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News Articles: art

Taiye Idahor, Lauren Tate Baeza, and Kainebi Osahenye photographed at Ponce City Market. (Photograph by Isadora Pennington)

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  • Fine Art

Atlanta BeltLine’s ‘LagosAtlanta’ exhibition brings Nigerian artists to the Westside Trail

The Atlanta BeltLine is the new home of "LagosAtlanta: Sister City Rising," a special public art exhibition by renowned Nigerian artists Taiye Idahor and Kainebi Osahenye.

May 09, 2024
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  • Isadora Pennington
the mayor and a group of artists stand shoulder to shoulder in the grass in front of a large metal monument. It has an arch with a flat top where music objects, a globe, and the face of Martin Luther King are visible on top.

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  • News

Residents celebrate a new public art corridor in Southeast Atlanta

Leaders and artists gathered at an aquatic and recreation center in Southeast Atlanta to celebrate new public art via the C.T. Martin Natatorium.

April 18, 2024
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  • Amanda Andrews
2023 Finisher’s Shirt

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  • Arts & Culture News

Atlanta Track Club seeks art for 2024 Peachtree Road Race T-shirts

The Atlanta Track Club has announced a call for art for the 2024 AJC Peachtree Road Race at Piedmont Park.

December 27, 2023
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  • Isadora Pennington
Visit Macon has been working with film scouts to identify potential scenes for Denzel Washington’s Netflix adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play, The Piano Lesson, which is scheduled to shoot in Macon in January.

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  • Movies

Extras casting for Denzel Washington’s new Netflix movie filming in Macon

Director Malcolm Washington will be staging scenes for The Piano Lesson, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Depression-era play by August Wilson.

 

December 11, 2023
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  • Liz Fabian
Cillian Murphy in “Oppenheimer” (Universal Pictures). “Oppenheimer” won Best Film at the Atlanta Film Critics Circle.

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  • Movies

‘Oppenheimer’ wins big with Atlanta Film Critics Circle

The Atlanta Film Critics Circle (AFCC) has named Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer the Best Film of 2023.

December 08, 2023
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  • Sammie Purcell
Rescued from her studio in Kibbutz Be'eri near Israel's border with Gaza, artist Ziva Jelin's damaged painting <em>Curving Road </em>is currently on special display in the Israeli Art gallery of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

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  • Middle East

Artist's work rises from the ashes of a kibbutz attacked by Hamas onto a museum wall

Ziva Jelin and her family survived Hamas' brutal attack on Kibbutz Be'eri on Oct. 7. So did the 61-year-old artist's painting Curving Road, which now hangs in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

November 17, 2023
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
Radcliffe

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  • News

Radcliffe Bailey, artist whose work voiced dignity, joy and pain of ancestors, dies at 54

Bailey's assemblages, including installations at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and the High Museum, bridged cultural history with the modern Black experience.

November 15, 2023
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  • Kristi York Wooten
Design strategist Anna Engstrom created this sketch of a futuristic hospital that appears in <em>Artists Remaking Medicine. </em>She writes that she envisions "a more colorful health care future."

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  • Health

Could creativity transform medicine? These artists think so

A new book argues that the arts have a role to play in shaking up the status quo in the American health care system and creating 'desperately needed culture change.'

November 14, 2023
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  • Mara Gordon
LEGO Chicago

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  • News

This hobby ‘got out of control.’ How you can see Columbus man’s massive LEGO display

It’s a “hobby that got out of control.”

October 20, 2023
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  • Mark Rice
The artist Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons is one of this year's MacArthur fellows. Her sculptures, paintings, installations and photography are displayed in over 30 museums around the globe. When she got news of the s0-called "genius grant," she says, " I was running room to room in the house, feeling a sense of terror and elation."

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  • Arts & Life

MacArthur 'genius' makes magical art that conjures up her Afro-Cuban roots

One of this year's MacArthur fellows — the so-called 'genius grant' — the artist Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons is inspired by her family's African roots, her Cuban childhood and modern American life.

October 04, 2023
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  • Malaka Gharib
Actor and playwright Michael O’Leary, right, discusses his play “Breathing Under Dirt” with Joshua Hale, left, and Newton Collier at the Griffith Foundation headquarters on Mulberry Street in April.

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  • News

Soap star debuts original play set in Macon at Douglass Theatre

Michael O’Leary portrayed Dr. Rick Bauer on Guiding Light before penning a play about addiction, reconciliation, race and hope.

 

September 25, 2023
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  • Liz Fabian
A woman stands in front of an blank canvas hung up at the Kunsten Museum in Aalborg, Denmark, in 2021. Danish artist Jens Haaning sent the museum blank canvasses under the title <em>Take the Money and Run</em>.

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  • Art & Design

A Danish artist has been ordered to repay a museum after delivering blank canvases

Denmark's Kunsten Museum loaned artist Jens Haaning about $76,400 to create two pieces of modern art. Instead, he submitted two blank canvases and titled the work Take the Money and Run.

September 19, 2023
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  • Laurel Wamsley
George Lefont has passed away at the age of 85

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  • News

George Lefont, king of Atlanta independent cinema, dies at 85

George Lefont, who owned a number of independent cinemas in the city that still loom large in movie-lovers’ minds, has died at 85. He was suffering from complications related to Parkinson’s Disease.

September 07, 2023
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  • Sammie Purcell and
  • Collin Kelley
A view of a previous gallery show as part of Atlanta's annual Mayor's Pride Exhibt.

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  • Arts & Life

Atlanta City Hall seeks LGBTQ+ artists for Mayor’s Pride Exhibit

The third annual 2023 Mayor’s Pride Exhibit will debut at Atlanta City Hall beginning in October. 

August 17, 2023
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  • Isadora Pennington
2485 W. Wesley in Buckhead.

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  • News

Two Atlanta homes part of HGTV’s Ultimate House Hunt contest

Two homes represented by agents of Harry Norman Realtors have been selected as finalists in the HGTV Ultimate House Hunt 2023. 

July 24, 2023
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  • Rough Draft Atlanta
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