showing_seeing Gerhard Richter at the High

7-panes Gerhard Richter 2007

Arguably created by Barbara Stafford, Showing Seeing is a way of presenting a visual artifact from the world.  Usually under multiple lenses, this exercise dissects our visual understanding in this world in the context of the thing itself. In this version Gerhard Richter’s work at the High Museum is examined. What makes his work communicate on so many wavelengths and so many levels of understanding? “Look Dad, I’m 3d,” a 4 year old exclaimed while looking through the eleven paned installation. What have you said?

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Atlanta Neighborhood Survey

I am currently in my 8^th year of living in Atlanta, and I thought I knew the city pretty well. I went to college at Emory, lived in Druid Hills, read Creative Loafing, attended openings at Beep Beep, bought all my presents at Young Blood and never, ever drank Pepsi. Yes, I knew all there was to know about Atlanta. Then my boyfriend decided he might buy a house, and I decided to help him look.

I had no idea. For example, did you know that there are things on the west side of 75/85? Other than Georgia Tech? And to the south – there’s like a whole other city down there! A laundry list of neighborhoods I had never heard of, let alone been to.  In theory, I understood that there were things outside the snug comfort of my lower northeast enclave, but I never really considered it. Now I have begun to wonder – what are people up to over there? How can I have no clue what 3/4^ths of Atlanta is like and still be a good Atlanta citizen, let alone a good Atlanta architect?

This will be a regularly occurring column where I take the opportunity to educate myself and anyone else who might be interested on Atlanta neighborhoods that I don’t already know about. Which is apparently a lot. Every other week I will investigate and profile a different Atlanta neighborhood. Midtown will not be one of them. Or will it?

Next issue: Vine City

Arts & Culture Mayoral Forum Tonight

Will the candidates commit to:

• $10 Million Annual Funding for Arts and Culture?
• Putting an Arts Representative on their transition team?
• Earmarking 1.5% of TADs to fund Public Art on the Beltline?
• Affordable spaces for artists & arts grous?
• Public funding for cultural facilities?

Find out TODAY, Monday October 12!!!
6-8PM
Rich Auditorium, Woodruff Arts Center
RSVP to: advocacy@metroatlantaarts.org
The Arts & Culture Mayoral Forum

Participating Candidates:
Lisa Borders, Mary Norwood, Kasim Reed &  Jesse Spikes

RSVP to: advocacy@metroatlantaarts.org
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BUILDINGS LAST FOREVER

Last Friday the Young Architect’s Forum chapter in Atlanta held its annual Emerging Voices show at MODA. Beverages were enjoyed, projects were displayed from three great, young, local firms, winners of the 48 Hour Competition engaging the Breuer library were addressed, the AWPL showed a great collection of furniture… All in all it was a wonderful time to talk shop with peers and enjoy a night out in downtown.

One element of the exhibit, however, stood out, well, like a rotting beam on a pristine, white marble floor… namely BLDGS contribution to the exhibit. Backed by a purple, life-scale forrest graphic featuring a dizzyingly bright horizontal tube light towards one end, the focal point was a gloriously aged, salvaged, heavy-timber beam sitting slightly angled directly on the floor – molding and shedding chunks of itself shamelessly at the feet of Atlanta’s little black dress wearing Friday night design crowd.
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questions of urbanity