ArtsATL calendar editor Lauren Leathers’ weekly roundup of arts events happening around the city.
DANCE
Skid. The production takes a provocative look at Met...
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...
“It’s really about painting” may be an odd thing for a painter to say about her work, but Deanna Sirlin often finds herself compelled to repeat it. The Atlanta-...
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...
FILM
Boom for Real. Filmmaker Sara Driver’s new documentary explores the prefame teenage years of artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. Opens May 18. Landmark Midtown Ar...
Photographer and multimedia artist Bruce Johnson was familiar with the history of the Civil Rights Movement, but when a fellow artist told him that the mugshots...
I met Cynthia Farnell in her two-part exhibition Ancestors, Milk and Wine at Gallery 72, which is up until June 30, 2016, for a tour. The two-part exhibition – one room contains the installation Ancestors and the other Milk and Wine – traverses temporalities and locations. Here is the documentation of that conversation which took us through the exhibition....
