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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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  • Visit to the Museum by Edgar Degas

    Thu, Dec 6, 2007
    Julia Forbes lends her expertise to a close-up look at Edgar Degas' *Visit to the Museum*.
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  • The Tiber

    Thu, Nov 1, 2007
    Philip Verre discusses *The Tiber*, on loan to Atlanta's High Museum of Art from the Louvre in Paris. The colossal, 10-foot-long sculpture by an unknown artist is one of the largest in the Louvre's collections.
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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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  • Color in Greek and Roman Ancient Bronzes

    Sat, Feb 2, 2008
    Sophie DesCamps, curator of the Musée du Louvre, discusses colors in Greek and Roman ancient bronzes. This lecture is presented in conjunction with the exhibition "Louvre Atlanta: The Louvre and the Ancient World". Descamps has co-authored the book *The Ancient Greeks: In the Land of the Gods*.
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  • Robert G. Workman: Crystal Bridges

    Thu, Feb 28, 2008
    Robert G. Workman, executive director of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, discusses the planning, organization, construction, and implementation of the new museum project. Founded by Alice Walton, Crystal Bridges is envisioned as a premier national art institution dedicated to American art and artists. Under construction in Bentonville, AR, the museum complex encompasses approximately 100,000 square feet of gallery, library, meeting, and office space, a 250-seat indoor auditorium, areas for outdoor concerts and public events, gallery rooms suitable for large receptions, as well as sculpture gardens and walking trails. This lecture, *Creating a Sense of Place: Art, Architecture and Nature at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art*, inaugurates the High Museum's Margaret and Terry Stent Distinguished Lecture Series.
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  • Alfred Stieglitz's Photography of Georgia O'Keeffe

    Thu, Mar 6, 2008
    Independent scholar Lisa Kurzner discusses Alfred Stieglitz's photographs of artist Georgia O'Keeffe. Educated in Berlin, Stieglitz studied engineering and photography before returning to the US at the turn of the century and opening the 291 gallery. He pioneered the art of photography, and single-handedly introduced America to the works of Picasso, Matisse, and Cezanne at the gallery. Stieglitz took more than 300 portraits of O'Keeffe between 1918 and 1937. Most of the more erotic poses would be in the first few years of their marriage.
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  • Contemporary Artists and the Civil Rights Legacy

    Wed, Feb 27, 2008
    Artists Adam Pendleton, Nadine Robinson, Jefferson Pinder, Jeffrey Grove, and Hank Willis Thomas, along with Kenya Evans and Jabari Anderson of Otabenga Jones & Associates, discuss their participation in the exhibit *After 1968: Contemporary Artists and the Civil Rights Legacy*. The exhibit and their art reconsider the pivotal time in American history and explores its relevancy to and influence on a new generation.
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  • David C. Driskell: Artist and Humanitarian

    Sat, Feb 16, 2008
    Artist, educator, historian, curator, and humanitarian David C. Driskell talks about his southern upbringing, his education in at Howard and Catholic Universities, and the many people with whom his life has intersected. He discusses artists Romare Bearden and Jacob Lawrence, and how they helped to set the stage for Driskell's remarkably productive and influential life.
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