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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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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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Raphael and the Art of Portraiture

Thu, Jan 25, 2007

David Brenneman, chief curator of the High Museum of Art, discusses one of the Renaissance's most important portraits, Raphael's Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione.

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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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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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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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Marie Antoinette: Patron of the Arts

Thu, Apr 5, 2007

Virginia Shearer discusses the Bust of Marie Antoinette, 1782, by the Svres Porcelain Factory. The High Museum of Art presents Shearer, the High's Associate Chair for Education. The Queen, a fervent arts patron, commissioned several full table services, including hundreds of pieces in each for her palaces at Versailles and the Tuileries. She also requested furniture decorated with porcelain plaques, including a jewelry case made for her by the famous cabinetmaker Martin Carlin, whose furniture is shown in the Decorative Arts of the Kings.

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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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