Editor’s note: We’re resharing stories that were the year’s most-read from each of the disciplines we cover. The following articles were exceptionally popular with our readers. Thank you for a wonderful 2025, and we look forward to bringing you more of the best arts coverage in Atlanta in 2026. Art + Design: Remembrance: Marquetta Johnson…
In a year marked by significant financial and cultural losses, closures and instability, artists in Atlanta have found ways to continue to inspire and intrigue audiences through performances and exhibitions that showcase the diverse array of talent that call this city home. Looking back, the editors of ArtsATL each chose 9 stories that felt particularly…
At the Blue Heron Nature Preserve, art and nature are intertwined. For 11 years, the Preserve, a sprawling greenspace in North Buckhead, has welcomed artists to create and install works for the Art of Nature annual exhibition. This year’s Placemaking exhibit was curated by none other than Nancy Jones herself, the founder of the Blue…
Looks Like Rain, Feels Like Rain, a solo show by Atlanta photographer Jarrett Christian, continues through February 6 at Day & Night Projects, When COVID-19 scuttled his plan to document the faces and places of the American South in 2020, he turned to his studio and found a way to blur the distinctions between photography,…
Out of Place, featuring new work from five Southeastern artists, opens this weekend at Buckhead’s Spalding Nix Fine Art. Each of the contemporary artists — Amanda Joy Brown (paintings), Eilis Crean (works on paper), Richard Thomas Scott (paintings), Gregor Turk (sculptural maps) and Willis (large-scale photographic collages) — explores how humans relate to place. Two-day socially…
“The one thing I can count on is being able to make something no matter what’s going on around me,” says Atlanta visual artist Ingrid Yuzly Mathurin. Known in art circles as Yuzly (a name her mom gave her because she looked unique), her creativity in acrylic and oil painting, graffiti art, drawing, film photography…
The COVID-19 pandemic rolled into 2020 as a silent tsunami that hit in mid-March with devastating force and impact. One weekend there was a nervous normalcy across the city; the next, every stage and theater and gallery was dark. And they would largely stay that way for the rest of the year and into 2021….
The year 2020 took much more from Atlanta’s Art + Design world than it gave. You could say, “Bah, COVID,” but it’s more than that. Yes, the novel coronavirus changed plans at museums and galleries and helped us get used to online exhibits (some more successful than others). It also gave art makers time to…
Synchronicity Theatre’s family musical A Year With Frog and Toad continues with virtual viewings through January 3. The show, a nearly perennial part of the Atlanta holiday season, is part vaudeville and part make-believe, and follows the cheerful Frog (Matt Baum) and the grumpy Toad (Greg Hunter) through four seasons of friendship. Merry almost Christmas. $10…
Jerry Cullum’s Notebook is a monthly survey that highlights some of the more notable art + design happenings in metro Atlanta. Cullum, the winner of a 2020 Rabkin Prize for arts journalism, has written about the art world in Atlanta and beyond for decades. :: It seems appropriate in retrospect that 2020 began with the…
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