The concept of the Other has undergone radical shifts as globalization, migration, and displacement have replaced [...]

At 29, Philadelphia-based photographer Michael M. Koehler produces work that’s strikingly nuanced with life experience, colored by extensive travel and a practiced understanding of how to make a beautiful image. In Between, his exhibition currently on display at Get This! Gallery through Saturday, October 29, 2011, documents urban landscapes spanning from post-Katrina New Orleans, to [...]

Frances Hodgson Burnett’s 1911 novel, The Secret Garden, created a secluded, magical landscape that explored the rejuvenating and enlivening powers of living things. With an equally uplifting and engaging collection of organic installations and mixed media sculptures, Sloane Robinson Cheatham, Susan A. Cipcic, and Shana Wood have created their own secret garden in the current [...]

Working Artist Project recipient Xie Coamin’s exhibition Samsāra, currently on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, combines the Buddhist mandala with the imagery of the World Trade Center in an abstracted composition that evokes the visual culture of his Chinese background alongside the documentation of United States history. Shanghai-born, Xie has continually [...]

Click the player above to listen now, or click here to download the audio file. Special thanks to AM 1690, The Voice of the Arts, our partners in producing ARTSpeak with BURNAWAY. The radio program broadcasts over the airwaves every Tuesday between 8-8:30AM and between 6-6:30PM. Episode 27: Susannah Darrow speaks with Erica Jameson about [...]

It’s official! We are so beyond incredibly excited to announce that BURNAWAY is now officially a 501(c)(3) nonprofit arts organization. We just want to say thanks to everyone for your support and feedback over the past two-and-a-half years. You guys are awesome.

Home is an amorphous concept for artist, Veronica De Jesus whose first solo exhibition Emanate Car Show is currently on display at Get This! Gallery. The first part of De Jesus’ life was spent traveling around the country in cars, always unsettled and uncertain. De Jesus explores her nomadic childhood through whimsically abstracted line drawings [...]

The most visually dramatic element of Nate Moore’s current exhibition, Skyward, on display at Emily Amy Gallery is the sheer number of hand folded origami jet planes that dance across the gallery walls, coating the room in whimsical shapes and colors. Over 1000 jets, meticulously crafted over a two-year period, cover the walls of the [...]

See below for arts events through December 14.

We are super excited to announce that Burnaway has hit the glossies! You can see us alongside of some of the city’s gallery mavens, and ones to watch in The Atlantan’s December Art and Power issue which has officially hit stands.

Indie Craft Experience does it again with ICE annual festival and partnership presented by the Alliance Theatre.