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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Inventing Concepts for a New Museum

    Wed, Apr 18, 2007
    Yves Abrioux discusses the final of his three part lecture on the future of museums. **Yves Abrioux**, presented by The High Museum, is professor of English literature at the University of Paris VIII and the Ecole du Louvre for the past six years. He serves on the editorial board of Theorie, Litterature, Enseignement (TLE) and is the writer of many articles and exhibition catalogues, including *Ian Hamilton Finlay: a Visual Primer* (1992). Abrioux's scholarly work informs his own landscape art, which has appeared in France, Germany and England. In the fall of 2006, Abrioux was a visiting professor at Georgia Tech's School of Literature, Communication and Culture, where he helped to coordinate projects between the High Museum, the MusZe du Louvre and Georgia Tech.
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  • Jane Prophet: An Artist's View of the Future of the Museum

    Wed, Apr 4, 2007
    Jane Prophet, a British artist who works across disciplines to create internationally acclaimed projects that have broken new ground in art, technology, and science, discusses her artwork. **Jane Prophet**'s work, which includes large-scale installations, digital print, Websites and CD-ROMs, reflects her interest in complexity theory, landscape and artificial life. Among her past projects are the award-winning website, *TechnoSphere*, and *The Landscape Room*, an installation that combines photographs with computer-simulated landscapes. In October 2006, she completed a solo show at Paco das Artes, which coincided with the Sao Paulo Biennale.
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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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  • The Past Again: Reflections of the Daguerreotype

    Wed, Oct 20, 2010
    Grant Romer, world-renowned photography authority and former Director of Conservation for the International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York, introduces recently evolved thinking about the daguerreotype in light of the dramatic changes in imaging and information technology over the last ten years. Romer also examines the basics of daguerreotype connoisseurship through an overview of the history of the process and illustrations of the unique qualities of the daguerreotype.
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  • Michael R. Taylor: God and the Atom

    Thu, Dec 9, 2010
    Michael R. Taylor, the Muriel and Philip Berman Curator of Modern Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, as he explores Dalí's hybrid combination of atomic age physics and Catholic doctrine he called "Nuclear Mysticism." Mr. Taylor's talk with examine the controversy surrounding Dalí's claim to be "the first painter of the atomic age" and the resulting lawsuit filed by Italian artist, Enrico Baj, who claimed that his own nuclear paintings preceded those of Dalí.
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