1) Treasures from India Film Festival continues at the High Museum of Art.
2) Festival Latino invades Underground Atlanta.
3) Big & Rich play Verizon Wireless Amphitheater.
4) IFapalooza at the Five Spot raises money for If Coffeehouse in L5P.
5) Go A Little Bit Country, A Little Bit Rock ’n’Roll at Callanwolde Fine Arts Center.
(Photo courtesy the High Museum of Art)
1) Manny Mania showcases local skate talent at Underground Atlanta.
2) Comedian Doug Stanhope performs at Relapse Theatre.
3) The Reigning Sound plays the Earl.
4) Alec Soth: Black Lines of Wood opens at the High Museum of Art.
5) Lenny’s Bar hosts Totally Titties 3, a fundraiser for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.
(Photo by Shad Lambert)
1) Monet Water Lilies continues at the High Museum of Art.
2) Taking Back Sunday performs at the Masquerade.
3) Tom Edwards discusses his debut novel, Blue Jesus, at Blue Elephant Books.
4) Shakespeare Crashers combines happy hour and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Georgia Shakespeare.
5) Lou Battle & Milkshake perform for Wednesday WindDown at Centennial Olympic Park.
(Art by Claude Monet/© Museum of Modern Art, New York)
1) Larry the Cable Guy performs at the Fox Theatre.
2) Marnie Stern plays 529.
3) The High Museum screens Eat, For This Is My Body.
4) Elton John and Billy Joel perform at Philips Arena.
5) The Trey McIntire Project comes to the Rialto Center.
(Photo by Martin Crook)
1) The High Museum screens The Postmodern Life of My Aunt.
2) The Love Project opens at 7 Stages.
3) Comedian Al Madrigal performs at the Punchline.
4) Ladies Love Broadway kicks off at Actor’s Express.
5) Terri Hendrix and Lloyd Maines play Eddie’s Attic.
(Photo courtesy Beijing Poly-bona Film Publishing Company)
From this morning’s press release:
The High Museum of Art announced a series of budget cuts today, including across the board pay cuts and a 7% reduction of its staff. These reductions, combined with previous cost-cutting measures, will result in $1.4 million dollars in savings and will reduce the operating budget for fiscal year 2009 to $23.7M. These measures will enable the museum to continue to provide high quality and meaningful art and educational experiences to the community.
The High has instituted a series of pay cuts across the board, starting with the Director’s office. Michael Shapiro will take a 7% pay cut and other Director-level employees will take a 6% pay cut. All other employees will take a 5% pay cut. These cuts will extend through May 31, 2009. Beginning June 1 and extending through fiscal year 2010, salaries will be reinstated but employees will be required to take 2.6 weeks of unpaid leave. The staff reductions have been achieved through hiring freezes, redistribution of staff responsibilities and the elimination of five full-time positions and three temporary positions.
(Photo by Joeff Davis)
Stephanie Heydt has been named the new Margaret and Terry Stent Curator of American Art at the High. Previously, Heydt worked as Curator of Collections and Exhibitions at the Gulf Coast Museum of Art in Largo, Fla.
A little on Heydt’s background from the press release:
Heydt received her doctorate of philosophy and art history from Boston University in 2008. She also holds a master’s degree in art history from the University of Chicago and a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University. Prior to her position at the Gulf Coast Museum of Art, she served as the Jakob Rosenberg Fellow in American art at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, from 2002 through 2005. Heydt also served as an assistant curator at the Terra Museum of American Art (now the Terra Foundation) in Chicago and has widely lectured and published on 19th- and 20th-century American art and culture.
Heydt’s appointment marks the end of a nearly two-year effort to replace Sylvia Yount, who left the High in early 2007 to join the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts as its Louise B. and J. Harwood Cochrane Curator of American Art.
Heydt officially joined the High Museum staff on Jan. 16.
FULL FRONTAL: A streaker rocks a small town's world in 'Just Like Home.'
