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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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  • The Art of Jack Whitten

    Thu, May 15, 2008
    Abstract artist Jack Whitten paints a verbal picture of his memorial art, in talking with Stuart Horodner, curator of the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center. For the past 40 years, New York-based painter Jack Whitten has created elaborately constructed abstract paintings, which are conceived to memorialize various cultural figures (artists, musicians, dancers, politicians, writers), family members, and tragic events that have shaped his life. Whitten has studied the historical impulses behind the honoring of the dead (in various cultures through time) and he has developed a contribution to the notion of abstraction and representation.
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  • Thoughts on Large Format Photography

    Thu, Jul 20, 2006
    Julian Cox addresses the prevailing taste for large scale images, and considers the choices that photographers make when determining the size of their prints. Julian Cox organized the exhibition New Photography, which was on view in the High Museum's Wieland pavilion from July 15 through October 1, 2006.
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  • Photography: Inspired Collecting

    Thu, Nov 9, 2006
    Independent scholar, writer, lecturer and critic Susan Todd-Raque discusses the growing enthusiasm for collecting photography and why it is the perfect medium for such a passion.
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  • Morris Louis: Court Painter of the Kennedy Era

    Thu, Nov 16, 2006
    Morris Louis made some of his most brilliant paintings, the series of canvases called the 'Unfurleds,' between early summer 1960 and late spring 1961, a period coinciding with John F. Kennedy's campaign, election, inauguration, and first few months in office. Alexander Nemerov examines one of the greatest of the 'Unfurleds,' the large painting called *Alpha Tau* in relation to the Kennedy White House.
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  • Who's Afraid of Morris Louis?

    Thu, Nov 30, 2006
    Who's Afraid of Morris Louis? is an educational program developed by the High Museum of Art and the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center to celebrate their collaboration on two upcoming exhibitions: the High museum's *Morris Louis Now: An American Master Revisited* and the response it inspired at the ACAC, *Louis Morris*. This program examines the work of Morris Louis and the legacy it engendered, specifically issues of painting developed from abstraction in the 1950s and 60s, including performative processes, diverse mediums, color, gesture and scale. The evening begins with a tour of *Morris Louis Now*, led by Wieland Family Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art, Jeffrey Grove and is followed by presentations by artists Karl Erickson, Sarah Bramen, and Phil Grauer, each of whom is featured in the exhibition at the ACAC. The conversation and questions are moderated by ACAC curator Stuart Horodner.
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  • Gallery of the Louvre

    Thu, Dec 7, 2006
    Akela Reason discusses *Masterpiece of the Month* talks by Samuel F. B. Morse.
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  • Masterpiece: Madonna and Child with St. Martina

    Thu, Jan 4, 2007
    The High Museum's Deputy Director Philip Verre discusses *Madonna and Child with Saint Martina* by Pietro da Cortona. His presentation features slides and provides an in-depth look at this treasured work of art from the Louvre.
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  • Castiglione: Art of Being a Renaissance Man

    Thu, Jan 11, 2007
    Baldassare Castiglione, a literary genius, astute diplomat, and military captain defined the term 'Renaissance Man'. Through his best selling *Book of the Courtier*, he taught countless generations of European aristocrats how to be cool, calm, and collected. Syracuse University Professor and Italian art expert Gary Radke discusses Castiglione, his masterful portrait by Raphael, and the world in which they both lived.
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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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  • 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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