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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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Greta Pratt: Nineteen Lincolns

Thu, Feb 8, 2007

Photographer Greta Pratt discusses her interest in historic iconography in America, in particular her monumental work *Nineteen Lincolns*, on view at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center. *Nineteen Lincolns* documents men who belong to the Association of Lincoln Presenters, a society dedicated to studying and portraying the life of Abraham Lincoln.

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Harlem Renaissance and Paris

Sat, Feb 17, 2007

Dr. Richard A. Long speaks about the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, which has been the subject of much discussion and reflection over the past three decades. One of the most important aspects of the Harlem Renaissance was the connection to Paris, France. Many of its prominent figures, including Alain Locke, Langston Hughes, and Claude McKay were connected to Paris in various ways. Also significant is the impact of jazz, as exemplified by the music of Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong. The personality of Josephine Baker, whose centenary has just been observed, is another major element in the Harlem-Paris axis. Dr. Long considers all of these factors as well as the presence of the visual arts in the equation.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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