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Craig Dongoski at whitespace Gallery, Atlanta, GA Testament June 25 – August 6, 2022 review by Harrison Farina T E S T A M E N T, as the title of Craig Dongoski’s latest solo exhibition suggests, is a proof that eludes scientific objectivity. The Atlanta artist has long addressed these inexplicable leaps…

The recent third episode of Trapartisan Radio featured an interview with Atlanta-based artist Steven Cline. The show is hosted by fiction and occult author, artist and filmmaker, Carl Abrahamsson whose Trapart publishing project just released Cline’s title, Amok!. The book is most easily described as a collection of surrealist essays on subjects ranging from…

In quarantine I have kept my collection of printed materials–poetry and artist books closeby. A few years ago I purchased Matt Christy’s LIMESTONE (Extended Play Press (collaboration with R.D. King), 2017), published concurrently with his solo show. The small book is eighty pages of repeating skittery lines and confident color. Almonds of eyes peer out…

Review of Das Rheingold by Jon Sewell …Came the guests and supporters of the Nashville Opera’s truly epic production of Das Rheingold. The new Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Belmont University seemed to spare few expenses in its construction. Designed by ESa, the architects for the Schermerhorn Symphony Center, similar flourishes adorned the…

Art in the Pandemic By Stephanie Painter In a Zoom call, you occupy a box, and you stare out at tenants inhabiting the other poorly lit boxes. Zoom enables communication, but it lacks authenticity. There is some grief in the way of cloistered communications in our off-screen lives as well. My fix for…

“In Memory of Memory” by Maria Stepanova “Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917-1922” by Marina Tsvetaeva

by Jon Sewell, April Fool all year long On this April fool’s Day, the story of il buffone Rigoletto calls out the despair of the sad clown. Trying to hide his daughter away from the world only worked for so long, and a studio visit to the Noah Liff Opera Center helped highlight the inescapability…

“Beauty will save the world.” Dostoevsky expresses this artist statement through the words of the fictional character, Prince Myshkin- the titular character of The Idiot, published in the late 1860s. Myshkin was, in some ways, a stand-in for what Dostoevsky might consider the best version of himself, a “positively good and beautiful man.” The prince…

by Madeline Beck Currently on view at The END Project Space at 1870 Murphy Avenue in Atlanta is a solo exhibition, Life in an Absent Moment, by emerging artist, Leia Genis. Leia Genis is an Atlanta-based visual artist and the founder and editor…