A once-forgotten art amusement park featuring installations by famous artists including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Salvador Dalí, Keith Haring and Roy Lichtenstein, will open at Atlanta’s Pullman Yards on Sept. 24.

“Luna Luna: Forgotten Fantasy” is a colorful art carnival born from the wild imagination of Austrian artist and impresario André Heller.

Heller conceptualized the whimsical exhibition in the late 1970s, then spent 10 years traveling around the globe determined to recruit the world’s most famous artists to craft carousels, Ferris wheels, swing rides, fun houses and other immersive installations. Heller secured the participation of more than 30 surrealist, pop art and abstract artists who agreed to make works for the fair.

“Luna Luna” premiered in Hamburg, Germany, in 1987 before th

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