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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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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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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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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