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Georgia Museum of Art to present augmented reality art this fall
Friday, October 27, 2023
If you weren’t looking at your phone, you could easily walk straight through Nancy Baker Cahill’s artwork “Margin of Error” and not even realize it. That’s the opposite of how things usually work, but Baker Cahill’s art installation exists in augmented reality (AR), viewable through your smart device. This work and more will be presented at the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia th...
Fall Museum Mix to feature high school DJ
Tuesday, September 19, 2023
The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia will host its triannual Museum Mix on Thursday, October 5, from 8 to 11 pm. Attendees may enjoy open galleries, free refreshments and a live DJ. The late-night art party is free and open to the public.
The DJ will be local high school student and experimental musician Oliver Domingo, who said, “I will play jazz, funk, disco, electronic, ...
DJ De La Luna to play summer Museum Mix
Friday, July 7, 2023
The Georgia Museum of Art will host its summer Museum Mix on Thursday, July 27, from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. The galleries will remain open late while DJ De La Luna plays a set. There will be free refreshments courtesy of home.made and Marti’s at Midday. As always, Museum Mix is free and open to the public.
DJ De La Luna, also known as Sebastian Granados, is a Colombian DJ who now lives and plays ...
Jim Fiscus creates stories in a single image
Wednesday, June 21, 2023
How did we find human connection during a pandemic that kept us apart from each other? Some people made art museums for their hamsters or hosted happy hour trivia on Zoom. The photographer Jim Fiscus lit out on a series of road trips in a camper with a friend. His usual bread and butter is commissioned work, but that had ground to a halt, so he left on a journey with no end point or itinerary, vis...
“Southern/Modern” shows the value of early-20th-century southern artists
Wednesday, May 17, 2023
Art history constantly changes and evolves as we learn more about our past and seek new and more inclusive perspectives. The traveling exhibition “Southern/Modern” tells an important story that has been largely absent from American art history. Organized by the Mint Museum in collaboration with the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia, it debuts at the latter on June 17. In 1949, ...