Many good things have contributed to the amazing start to the season for the Braves. One of the biggest factors is how well many of the depth position player signings and acquisitions have worked out for Atlanta, such as Dominic Smith and Jorge Mateo. But the best of all was the trade for Mauricio Dubon, whose versatility has been extremely valuable for the Braves. Alex Anthopoulos has always made good moves on the margins, and this year is no different.
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Atlanta: 2024 Driskell Prize Winner Noami Beckwith Celebrated at High Museum of Art Gala and Afterparty
2024 Driskell Prize Recipient Naomi Beckwith, deputy director and chief curator of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, N.Y. | Photo by Rafterman, Courtesy The High Museum of Art
Gala guests included High Museum of Art Director Randall Suffolk,
curator Valerie Cassel Oliver, photographer Tyler Mitchell, designer Sergio Hudson, artist Ebony G. Patterson, and gallerist Monique Meloche
curator Valerie Cassel Oliver, photographer Tyler Mitchell, designer Sergio Hudson, artist Ebony G. Patterson, and gallerist Monique Meloche
ATLANTA, GA., PLAYED HOST to the art world on April 26, when the High Museum of Art celebrated 2024 David C. Driskell Prize recipient Naomi Beckwith. The Driskell Prize recognizes exceptional contributions to the field of African American art. The 19th recipient of the prestigious honor, Beckwith is deputy director and chief curator of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.
Sunda and G. Scott Uzzell, Nike vice president and general manager for North America, chaired the Driskell Prize gala. The evening featured a seated dinner, remarks, and the annual event’s first-ever afterparty.
More then 250 guests attended the gala, according to the High Museum. Guests included High Museum Director Randall Suffolk; Raphael Bostic, president and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta; Camille Love, Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs; Phillana Williams, director, Mayor’s Office of Film & Entertainment; and Nickol Hackett, chief investment officer and treasurer, Joyce Foundation, Chicago, Ill.
Patrons mixed with artists and curators, Atlanta-born photographer Tyler Mitchell; Atlanta artists Charly Palmer and Fahamu Pecou; artist Genevieve Gaignard; and Lauren Haynes, head curator and vice president of arts and culture, Governors Island, New York, N.Y., among them. Previous recipients of the Driskell Prize were also in attendance, including Valerie Cassel Oliver (2011), curator of modern and contemporary art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Va.; Naima Keith (2017), vice president of education and public programming, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and artist Ebony G. Patterson (2023).
“…It’s wonderful always to be admired by peers or acknowledged by peers, whoever they may be in the field,” Beckwith said in a High Museum video made on the occasion of the Driskell Prize. “So you sit and you go to the dinners, and it’s all—it’s all quite lovely. But when you understand that your people see you, that is the biggest honor.”
Sergio Hudson designed Beckwith’s gown. The jewel-toned look with a long flowing, pleated skirt is featured in the designer’s recent Collection 12.
Proceeds from the gala benefited the David C. Driskell African American Art Acquisition Restricted and Endowment funds, the High Museum said, and over the years have helped add 52 works by African American artists to the museum’s collection. CT
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From left, Sunda Uzzell, Naomi Beckwith, and Scott Uzzell. The Uzzells chaired the 19th Annual David C. Driskell Prize Gala. | Photo by Rafterman, Courtesy The High Museum of Art
From left, 2024 Driskell Prize Recipient Naomi Beckwith and Randall Suffolk, director of the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Ga. | Photo by Rafterman, Courtesy The High Museum of Art
Kent Kelley and Tamara Kelley, members of host committee for the Driskell Prize Gala. Kent Kelley is a member of the High Museum of Art’s board of directors. | Photo by Rafterman, Courtesy The High Museum of Art
Charlene Crusoe-Ingram and Earnest Ingram, members of host committee for the Driskell Prize Gala. Crusoe-Ingram is nominating vice chair of the High Museum of Art’s board of directors. | Photo by Rafterman, Courtesy The High Museum of Art
From left, 2024 Driskell Prize Recipient Naomi Beckwith with hosts of the gala. From left, Nikki Crump, Sunda Uzzell, Naomi Beckwith, Charlene Crusoe-Ingram, Robyn Wallace, and Louise Sams. | Photo by Rafterman, Courtesy The High Museum of Art
Robyn and Zak Wallace, members of host committee for the Driskell Prize Gala. | Photo by Rafterman, Courtesy The High Museum of Art
Karen Comer-Lowe, curator in residence at Spelman College Museum of Fine Art; and Artist and chef Leslie Parks Bailey, wife of late artist Radcliffe Bailey and daughter of late artist Gordon Parks. | Photo by Rafterman, Courtesy The High Museum of Art
High Museum of Art Director Randall Suffolk and photographer Tyler Mitchell. “Tyler Mitchell: Idyllic Space” opens at the High Museum of Art on June 21. | Courtesy The High Museum of Art
Mike Jackson and Egypt Sherrod, stars of the Atlanta-based HGTV series “Married to Real Estate.” | Photo by Rafterman, Courtesy The High Museum of Art
2024 Driskell Prize Recipient Naomi Beckwith and Sergio Hudson, who designed Beckwith’s gala gown. | Photo by Rafterman, Courtesy The High Museum of Art
South Carolina-born, Sergio Hudson is based in Los Angeles. Hudson won Bravo TV’s “Styled to Rock” in 2013, established his eponymous label in 2014, relaunched it in 2016, and debuted at New York Fashion Week in 2020. His clothes are made in the USA. Hudson’s clients include many prominent figures in the music industry, Hollywood, and politics, including former First Lady Michell Obama, Vice President Kamala Harris, and First Lady Jill Biden, who wore a cobalt blue gown by Hudson to the White House State Dinner honoring Kenyan President William Ruto on May 23.
