Arts & Events

State Farm Arena hosted GHOST on their Skeletour World tour on Friday night in support of their 2025 album Skeletá. Here, check out the scenes photographer Perry Julien captured at the show.

Located a short walk from both the Battery and Atlanta Braves’ home stadium, the Capital One All-Star Village is open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. from July 12 to 15 and gives fans the opportunity to score autographs from MLB legends, take a stab at batting and pitching, and compete in games for baseball swag.

When Atlanta actress Danielle Deadwyler is reading a script for the first time, she has to feel a spark of “curiosity, inventiveness, or spontaneity” before agreeing to star. This approach has worked well for her in recent years; every performance she gives aches in humanity, as she goes from intense to vulnerable to funny to strong in an instant. Deadwyler is just as mesmerizing in 40 Acres, the post-apocalyptic thriller in which she plays Hailey Freeman, the matriarch of a family trying to survive on a farm after a series of plagues and wars.

Fireworks, food, music, and parades—here are 10 fun events happening this Fourth of July in metro Atlanta.

Great Black Hope has already drawn wide praise from critics, authors, and literary figures alike. “It feels so particular to my observations and obsessions,” Franklin says of his debut novel. “It felt so specific to me. It just felt like a debut. I really like debuts that are an introduction to the writer's style and the author's worldview.”

For 45 years, Lois Reitzes has dedicated her career to public radio and coverage of the Atlanta arts community. On June 25, the veteran voice of Atlanta’s airwaves will depart her daily hosting duties on WABE (the station has extended an open invitation for Reitzes to do guest interviews). As she prepares for her new off-air role as a full-time arts patron, we asked Reitzes to reflect on her legendary career.

On May 31 at the Atlanta Marriott in Alpharetta, nearly two-hundred swimsuit-clad competitors gathered to flex onstage at the 4th Annual Cydney Gillon Peach Classic, one of the premier amateur bodybuilding competitions in Georgia. The show was founded in 2022 by Atlanta’s Cydney Gillon, a homegrown heroine in the world of professional bodybuilding. Gillon retired from competition in October 2024 after an eighteen-year career that she concluded by winning her eighth consecutive title at The Olympia, the crème de la crème of pro bodybuilding shows.

Wu-Tang Clan’s final tour “The Final Chamber” brought its powerful celebration of hip-hop to Atlanta on Wednesday evening with a set spanning 40 songs and three decades of the group's groundbreaking music. Killer Mike and El-P also brought the energy during Run the Jewels' set. Here, check out the scenes photographer Perry Julien captured at the show.

In 2023, Karimah McFarlane took a leap and purchased the gallery Buckhead Art & Company. Her mission for the gallery is “to make art accessible to everybody and to have difficult conversations with people whose paths wouldn’t cross,” she says. “And let them know that we actually have more in common than we think.”

It wasn’t on purpose that Virginia-Highland Civic Association president Alex Bevel Jones spoke with 40 bands for the 40th iteration of the neighborhood’s annual Summerfest, which returns this month from June 6 through 8. But it certainly has a nice ring to it.