Emory University’s Schwartz Center for Performing Arts has announced its 2014-15 Candler Concert Series lineup, which will include two world premieres.
The series (performances at 8 p.m. unless noted) includes:
Sept. 26, Garrick Ohlsson: The pianist, a favorite Atlanta Symphony Orchestra guest artist whose recording of Rachmaninoff's Concerto No. 3 with the ASO was released in 2011, returns to the city to launch the Candler season.
Oct. 10, Brentano String Quartet and Vijay Iyer: The pairing brings the Brentano ensemble's warm sound together with genre-busting composer-pianist Iyer, a 2013 MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant winner, for a program including the premiere of an Iyer-composed quintet, "Time, Place, Action."
Nov. 15, Anne Sophie Mutter and the Mutter Virtuosi: Virtuoso violinist Mutter visits on an international tour with an ensemble of 14 current and former Anne Sophie Mutter Foundation scholarship students.
Feb. 5-7, 2015, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company: Having marked its 30th anniversary in 2013, the New York contemporary dance troupe revisits classic selections. (Presented in the Schwartz Center's Dance Studio; tickets sold separate from subscription series.)
Feb. 7, 2015, Irvin Mayfield and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra: Dixieland jazz is on the menu for this Emory Jazz Fest 2015 installment featuring trumpeter Mayfield, an official cultural ambassador of New Orleans and Louisiana since 2003.
March 20, 2015, Daniel Roumain: The composer-violinist returns to premiere a work inspired by his Haitian-American heritage. It has been commissioned by Emory as part of its Creation Stories Project.
April 4, 2015, Sharon Isbin, guitar, and Isabel Leonard, mezzo: Classical guitarist Isbin performs with rising opera star Leonard.
April 19, 2015, the Tallis Scholars (4 p.m.): A cappella Renaissance music.
The Schwartz Center is at 1700 N. Decatur Road, Atlanta. Candler subscription packages are available: 404-727-5050, tickets.arts.emory.edu/subscription/packages.aspx. Single tickets go on sale to the public on Aug. 1.
THEATER
2014-15 lineup is Out of the Box
Out of Box Theatre, the Marietta community troupe, has announced its 2014-15 season, opening with "Terrible Tragedy of Peter Pan," July 18-Aug. 2.
The 11-play season includes “Choir Boys,” a world premiere musical by Dave Lauby (Sept 26-Oct 11); “Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol,” a twist on the holiday favorite (Dec. 5-20); and a to-be-titled new musical by Annie Cook featuring songs of Carole King, Joni Mitchell and Carly Simon (May 15-30, 2015).
Performances are at Artisan Resource Center, 585 Cobb Parkway South, Suite C-1, Marietta. 678-653-4605, www.outofboxtheatre.com.
VISUAL ART
Georgia Museum revisits ‘Art Interrupted’
The installation, deinstallation and reinstallation this month of Ruth Stanford’s art work on the controversial legacy of author Corra Mae Harris at Kennesaw State University’s Zuckerman Museum of Art has focused attention on the matters of artistic expression and censorship.
A major exhibit at the University of Georgia’s Georgia Museum of Art in Athens, “Art Interrupted: Advancing American Art and the Politics of Cultural Diplomacy,” reunites works that also brushed up against these issues in the years following World War II.
In 1946, the U.S. Department of State launched a cultural diplomacy program that included an initiative known as Advancing American Art. It called for the acquisition of modernist paintings by contemporary American artists with the intention of exhibiting the works through Latin American republics, Eastern Europe and Asia. Its objective was to showcase the freedom of expression enjoyed by artists in a democracy while demonstrating America’s artistic coming of age.
Shortly after the Advancing American Art tours began, however, controversy boiled. Some critics called the selected paintings, and the artists themselves, several of whom had left-leaning political views, un-American and subversive. Facing disapproval from Congress and the prospect of losing funding for its cultural programs abroad, the State Department recalled the exhibits. The paintings were sold at auction as war surplus in 1948.
Organized by the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University, the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma and the Georgia Museum, “Art Interrupted” examines what exhibit materials term “this ambitious but ill-fated instrument of foreign policy.” From the original checklist of 117 oils and watercolors, “Art Interrupted” reunites all but 10 of the paintings.
Artists represented in the exhibit, on view through April 20, include Romare Bearden, Stuart Davis, Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe and Ben Shahn. The museum also is hosting a free symposium, “While Silent, They Speak: Art and Diplomacy,” March 28–29. Cynthia Schneider, a Georgetown University School of Foreign Service professor, will deliver the keynote address at 6 p.m. March 28.
90 Carlton St., Athens. 1-706-542-4662, www.georgiamuseum.org.
City showcases Emerging Artist winners
Atlanta’s Office of Cultural Affairs has added an extra prize to its annual Emerging Artist Award, giving 2014 honorees Jessica Caldas and Aubrey Longley-Cook the opportunity to share an exhibition in addition to the usual $1,500 grant.
“Two Houses,” on view at Chastain Arts Center Gallery through April 17, finds Caldas, primarily a printmaker, and Longley-Cook, primarily an embroidery artist, expressing themselves on the themes of home and family.
A closing public reception will be held 6:30-8 p.m. April 16. 135 W. Wieuca Road N.W., Atlanta. Free. 404-252-2927, www.ocaatlanta.com/chastain.
