Weekend Arts Agenda: ‘Defining Design’ October 25 2013

UCLA comes to Emory, Hello Ocho comes to Elevate, and more.

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Excluding the expert designistas among us, you probably won’t immediately recognize the name Paul Rand. But you almost certainly know his work: Rand is the eye behind logos for IBM, ABC, UPS, and more. In a new exhibit at MODA, Defining Design lays out the arc of Rand’s career and examines the design principles that would come to influence not just a generation of graphic designers, but a generation of consumers as well. Opens Sunday, succeeding an opening party called Logo-a-Go-Go on Saturday that will feature DJ Mike Beaver. (Buy tickets here.) Curated by Daniel Lewandowski. Gallery hours are noon-5 p.m.

More weekend picks below.

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FRIDAY

As Elevate begins to wind down this weekend, Mammal Gallery will open its doors Friday night, for a closing reception of its All Drawings Everything followed a performance by Arcade-Fire-with-a-drum-circle group Hello Ocho. Also showing: Sarah Emerson’s graphic-y mural project, Lost & Found, which is a continuation of the South Broad Mural Project.

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Beginning in the late-’60s, the film school at UCLA became a fountainhead - and hotbed - of independent black cinema, eventually attracting the likes of Julie Dash and Charles Burnett and many more, whose works have since become rightly revered for their singularity - the daring of new voices saying here we are. That all matters now because Atlanta (Emory) is hosting L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema, which will be showcasing some of the movement’s films, as well as some of its filmmakers, through November. All screenings are free. Opens at 7 tonight, at The Plaza with Burnett’s My Brother’s Wedding and Robert Wheaton’s A Little Off Mark. Go here for the full schedule.

SATURDAY

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  • Courtesy Steve Chin/Spruill



Spruill’s Inspiring Connections is closing this weekend. Mounted in conjunction with Le Meridien Atlanta Perimeter Hotel, photographer Steve Chin, nonprofit Children Inspiring Hope, and Atlanta Celebrates Photography, the exhibition collects Chin’s work from his travels and outreach work through Ghana. Gallery hours are 11 a.m.-6:30 p.m. Connections closes with a silent auction and fundraiser from 6:30-9:30 p.m. Saturday.