From left, Chicago gallerist Monique Meloche and 2023 Driskell Prize Recipient Ebony Patterson, who is represented by Monique Meloche. | Photo by Rafterman, Courtesy The High Museum of Art
From left, DJ Princess Cut and Killer Mike, aka Mike Render, High Museum of Art board member. DJ Princess Cut provided music for the Driskell Prize gala’s first-ever after party. | Photo by Rafterman, Courtesy The High Museum of Art
Photographer Tyler Mitchell and 2024 Driskell Prize Recipient Naomi Beckwith. | Photo by Rafterman, Courtesy The High Museum of Art
From left, 2011 Driskell Prize Recipient Valerie Cassel Oliver, curator of modern and contemporary art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and 2024 Driskell Prize Recipient Naomi Beckwith. Cassel Oliver and Beckwith co-curated the landmark traveling survey “Howardena Pindell: What Remains to Be Seen.” | Photo by Rafterman, Courtesy The High Museum of Art
2024 Driskell Prizer Recipient Naomi Beckwith making remarks at the gala. | Photo by Rafterman, Courtesy The High Museum of Art
2024 Driskell Prizer Recipient Naomi Beckwith, holding her award, with High Museum Director Randall Suffolk. | Photo by Rafterman, Courtesy The High Museum of Art
BOOKSHELF
Naomi Beckwith has published many volumes. Key among them, she co-authored the exhibition catalogs “Howardena Pindell: What Remains To Be Seen” and “Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Any Number of Preoccupations,” and co-edited “The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now.” Beckwith also edited the catalog for Duro Olowu’s MCA Chicago exhibition “Seeing Chicago” and co-edited the exhibition catalog “Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America (from Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter).” She has also contributed to several other volumes, including “Lorna Simpson: Revised & Expanded Edition” (Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series) and “Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art.”
Food & Dining
Nearly a dozen restaurants closed during the month, including the Alden.
The waakye served at Ike’s Cafe and Grill shown on Monday, March 24, 2025. The bean and rice mixture is served with spaghetti, plantains, a tomato stew, fish, beef, a boiled egg, dried cassava and a chili sauce. (Natrice Miller/AJC)
May was another strong month for restaurant openings in metro Atlanta, with at least 19 new food businesses setting up shop.
But nearly a dozen restaurants closed during the month, as well — including the Alden, which was unexpectedly shut down when the Chamblee apartment building where it occupied a ground-floor space was destroyed by a fire.
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Joupe Jeht’s fresh spring rolls. (Courtesy of Jude Downs)
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A rendering of the Ledger Bar and Lounge at the recently renovated JW Marriott Downtown Atlanta hotel. (Courtesy of Marriott)
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PopUp Bagels offers five kinds: plain, salt, sesame, poppy and everything. They are sold whole and meant to be ripped and dipped into schmears. (Courtesy of PopUp Bagels)
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Showdown Social opens this May in Alpharetta with host-led card games. (Courtesy of Showdown Social)
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Waffle with Chicken Tenders made and styled by Johnny’s Chicken & Waffles in Atlanta, Ga., Wednesday, May 6, 2026. (Aaliyah Man for the AJC)
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Metro Atlanta restaurant openings
Metro Atlanta restaurant closings
Henri Hollis is a restaurant critic and food reporter for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where he covers Atlanta’s restaurants, chefs and dining culture. As part of the AJC’s Food & Dining team, he reviews new restaurants, reports on industry trends and explores metro Atlanta’s culinary scene through the neighborhoods and people that shape it.
One of the most inevitable moves of the summer is complete. The Atlanta Falcons have given Drake London a lucrative four year deal worth up to $150 million, locking up their top receiver for the foreseeable future.
It’s a deserved extension for a physical, sure-handed talent who has been consistently excellent in Atlanta despite a constantly rotating cast of quarterbacks. London, who has averaged 1,086 yards over four NFL seasons and has 22 touchdowns over that span, has also emerged as one of the locker room’s most vocal and accountable players.
The 2022 first round pick came into the NFL catching passes from Marcus Mariota and Desmond Ridder and flourished immediately, with 806 yards and four touchdowns in year one and 905 yards and two touchdowns in year two. When the coaching staff turned over and Kirk Cousins and Michael Penix Jr. entered the picture, London exploded for 100 catches, 1,271 yards, and nine touchdowns in 2024, following that up with 919 yards and seven touchdowns in just 12 games a year ago. Through just four seasons, London is already 10th in team history in receiving yards, eighth in receptions, and 13th in touchdowns, and mixes that with solid blocking. He’s been the ideal receiver for the last two iterations of this Falcons offense, and I have no doubt that will continue here.
The contract’s guaranteed money would be tops in the NFL if the $100 million figure is accurate, but by overall money it’s just the third most lucrative contract in the league, and will likely be hovering near the bottom of the top ten in a couple of seasons. The Falcons were never going to risk losing their top receiving option, and if all goes well, London will continue to thrive in Atlanta and set his sights on surpassing some franchise legends in the years to come. I’m glad the deal is done, and we’ll see the exact terms soon enough.
How do you feel about this extension?
Andrelton Simmons plies his trade in Mexico
The Athletic caught up with former Braves shortstop – and one of the most gifted defenders at the position in the history of the game – Andrelton Simmons who, at 36, returned to organized baseball in Mexico last season.
Link below.
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In a fun “Where are they now” segment, here is an update on Andrelton Simmons.
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