By Hannah E. Jones Your phone buzzes. Car horns blare. A new email in your inbox. The responsibilities of daily life can make it difficult to carve time out for creative endeavors, but in the mountains of North Georgia, there’s another way of life. Welcome to The Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences. […]
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Blandtown Banners: Re/framing a neighborhood’s past, future
Local artist Gregor Turk wants to use his latest project to start a discussion, and it’s all about Blandtown. His newest project, titled “Red, White, and Black” hangs along the Atlanta Watershed Reservoir chain link fence. The banners show high-contrast photographs of the city’s infrastructure, including original homes and “WERD,” the nation’s first Black-owned radio […]
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‘Kusama: Infinity’ – an extraordinary documentary about Yayoi Kusama
To echo the old saying, I don’t know much about art, but I know what I like. However, I know even less about artists, so I had no inkling that I would fall so hard for “Kusama: Infinity,” an extraordinary documentary about Yayoi Kusama, whom I’d never heard of.
Shame on me. She’s the world’s top-selling living female artist. And deservedly so. As Heather Lenz’s movie makes abundantly clear, Kusama is an astonishing original.
