While the northeast is getting pounded by a holiday snowstorm,  we had the first snow in 100 years on Christmas day in Atlanta. Not much more than a sprinkling of powder but the ice crystals on the tree limbs shimmered in early morning. Painting a dusting of snow is a challenge without the drama of [...]

Man on Wire is a film I just got around to seeing and it was quite a thrill. The French high-wire artist Philippe Petit re-invented himself with each event or performance. In the artist’s case, each painting redefines her. “You have to exercise rebellion. To refuse to tape yourself to the rules, to refuse your [...]

Since 1995, local artists have lived in the old Telephone Factory building on Ralph McGill Blvd, near a neighborhood in Poncey Highlands where I lived from 1984 to 1987. The building was constructed in the late 1930s for Western Electric and housed a telephone manufacturing and repair facility for over 50 years. In 1996, at [...]