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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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  • American Artists and the Louvre: Morse Gallery

    Sat, Feb 24, 2007
    Paul Staiti speaks about Samuel F.B. Morse in the context of other early nineteenth-century American artists who sought training in Paris, and Jean-Philippe Antoine presents on issues of imitation and reproduction vis-a-vis Morse's inventive painting. Olivier Meslay and Sylvia Yount serve as respondents to the talks.
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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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  • Diego Velasquez' The Infanta Margarita

    Thu, Feb 1, 2007
    Michael E. Shapiro, the High's Nancy and Holcombe T. Green, Jr. Director, discusses *The Infanta Margarita* by Diego Velasquez. This 30-minute presentation features slides and provides an in-depth look at this treasured work of art from the Louvre.
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    Shifting Meaning: African Art in the World

    Thu, Feb 22, 2007
    New York University professor Susan Vogel, a renowned museum founder and specialist in African art shares her eight-minute film *Fang: An Epic Journey*, which covers the adventures of an African sculpture as it moves from Cameroon in 1910 to America in the 1970s. Vogel discusses the film and the shifting meanings of art objects, first among the Baule of Ivory Coast and then as they appear in the wider world.
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  • Marie-Antoinette, Queen of Fashion

    Sat, Mar 10, 2007
    Caroline Weber tells the story of how Marie-Antoinette's clothing choices helped make and unmake her reputation, altering the very course of French history. Weber, author of *Queen of Fashion: What Marie-Antoinette Wore to the Revolution*, presents a new vision of this ever-fascinating French queen. Like Princess Diana and Jacqueline Onassis, Marie-Antoinette was an icon of style, a muse of fashion, a woman who used clothing to command attention.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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