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Queer Arts This Fall

By Mikkel Hyldebrandt

After a super-hot summer, it’s time to break Two-time Tony Award-winning director and out sweaters and pants. And you know choreographer Jerry Mitchell brings one of what goes hand-in-hand with fall? Art the most beloved romantic films of all time exhibits. We’ve rounded up the events and to the stage. Immense production value and exhibitions that are going on this fall that great songs and music from the man who focus on queer artists or topics. also created musicals like Hairspray, Kinky Boots, and Legally Blonde.

Tickets at foxtheatre.org

Everybody

September 2 – October 2 Balanchine Alliance Theatre Coca-Cola Stage September 16-18 Inspired by the 15th-century play Everyman, Atlanta Ballet EVERYBODY explores the meaning of life and Balanchine’s influence on contemporary the roles we play along the way. Branden ballet is undeniable. This show pays homage Jacobs-Jenkins has created an irreverent, to the neoclassical style in includes works rollicking, boisterous ride that asks BIG like Serenade and Sum Stravinsky. questions of all who see it.

Tickets at atlantaballet.com Tickets at alliancetheatre.org

Pretty Woman The Musical September 9-25 Fox Theatre

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October 15 Ferst Center For The Arts The Atlanta Gay Men’s Chorus postponed

this show in July, but now they’re back to Jonathan Van Ness: Imaginary Living present a series of songs that resonate with Room Olympian the LGBTQ+ members of Gen Z. November 4 Tickets at voicesofnote.org Fox Theatre Queer Eye’s JVN dives into their good, Transcendent bad, and sexy stories with charm and September 20 – December 5 self-reflection. Get ready for high energy, Dalton Gallery at Agnes Scott awesome lewks, and lots of comedy.

This exhibition showcases visual work Tickets at foxtheatre.org exploring artists’ personal relationships with gender and will provoke visitors to think critically about what it means to One Night of Queen be gendered in the world today. More at November 18 daltongallery.agnesscott.org.

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra The concert celebrates the 20th anniversary Ben Platt: The Reverie Tour of Gary Mullen and The Works’ legendary October 4 live concert performance, complete with an Fox Theatre elaborate stage show, lots of showmanship, LGBTQ+ actor, singer, and songwriter Ben and of course, the music of Queen.

Platt comes to Atlanta to promote his latest Tickets at aso.org album. Tickets at foxtheatre.org

Johnny Manuel Has Done It “Again” Edited by Mikkel Hyldebrandt Photos courtesy of the Karpel Group

With a career that spans 20 years, Johnny solo project. Johnny discovered the joy of Manuel has shown many different sides performance and musicianship at a young to his artistry. Now he’s ready to show the age while in the church choir. A child prodigy world who he truly is as a singer, songwriter and prolific performer, he was a finalist and musician. on The Voice Australia and Eurovision, honing his skills and building an international The prolific queer artist and The Voice fan base along the way.

Australia finalist Johnny Manuel is back with the release of “Again,” the soulful first single As a proud queer black man, Johnny is of his upcoming EP Younger Skin, out October excited to step out on his own and embrace 7. Produced by Aidan Laprete (Amazon’s The a fresh sound for his latest single and Wilds), Younger Skin is Johnny’s first-ever upcoming EP. About the creative process

of his latest project, he says, “There was a a record before. It was liberating. I think this level of comfort I hadn’t experienced in the song is also a testament to Aidan’s genius as creation of my music before and it allowed a producer. It’s so clever and infectious. I’m me to open up. The icing on the cake was obsessed with his production on this one.” having it mixed by Elijah Marrett-Hitch, and his magic ears, and mastered by Dale Defining his own artistic vision across Becker. Their combined level of skill and multiple projects with creative collaborators attention to detail elevated the EP and gave Grammy-winning artist/producer Nick Littlemore (PNAU and Empire of the Sun) it the polished finish it needed.” and rising artist/producer Aidan Laprete, Johnny’s new sound finally allows him to be JOHNNY ON THE MEANING OF “AGAIN” “’Again’ is an emancipation of sorts. It’s his authentic self. me celebrating parts of myself I was told I wasn’t supposed to. I’m shaking off the Connect with Johnny Manuel on opinions I was afraid of. I’m living on the Facebok, Instagram, and Twitter @ other side of what used to hold me back JohnnyManuel and on YouTube and TikTik and giving myself permission to enjoy that. @JohnnyManuelOfficial.

