September 2024
Features
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Atlanta Fall Arts Preview 2024
Mark your calendars—here are 12 events we’re eager to see this fall arts season in Atlanta.
Five Atlanta arts figures worth watching
Here are 5 artists you need to keep an eye on: Jason Ikeem Rodgers, Shuler Hensley, Alex Acosta, Paul Conroy, and Najee Dorsey.
Danielle Deadwyler: Made in Atlanta
Danielle Deadwyler’s work is inventive, thought-provoking, and captivating; Hollywood was always eventually going to take notice. Station Eleven, The Harder They Fall, and Till made clear that she had the screen presence to command viewers’ attention and the emotional depth to sway their hearts. Jumping into the Hollywood machine only sharpened and heightened Deadwyler’s already considerable talents. Clearly, she was just getting started.
Meet the new generation of Atlanta’s arts leaders
All five of the city’s major arts Institutions have brought in new leadership that has changed how Atlanta experiences the arts. Meet Rand Suffolk of the High Museum of Art, Tomer Zvulun of The Atlanta Opera, Nathalie Stutzmann of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Gennadi Nedvigin of the Atlanta Ballet, and Tinashe Kajese-Bolden and Christopher Moses of the Alliance Theatre.
At heart, Atlanta artist DL Warfield is still a kid with a sketchbook
Artist DL Warfield’s latest endeavor is Cyphers, a mixed-media homage to the B-boy culture he grew up in. The circular works include the four elements of hip-hop fashioned in the tradition of Arabic mehndi and Moorish damascene patterns.
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The Connector
Howard Finster lives on through his artwork and the love of his friends
“Howard was like a combination of Billy Graham and Mr. Rogers,” muses Larry Schlachter. “With a bit of Bob Vila, the home improvement guy, thrown in.”
Cars & Coffee Atlanta features all kinds of ogle-worthy automobiles
At Cars & Coffee Atlanta, you may see anything from a Porsche 911 GT3 RS to a vintage Japanese fire truck—and everything in between. “There’s always something unique to look at. It’s not boxed into one kind of category,” says Dana Toledo, a hospitality interior designer and admirer of fast cars, who attends the free monthly event.
When graphic designer James Burns was diagnosed with cancer, he reached for his sketchbook
James Burns’s Instagram post last December immediately upstaged all of the food porn, cat videos, and workout thirst traps on the app. Even the doomscrollers parked their thumbs for a minute. Through a series of four black-and-white comic panels, the Athens-based graphic designer told followers that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer.
How Atlantans are recovering from digital addiction
Every other Thursday night, Maddie (using only her first name, in keeping with the program’s anonymity) heads to the Atlanta Triangle Club for a 12-Step recovery program called Internet and Technology Addicts Anonymous, known as ITAA. There, Maddie and over a dozen other attendees share their daily struggles with internet addiction disorder.
The Bite
The verdict on 3 new Atlanta restaurants: Capolinea, Du Bu Gong Bang, and Raik Mediterranean
Stadium views and showstopping martinis with Italian fare downtown, a hopping tofu house that also serves winning Korean ‘cue in Duluth, and a new haven for Mediterranean indulgence in Suwanee.
Review: Beloved Italian restaurant Nino’s adds on without losing its nostalgic charm
There have been changes at Nino’s over the years—new floors, better wine glasses, upscale place settings—but the most obvious and transformative is the recent expansion of the restaurant following its acquisition of the hair salon next door. Antonio Noviello, who seemed to be an immutable feature, retired, leaving Nino’s in the capable hands of his middle daughter, Alessandra, and her husband Micah Hayes.
Amealco Mexican Kitchen’s molcajete seduces with a savory mix of grilled meats, chorizo, and more
Eating beef, pork, chicken, and seafood out of a hot lava-stone bowl is a thing, and you should try it. Meet molcajete. While molcajete is the term for the mortar-like cooking tool typically used to grind spices and crush vegetables to make salsas, it is also the name of this eye-catching dish. Variations of molcajete often show up on the menus of Mexican restaurants; however, the experience is unique at Amealco Mexican Kitchen.
5 places to find excellent butter chicken in metro Atlanta
When quarantine first struck our house, my dad and I applied all our free time to a single mission: learning how to master the ideal murgh makhani, or butter chicken. We take our butter chicken very seriously. What started as a comfort food to order for dinner soon became a research opportunity to see how our recipe stacked up against those of nearby restaurants—and so my dad and I have sampled a good fraction of the curries in the Atlanta area. If you’re tempted to make the foray into Indian cuisine (and can’t make it to our house to try some), I highly recommend the butter chicken from one of these restaurants instead.
The Goods
Terminus Ballet enters a new phase
This season, Terminus Modern Ballet Theatre will look different on stage. Four of its five founders have transitioned into off-stage careers. New dancers have replaced them, and some wonder how smoothly Terminus will bridge into its next phase. Company Director John Welker plans to keep the company’s heart beating with the same intensity its founders had in its early days.
For Latin American artist collective Contrapunto, camaraderie extends beyond gallery walls
In 2008, Venezuelan artist Carlos Solis looked around the Atlanta metro and found the representation of Latin American art lacking. He reached out online to another local Venezuelan artist who he thought might share his vision of creating together and raising awareness about Latin American art. Over the next decade and a half, the contemporary artists collective known as Contrapunto came together.
Miscellaneous
Editor’s Journal: Art matters
Music was my entree into the arts. I was six years old when Elvis Presley’s jump blues version of “Your Cheatin’ Heart” came on the car radio one afternoon. I vividly remember leaning forward and turning up the volume because I’d never heard anything like that: the swinging bass by Bill Black, the blues-flavored guitar played by Scotty Moore.
A love letter to Atlanta’s skyline
You can have your Space Needle. Your Chrysler Building. Your Burj Khalifa. Your Sears Tower, or whatever they’re calling it now. Give me Bank of America Plaza—the tallest building in Atlanta for more than 30 years, a certifiable supertall skyscraper—any day.
