The Atlanta Opera will soon have a new permanent home at the Molly Blank Center for Opera & the Arts, an ambitious project that will transform the historic Bobby Jones Clubhouse on Woodward Way and the Atlanta Beltline into a massive arts facility. The space will include an immersive theater venue, a nature-inspired recital hall,…
Emerging from discarded cans, strung across a salvaged frame and coiling to make a vessel — hair, specifically Black hair, is the defining medium of Nneka Kai’s solo exhibition On Unstable Grounds at Day & Night Projects. The exhibition begins with The Signal is the Sign (2025). A nearly 6-foot sculpture composed of braided hair…
Atlanta is known for offering a varied bounty of art on view at any given time, a detail that frequently shows its prowess as an artistic capital. Often, this variety leaves me in wonder at how miraculous our artistic community is. At other times, this variety leaves me a little discombobulated. Across three recently opened…
This Notebook returns to a previous Notebook’s topic of Atlanta-based artists finding adequate recognition, sometimes far along in their careers. In addition to the examples below, it’s worth mentioning that 64-year-old Nigerian sculptor Olu Amoda, based now in Alpharetta, won the 2022 Hudgens Prize. His related exhibition will open at the Hudgens Center for Art…
An extraordinary number of shows this month fall under the category of “personal mythology” — turning details of artists’ lives into symbols that interact with the larger symbols of the society in which they live and were raised. At Sandler Hudson Gallery through January 6, Krista Clark’s After Barkley is a spectacular example of this,…
September 1 is a date Antonio Darden is unlikely to forget. It’s the day the Atlanta artist was recognized at a celebratory South Arts event. He was named the 2022 South Arts/Southern Prize fellow for Georgia. “It’s humbling. I haven’t really wrapped my head around it,” he says of the award. September 1 would also…
The inaugural Atlanta Art Week, founded by art advisor Kendra Walker, today announced its programming lineup. The four-day, citywide event, September 29-October 2, encompasses a broad menu of guided tours, exhibit openings, talks, panel discussions, open studios, sneak peaks, extended opening hours and more. Highlights include access to the Mercedes-Benz Stadium art collection and guided…
I haven’t yet seen the group show at Town + Culture Gallery or the Day & Night Projects installation in person, but based on my prior knowledge and online investigation, I feel they are well worth mentioning. So are the other artworks and exhibitions I discuss below, which express a particular style of art in…
Dreamsicle, on view at Atlanta Contemporary through March 27, is an exhibition of works by Stacie Rose, Rachel K. Garceau, and Gracelee Lawrence. It brings up the question of the female gaze in relation to nature and to the artificiality of artists’ languages of color, form and abstraction. Nature is strongly present in the works…
Shame Faces, an installation by Reinhardt University associate professor of art Jym Davis that has been extended by Day & Night Projects through December 18, illustrates perfectly what this artist-run exhibition space means by its call for proposals for 2022-23 (through December 31). It asks for “your most far-out, rigorous, experimental proposals . . ….
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