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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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Exploring Harry and Eleanor Callahan

Thu, Nov 8, 2007

Photographers Chip Simone and John McWilliams, personal friends of the late photographer Harry Callahan, joined Julian Cox to discuss the artist and his muse, Eleanor, as teacher and artist, and to feature examples of their own work.

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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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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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Meet Otabenga Jones & Associates

Fri, Jul 18, 2008

*After 1968* artists Otabenga Jones & Associates lead a gallery discussion inspired by their ongoing educational art collaboration. Otabenga Jones & Associates is a Houston-based educational art collaborative named after Ota Benga, a pygmy brought to the United States from Africa in the early 1900s and exhibited at the Bronx Zoo. Jones committed suicide after being released from captivity. The artistic group explores African American identity politics through installation and performance art.

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Discussing Civil Rights

Thu, Jun 12, 2008

Hank Klibanoff, managing editor at *The Atlanta Journal-Constitution* and author of *The Race Beat*; Doris Derby, photographer, educator, and civil rights activist; and Brett Gadsden, assistant professor of African American Studies at Emory University, discuss how the nation's press came to recognize the importance of the civil rights struggle and turn it into the most significant domestic news event of the 20th century. This event is moderated by Julian Cox.

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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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Quai Branly Museum of Paris

Fri, Nov 9, 2007

Stephane Martin, director of the newly reopened Quai Branly Museum, discusses the Paris facility. It is called an ethnographic museum, providing possibilities to put on display numerous works and the cultures from which they come. The museum includes a study and research center, library, theater, and concert hall.

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Photography of Christopher Bucklow

Thu, Sep 11, 2008

Christopher Bucklow talks about his widely known photographic silhouettes made using a pinhole camera. He is also known for the ongoing series of paintings that stem from those photographs. His work is included in the collections of many museums across the US. This event is presented in cooperation with Atlanta Celebrates Photography.

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Gregory Heisler on Arnold Newman

Wed, Oct 1, 2008

Gregory Heisler, award winning photographer, discusses Arnold Newman and the impact that he and his work have had on photography. Heisler is a commercial photographer with 70 *Time* magazine covers to his credit. This event is presented in collaboration with Atlanta Celebrates Photography.

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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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