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The legacy of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo - ARTS ATL
Oct 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.
Rediscovering Atlanta’s Architecture: The High Museum - ARTS ATL
Jul 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 we look back on the losses of the Loew ...
An in-depth conversation with “The Color Purple” author Alice …
Jul 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 ...
Review: Atlanta Ballet’s ‘Nutcracker’ entertains with ... - ARTS ATL
Dec 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 ...
Review: Atlanta Ballet’s world-class “The Nutcracker ... - ARTS ATL
Dec 17, 2021 · The Nutcracker is perennially Atlanta Ballet’s most popular production and this three-year-old version is likely the company’s most elaborate. It made a stunning entrée last Saturday evening, marking the company’s return to the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre after nearly two years. It also marked the production’s move from the Fox ...
Rick Beato brings his YouTube universe to the stage at Variety ...
Sep 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 ...
Local businesses come together to prepare the Tara for its sequel
Mar 15, 2023 · Like most everyone else, Christopher Escobar — who owns the Plaza Theatre and serves as the executive director of the Atlanta Film Society — reacted to the news of the Tara Theatre’s closure last November with sadness and the assumption that the building would eventually be bulldozed. Then, to his own surprise, he was eventually able to strike a new deal with Halpern Enterprises, owners ...
Rediscovering Atlanta’s Architecture: Coca-Cola Headquarters
Apr 24, 2017 · Rediscovering Atlanta’s Architecture: Coca-Cola Headquarters. 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 ...
A look behind the curtain at the true decadence of the iconic Fox …
June 8, 2016. Image by David Cro, courtesy the Fox Theatre. Two Moorish castles are built into the ceiling of Atlanta’s iconic Fox Theatre. Connecting them is an ancient-looking stone bridge, which serves to form the proscenium arch for the theater. A series of rugs draped over the bridge resemble flying carpets left to air out after a journey.