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High Museum of Art

The High Museum of Art, founded in 1905 as the Atlanta Art Association, is the leading art museum in the Southeastern United States. With over 11,000 works of art in its permanent collection, the High Museum of Art has an extensive anthology of 19th- and 20th-century American art; significant holdings of European paintings and decorative art; a growing collection of African American art; and burgeoning collections of modern and contemporary art, photography and African art. The High is also dedicated to supporting and collecting works by Southern artists and is distinguished as the only major museum in North America to have a curatorial department specifically devoted to the field of folk and self-taught art. The High's Media Arts department produces acclaimed annual film series and festivals of foreign, independent and classic cinema.

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  • Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture

    Sat, Mar 14, 2009
    Dr. Richard J. Powell discusses his new book, *Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture*. He examines the distinctive nature of modern and contemporary portraits of people of African descent. He shows that these images can be viewed as a category of portraiture that differs significantly from depictions of people with other racial and ethnic backgrounds.
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  • Claude Monet's Water Lilies

    Sat, Jun 6, 2009
    Dr. David Brenneman, director of collections and exhibitions and Frances B. Bunzl, family curator of European Art, explores the impact of Claude Monet's *Water Lilies* on the history of modern art. The focus of Monet's last 25 years, the *Water Lilies* represents his largest body of work from his famed garden in Giverny. Though now known as Impressionist masterpieces, this series is also cited as one of the first forays into Abstract Expressionism.
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  • Homage to Ellsworth Kelly

    Sat, Jun 27, 2009
    Artist Jennie C. Jones talks about the connections between abstract painting, the color of birds, jazz and Blue Note LP cover designs. Her recent installation at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center is a tribute to the influence of his formal aesthetic filtered through issues of ethnicity.
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  • The First Emperor's Terracotta Army

    Sat, Nov 15, 2008
    Jane Portal, Matsutaro Shoriki chair of the department of Asia, Oceana, and Africa at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and curator of The First Emperor, discusses the world-famous terracotta warriors from Xi'an, China. She also covers the vision, achievements, and legacy of the First Emperor, Qin Shihuangdi.
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  • The Treasure of Ulysses Davis

    Sat, Jan 31, 2009
    Susan Crawley, High Museum of Art curator of folk art, discusses the work of self-taught sculptor Ulysses Davis. Davis filled his Savannah barber shop with finely carved depictions of heroes from American history and the Bible, figures influenced by his study of African sculptural forms, and creatures from his extraordinary imagination.
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  • Da Vinci's Sculptures Decoded

    Sat, Oct 3, 2009
    High Museum of Art Exhibition Curator Gary M. Radke discusses how art historians try to reconstruct Leonardo da Vinci's sculptural production. Da Vinci evidently made plans for and produced sculpture throughout his career, but little of it survives. Radke also presents arguments for attributing two previously unrecognized figures to da Vinci.
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  • Harry Shearer's The Silent Echo Chamber

    Fri, Nov 20, 2009
    Artist and performer Harry Shearer discusses his recent video work, *The Silent Echo Chamber*. Stuart Horodner, artistic director of the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center; Jim Clancy, anchor of CNN International; and Michael David Murphy, program manager of Atlanta Celebrates Photography, join the panel.
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  • Tierney Gearon on Her Career as a Photographer

    Thu, Oct 29, 2009
    Acclaimed photographer Tierney Gearon discusses the entire span of her career as a photographer--beginning with her first portraits of her family, her early commercial work as a fashion photographer in Europe, her discovery by Charles Saatchi, subsequent shows at The Gagosian Gallery, "The Mother Project", and her newest series, "Explosure". This lecture is presented in conjunction with an exhibition of Ms. Gearon's work on view at Jackson Fine Art.
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  • Renaissance Designers: Architects as Artists

    Sat, Dec 5, 2009
    Some of Atlanta's most talented architects discuss how an artistic practice informs their architectural practice and in turn how their architectural work inspires their art making. This program is presented in collaboration with the Atlanta Chapter of the American Institute of Architects.
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  • Looking Deeply Into Louvre-Atlanta

    Sat, Oct 11, 2008
    David Brenneman, the High Museum's director of collections and exhibitions, and Isabelle Lemaistre, the Louvre sculpture curator, talk about key points of Louvre-Atlanta. This has been an unprecedented collaboration between the Musee du Louvre in Paris and the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, bringing three years of special exhibitions to the United States--some of the artworks never before displayed.
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