A once Atlanta-based art and hip-hop celebration has become a national tour celebrating the union of art and music.
Every painter I know wants to be a musician or for that matter is already a musician. Conversely, most musicians want to be painters. Walk into any artist’s studio across the country and the first thing you notice is the music coming through the speakers and the artist painting in sync to what they happen to be listening to.
Music notes become paintbrush strokes. Paint becomes rhythm. The two are inseparable. Jabari Graham and Dwayne “Dubelyoo”
Wright realized this as well 14 years ago. But they also wanted to do something to add to the conversation. Wright at the time was a wellknown painter, muralist and illustrator living in Atlanta while Graham had been working at UniverSoul Circus also based in Atlanta.
The two had a vision and from that was born Art, Beats + Lyrics (AB+L), an art and music showcase featuring urban art and hip-hop that “provides an authentic and creative experience for seasoned art collectors; beats and rhymeslovers and today’s social media selfie-taker.” What was once a one-night-only show promoting Atlanta art and music is now a national, eight-city tour including a stop in Charlotte, North Carolina, February 15 for the NBA All-Star Game. The tour is sponsored by Jack Daniel’s.
“Art, Beats + Lyrics celebrates the uniqueness of urban art and music, which impacts pop culture on a global scale,” says Tracey Johnson, senior multicultural marketing manager for Jack Daniel’s. “As a brand, we’ve always been connected to the worlds of art and entertainment; and Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Honey is proud to carry on this tradition with the continued support of AB + L, which remains as vibrant as ever entering its 14th year.”
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Guardians of the Temple – Simon Dinnerstein reflects on The Fulbright Triptych 50 years later.
The Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State University exhibits Simon Dinnerstein's The Fulbright Triptych haunts the visual lexicon of 20th century American representational art. Fifty years have passed since Dinnerstein completed the painting in 1974.
A City Perspective
Leslie Gaduzo has always been interIested in art. Since childhood, he has been drawing constantly, from single point perspective drawings at age 10 to complex architectural drawings.
Living Legacy
The Butler Institue hosts Allied Artists of America's 110th Annual Juried Exhibition.
Elegant yet Approachable
The second edition of the RTIA Show presents even more art to explore and expanded special programming.
Figuratively Speaking
New York has always been an epicenter of artists on the edge of excellence, pushing the envelope and finding their voices.
JAMES AYERS: The Importance of Play
Like many artists, James Ayers' work took a turn during the Covid-19 pandemic. Seeing the enjoyment his kids took from playing with paint in his studio and exploring their creativity inspired him.
GINA MINICHINO: Playing with Food
Gina Minichino started her journey in visual arts because of Charles Schulz. \"He was my earliest influence for drawing and the reason I wanted to be a cartoonist,\" she says.
Island Light
The Cuttyhunk Island Artists' Residency is held in a sprawling, 100-year-old house on an island off the southern coast of Massachusetts.
Solitary Forms
Hogan Brown has been working with Arcadia Contemporary for two and half years and is excited to be featured in his first solo show at the gallery. He doesn't take for granted the many talented figurative painters Arcadia represents and is thrilled to be among them.
Living the Dream
Counterintuitively, David Gluck was a painter before taking up tattooing little more than a decade ago. While skin is a completely different substrate and ink a far cry from oil paint, the skills must be transferrable to some degree because there is a wait-time of nine months to get an appointment with him.
