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Review: Kylie Lee Baker's "Japanese Gothic' stokes dread, salves with off-kilter beauty
1+ hour, 41+ min ago (321+ words) Last year, Atlanta author Kylie Lee Baker released her first horror novel, Bat Eater and other Names for Cora Zeng, to wide acclaim. Nobody would have blamed her for taking a year off, but, luckily for horror fans, she didn't....
Reckoning with Remus: Reinterpreting The Wren's Nest
3+ week, 2+ day ago (162+ words) ARTS ATL Reckoning with Remus: Reinterpreting The Wren's Nest March 28 @ 2: 00 pm - 4: 00 pm After 113 years, The Wren's Nest " Atlanta's oldest house museum " is recasting its story. This spring the home of Joel Chandler Harris, the author of the Brer Rabbit tales…...
Set Life: Film gaffer Schenley Sargusingh paints the set with light from an Atlanta-inspired canvas
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (967+ words) Schenley Sargusingh gets a flicker in his eye when he talks about his work in the professional film industry. Twenty years and counting, and he's still all in. Here's how he explains the role of the gaffer, specifically. Today, the…...
Photographing Fear: Mimi Plumb's 'Blazing Light' at The High Museum
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (169+ words) Photographing Fear: Mimi Plumb's "Blazing Light' at The High Museum'ARTS ATL There's something at once beautiful and unnerving about the picture; a mournfulness and vulnerability. In retrospect, Plumb came to see the image as strangely connected to her childhood fears…...
Experimentation beyond the lens: a retrospective of Ralph Eugene Meatyard debuts at the High
3+ mon, 1+ day ago (172+ words) ARTS ATL Experimentation beyond the lens: a retrospective of Ralph Eugene Meatyard debuts at the High After he was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 1970, Meatyard proposed that Gnomon Press (a small literary press still operating in Lexington) publish a monograph…...
Grass, Glitter and Gingham: Victoria Dugger confronts the Southern Gothic in "Must Be Nice
6+ mon, 2+ week ago (306+ words) The show unfolds with quiet violence. A mammy with "a couple of screws loose" hammering her own teeth out yet still grinning. Glitter coats her skin like dust " an ornament, a lure, a curse. What does it mean that while…...
Macrophotographer Levon Biss' new exhibit at Fernbank gets up close and personal with arthropods
7+ mon, 3+ week ago (457+ words) On August 9, a special touring macrophotography exhibit by Levon Biss debuted at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History. Tucked deep in Fernbank's Wildwoods Trail, Extinct and Endangered: Insects in Peril features large prints of the UK photographer's hyper-detailed insect portraits....
Pam Longobardi's "INSTAR' explores the chaos and endurance of nature
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (360+ words) To follow his dreams, Longobardi's father moved the family down to Atlanta to start a new business, albeit a short-lived passion. Her father then held a series of interesting jobs and hobbies, becoming a stockbroker, a hang-glider pilot and even…...
Review: Myth meets monochrome in Adam Gabriel Winnie's "Into the Night Land'
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (209+ words) Atlanta-based artist Adam Gabriel Winnie's Into the Night Land (at eyedrum through August 3) draws viewers into a vividly imagined underworld. Mythic, psychological and deeply atmospheric, the show invites quiet engagement and openness to mystery. Anchoring the exhibition is a sculptural…...
Love, death and summer vacation unite in "Murder on Vavianna Island" at Dad"s Garage
10+ mon, 5+ day ago (566+ words) Dad's Garage ventures into uncharted waters for its latest stage spectacle, Murder on Vavianna Island, the comedy theater's first foray into an immersive audience experience." The new scripted show, running June 6 through June 28, stars Amber Nash as her sexy B-movie…...