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Atlanta Contemporary Art Center: West Midtown: Art: Local, national, and international contemporary art; education geared toward working artists and collectors of art Atlanta History Center: Buckhead: History: History of Atlanta and Georgia; includes the Centennial Olympic Games Museum [1] and one of the nation's most complete Civil War exhibitions
High Museum of Art in Atlanta. This list of museums in Georgia contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Images and locations of over 200 works of Atlanta Street Art can be found on the Atlanta Street Art Map. [16] In 2011 the city hosted the Living Walls street art conference and will co-host it with Albany, New York in 2012. In May 2011 Atlanta established a Graffiti Task Force.
The High Museum of Art (colloquially the High) is the largest museum for visual art in the Southeastern United States.Located in Atlanta, Georgia (on Peachtree Street in Midtown, the city's arts district), the High is 312,000 square feet (28,985 m 2) and a division of the Woodruff Arts Center.
The state operated with two area codes until May 3, 1992, when area code 706 was created for the two separate areas outside of the metro Atlanta area. Due to complaints from exurban residents who were to be put in 706, they were moved back into 404, which makes every new area code added to the metro area run out of numbers sooner.
Founded in 1973 by a group of Atlanta photographers, Atlanta Contemporary was originally called Nexus and began as a store-front cooperative gallery supported by member dues and staffed by volunteers. In 1976, the organization leased an old elementary school and began to expand its programs, formalize its infrastructure, and house a number of ...
In November 2002, the museum mounted Color, Culture, Complexity, an exhibition curated by Ed Spriggs, of the Hammonds House Galleries in Atlanta, and Dan Talley, co-founder of Art Papers magazine and former director of Nexus Contemporary Art Center in Atlanta. [5]
The Michael C. Carlos Museum is an art museum located in Atlanta on the historic quadrangle of Emory University's main campus. The Carlos Museum has the largest ancient art collections in the Southeast, [1] including objects from ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Near East, Africa and the ancient Americas.