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WEBARTS ATL offers comprehensive coverage of Atlanta's arts scene, including music, film and TV, books, theater, dance and the visual arts. Our events calendar includes every concert, gallery opening, festival and more. As a nonprofit, ARTS ATL supports the arts in Atlanta through independent journalism and programs.
Sandy Springs Performing Arts Center gets off to running start for …
WEBSep 12, 2018 · The Sandy Springs Performing Arts Center at City Springs offers an attractive alternative venue and has already booked The Atlanta Opera and Atlanta Ballet.
Revisiting Atlanta’s architecture: One Atlantic Center - ARTS ATL
WEBMar 21, 2017 · Revisiting Atlanta’s architecture: One Atlantic Center. Atlanta is a city often accused of forgetting its past. Indeed, as progress plows ahead and the heart of the city bustles with new development, older buildings are cast aside as worthless, either replaced by or surrounded by monotonous, anonymous gleaming glass towers. Recently, the tide ...
ASO announces 2021-22 season, plans for return of audiences
WEBMay 6, 2021. The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra plans to host audiences at Symphony Hall for the 2021–22 season and will also continue to provide virtual broadcasts of subscription concerts. The season was announced as the ASO searches for a permanent music director to replace Robert Spano, who will retire at the end of this season after 20 years ...
An in-depth conversation with “The Color Purple” author Alice …
WEBJul 17, 2019 · Walker, whose actual birthday is February 9, was born in Eatonton to parents who worked as sharecroppers. She is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the novel The Color Purple and close to 40 other books. Over the course of her 50-year career, she has worked as an artist, activist and educator, and she was a contributor to the feminist ...
All Together Now: Art shop, creative space opens tonight at The …
WEBMay 1, 2019 · A new creative space called All Together Now opens tonight at The Beacon Atlanta, and you’re invited to the celebration. All Together Now’s creators see it as a shop to attract new art collectors. All of its art is for sale ($20 to $300), framed and ready to hang. Buyers go home with a hook and instructions to help them get the art on the wall.
Atlanta Ballet’s 2022-23 full season leaps on stage with ... - ARTS ATL
WEBJun 8, 2022 · For the first time since the March 2020 lockdown, Atlanta Ballet is presenting a full season, September 2022 through May 2023, with two world premieres, two company premieres and a flurry of works from its extensive repertory including the rollicking, full-length Don Quixote, it was announced today. After two seasons characterized by ballets ...
The legacy of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo - ARTS ATL
WEBOct 3, 2019 · The legacy of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo -- brown, queer, disabled and revolutionary - ARTS ATL. "I never paint dreams or nightmares," Frida Kahlo once said. "I paint my own reality." The turbulent life and love of the Mexican painter (1907–54) are the subject of The Atlanta Opera's "Frida," with performances October 5, 9, 11 and 13.
Events - ARTS ATL
WEBHerndon Plaza 142-148 Auburn Ave. NE, Atlanta, United States. "ICONoclasts" is a powerful new installation that spotlights six influential Black Atlantans who have shaped our city's artistic and social landscape. Created by Atlanta-based artist Marryam Moma, the installation features stunning collage portraits of Ricci de Forest, Mtamanika ...
Basil Watson on public art, his family’s connection to MLK
WEBFeb 24, 2021 · For sculptor Basil Barrington Watson, the opportunity to create a 12-foot-tall bronze monument to mark the legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s long fight for civil rights was more than a simple commission.It also was about family legacy. His father, painter Barrington Watson, was a visiting professor at Spelman College in 1970 when the school asked that he paint a portrait of King.