Art
Romare Bearden's Collages of Life in the Rural South and Industrial North
For the first time in decades, more than 30 collages from Bearden's Profile series is being shown together.
Atlanta
Art
After a Mural of Colin Kaepernick Is Demolished, Several Take Its Place
Just before the Super Bowl in Atlanta a mural of Kaepernick and the wall it was painted on was demolished, raising the question whether there was an anti-Colin Kaepernick conspiracy at work.
Announcement
Georgia State University's Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design Now Accepting Applications
All MFAs receive full tuition waivers, 24-hour access studio space, and graduate assistantships.
Art
In Atlanta, Considering Which Confederate Monuments Should Go
From cemetery monuments and statues allegorizing reunification to an obelisk that functions as propaganda for "Lost Cause" rhetoric, the city's monuments make a blanket approach impossible.
Art
A Utopian Suburb Where Residents Underwrite an Art Residency
Serenbe, a bedroom community of Atlanta with fewer than 500 residents, boasts an ambitious and unconventional artist-in-residence program.
News
A 12,000-Pound Panorama of a Civil War Battle Is Lifted into Its New Home
The colossal 19th-century painting of the Battle of Atlanta has been hailed as a tribute to both the North and South, and its complicated history will be a focus in its new home at the Atlanta History Center.
Art
As Met Breuer Opens, Two of the Architect's Buildings Face an Uncertain Fate
Prominence of name has never guaranteed the preservation of architecture. Frank Lloyd Wright's Park Avenue Showroom was demolished in 2013 just blocks from his iconic Guggenheim Museum, Louis Kahn's Philadelphia commercial storefront was torn down in 2014, just a couple of years after the grand unve
Art
The Work of Four Seriously Funny Women Artists
ATLANTA — Pratfall Tramps at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center is an exhibition that works by sleight of hand.
In Brief
Art Project Detonated After Causing Bomb Scare
The Atlanta Police Department shut down a major traffic artery in midtown on Monday after an art project by Georgia State University students sparked a bomb scare.
News
Atlanta's High Museum Gets a New Folk Art Curator
On Wednesday the High Museum in Atlanta announced that it had hired Katherine Jentleson to be its next curator of folk and self-taught art.
News
Atlanta Officials Propose Regulating "Public Art" on Private Property
City Councilmembers in Atlanta are proposing an ordinance that would require anyone wishing to display "public art" on their private property to obtain a labyrinthine string of permits and approvals, Creative Loafing has reported.
Interview
Detritus Blossoms in an Abandoned Nightclub
CHICAGO — The walls were painted pink-and-yellow zigzags, and a cast of characters outfitted in white tuxes and animal heads ignited an abandoned nightclub, turning the space into a carnivalesque, Dada-influenced funhouse without mirrors. This is just one moment from Ben Coleman and Henry Detweiler'