Donna Mintz Archives

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

“Breaking the Silence” to shed light on the life of Georgia author and activist Lillian Smith

After a frustrated search in nature, Atlanta artist Michi Meko seeks to create a sense of peace at MOCA GA

At the High and in Hale County, photographer William Christenberry’s testaments to time and memory still stand

Photo essay: Montgomery’s lynching memorial confronts the painful truth of our nation’s history

The unseen work of a great Atlanta street photographer finally comes to light at Gallery 72

Emory professor Joseph Crespino digs deep to find the genesis of an American icon, Harper Lee’s Atticus Finch

Review: Paul Graham’s “The Whiteness of the Whale”

Review: Scott Eakin’s “Yes Button” is a jolt of summertime pleasure

Humanity’s Oldest Stories, Told in the First Person: Photographer Stephen Alvarez’s Ancient Art Archive

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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Donna MintzDecember 19, 2018

In 1954, Georgia writer and social activist Lillian Smith, white daughter of the Jim Crow South, wrote of white people telling the truth in a way that could lib...

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Donna MintzNovember 29, 2018

Michi Meko welcomes me into his Summerhill studio on a blue and gold November afternoon. As we talk, he begins to set a new mood for the painting I am about to ...

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Donna MintzOctober 29, 2018

“The place makes you who you are, creates who you are,” photographer William Christenberry remarked in 1994. For four decades, beginning in the early 1960s, Ch...

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Donna MintzJuly 19, 2018

In April, the Equal Justice Initiative opened the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, which many have come to call the National Lynching Memorial, in Montg...

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Donna MintzJune 27, 2018

Toward the end of his life, Walker Evans declared that he hated museums and preferred the streets. Like Evans, many photographers have found inspiration from ph...

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Donna MintzMay 7, 2018

We all think we know a man named Atticus Finch: the savior in a seersucker suit, the gentle but resolute moral compass in troubled times, the defender of a wron...

Books

Donna MintzSeptember 18, 2017

ArtsATL's Donna Mintz reviews the photographer's most recent exhibition at the High Museum....

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Donna MintzJuly 18, 2017

Yes Button, Scott Eakin’s show of new work at Marcia Wood Gallery, his first solo show at the venue, is as meticulously ordered as its title is fanciful. There ...

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Donna MintzJune 23, 2017

National Geographic photographer Stephen Alvarez has scaled our planet’s highest mountains, plumbed its deepest caverns, experienced its extremes of weather and terrain and explored the tracings of its oldest cultures....

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