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Arts Atlanta:

Resurgence, a solo show by OftenSeenRarelySpoken — a five-man artist collective based in Louisville and Cincinnati — runs at ABV Gallery in East Atlanta through February 9. This is primarily a gallery show, but make no mistake about it: These guys are street artists. Like many street artists, aspects of their process and even their...

From WABE Arts and Culture News:

Georgia businesses are concerned about the rising cost of an essential ingredient for many meals they sell.  Moody Albawwab, who runs a coffee shop in Grayson, said it’s been hard […]

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During this spring semester, Emory Cinematheque will present a series titled “Film on Film.” Emory Professor Daniel Reynolds of Film and Media Studies curated the international selection of movies about […]

Arts Atlanta:

South of the Yellowstone, Don Pollack’s solo exhibition at Marcia Wood Gallery through March 1 — his eighth with the gallery and Wood’s second in the gallery’s new location on Miami Circle — reads as a collaboration among three people: Pollack, his father and his grandfather. Four, if you include the place that inspired them...

Arts Atlanta:

In this month’s column, professional musician Alexandra Shatalova Prior highlights some of the things that makes Aaron Copland’s Rodeo so popular. It’s very danceable, which is no surprise since it was commissioned by choreographer Agnes deMille. The ballet premiered in New York in 1942 to great acclaim. Get a feel for the music before The...

Arts Atlanta:

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. :: Through February 8 Kate Burke: The Song I Sang as You Swam Away at...

From WABE Arts and Culture News:

If you have ever attended an Atlanta Symphony Orchestra concert and noticed microphones hanging above the front of the stage, you should know that they are strategically placed to get […]

From WABE Arts and Culture News:

Musical scores enrich the content they accompany, whether in film, television or even video games. Composers write music to support or enhance emotional moments and to help establish an overall […]

Arts Atlanta:

Painter Aineki Traverso’s studio at Atlanta Contemporary bears all the hallmarks of an artist with relentless creative impulses. Traverso works on many large-scale canvases at once, moving from painting to painting as inspiration hits. The walls are punctuated here and there with family photos, sketchy doodles and what appear to be small bits of larger...

From WABE Arts and Culture News:

Atlanta’s icon of glamour and drag star Brigitte Bidet, famous for her cheeky humor and dazzling presence, will perform her first-ever one-woman show at City Winery on Feb. 9. “Chick […]

Arts Atlanta:

Since Churchill Grounds closed in 2016 and the Velvet Note jazz club in Alpharetta has hit hard times, Atlanta jazz lovers haven’t had many options for live listening. Now saxophonist Will Scruggs and his Cornerstone Jazz Collective are drumming up excitement for a new club in Decatur. :: The New York Times has described Atlanta...

Arts Atlanta:

The US Department of Education (DOE) announced in a press release Friday that its Office of Civil Rights (OCR) will no longer investigate book bans in schools and is dropping all pending investigations of book ban complaints within the office, calling the complaints a “hoax.” One of the 17 book ban complaints filed with the...