Posts Tagged ‘ public art ’

Someone searching for information about Brooklyn-based artists Bradley McCallum and Jaqueline Tarry could spend hours surfing through countless articles and still not see the full picture. In preparation for their exhibition Evenly Yoked at Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, opening tonight, Thursday, September 9, from 6-8PM, the college’s electronic newsletter attempts a quick...
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I was driving through Inman Park with my roommate last month when we passed by an abandoned church at 850 Euclid Avenue. The structure has a lazy, melancholy vibe about it, as if it hasn’t decided whether to be sad or to accept its disuse as a blissful fact of life. Even now, its...
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Today, as I conducted my daily bike errands, I noted the scenery around me. The highlights? A dirty bucket and a decaying sock of questionable origin. I figure if I’m going to freeze my ass off riding around town, I (and my fellow street-stompin’ travelers) could at least use something pleasant to look at....
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Parking the wrong way on McDonald Street in Taco Town for a few minutes, I felt compelled to get out of my car to photograph a funny little piece of renegade public art. I was sure such unofficial signage would soon disappear. In a hurry, I turned around and a man confronted me in...
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Following a lead in a column of Artillery magazine’s March/April print edition, “The sad, slow death of LA’s freeway murals,” I spent some time today researching the street battle between LA taggers and muralists—and the courtroom battle between artist Frank Romero and the state authorities of CalTrans. To tell you the truth, I’ve given up...
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The hustle and bustle of Five Points, the heart of downtown Atlanta, is filled with knock-off Coach purses and honking horns. In the midst of the chaos, a large steel monument commemorates the historic intersection of five streets: Peachtree, Edgewood, Decatur, Whitehall, and Marietta. Created in 1996 by George Beasley, a professor at nearby...
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