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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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  • Sensational Scandals on the Eve of the French Revolution

    Sat, Sep 1, 2007
    Judith Miller discusses a series of scandals that linked French politics to the arts in the 1770's and 1780's. As the monarchy weakened, audiences at theater, opera, and painting exhibitions seized on each innuendo. One of the Louvre's paintings on display at the High Museum in Atlanta, Georgia was involved.
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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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  • Chuck Close: Painting from the Grid

    Fri, Mar 24, 2006
    Internationally recognized artist Chuck Close talks with Jeffrey D. Grove, Wieland Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art about working with photographs, painting from the grid, and collaboration with master printers and papermakers. Close reflects on his 40 year career and discusses his continuously innovative approach to portraiture with particular emphasis on his self portraits.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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