Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
25 September 2011
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01 December 2010
25 November 2010
13 November 2010
10 September 2010
02 June 2010
22 March 2010
Jenni Rope
I have admired Jenni Rope before but just want to bring her to your attention.
(via Aesthetic Outburst, thanks for reminding me of this great artist!)
(via Aesthetic Outburst, thanks for reminding me of this great artist!)
08 February 2010
High
Did you know that the first Saturday of the month is free day at the High for Fulton County residents? This used to be limited to the first 100 guests but I don't think it is anymore (though I'm not sure). But you'll want to go early anyway because the museum is CROWDED on Saturdays. As I heard one guest say, "It's just like being in New York." If you don't live in Futon County or just like to pay for things, you can go on any Thursday afternoon, when admission is half price (regularly $18!) from 4-8 p.m.
If you go in the next couple of months, you will be able to see the awesome John Portman exhibit, featuring architecture, painting and sculpture. Portman, who graduated from Georgia Tech with a degree in architecture in 1950, designed many of the great buildings downtown, include the Westin, Hyatt, Mariott Marquis, and AmericasMart buildings. The High's website has information on a walking tour of Portman's downtown Atlanta buildings.
Also worth viewing is the installation "Altered Environments;" pieces from the High's collection that feature environments that have been altered by the artist or by people in general.
If you go in the next couple of months, you will be able to see the awesome John Portman exhibit, featuring architecture, painting and sculpture. Portman, who graduated from Georgia Tech with a degree in architecture in 1950, designed many of the great buildings downtown, include the Westin, Hyatt, Mariott Marquis, and AmericasMart buildings. The High's website has information on a walking tour of Portman's downtown Atlanta buildings.
Also worth viewing is the installation "Altered Environments;" pieces from the High's collection that feature environments that have been altered by the artist or by people in general.
04 February 2010
Dawoud Bey at Emory
Recently I've been thinking that maybe I should blog about what we're doing before we do it, so that other people, if they are so inclined, can find out about these super-cool things we are doing and do them, too. However, that's for another day! (Maybe via the popular social networking tool Twitter!)
Tonight we went to the opening reception of "Class Pictures: Photographs by Dawoud Bey" at Emory University Art Gallery. Bey was in attendance and gave a gallery talk at the end of the evening. I really enjoyed the exhibit and the talk, especially when he briefly touched on using art to redefine public spaces and institutions (such as museums), to bring a (often marginalized) segment of the population into these spaces (sometimes for the first time), as viewer, as part of the art, as artist.
Mark especially liked how Bey uses a construct, a fabrication, to emphasize or bring forth a "true nature" of the subject. Like Emilio Estevez in Breakfast Club.
And, I mean, the portraits were great. They look really good. They are large format, very imposing, and, as Bey said, the subjects seem to almost pop out of the picture. (On view through March 4!)
After the talk, we went to Leon's Full Service in Decatur. I can't believe this place has been open for a year and we've just now visited! Good beers, good local food, good service. We got some "pub frites" with various sauces. Mark's favorite sauce was the horseradish mayonaise for it's high viscosity and delicious colloidal properties.
Tonight we went to the opening reception of "Class Pictures: Photographs by Dawoud Bey" at Emory University Art Gallery. Bey was in attendance and gave a gallery talk at the end of the evening. I really enjoyed the exhibit and the talk, especially when he briefly touched on using art to redefine public spaces and institutions (such as museums), to bring a (often marginalized) segment of the population into these spaces (sometimes for the first time), as viewer, as part of the art, as artist.
Mark especially liked how Bey uses a construct, a fabrication, to emphasize or bring forth a "true nature" of the subject. Like Emilio Estevez in Breakfast Club.
And, I mean, the portraits were great. They look really good. They are large format, very imposing, and, as Bey said, the subjects seem to almost pop out of the picture. (On view through March 4!)
After the talk, we went to Leon's Full Service in Decatur. I can't believe this place has been open for a year and we've just now visited! Good beers, good local food, good service. We got some "pub frites" with various sauces. Mark's favorite sauce was the horseradish mayonaise for it's high viscosity and delicious colloidal properties.
30 August 2009
Coloring Book
I don't usually post about things that I've bought but today I got a Charlie Harper Coloring Book and I am so excited about it that I just wanted to tell everyone. I'm going to use some of the pictures as embroidery/needlepoint patterns.
21 August 2009
11 August 2009
another love
As you may know, I read a lot of blogs. Maybe a debilitating number, so many that other aspects of my life are suffering. But no matter. I've found another to add to the reader:
It's Today I Saw, in which Jill Wignall documents her project of drawing something she sees every day and then sending it to someone she likes. Here's one from the other day:
I especially like the "today I saw" printed on the card.
So anyway, I think I'm going to have to borrow this idea, especially since I have a spreadsheet with so many addresses, since we've been doing the nuptial planning thing. Also, I love you, Jill Wignall!
(via frolic!)
17 June 2009
Big cute things
Usually I prefer little things, but these big things are very nice, too:
From the project "Dushi" by Florentijn Hofman.
Via today and tomorrow.
Oh my, you should also take a look at this:
"Badeend," also by Florentijn Hofman.
From the project "Dushi" by Florentijn Hofman.
Via today and tomorrow.
Oh my, you should also take a look at this:
"Badeend," also by Florentijn Hofman.
09 June 2009
Remember Jayson Scott Musson?
Remember Jayson Scott Musson from an earlier post? He has his series, "Barack Obama Battles the Pink Robots" on his website. Go look at it!
11 March 2009
09 March 2009
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