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4 | Art & Entertainment Facebook.com/TheReporterNewspapers ■ twitter.com/Reporter_News Sports, politics and city changes are spotlighted new 1996 Olympics exhibit BY JOHN RUCH johnruch@reporternewspafers.net The revamped and reinvented 1996 Olympics exhibit at the Atlanta History Center reopened last month with a new focus on urban change and the intersec tion of sports and politics. “Atlanta ’96: Shaping an Olympic and Paralympic City” is a 2,600-square-foot exhibit featuring hundreds of artifacts and images about the city’s unlikely suc cessful bid for the 100th Summer Olym pics and the mega-event’s impact on the metro area. Like the original exhibit that opened in 2006, it includes historic sporting mo ments, medals, torches and the terrorist bombing that marred the event as recent ly depicted in the controversial movie “Richard Jewell.” But the revamp comes in an era when the Olympics is under re newed scrutiny for expense, displacement of residents and other effects, and when the Games and pro sports in general are wracked with controversies over players engaging in political protests. The new ex hibit follows those themes with looks at how the Olympics changed life here and includes local protest movements. Exhibit curator Sarah Dylla compared ATLANTA HISTORY CENTER The Centennial Olympic Stadium in Summerhill under construction around 1994. The new exhibit looks not only at the events in the stadium, but the planning process that put it there and the local protests against it. (Photo by Ross Henderson, courtesy Georgia Amateur Athletic Foundation Collection, Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center.) s Cehhnatinfy ov&i 50 y&aM iti RmJeweOty ApftmiAah Rep/WtA T H- FINE JEWELRY M o / . / A X i 2090 Dunwoody Club Drive Ste 107 Sandy Springs, GA 30350 770-396-0492 www.Lauderhills.com
