As Swiss Cardinal Gaspard Mermillod once said, “A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.” Mothers can adopt […]
Visual Arts
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Exhibits & openings this week
Birds in Flight – An installation by Matt Hebermehl of his signature, patterned bird forms hanging in the Jepson’s atrium. Jepson Center, 207 W. York St. Chakaia Booker, ‘Sustain’ – […]
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Flipping the Birds
The opening of Matt Hebermehl’s new installation “Birds in Flight” at the Jepson Center last week was the first time the museum’s atrium has had art hanging from its glass […]
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Shopping + Art = Awesome
In the middle of Savannah’s busy festival season comes a different kind of arts event — one that, while slightly under the radar, might be just as enriching on some […]
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Fall Arts Preview: Art Exhibits
SEPTEMBER Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris — Through October 10 at Telfair’s Jepson Center. Twilight Visions explores the city of Paris as the literal and metaphoric base of Surrealism. […]
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Fall Arts Preview: Visual arts classes
City of Savannah –– Savannah’s Place for Art, Culture and Education (S.P.A.C.E.) is registering students for fall visual arts classes and workshops. Children, teens and adults in all skill levels. Sessions begin […]
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Art kick-start
The dog days of summer might be slowly coming to an end for the local visual arts scene, which is showing the first signs of waking from its summer siesta. […]
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Sunday to Sunday
Sundays might happen once a week, but the process of documenting church services across the city was a project more than a decade in the making for local professor Ja […]
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The art of war
On May 17, I stood at the center of an art gallery. I looked around, observing the paintings and sculptures that decorated the walls and accented the room. I felt […]
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Twilight Visions
Although artists and engineers might seem like strange bedfellows, the link between art and technology is clear. In much the same way that developments in digital media irreversibly changed film, […]
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Like father, like son
Several years ago, the first time I heard about a painter named Panhandle Slim, it immediately evoked an image of some artistically inclined drifter riding the rails with an easel […]
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Art on a pedestal
Sculpture is one of the oldest forms of art in human history, but it isn’t as widely appreciated as it once was, according to one local artist. “Sculpture is probably […]