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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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China and India: Future of Past Traditions

Wed, Feb 7, 2007

Dr. Vishakha N. Desai focuses on a selection of artists from China and India and discusses their work in the context of a changing world order while examining their roots in traditional art practices.

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Harlem Renaissance and Paris

Sat, Feb 17, 2007

Dr. Richard A. Long speaks about the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, which has been the subject of much discussion and reflection over the past three decades. One of the most important aspects of the Harlem Renaissance was the connection to Paris, France. Many of its prominent figures, including Alain Locke, Langston Hughes, and Claude McKay were connected to Paris in various ways. Also significant is the impact of jazz, as exemplified by the music of Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong. The personality of Josephine Baker, whose centenary has just been observed, is another major element in the Harlem-Paris axis. Dr. Long considers all of these factors as well as the presence of the visual arts in the equation.

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Diego Velasquez' The Infanta Margarita

Thu, Feb 1, 2007

Michael E. Shapiro, the High's Nancy and Holcombe T. Green, Jr. Director, discusses *The Infanta Margarita* by Diego Velasquez. This 30-minute presentation features slides and provides an in-depth look at this treasured work of art from the Louvre.

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Shifting Meaning: African Art in the World

Thu, Feb 22, 2007

New York University professor Susan Vogel, a renowned museum founder and specialist in African art shares her eight-minute film *Fang: An Epic Journey*, which covers the adventures of an African sculpture as it moves from Cameroon in 1910 to America in the 1970s. Vogel discusses the film and the shifting meanings of art objects, first among the Baule of Ivory Coast and then as they appear in the wider world.

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Marie-Antoinette, Queen of Fashion

Sat, Mar 10, 2007

Caroline Weber tells the story of how Marie-Antoinette's clothing choices helped make and unmake her reputation, altering the very course of French history. Weber, author of *Queen of Fashion: What Marie-Antoinette Wore to the Revolution*, presents a new vision of this ever-fascinating French queen. Like Princess Diana and Jacqueline Onassis, Marie-Antoinette was an icon of style, a muse of fashion, a woman who used clothing to command attention.

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American Artists and the Louvre: Morse Gallery

Sat, Feb 24, 2007

Paul Staiti speaks about Samuel F.B. Morse in the context of other early nineteenth-century American artists who sought training in Paris, and Jean-Philippe Antoine presents on issues of imitation and reproduction vis-a-vis Morse's inventive painting. Olivier Meslay and Sylvia Yount serve as respondents to the talks.

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Greta Pratt: Nineteen Lincolns

Thu, Feb 8, 2007

Photographer Greta Pratt discusses her interest in historic iconography in America, in particular her monumental work *Nineteen Lincolns*, on view at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center. *Nineteen Lincolns* documents men who belong to the Association of Lincoln Presenters, a society dedicated to studying and portraying the life of Abraham Lincoln.

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Cecilia Beaux and Mrs. Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes

Thu, Aug 2, 2007

Akela Reason explores Cecilia Beaux's portrait of Mrs. Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes, or Edith Minturn.

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Franklin Sirmans: Driskell Prize Lecture

Sun, Jul 22, 2007

Franklin Sirmans accepts the 2007 recipient of the David C. Driskell Prize. Named after the renowned African American artist and art scholar, the Driskell Prize recognizes a scholar or artist in the beginning or middle of his or her career whose work makes an original and important contribution to the field of African American art or art history.

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Jane Prophet: An Artist's View of the Future of the Museum

Wed, Apr 4, 2007

Jane Prophet, a British artist who works across disciplines to create internationally acclaimed projects that have broken new ground in art, technology, and science, discusses her artwork. **Jane Prophet**'s work, which includes large-scale installations, digital print, Websites and CD-ROMs, reflects her interest in complexity theory, landscape and artificial life. Among her past projects are the award-winning website, *TechnoSphere*, and *The Landscape Room*, an installation that combines photographs with computer-simulated landscapes. In October 2006, she completed a solo show at Paco das Artes, which coincided with the Sao Paulo Biennale.

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