Weekend Arts Agenda: ‘Respite from the Cold’ December 20 2013
Babies, it’s cold outside.
I really tried to avoid cliches about the season, dear readers. Really. And yet: The next in “a continuing series of winter-defying aural festivities,” Respite from the Cold self-markets simultaneously as cozy and cuddly and gently psychedelic. The night will be full of music from Hopi Torvald, Nomen Novum, Moth Manos, Box Elder, Snowbride, Grant Evans, Motion Sickness of Time Travel, and Nows. Personal preference urges me to point you toward Snowbride, but I have a bias for white noise that ripples with life. At The Mammal Gallery starting at 9 p.m.; admission is $5.
Three more events after the jump.
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FRIDAY
- http://clatl.com/atlanta/ImageArchives?by=1223504
- Jeffrey Hyde, “Travelin’ Man,” 2013, collage with distemper on panel, 22x19 in.
In his second solo show at the Stan McCollum Gallery, Jeffrey Hyde approaches concepts like contemporaneity, the amnesiac zeitgeist, and time-and-placeness with an academic’s tongue and a collagist’s eye. As he explains of burning midnight oil in an artist’s statement, “Imaginative reasoning discovers the context as it can and thereby brings back into existence evidence of the continuity of human cultural endeavor and, as I feel it of the persistence of a spirit that we share. No one wants to inherit the wind.” Note: This is the first event at the gallery’s new location on 1000 Marietta Street. With an opening reception from 7-9 p.m.
PSA: Sistagraphy’s A Different Eye is closing tonight at Hammonds House. More info on it here.
SUNDAY
Pearl Cleage and other guests will read from Jerry Pinkney’s collection of children’s books;. Pinkney’s career as an illustrator spans more than 50 years, 100 illustrations, and at least one Caldecott Medal. His exhibit, Witness: The Art of Jerry Pinkney, runs through January at The High. Starts at 3 p.m. in The Art of Jerry Pinkney Reading Area.