Fresh Loaf

1) The Octopus Project plays Star Bar.

2) Artistic Director Stuart Horodner discusses how artists use concepts and images from art and music history to explore issues of identity and expression at Atlanta Contemporary Art Center.

3) Jackson Browne plays Chastain Park Amphitheatre.

4) Gaylord, Burden of Vision, Glen Iris and Jack Carter perform at the Earl for the Project Save Earth Green Benefit.

5) Studioplex hosts Dis-placed, a one-night show featuring the work of Yi-Hsin Tzeng, Carmen Martinez, Johana Moscoso, Tiffany Sinnott, Jordon Hersey, Alex Hamilton, Morgan Alexander and Courtney Cottrell.

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SPACING OUT: "Boundary Issues," 2008 by Brian Bell and David Yocum

Painters of a certain stripe know that their best work is sometimes their fastest work; pictures that emerge in a sudden rush with no time for second guesses or backward glances.

Mergers & Acquisitions, a wide-ranging group exhibition currently on view at Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, benefits from a similar sense of urgency and shortness of time. Due to a last-minute cancellation, curator Stuart Horodner was forced to fill the Contemporary with an entirely new show in a matter of weeks. A show of this scope would normally take several months or even years to plan. Fortunately, Mergers & Acquisitions takes risky leaps of curatorial intuition that pay off in surprising and dramatic ways.

Mr. Horodner, speed becomes you.

Mergers & Acquisitions is built around a number of artistic calls and responses. (more…)

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