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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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  • Tribute to James Brown

    Thu, Sep 27, 2007
    A panel pays tribute to the musical legacy of James Brown. During the 1960s James Brown gained the titles “Godfather of Soul” and the “Hardest Working Man in Show Business.” Brown's sound reflected the nation's generational struggle, and his influence reached across the Atlantic to Bamako, Mali, where his style and music became a source of inspiration for the growing youth culture. It was this vibrant culture that Malick Sidibe dynamically captured through his photographs.
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  • Luncheon of the Boating Party

    Sun, Nov 11, 2007
    Susan Vreeland discusses her latest book, *Luncheon of the Boating Party*, a vivid exploration of one of the most beloved Renoir paintings in the world. With a palette of vibrant characters, Vreeland paints their lives, loves, losses, and triumphs in a brilliant portrait of her own.
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  • Color in Greek and Roman Ancient Bronzes

    Sat, Feb 2, 2008
    Sophie DesCamps, curator of the Musée du Louvre, discusses colors in Greek and Roman ancient bronzes. This lecture is presented in conjunction with the exhibition "Louvre Atlanta: The Louvre and the Ancient World". Descamps has co-authored the book *The Ancient Greeks: In the Land of the Gods*.
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  • Street Photography

    Thu, Mar 27, 2008
    Photography expert Lisa Kurzner leads a discussion on *Through the Spyglass: Politics and Play in Street Photography, 1960 to the Present*. The conversation covers the history of street photography and its place in the political landscape of the Vietnam era. Kurzner discusses Garry Winogrand, Susan Meiselas and Danny Lyon, as well as ideas of surveillance and voyeurism in photography.
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  • The Koltes Project

    Mon, Apr 7, 2008
    Eric Vigner, Isma'il Ibn Conner, and Del Hamilton discuss the US Koltes Project, a 10 year undertaking created in order to translate and produce six of Bernard-Marie Koltes' plays, and continue the artistic legacy of the French playwright.
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  • The Empire Style of France

    Sat, Apr 19, 2008
    Christopher Johns explores Napoleon and Josephine's interest in neoclassical art, their collaborations with the designers Percier and Fontaine, and the impact of important archaeological discoveries such as Herculaneum and Pompeii on the taste of their time. Jeffrey Collins discusses the popularity of the French Empire style, its importance in the Western world, and its influence on American furniture design.
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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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  • 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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  • Taste for American Art: Heroes, Villains, and the Art Market Today

    Thu, Nov 19, 2009
    Harvard art professor Theodore E. Stebbins Jr. discusses the interests and the influence of such pioneering art collectors as William T. Evans, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, and Maxim Karolik. Stebbins examines the ways taste changes, how certain styles or artists come to be admired, and the historical irrationality of the art market.
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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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