What to do in Atlanta: Visual Arts | Sept. 30-Oct. 7

Longtime Atlanta-based artist Joe Peragine’s “Kitten Meadow” is featured in the solo show “Love Me Till My Heart Stops” at Midtown’s Marcia Wood Gallery.

Longtime Atlanta-based artist Joe Peragine’s “Kitten Meadow” is featured in the solo show “Love Me Till My Heart Stops” at Midtown’s Marcia Wood Gallery.

Get your art on with “Joe Peragine: Love Me Till My Heart Stops" and "Rites."

VISUAL ARTS

Ann-Marie Manker: "El Gallo." Through Oct. 17. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesdays-Saturdays. Free. Whitespace Gallery, 814 Edgewood Ave., Atlanta. 404-688-1892, www.whitespace814.com.

"Joe Peragine: Love Me Till My Heart Stops." Through Oct. 10. Marcia Wood Gallery, 1037 Monroe Drive, Atlanta. 404-827-0030,www.marciawoodgallery.com. Read our review here.

"Rites." Groups show that focuses on black masculinity and rites of passage. Through Dec. 6. Free. Bernard A. Zuckerman Museum of Art, 492 Prillaman Way, Kennesaw. 470-578-3223, zuckerman.kennesaw.eduRead our review here.

"The Waters and the Wild": Alen MacWeeney Photographs of Ireland. Includes images inspired by the poetry of W.B. Yeats. Through Jan. 3. $6-$8. Michael C. Carlos Museum, 571 S. Kilgo Circle N.E., Atlanta. www.carlos.emory.edu.

"Outside In." Graffiti artists with an Atlanta connection. Through Sept. 25. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesdays-Fridays; noon-5 p.m. Saturdays. Free. Mason Fine Art, 415 Plasters Ave., Atlanta. 404-879-1500, www.masonfineartandevents.com. Read our review here.

"Chinese Master Artist I-Hsiung Ju." Through Oct. 18. $12; $10 senior citizens, students and military; free for kids under 10. Millennium Gate Museum, 395 17th St. N.W., Atlanta. 404-881-0900, www.thegateatlanta.com. Read our review here.

"Filming the Camps, John Ford, Samuel Fuller, George Stevens: From Hollywood to Nuremberg." Through Nov. 20. $16.50 adults, $13 seniors 65+, students 13+, $11 youth 4-12, free for members and children under 4. Atlanta History Center, 130 West Paces Ferry Road, NW. 404-814-4000, www.atlantahistorycenter.comRead our review here.

"Seriously Silly! The Art & Whimsy of Mo Willems." Through Jan. 10. $12-$19.50. High Museum of Art, 1280 Peachtree St. N.E., Atlanta. high.orgRead more about Mo Willems here.

"Los Trompos" ("The Spinning Tops"). An installation from Mexican designers Ignacio Cadena and Héctor Esrawe featuring more than 40 three-dimensional, larger-than-life tops/rides in a variety of colors and shapes. Through Nov. 29. Free. Outside the High Museum of Art, 1280 Peachtree St. N.E., Atlanta. www.high.orgRead more about Los Trompos here.

"Bobby Jones: The Game of Life." Through Nov. 30. Free. Schatten Gallery at the Robert Woodruff Library, Emory University, 540 Asbury Circle, Atlanta. web.library.emory.edu 

"Bodies … The Exhibition." Ongoing. $16-$24. Premier Exhibition Center at Atlantic Station, 265 18th St., Atlanta. 866-866-8265, www.atlanticstation.com.