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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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  • Winslow Homer's Watercolors: Markers in a Life Journey

    Thu, May 11, 2006
    Elizabeth Johns discusses the relationship of Homer's watercolors and some of his oils to his life's journey.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Cecilia Beaux and Mrs. Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes

    Thu, Aug 2, 2007
    Akela Reason explores Cecilia Beaux's portrait of Mrs. Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes, or Edith Minturn.
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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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  • 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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