Reports of a late-night streaker throw a small town into a tizzy in the doggedly quirky comedy Just Like Home, the final film of the High Museum’s Danish Film Festival. The scandalized gossips repeat the words “You could see everything,” which proves particularly funny given that practically no one did see the unclad pedestrian. Plus, the refrain hints at the villagers’ reflexive panic that their secret selves will be revealed.
Just Like Home relies on the kind of wryly comic contrivances that defined the cult TV series “Northern Exposure.” Laborers go on strike when wrongfully suspected of streaking, leaving the town square as a raw, unfinished construction site. A handful of neighbors, each with their own eccentricities, band together to run “The Silent Ear,” an advice hotline that they hope will flush out identity of the unknown nudist. By the end of the film, everyone gets exposed in one way or another.
Director Lone Scherfig belongs to a generation of Dutch filmmakers who gained international attention through the Dogme 95 film movement and its “vow of chastity:” a series of aesthetic restrictions (hand-held cameras, no artificial lighting, etc.) meant to focus the filmmakers’ attention on story and acting over special effects and other gimmicks. Much of the Dogme 95 output had a scrappy energy. Scherfig stood out with her 2000 film Italian for Beginners, a charming ensemble romance with a similar vibe (and several of the same actors) as Just Like Home. The Dogme films shared a grungy look, and Scherfig seems to revel in the chance to present the town in a loving photographic sheen.
1) Carnivores play 529.
2) The High Museum holds Fulton County Free Saturday.
3) The Grascals play Everett’s Music Barn.
4) Dad’s Garage Theater stages Ask Dr. Frapples Improv Psychiatry.
5) Brasscastle plays Lenny’s Bar.
(Photo by Katie Brickner)
THE AFTER AFTER PARTY: King Tut goes for the gold in "Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs." Photo © Sandro Vannini
Egypt’s boy king takes on China’s first emperor in a contest to see who’ll rule Atlanta’s historical art scene. It may be a mismatch to compare the lavish touring Tutankhamun show, on view at the Atlanta Civic Center until May 25, with the High Museum’s smaller-scale but still impressive The First Emperor (through April 19). Nevertheless, King Tut and Qin Shihuangdi both established opulent tombs so they could live large in the afterlife. Both succeeded to the extent that they’re now rock stars of historical arts. With joint tickets available, the two exhibits will deservedly raise the city’s cultural profile, as long as you can see past the unfortunate term “Tutlanta.”
FULL TITLE OF SHOW
Tut: Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs
Emperor: The First Emperor: China’s Terracotta Army
LENGTH OF REIGN
Tut: 1333–1324 B.C., although the exhibit includes pieces from pharaohs spanning 2600-600 B.C.
Emperor: 221-210 B.C., but that just includes unified China; he ruled China’s Qin state starting in 247 B.C.
DISCOVERY OF TOMB
Tut: In 1922 by archeologist Howard Carter, who probably never let his colleagues hear the end of it.
Emperor: In 1974 by local farmers, who were probably pretty surprised to discover an underground chamber full of heavily armed terracotta soldiers. (more…)
1) Zach Smith’s Dark and Light wraps up its final days at Fay Gold Gallery.
2) Sweet Auburn Heritage Festival begins a three-day celebration of its history.
3) Apache Cafe holds My Brother’s Keeper.
4) The High Museum hosts the Indo-American Film Festival.
5) Tejendra Narayan Majumdar performs at Georgia Tech.
(Image by Zach Smith)
1) Damn Yankees opens at Aurora Theatre.
2) Mark Bauerlein reads and signs his new book at Decatur Library.
3) The Dear Hunter, Lydia, You Me & Everyone We Know and Eye Alaska are at the Masquerade.
4) The High Museum hosts Talk and Talk Back.
5) Laura Reed & Deep Pocket, Elli Perry, Leslie Barnett and Chris Unck & the Black Roses perform at Smith’s Olde Bar.
(Photo courtesy Aurora Theatre)
