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Art + Design Best Bets: May 14–20

Kathy JanichMay 14, 2019

Every Tuesday, we give you our top picks for the week, from installations and sculptures to paintings, drawings, street art, photography, artist talks, openings...

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Q&A: Dream, Create, Inspire connects the hip-hop community through songwriting

artlessBrandonMay 2, 2019

Wayne Watts, founder of Dream, Create, Inspire, is the epitome of optimism and dedication. Founded in 2016, the organization brings together the music community...

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Carlos names Greek and Roman art curator

ARTS ATL StaffApril 26, 2019

Curator Ruth Allen The Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University has hired scholar Ruth Allen as its next curator of Greek and Roman art. She begins wo...

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Emory’s Carlos Museum gifted 1,500-piece ancient art collection

ARTS ATL StaffApril 18, 2019

A large and rare collection of ancient Egyptian and Near Eastern art is coming to the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University. It's here, actually, but mus...

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Season two of Buried Truths continues to spark important conversations about race

Gail O'NeillFebruary 19, 2019

When professor Brett Gadsden and professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Hank Klibanoff established the Georgia Civil Rights Cold Cases Project at Emory Uni...

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Q&A: ARTS ATL catches up with bestselling novelist and Atlanta native Tayari Jones

Gail O'NeillFebruary 4, 2019

It was a chance conversation overheard at a mall that would help Atlanta native and novelist Tayari Jones begin to build the characters that would skyrocket An ...

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Q&A: The next generation of classical musicians look forward to working with Ray Chen

Stephanie AdrianJanuary 24, 2019

With an online presence of more than 113,000 followers on Instagram, Ray Chen is not your grandmother’s violin virtuoso. Chen arrives in Atlanta this week to pl...

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Raianna Brown spotlights social justice with multifaceted “Skid”

Candice ThompsonJanuary 22, 2019

During a recent rehearsal for Komansé Dance Theater’s Skid, artistic director and choreographer Raianna Brown exuded a calm command over the 29 cast members buz...

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Q&A: Bestselling Atlanta author Roshani Chokshi sets new kids’ book in museum based on Emory’s Carlos Museum

Muriel VegaSeptember 24, 2018

Emory grad Roshani Chokshi says the protagonist of Aru Shah and the End of Time is the strong young heroine she wished she’d had growing up. After writing a ser...

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The Mughal Queen Nur Jahan playing polo with other princesses.

Q&A: Ruby Lal discusses her new book on Nur Jahan, empress of the Mughal Empire

Loli LucaciuJuly 31, 2018

As a child growing up in India, Ruby Lal first heard stories about Nur Jahan from her mother, who referred to the fearless empress who killed tigers as “maharan...

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