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Year in Review: Our critics look back at the year in Art + Design

ARTS ATL StaffDecember 28, 2018

This was a remarkable year on the Atlanta art scene. From a total rethink of the High Museum’s permanent collection to the scrappy, ever-evolving Eyedrum celebr...

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Q&A: Matthew Terrell cooks up a story of the South with “The Magnolia Bayou” cookbook

Andrew AlexanderDecember 10, 2018

Rummage through any thrift store and you'll probably come across an old spiral-bound community cookbook a lot like The Magnolia Bayou Country Club Ladies Auxili...

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Beyond Infinity Rooms, Atlanta Botanical Garden offers its own encounter with Yayoi Kusama

Andrew AlexanderDecember 5, 2018

Couldn't get tickets to the sold-out blockbuster exhibition Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors at the High Museum? Or maybe the thought of standing in long lines du...

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Review: The Kids are not Alright in This Is Our Youth at Pinch ‘N’ Ouch

Andrew AlexanderDecember 5, 2018

A strong cast couldn’t help me muster much interest or enthusiasm for the 1996 play This is Our Youth, onstage at Pinch ‘N’ Ouch Theatre through December 22. Af...

TheaterTheater - Criticism

Review: “White Christmas” at the Fox Theatre meanders in nostalgia at the expense of a good story

Andrew AlexanderNovember 28, 2018

Complaining that Irving Berlin’s White Christmas is too old-fashioned is a bit like complaining that a swim in the ocean is too wet. Just as the ocean can relia...

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A new exhibition “Black Money” shows currencies from around the world featuring people of color

Andrew AlexanderNovember 27, 2018

Money isn’t just something you spend, and it isn’t just about dead presidents. “Money is a source of history,” says Georgia State University history professor H...

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Review: Mary Lynn Owen delivers splendid performance in her one-woman show at the Alliance

Andrew AlexanderNovember 21, 2018

Ask any great cook how they make a dish, and the answer is often frustratingly imprecise. “I add enough of everything. I stir until it looks right, and then I c...

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Q&A: Okwae A. Miller tackles issues of race and masculinity with “I call him.he[R]”

Andrew AlexanderNovember 13, 2018

In just four years, Okwae A. Miller has quickly established himself as a prominent voice in the Atlanta dance community, rooting his athletic movement with rese...

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“The Jekyll Island Chronicles” gives World War I superheroes a Georgia spin

Andrew AlexanderNovember 12, 2018

You can probably trace the origins of a lot of comic books to a basement room somewhere. Usually, it’s kids gathering to do the dreaming and plotting in a downs...

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Review: Atlanta Theatre Club’s “Dry Land” traverses into the girls’ locker room

Andrew AlexanderNovember 7, 2018

Dry land may sound like a safe place to be, but in Ruby Rae Spiegel’s 2014 play of that name, standing on dry land is far more fraught and perilous than immersi...

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