#GetLiFTed: Atlanta’s New Art Salon Organization

#GetLiFTed: Atlanta’s New Art Salon Organization

The community & arts organization in Atlanta LiFT held its first Art Salon in November 2014 and has been holding them once a month since. The most recent, #CreATL, featured glass artist Marselle Harrison-Miles, R&B singer ASH who just dropped her first EP, The...
Power Plays of Currencies, Desires, Energies

Power Plays of Currencies, Desires, Energies

A string of questions: What is the discourse of power that we subscribe to? Is it constrained by capital or physical strength? Is it supernatural or material? Where is it located? Who participates?  Further: What are the material conditions that underpin these power...
It’s an Atlanta Day! Part 2: Priscilla Smith

It’s an Atlanta Day! Part 2: Priscilla Smith

Over the coming months, the Bad at Sports blog is featuring quick glimpses of the art world as it exists in smaller cities across the country and around the world. Each glimpse is byway of some of the said city’s local characters, which include but are not limited to...
Opacity, Translucence, Clarity

Opacity, Translucence, Clarity

Most of the time we want meaning to be immediately clear to us. Things should not be ambivalent. The glass should be see-through. The two-way mirror makes us uneasy; those on the other side can see us, but we can’t see them – when we look into the glass, we are...