In an unfinished, unpublished draft for an article dated January 4, after stumbling through several false starts attempting to sum up the previous 12 months, I finally concocted an appropriate phrase to describe 2009. I called it The Year of the Ninja.
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Tags: art walk art stroll, botanical gardens, Carolee Schneemann, Fahamu Pecou, Get This! Gallery, Gyun Hur, Kiang Gallery, Matthew Barney, Pandra Williams, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Shana Robbins, Sheila Pree Bright, the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Westside Arts District
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See below for visual arts events beginning Thursday, April 8.
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Tags: Alcove Gallery, avant garden, Beep Beep Gallery, brett smith, carroll street cafe, Castleberry Hill, dodek, Dodekapus, edward t. welburn, emory visual arts, Eyedrum, Fahamu Pecou, films from the arab world, Hagedorn Foundation Gallery, Heidi Aishman, High Museum, johnny waggener, kelly mckern, Kelly McKernan, kenn kotara, micah stans, Micah Stansell, MOCA GA, Obscura, Raw Space Gallery, Sandler Hudson Gallery, the 15 project, The Contemporary, To Do List, Whitespace, Whitney Stansell, woodruff arts center
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The aim of portraiture has always been directed at capturing the inner essence of the portrayed. As stated by Charles Dickens, portraits often take the form of either “the serious or a smirk.” Marianne Lambert uses this to her advantage in Unconventional Portraiture. The exhibition currently on view at the Gallery Walk at Terminus...
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Tags: Brett Osborn, Bruce Hafley, E.K. Huckaby, Fahamu Pecou, Frank Hunter, Kathy Yancey, Linda Anderson, Maurice Clifford, Silas Durant, Susan Cofer, Susan Loeb, Terminus Gallery Walk
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Note: We are now publishing our weekly To Do Lists every Thursday. Now you have an extra day to plan ahead!
See below for visual arts events for the week of Thursday, January 7, through Wednesday, January 13. Please feel free to contact us about any corrections, updates, and new events to include in our...
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Tags: Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Beep Beep Gallery, Castleberry Arts District, Chung Chak, Courtney J. Martin, Daniel Kariko, Eyedrum Art and Music Gallery, Fahamu Pecou, Gallery Stokes, Get This! Gallery, Gregor Spanle, High Museum of Art, Julia Venske, Krause Gallery, Marcia Wood Gallery, Micah Stansell, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Snapdragon Photography, Susannah Starr, Todd Shroeder
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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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Tags: African diaspora, cultural osmosis, Fahamu Pecou, Fahamu Pecou is the shit, Get This! Gallery, hip-hop culture, Malick Sidibé, photography and painting, South Africa, West Africa
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This weekend promises a jam-packed agenda including three art strolls and the Indie Craft Experience (ICE) holiday market. Keep checking previous To Do Lists for recent ongoing shows, and feel free to add more events for November 20 through 26 in the comments box below.
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Tags: Ambient Plus Studios, art strolls, art walks, Audubon Centennial Edition, Axiom Baby Proof, Bobbe Gillis Gallery, Decatur Music Center, Eyedrum Art and Music Gallery, Fahamu Pecou, Gary Hughes, Get This! Gallery, Harry Shearer, High Museum of Art, Indie Craft Experience, Kibbee Gallery, MINT Gallery, Public Acts of Art, Silent Echo Chamber, Studioplex, the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Tweet Design, Westside Arts District, Young Blood Gallery
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Between a series of drawings at Saltworks Gallery loosely themed after Kung Fu training manuals and the Avant Garden discussion panel on journalism and blogging at the Contemporary, there’s plenty of variety in the week ahead. Atlanta Celebrates Photography may be winding to a close, but life continues for the visual arts in...
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Tags: ACP 11, Agnes Scott University, Alex Feliciano, Alex Kvares, Annual Atlanta Artists Holiday Studio Tour, Art Department Gallery, Atlanta Celebrates Photography, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta Photography Group, Cabbagetown photographs, Castleberry Art Stroll, Dalton Gallery, Dawolu Jabari Anderson, Fahamu Pecou, Get This! Gallery, HENSE, John Tindel, Krause Gallery, Little Five Points Community Center, Michi, Niche, Oh So Fail, Opal Gallery, Oraien Catledge, Picaflor Studio, public art dedication, Reading the Water, Saltworks Gallery, See Through Souls, Southern Photographers juried show, Spruill Gallery, Studioplex, The Mattress Factory, The Rail Yard, West End Remembers mural
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I want to thank photographers Jessica Horwitz, Faith Ploener, and Sandy Hooper for their brilliant efforts last Friday night. They collectively shot over 200 photos of Le Flash, capturing the action from nearly every possible angle. Still, we couldn’t cover everything; there was simply too much. Today’s photo tour focuses on artist projects.
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Tags: ACP, Antonio Darden, Atlanta Celebrates Photography, Axis Mundi, Carl DiSalvo, carroll street cafe, Danielle Roney, David Holstius, David Jones, Diana Ascarrunz, Drive By Shooting, Emma Adair, Fahamu Pecou, Fructose Fantasy, Garage Projects, Heidi Aishman, Jane Garver, Johana Moscoso, Kari Lennox, Le Flash, Le Flash 2009, Louise Shaw, Matt Haffner, May the Light Affect, Micah Stansell, Michael Reese, Mission, MOCA GA, Mons Boris, My Name in Lights, N Yo Face, Presynaptic Potential Presynaptic Peepshow, Shana Robbins, Steve Aishman, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Tracing What is Remembered, Tree Ghost in Iceland, We Are Survival Machines
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I’ve been thinking about the future lately, in light of the spectacular feedback we’ve received after GATHER Atlanta. It seems we’ve hit a nerve, in more ways than one.
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Tags: Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta Printmakers Studio, Brian Dettmer, Cinqué Hicks, Eyedrum Gallery, Fahamu Pecou, Flood of Pictures, Get This! Gallery, Gold Attic, House of Colors, Jane Whitehurst, Marcia Cohen, MINT Gallery, MOCA GA, Never, Opal Gallery, Saltworks Gallery, The Bench, the VESTIGES Project, Third Saturdays, Tom Ferguson, Westside Arts Di, WonderRoot
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