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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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New Media Art: Modern Photography and Film

Sat, Sep 15, 2007

Sam Taylor-Wood discusses her work in photography and film, which examines collective social and psychological conditions within thought-provoking scenarios, displaying the discord between the internal and external identity of her subjects.

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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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Voice and Vision in Southern Self-Taught Art

Thu, Apr 12, 2007

The High Museum's Susan Crawley, associate curator of folk art, moderates a panel discussion inspired by Carol Crown and Charles Russell's recent publication *Sacred and Profane: Voice and Vision in Southern Self-Taught Art*. Noted scholars discuss self-taught art in a cultural context.

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Renzo Piano: A New High In Atlanta

Tue, Nov 15, 2005

Architect Renzo Piano speaks about the three new buildings he designed which more than double the Museum's size to 312,000 square feet. Piano's work is allowing the High to display more of its growing collection, increase educational and exhibition programs, and offer new visitor amenities to address the needs of larger and more diverse audiences.

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Selective Attention: Neuroscience and the Art Museum

Thu, Mar 22, 2007

Barbara Stafford, William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of the University of Chicago's Department of Art History, discusses the relationship between art museums and neuroscience. **Barbara Stafford**'s recent essays focus on how developments in brain science are informing our assumptions about perception, emotion, sensation, and mental imagery. She is currently writing a cognitive history of images. Stafford is the writer of many books, including *Body Criticism: Imaging the Unseen in Enlightenment Art and Medicine* (1991), *Artful Science: Enlightenment, Entertainment, and the Eclipse of Visual Education* (1994), and *Visual Analogy: Consciousness as the Art of Connecting* (1999).

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Inventing Concepts for a New Museum

Wed, Apr 18, 2007

Yves Abrioux discusses the final of his three part lecture on the future of museums. **Yves Abrioux**, presented by The High Museum, is professor of English literature at the University of Paris VIII and the Ecole du Louvre for the past six years. He serves on the editorial board of Theorie, Litterature, Enseignement (TLE) and is the writer of many articles and exhibition catalogues, including *Ian Hamilton Finlay: a Visual Primer* (1992). Abrioux's scholarly work informs his own landscape art, which has appeared in France, Germany and England. In the fall of 2006, Abrioux was a visiting professor at Georgia Tech's School of Literature, Communication and Culture, where he helped to coordinate projects between the High Museum, the MusZe du Louvre and Georgia Tech.

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Building the High Museum's African Art Collection

Tue, Sep 13, 2005

Carol Thompson, Richman Family curator of African art discusses the evolution of the growing African art collection at the High Museum and her vision for the future. Thompson's goal is to create the most significant African art collection in the southeastern United States.

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Looking Back on Impressionism

Sat, Oct 13, 2007

Ann Dumas, a leading independent scholar on Impressionism, talks about the Impressionists dialogue with the art of the past. The popular view of Impressionism is that it broke completely from the artistic traditions of previous centuries. In truth, the Impressionists copied the Old Masters and transformed their motifs and compositions into something completely new.

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Claude Monet and the Landscape Tradition

Thu, Jan 10, 2008

David Brenneman, director of collections and exhibitions at Atlanta's High Museum of Art, draws comparisons between Monet's work and the masters of the Dutch landscape tradition, as well as other Old Master traditions. Monet claimed that he was never influenced by the Old Masters; instead, his inspiration came from his own experiences. However, it is clear that he was inspired by the atmospheric expanses of sky and reflections in the surfaces of water depicted in 17th century Dutch landscapes.

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