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The Red & Black Launches Art for Athens 2 Fundraiser
By The Red & Black Staff With the anniversary of the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, The Red & Black is offering a way for consumers and...

Classic City News
Apr 9, 20212 min read


Carl Holty: Romantic Modernist work on display at Georgia Museum of Art
Throughout a career spanning more than five decades, the artist Carl Holty investigated the evolving language of 20th-century modernist...

Classic City News
Sep 8, 20201 min read


East Athens Educational Dance Center continues fall program registration
Get to the pointe and enroll in a dance class offered by the East Athens Educational Dance Center. A wide selection of classes, for the...

Classic City News
Aug 26, 20201 min read


ACC Library to hold online class on checking out and downloading books
The Athens-Clarke County Library will be hosting a free online class about RBDigital on Tuesday, June 16, at 10 a.m. RBDigital is the...

Classic City News
Jun 11, 20201 min read


Georgia Museum of Art receives large gift of ‘cutting-edge’ contemporary art
By Hillary Brown/UGAToday The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia received a major gift from John and Sara Shlesinger...

Classic City News
Mar 6, 20203 min read


Athens PRIDE to host 5th annual Queer Prom
"When Stars Align" is the theme of this year's Queer Prom, hosted by Athens PRIDE. The event, scheduled to be held March 21 at Little...

Classic City News
Mar 5, 20201 min read


Lost painting by Cecilia Beaux finds new home in Georgia
By Keyonna Brannam/UGA The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia is launching a new series of long-term exhibitions...

Classic City News
Feb 28, 20202 min read


Youth workshop to be offered on art of writing 'Thank You' notes
A special thank-you note writing workshop for young people will be offered at 3 p.m. March 1 to benefit Family Promise (formerly...

Classic City News
Feb 28, 20202 min read


UGA research: Warnings can alert consumers to ‘fake’ news
By Sarah Freeman/UGAToday Being reminded about the existence of misinformation disguised as legitimate news can boost news readers’...

Classic City News
Feb 5, 20203 min read


ACC Library to host Athens author Noel Holston
The Athens-Clarke County Library will host Noel Holston on Sunday, Feb. 9, at 3 p.m., as he shares his critically acclaimed memoir, Life...

Classic City News
Jan 26, 20201 min read


Film Series: Alfred Hitchcock in Color
This series features three films in which Hitchcock uses color to further the meaning and ideas of his films. Each screening will be...

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Jan 7, 20202 min read


African-American music heritage in Athens: an evening of presentations
In celebration of the upcoming launch of the downtown Athens Music Walk of Fame, the Lyndon House Arts Center and the Athens Cultural...

Classic City News
Jan 3, 20202 min read


Tiffany glass exhibition to be on display at UGA
Although best known for his work in glass, Louis Comfort Tiffany worked in nearly all the media available to artists and designers in the...

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Jan 2, 20204 min read


Georgia Museum of Art to feature Italian Renaissance drawings
When we think of Renaissance art, we usually think of paintings, but from the 16th century on Italian artists focused on drawing just as...

Classic City News
Dec 17, 20193 min read


Acrocats to perform at Morton Theatre
The Amazing Acro-cats Featuring Tuna and the Rock Cats are a troupe of rescued house cats that will be providing a one-of-a-kind...

Classic City News
Dec 12, 20191 min read


"The Monsters Are Due on Broad Street: Patrick Dean"
If you lived in Athens between 1997 and 2006, you saw the cartoonist Patrick Dean’s work weekly in Flagpole magazine, whether on a cover,...

Classic City News
Nov 21, 20193 min read


Lyndon House to exhibit works of Athens students
The Lyndon House Arts Center and the Clarke County School District have announced the opening of the Biennial Art Exhibition, “WILD,”...

Classic City News
Nov 7, 20191 min read


Georgia Museum of Art publications win national awards
By Andrea Beatriz Giordano/UGA The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia received two awards from the American Alliance of...

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Nov 4, 20192 min read


The Physical Birth and Critical Death of John Keats
By John Knox On September 23rd I celebrated the 200th anniversary of John Keats’s miracle year with a tribute to his life and work and...

Classic City News
Nov 1, 20195 min read


Singer-songwriter Lydia Brambila to perform at ACC Library
The Friends of Athens-Clarke County Library has extended an invitation to a free Live! @ the Library concert featuring singer-songwriter...

Classic City News
Oct 24, 20191 min read
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