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The museum's permanent collection is composed of hundreds of works by Georgia artists. It is among the few contemporary visual arts museum which pays homage to and promotes local artists. To place its artists in a global context, the museum's exhibitions include artists from around the world (in addition to Georgia artists).
In 2000, Nexus was renamed Atlanta Contemporary Art Center. Locally known as The Contemporary, it became one of thirty-one organizations selected in 1999 to participate in the multiyear Warhol Initiative, receiving a grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts to undertake long-term institutional planning. In 2003, Nexus Press ...
The museum was founded in 1905 as the Atlanta Art Association. In 1926, the High family, for whom the museum is named, donated their family home on Peachtree Street to house the collection following a series of exhibitions involving the Grand Central Art Galleries organized by Atlanta collector J. J. Haverty. Many pieces from the Haverty ...
A museum telling the story of 'Muffler Men,' roadside attractions from the 1960s and 70s, has opened in Atlanta, Ill., on an original part of Route 66
The Art of the Con is a 2015 book by Anthony Amore about forgeries, thefts, scams and fakes in the art world from the 18th century to the present time. [1] [2] [3] Among those featured in the book are the scandals around Lawrence Salander and the Knoedler gallery. [3] It was published by Palgrave Macmillan. [4]
The Contemporary Review is an entirely independent publication. As in the past, international subjects in the widest sense receive considerable attention. It also continues to have a broad spectrum of interests, including home affairs and politics, literature and the arts, history, travel, and religion.
OPINION: In the latest episode, Atlanta makes fun of Tyler Perry but reaches an unexpected conclusion The post Atlanta review episode 5: Escaping Mr. Chocolate appeared first on TheGrio.
In early 2014, the New York Times named the Center for Civil and Human Rights as one of the biggest reasons to visit Atlanta in 2014, along with the soon-to-open Atlanta Streetcar and other new attractions. [12] In a more thorough review of the center in June 2014, Edward Rothstein of the Times called the facility "imposing". [13]