ATLANTA — At a time when counties, cities and states across the South are removing or covering up Confederate monuments, one of the world's largest paintings of the American Civil War will reopen to ...
Every city in the South, it seems, is trying to figure out what to do with its monuments. Richmond has kept its grand “Monument Avenue” lined with statues of Confederate luminaries. New Orleans took ...
Picking up a fragile, 6-ton painting that’s longer than a football field is a bit like stretching a tent made out of tissue paper: It takes the skills of a museum conservator and the engineering ...
It's massive, it's about the Civil War, and it's moving from the Grant Park neighborhood near downtown to the Atlanta History Center in Buckhead. You can read the news of the move from the AJC's ...
Mayor Kasim Reed, Atlanta History Center President and CEO Sheffield Hale and Zoo Atlanta President and CEO Raymond King announced Wednesday the existing Cyclorama building will be developed into a ...
ATLANTA — An Atlanta historian said it was the coolest and scariest thing he has ever seen as cranes hoisted the Atlanta Cyclorama out of its current home and as they prepare to move it to its new ...
The colossal 19th-century painting of the Battle of Atlanta has been hailed as a tribute to both the North and South, and its complicated history will be a focus in its new home at the Atlanta History ...
A 140-year-old diary written in German is providing new insights about how painters visited Atlanta to make sketches and then returned to Milwaukee to create the Atlanta Cyclorama. Crews Thursday plan ...
ATLANTA (AP) - Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed says the huge Atlanta Cyclorama painting, which has been on display in Grant Park for more than a century, will be moved to the Atlanta History Center in the ...
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ATLANTA, Feb. 22, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the Atlanta History Center opens Cyclorama: The Big Picture, featuring the fully restored The Battle of Atlanta cyclorama painting. Depicting the 1864 ...
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