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Artists and galleries in the region are finding ways to take part in the rise of crypto art

Contextualizing Emma Amos's Creative Freedom At the Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, a retrospective of the artist’s prominent career highlights her ingenuity across various mediums ‘I want to invent the human figure,’ the late artist Emma Amos boldly claimed in a 2011 oral-history interview for the Smithsonian Archives of American Art. Amos, who died in May 2020 at the age of 83, pursued a wide range of technical and material approaches over the course of her seven-decade career as a printmaker, painter and weaver. Although her best-known works from the mid-to-late 196...

NASA, Perseverance in epicly successful entry, descent, and landing at Jezero Crater, Mars February 18, 2021 After years of hard work and labor, NASA succeeded in the most complex landing ever attempted on another planet. Perseverance safely touchdown at Jezero Crater at an actual time on Earth of 15:43 EST (20:43 UTC) — with confirmation of landing received 11 minutes 22 seconds later through the Madrid, Spain facility of the Deep Space Network at 15:55 EST (20:55 UTC). Arriving at Mars, and the challenges thereof Historically, there is now — with Al-Amal, Tianwen-1, Perseverance’s suc...

Reginald Wilson: A Black American Socialist (1927-2020) Reginald Wilson, the prominent African American psychologist and educator, civil rights activist and socialist, and a member of the New Politics board, died on December 13, 2020 at the age of 93. His was a quintessentially Black American story of the twentieth century, if a particularly illustrious one. From his role as a Tuskegee Airman to his activism with C.L.R. James’ Correspondence group, to his founding of the first Black ski club, to his academic career he was a remarkable individual. A socialist for 75 years, he serves as a m...

But legendary singer Nat King Cole was a braver man than most. During his run at the Glasgow venue in 1954, he was heckled relentlessly by fans badgering him to sing When I Fall in Love. Exasperated, the star finally snapped: “Perhaps you would like to come up and sing it yourself?” This was a mistake. The delighted fan wasted no time in hopping up on to the stage and starting belting out the classic. With his arm around a thoroughly taken aback Cole, he yelled: “Come on Nat, join in….” The velvety-voiced jazz crooner and pianist was born Nathaniel Adams Coles in Montg...