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16.05.12 Gregor Turk Explores Atlanta’s Sense of Place at MOCA GA

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Tags: Atlanta, Fetish Series, Gregor Turk, I-20, I-285, I-75, I-85, Metronesia Series, Metronesian Replacements, Metronesian Stick Charts, Metronesian Tectonics, Micronesian stick charts, MOCA GA, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Phil Collins, Terminal Velocity, WAP, Working Artist Project

Gregor Turk’s Terminal Velocity presents place as inconsistent despite our best attempts to cement them.

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10.05.12 Capturing Moments: Kuhn and Christenberry at Jackson

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Tags: 5 Cent Sign Demopolis, Bordeaux, Dorothea Lange, Eadweard Muybridge, Eddie Adams, Edward Weston, Green Warehouse, Jackson Fine Art, Migrant Mother, Mona Kuhn, Murder of a Vietcong by Saigon Police Chief, On Photography, Red Building in Forest, Robert Capa, Ryan McGinley, Susan Sontag, The Horse in Motion, Tina Modotti, William Christenberry, Working From Memory, World War II

Mona Kuhn and William Christenberry’s exhibitions at Jackson Fine Art document personal histories.

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09.05.12 George Long’s New Work Mimics Memories at Marcia Wood Gallery

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Tags: Flipping Translations, George Long, Marcia Wood Gallery, Mimic, Ramparts, Stifler, Werner Herzog

George Long’s blurred and distorted drawings at Marcia Wood Gallery read like difficult memories.

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08.05.12 Beth Lilly Mines the Currency of Her Memory Bank at Hagedorn

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Tags: Beth Lilly, Escaped Convicts, Every single one of these stories is true, Hagedorn Foundation Gallery, photo, photographer, photography, Prison Visit

Known previously for her Oracle @ WiFi project, the Atlanta-based photographer furthers her play with fictional truths.

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02.05.12 More Than Painting: Professionals Pant at the Contemporary

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Tags: abstract expressionism, Alex Hubbard, Andy Warhol, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Barnett Newman, Bruce Lee, Christopher Martin, Craig Drennen, critical complicity, David Diao, featured, Frank Stella, Helen Frankenthaler, Jackson Pollack, Jasper Johns, Jennifer West, Judy Ledgerwood, Louis Camnitzer, New York Art Scene, Pace Wildenstern, Painters Painting, Painters Panting, painting is dead, Robert Mangold, Robert Rauschenberg, Saul Fletcher, Stuart Horodner, The Contemporary, Thomas Lawson, Timon of Athens, White Space, Willem de Kooning

“If you want to be taken seriously as an artist, you cannot avoid painting.” A statement to consider?

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25.04.12 Jiha Moon’s Detourist Exaggerates a Simplified View of Culture

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Tags: buddha, Chinese New Year, crane, Detourist, Disney, featured, hanji, Jiha Moon, Luck of Irish, Medusa, Migration, mythology, Poseidon, Procession Detourist, Saltworks Gallery, Snow White (Detourist), Storyteller, tourism, tourist, Twitter birds

Jiha Moon’s latest exhibition at Saltworks emphasizes the form of illusory authenticity a tourist experiences.

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23.04.12 Rua | Wülf, a Wildly Imaginative Journey at the Goat Farm

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Tags: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A.C. Smallwood, adaptation, al fresco, Alice in Wonderland, Alliance Theatre, Caitlin Reeves, Claire Rigby, featured, Goat Farm Arts Center, Guide, Hemming, Into the Woods, jung, Jungian archetypes, Little Red Riding Hood, Marium Khalid, Mary Wolfson, mother, Petite Rouge, Puck, reimagining, review, Rua Wulf, Saïah, Stephen Sondheim, Synchronicity Theatre, Tara Reid, tea party, Tennessee Williams, The Alliance, The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls, Tim Batten, update, wolf

This ambitious play delivers incredible visual experiences, albeit with some storytelling flaws, ending its final night April 29.

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18.04.12 Kofke and Chambers’s The Ends Suggests That Change is in the Air

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Tags: Apple, Arari, Babel, Back to the Future, Beep Beep Gallery, Camero, Children of Moscow after Chernobyl, Chris Chambers, Christa McAuliffe, creosote, DeLorean, douche-baggery, Everything Will Be OK, explosion, featured, floppy disc, Instagram, Jason Kofke, Korean Airline Massacre, MacBooks, Macintosh, memory, nostalgia, Pontiac Fiero, Pontiac Fiero SE, public address, Ray Kurzweil, Ronald Reagan, SIRI, Space Shuttle Challenger, technology, The Ends, the Singularity, untitled (1984), VH1, Wikipedia, YouTube

Beep Beep Gallery’s current two-person show employs technology as nostalgia to question our civilization’s present situation.

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17.04.12 Missed Opportunities in The Tents, a History of New York Fashion Week

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Tags: Barbara Walters, Betsey Johnson, Brown vs Board of Education, Bryant Park, BT, Carolina Herrera, Donna Karan, Fashion Week, Fern Mallis, hagiography, Isaac Mizrahi, James Belzer, Jason Wu, Lauren Ezersky, Lincoln Center, Manhattan, Oscar de la Renta, Paper Magazine, Patrick McDonald, Robert Verdi, The New York Fashion Week Documentary, The Tents, Tommy Hilfiger, trailer, who’s who, Zac Posen

Screening Thursday at SCAD-Atlanta, this informative film is high on fashion but a little low on deeper insights.

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17.04.12 Connecting the Dots between Science and Art at Spruill Gallery

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Tags: A Line is a Dot That Went For a Walk Series, Center for Chemical Evolution, Chaos, Common Ancestry, Connecting the Dots: Exploring Chemical Revolution through Art, Interstellar Interaction, Leisa Rich, Little Worlds, Lost in Space, Passive, Placid, Spruill Gallery, Terri Dilling, Warm Little Pond

Science inspires artists, but artists inspire other artists more.

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16.04.12 Alan Loehle’s Recent Rome Series at Marcia Wood Gallery is Refreshing

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Tags: Alan Loehle, Belvedere Torso, Correggio Kiss, Cue the Choir, Death Painting, Egon Schiele, Grand Tour, Guggenheim Fellowship, Gustav Klimt, Life and Death I (Hard to be Human), Lorie Corbus, Marcia Wood Gallery, Neo-Expressionism, R.B. Kitaj, Rome Belvedere (Remembering Kitaj), Rome Series, Sistine Lust

Alan Loehle’s Rome Series of paintings succeeds at extending a historical background to his painterly style.

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16.05.12 Gregor Turk Explores Atlanta’s Sense of Place at MOCA GA

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10.05.12 Capturing Moments: Kuhn and Christenberry at Jackson

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09.05.12 George Long’s New Work Mimics Memories at Marcia Wood Gallery

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08.05.12 Beth Lilly Mines the Currency of Her Memory Bank at Hagedorn

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02.05.12 More Than Painting: Professionals Pant at the Contemporary

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25.04.12 Jiha Moon’s Detourist Exaggerates a Simplified View of Culture

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23.04.12 Rua | Wülf, a Wildly Imaginative Journey at the Goat Farm

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18.04.12 Kofke and Chambers’s The Ends Suggests That Change is in the Air

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17.04.12 Missed Opportunities in The Tents, a History of New York Fashion Week

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17.04.12 Connecting the Dots between Science and Art at Spruill Gallery

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16.04.12 Alan Loehle’s Recent Rome Series at Marcia Wood Gallery is Refreshing

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07.04.12 Get This! Gallery Goes Meta for Ben Roosevelt’s Blue Flame

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