Culture Briefs
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Get a Glimpse of ATHICA's Upcoming Tarot
For “Athens Arcana: A Contemporary Tarot,” the Athens Institute for Contemporary Art invited 78 regional artists (including Flagpole contributors Lee Gatlin, Missy Kulik, David Mack, Larry Tenner and myself) to each design one card for a custom tarot deck. Loosely based on the traditional Rider-Waite deck, artists were encouraged to interpret their card’s symbolic meaning in their own unique way, with any hangable media welcome.
Much like “ATHICARDS,” the creative deck of playing cards the gallery produced last winter, “Athens Arcana” serves as a time capsule of the current local art scene.
Three of Pentacles by Lauren Gregg
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Three Painters Discuss Life as an Athens Artist at Ciné
Photo Credit: Barbette Houser
StipeMass, Cherewick and Biskin discuss "Surviving Outside of the Box"
Big questions concerning life as an artist were tackled on Tuesday, Nov. 11 by a panel of local painters at Ciné. Visual artists Jim StipeMaas, Andy Cherewick and Jill Biskin shared their experiences and opinions during the discussion “Surviving Outside the Box,” the latest event in UGA’s continuing Spotlight on the Arts Festival.
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The Gurley's-Back Hype Video is the Zenith of the Hype Video Era
Consider the college football hype video.
Designed to get crowds pumped up for a big home game, and released weeks in advance of said game in order to maximize the potential for Internet virality, it is often short, crisply shot, with a soul-stirring soundtrack.
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John Cleaveland’s “Farmington Skies” Open Up
An opening for “Farmington Skies,” a series of landscape paintings by John Cleaveland, took place at Farmington Depot Gallery this past Friday night and drew a large crowd. With their rural scenes and emphasis on natural textures and muted colors, the works seemed particularly well-suited for the unfinished board walls of the old train station turned gallery.
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Win Tickets and Onion Rings: Comedians Dave Stone and Lisa Best Play The World Famous Tonight
Former Beard of Comedy Dave Stone is back in Athens for a set of standup tonight at The World Famous, where he'll be joined by fellow L.A.-based funny person Lisa Best. The show will start at midnight, so start guzzlin' coffee now.
Tickets are $7, but we've got a pair—as well as a basket of onion rings courtesy of the world-famous World Famous kitchen—to give away. To enter, tell us in the comments below why you deserve the prize package. We'll choose a winner at 4:45 p.m.
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Elephant 6 Provides Perfect Backdrop for Halloween Hijinks at ATHICA
Photo Credit: Barbette Houser
Danielle Miller, artistic director of Rose of Athens, with her family.
Works on display by founding members of the Elephant 6 Recording Company added to the slightly madcap feel of the ATHICA event, “Shake Your Rumpus!” The evening added to the likelihood that Athens may be the center of the Halloween universe, while it also celebrated the new relationship between ATHICA and Rose of Athens Theatre as roommates.
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Opening in Athens: Nightcrawler, Before I Go To Sleep and More
Nightcrawler
Here's what's new on the big screen in Athens this week:
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