I’m falling deeply back into what I was told I had to leave behind. It’s me feeling my oats a little bit too. That’s part of what made writing this with Aidan Laprete and Mischa Mandel so fun. I’ve never talked like this on

The High Is Heating Up!

By Mikkel Hyldebrandt

Looking for a quick guide to the Fall season exhibitions at High Museum? From largescale sculptures and paintings to world-class photography and new media, these shows reflect the museum’s commitment to showcasing diverse voices from every corner of the globe.

Stephen Burks: Shelter in Place

Deana Lawson

Sept. 16, 2022-March 5, 2023

Oct. 7, 2022-Feb. 19, 2023

In the wake of several global crises, designers have responded by redefining our relationship to our homes. Stephen Burks: Shelter in Place is an exhibition that explores ideas concerning domesticity during a time of worldwide upheaval, tackling the question of how we can design interiors to enable joyful living while empowering creativity. As an African American designer, Stephen Burks has forged a distinctive path by embracing the challenge to advocate for hand production as an innovative approach for industry. This exhibition is organized by the High Museum of Art, Atlanta.

This first museum survey of Deana Lawson’s photographic oeuvre spans two decades, and includes more than 60 works, including collage, photography and video. Lawson’s work challenges conventional representations of Black identities and bodies. Her photographs evoke a range of photographic histories and styles, including family albums, studio portraiture and staged tableaux; she also employs documentary pictures and appropriated images. Traveling through the African diaspora in locations as varied as Brooklyn, Haiti, Jamaica, Ethiopia, Brazil, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Southern United States, her images explore ideas about individual and social histories, sexuality and spiritual beliefs. This exhibition is co-organized by ICA/Boston and MoMA PS1.

Triadic Totems, 2016, wood, designed by Stephen Burks (American, born 1969) and Mongollan Studio (Francisco Lopez and Monica Brand), with One for Hundred (Austria),collection of the designer. Photo by Joe Coscia

Deana Lawson (American, born 1979), Roxie and Raquel New Orleans, Louisiana,2010, pigment print, courtesy of the artist; Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York; and David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles. © Deana Lawson

Rodin in the United States: Confronting the Modern

Monir Farmanfarmaian: A Mirror Garden

Auguste Rodin (French, 1840-1917) is one of the most celebrated sculptors of the modern age.

This exhibition follows Rodin’s rise to eminence in the United States due in large part to the collectors, critics and curators who helped make it happen. Auguste Rodin’s stunning sculptures are represented in museums and private collections across the globe. But it wasn’t always the case. This exhibition follows Rodin’s rise to eminence in the United States due in large part to collectors, critics, and curators who helped make it happen.

Featuring works from Rodin’s own collection and from the collection of his patron, American sculptor Richard Morris Hunt, alongside loans from museums across the United States, this exhibition, organized in conjunction with ICA Boston and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, will offer the opportunity to see how Rodin’s reputation evolved throughout his lifetime, especially in America. This exhibition is organized by the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts.

This exhibition is the first posthumous presentation of the work of Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Iran’s most celebrated and revered visual artist, at an American museum.

Known internationally for her geometric mirror sculptures, the artist has been celebrated for her ability to embody the “spirit of the eternal present” by aesthetically reconciling modernism with ancient Persian motifs. This exhibition features a selection of works from across four decades and includes sculptures, drawings, textiles and collages. Curated by David Galloway and Christiane Gruber, it includes a selection of works from the 1970s to 2018 spanning paintings, drawings and collages in which Farmanfarmaian explores themes such as geometry, light and color. This exhibition is organized by the High Museum of Art, Atlanta.

Oct. 21, 2022-Jan. 15, 2023

Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917),The Thinker, large version, modeled 1903, cast by Alexis Rudier 1928, bronze, Baltimore Museum of Art, The Jacob Epstein Collection,1930.25.1.

Nov. 18, 2022-April 9, 2023

Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian (Iranian, 1924–2019),Heartache No. 16, 1992, mixed media. Photo courtesy the estate of the artist and Haines Gallery.© Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian

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