Editor’s note: Jason Flynn decided to shoot a film for the Campus MovieFest. Then he realized, through practice, that was a horrible idea. And then he decided to write about it. Everybody wants to be a movie star. At least, everybody has whimsically considered being a part of a movie. So when Campus MovieFest came [...]

One gift has now become another. Radcliffe Bailey’s “7 Steps,” given to the Georgia Museum of Art as part of a larger endowment by Larry and Brenda Thompson, will be the focus of an “Artful Conversation” led by Carissa Di Cindio, the museum’s curator of education. “I realized how many connections people can make,” DiCindio [...]

The seemingly separate worlds of body art and beloved pets will collide today at noon. Pain & Wonder Tattoo Studio and the Athens Area Humane Society are partnering on a fundraiser to raise awareness for the Humane Society’s adoptable pets program and its Spay & Neuter Center. For 10 hours, a portion of all Pain [...]

The idea of covering five centuries worth of art and music in one hour seems impossible. But not for Susan Glover, the Georgia Museum of Art’s community docent who will be guiding the gallery talk “Western Art and Music across Five Centuries.” “This talk will concentrate on six paintings from the museum’s permanent collection,” she [...]

Living a semester of la dolce vita adds more than pounds. Three semesters of students from universities across the country are showcasing the results from their months of living in Cortona, Italy, surrounded by art from great masters of the past. “I think that all of the works that we saw there, it kind of [...]

The papers have been signed. When the Georgia Museum of Art reopened last year, Larry Thompson, who is a University law professor, and his wife Brenda announced a gift from their collection of African-American artists and an endowment that will eventually fund a curatorial position. The couple collected works by renowned African-American artists, lesser-known artists [...]

From the age of magnificence comes a new magnificence in motion pictures. So reads the tagline for the 1965 biopic about Michelangelo, “The Agony and the Ecstasy.” The age of magnificence certainly earns its name in the film as well as the in the artwork — the museum’s Kress collection, made up of Italian Renaissance [...]

Michael Oliveri’s frustration grows as the University’s art school does not. “I think that the vision that I have for art and the art school might be a bit different and it’s taking too long to get it,” said Oliveri, an Art X professor. “So at times I’d like to leave and find a place [...]

Metal and flesh are in harmony — at times. With body modification, a simple prick, slash or burn can be used to ornament or manipulate the body. Some do it for pain. Others for pleasure. And others are just curious. And University student Melody Hansen — who has 17 piercings — understands the visceral connection [...]