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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.
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.
Mike Geier and the origins of Puddles Pity Party - ARTS ATL
WEBOct 25, 2019 · Editor’s note: In the summer of 2013, when ArtsATL’s Jeff Stafford sat down to chat with singer Mike Geier, he was preparing for a club performance with the Kingsized Jazz Trio and had just developed the alternate character of a clown named Puddles who had a cabaret act called Puddles Pity Party.By 2017, Puddles was being cheered in living rooms across America due to Geier’s performances ...
Rick Beato brings his YouTube universe to the stage at Variety ...
WEBSep 25, 2023 · Beato will do a live version of his YouTube show Thursday night at the Variety Playhouse. He will teach, perform, answer audience questions and talk with some of his regular guests. The show also will feature a reunion concert of Billionaire, the band he helped form that originally brought him to Atlanta. Beato’s YouTube channel echoes his ...
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 ...
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 ...
Review: ASO, Nathalie Stutzmann open season with high voltage …
WEBOctober 6, 2023. Nathalie Stutzmann had a rather spectacular spring and summer, garnering rave reviews for her Mozart at New York’s Metropolitan Opera — Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute — and, in Germany, for Wagner’s Tannhäuser at the Bayreuth Festival. Newspaper and word-of-mouth reviews for her opera conducting ranged from high ...
Review: Atlanta Ballet’s ‘Nutcracker’ entertains with ... - ARTS ATL
WEBDec 12, 2023 · The first time I watched Atlanta Ballet’s high-tech The Nutcracker, the one Yuri Possokhov choreographed for the company in 2018, I felt that the huge video projections and lavish busyness of the set design dwarfed and distracted from the dancers. I often found myself looking at the sets and videos and not at the dancing. I saw the full-length ballet again at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts ...
Aurora Theatre opens Lawrenceville Arts Center with public tours …
WEBOctober 20, 2021. After much anticipation, the curtain rises this week on the $35 million, 59,500-square-foot Lawrenceville Arts Center, as it hosts grand opening tours Friday through Sunday. Completing a city block for the arts in downtown Lawrenceville, the complex is the product of a remarkable partnership between Aurora Theatre and the City ...
Rediscovering Atlanta’s Architecture: The High Museum - ARTS ATL
WEBJul 27, 2017 · Rediscovering Atlanta’s Architecture: The High Museum. 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, usurped by monotonous, anonymous gleaming glass towers. As …