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Southern Railway's 1918 facility, named Peachtree Station but known locally as Brookwood Station, has been Atlanta's only long-distance passenger rail stop since 1970. Amtrak took over Southern's Crescent route in the '70s, which (as of 2015) continues to operate between New Orleans and N.Y. City .
7 Stages Theatre (former Little 5 Points Theatre), Atlanta, 1940 Atlanta City Hall, Atlanta, 1930; Cheshire Square Shopping Center, Atlanta, 1967; Empire Manufacturing Company Building, Atlanta, 1939
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.
A rebranding effort shortened the institution's name in 2015. Known today as Atlanta Contemporary, it continues to play a role in Westside community-based initiatives. In 2009, it helped found the Westside Arts District, featuring monthly Saturday art walks with educational programming coordinated among the district's art spaces.
This is a list of public art in Atlanta, in the United States. This list applies only to works of public art on permanent display in an outdoor public space. For example, this does not include artworks in museums. Public art may include sculptures, statues, monuments, memorials, murals, and mosaics.
MOCA GA has an estimated 9,000 visitors annually. Both modern and cutting-edge contemporary art as well as classic fine art are routinely displayed at the museum and other non-profit art institutions in Georgia. Art organizations offer spaces for music, performance art, other media, education, and other arts in addition to visual arts.
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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.