The 2025 Atlanta Art Fair is make-or-break for the city. Here’s why.
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by ArtsATL staff
1d ago
Commercial real estate investor and art enthusiast Mark Zhang walked the floor of the inaugural 2024 Atlanta Art Fair, looking a bit dazed but intrigued. “I was really grateful for the chance to geek out on an overwhelming amount of art,” said Zhang, 30, in a recent interview about the experience. Others seemingly concurred. The ..read more
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Review: Heather Bird Harris sees the Earth’s future at Spalding Nix
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by cinquehicks
2d ago
Heather Bird Harris’ love as large as grief demands is a captivating exhibition, one of four that can now be seen at Spalding Nix Fine Art. It explores the intersection of the materiality of natural pigments native to Georgia, the problem of industrial waste upon our environment and the personal implications Harris reckons with as ..read more
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Arts Agenda: The Arts on TV – Spring 2025
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by ArtsATL staff
3d ago
Each week, ArtsATL delivers a critic’s short list of the shows, exhibitions, concerts and events we recommend for the coming weeks within one discipline in the kaleidoscope of Atlanta arts and culture. Every week, we’ll present a different art form. :: Abstract: The Art of Design. Former Wired editor Scott Dadich profiles figures such as ..read more
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2025 Atlanta Jewish Film Fest: Universal stories through a Jewish lens
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by Steve Murray
3d ago
A robust 25th Atlanta Jewish Film Festival is hitting screens next week, featuring responses to the Gaza War and other films from around the globe. :: The Atlanta Jewish Film Festival has a few notable milestones as it kicks off on February 19. First of all, it’s the 25th year for the event, a solid quarter ..read more
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Review: ‘Marie Antoinette’ is a half-baked cake of fluff leaving us peckish 
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by Denise K. James
3d ago
One of the most unforgettable cinematic images of the last year was Demi Moore furiously smearing lipstick all over her face in The Substance, the Oscar-nominated dark comedy/body horror about the extreme lengths we’re willing to go to sustain society’s impossible youth and beauty standards. That image popped into my mind like a maniacal jack-in-the-box ..read more
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Black letters: Your complete guide to Atlanta’s Black literary scene
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by Charles Stephens
3d ago
Atlanta’s Black creatives have always been a critical force in pushing the city’s consciousness around racial and social justice. Writers in particular — the vast and varied tradition of Black literary artists — have often been on the vanguard of challenging the political establishment and advancing an aesthetic vision. Through written word and courageous deeds ..read more
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Review: Atlanta Ballet’s ‘Rite of Spring’ isn’t beautiful. It’s sublime.
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by Gillian Anne Renault
3d ago
With Rite of Spring, a new dance choreographed to Igor Stravinsky’s masterwork, the Atlanta Ballet dancers and Choreographer in Residence Claudia Schreier took a rare gamble in ballet: They left beautiful on the table in order to grasp the sublime. The ballet is a spectacular, timely, dire warning about climate disaster and the ugly consequences ..read more
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Review: Bent Frequency opens Emory’s ‘CompFest’ with mostly melody
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by Jordan Owen
4d ago
Modernist chamber ensemble stalwarts Bent Frequency appeared Friday February 7 at Emory University’s Performing Arts Studio for the opening night of CompFest 2025: In Our Own House. The festival, an annual production at Emory, seeks works by composers who “expand traditional compositional frameworks” and  “offer exciting and meaningful exchanges with the community.”  That’s a noble ..read more
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Review: Theatrical Outfit’s story of the Lehman Brothers. Yes, those Lehman Brothers.
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by Andrew Alexander
4d ago
Anyone up for a three-hour play about investment banking? Admittedly, with a pitch like that, you might not get many takers. Better to say that the new production of Ben Power’s masterful adaptation of Stefano Massini’s monumental work The Lehman Trilogy at Theatrical Outfit is a knockout. The show is an ever-unfolding box of wonders ..read more
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Jazzman Gary Motley to jam with saxophonist David Sánchez at Emory Jazz Fest
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by Jeff Dingler
4d ago
Grammy-winning sax player David Sánchez will headline this year’s Emory Jazz Fest, and the event’s founder and director Gary Motley is, well, pretty jazzed about it. :: The Emory Jazz Fest turns 22 this week, but, hearing its founder and director, Gary Motley, talk with such energy about the music fest, you’d never guess he’s ..read more
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