Announcement
SCAD Museum of Art Announces Frederick Douglass: Embers of Freedom
The museum opens the group exhibition exploring the life and legacy of the preeminent visionary and abolitionist.
Georgia
News
Spanish-Speaking Art Students Clapback at Man Who Told Them to "Speak English"
Four art students in Savannah, Georgia, were confronted by a man telling them to speak English.
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.
Art
The Grand Reopening of a Georgia Fortune Teller's Psychedelic Art Environment
This October, a phantasmagoric art environment in rural western Georgia will reopen following two years of conservation.
Art
W. E. B. Du Bois's Modernist Data Visualizations of Black Life
For the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris, African American activist and sociologist W. E. B. Du Bois led the creation of over 60 charts, graphs, and maps that visualized data on the state of black life.
In Brief
Artist Proposes Adding Stone Carving of Outkast to Confederate Monument
Now that surveying and debating the fates of Confederate monuments around the US has become a national pastime, an artist has proposed a spottieottiedopaliscious solution for one of the most egregious and seemingly immovable.
Art
Five Musical Instruments of the Future
Instruments that translate electronic music into physical actions and acoustic instruments that sound as space-age as any synthesizer are just some of the 20 semi-finalists in the 2015 Guthman Musical Instrument Competition.
Art
Two Exhibitions Capture Life in the Caucasus
TBILISI, Georgia — This week in Tbilisi, there are two exhibitions worth checking out. They make a nice pairing for an afternoon, as the first deals with public memory while the second is a very intimate examination of hidden experience. Both are singular in that they reflect life in the Caucasus re
Art
1% for the Arts: A Hollow Gesture?
The town government of Suwanee, Georgia approved an ordinance which would ask all real estate developers to donate 1% of the budget of the building cost toward a public art project. The Atlanta Journal Constitution writes, “Where many struggling cities see public art as an extravagance these days, S