1) Min Kim Park’s Zummarella continues at the Emory Visual Arts Gallery.
2) Ricky Raw Free for All performs at Lenny’s Bar.
3) The Paper Engineer: The Art of Carol Barton continues at the Robert C. Williams Paper Museum.
4) Eddie’s Attic hosts Songwriter’s Open Mic.
5) Outbreak: Plagues That Changed History continues at the Global Health Odyssey Museum.
(Image by Min Kim Park)
1) The Rosebuds play the Earl.
2) Outbreak: Plagues That Changed History continues at the Global Health Odyssey Museum.
3) Kristian Bush plays Eddie’s Attic.
4) Paul Guest and Tom Lux hold a poetry reading at Decatur Library.
5) Local arts organizations perform Setting the Stage: Reflections on Human Rights, with an intro by Mayor Shirley Franklin, at Spelman College.
(Photo courtesy Merge Records)
1) Wonderful Things: The Harry Burton Photographs and the Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamun continues at the Michael C. Carlos Museum.
2) Mario Petrirena’s The Language of Brown: Ceramic Sculptures continues on the rooftop of Sandler Hudson Gallery.
3) The Five Spot holds a tribute and fundraiser for Dr. Mutulu Shakur, Tupac Shakur’s stepfather.
4) Outbreak: Plagues That Changed History continues at the Global Health Odyssey Museum.
5) Christmas at Sweet Apple continues at Theatre in the Square.
(Photo Harry Burton/The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Archive of the Department of Egyptian Art/© The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
DEATH BECOMES THEM: A skeletal death works in the world of pathogenic microbes in “Memento Mori” (translation: “Remember that you are mortal”).
Did the bubonic plague extinguish Europe’s feudal caste system and trigger the rise of the middle-class bourgeoisie? Did yellow fever end the trafficking of African slaves to the New World? Did the Spanish flu halt World War I? According to Outbreak: Plagues that Changed History currently on view at the CDC’s Global Health Odyssey Museum, the answers are maybe, maybe and maybe. And although it’s assuredly an oversimplification to attribute some of history’s biggest events to any single cause, Outbreak puts forth the intriguing notion that many of the defining currents of human social and cultural history around the globe have at least been influenced by some of the planet’s smallest inhabitants.
Outbreak is the artistic brainchild of painter and illustrator Bryn Barnard. Barnard’s 2005 book of the same name targets middle school children with lush gouache and oil paintings that bring to life key moments in world history. It shows how a slew of unimaginably destructive epidemiological disasters gave us the world we live in now. The current CDC exhibit comprises Barnard’s original paintings along with maps and text borrowed from the book. It’s the first collected public showing of the work, and as is typical for CDC exhibitions, Outbreak aims to make explicit connections between broad health issues and daily life. (more…)
