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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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    Norman Seeff: The Power and Passion to Create

    Thu, Sep 16, 2010
    Photographer and filmmaker Norman Seeff discusses the creative process that he has documented for more than 35 years. Included are film clips and Seeff’s own photographs of such luminaries as the Rolling Stones, Ray Charles, Martin Scorsese, and Nobel Prize-winning scientists.
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  • Dali: The Late Work

    Sat, Aug 7, 2010
    Elliott King, Guest Curator for High Museum's Dali Exhibit discusses the new Dali exhibition. The High Museum in Atlanta is the sole venue for the first exhibition to focus on Dalí's art after 1940. The exhibition, comprising more than 100 works including 40 paintings and a related group of drawings, prints and other Dali ephemera, explores the artist's enduring fascination with science, optical effects and illusionism, and his surprising connections to artists of the 1960s and 1970s such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Willem de Kooning.
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    Lynn Boland: The Supreme Pleasure of Being Salvador Dali

    Thu, Nov 4, 2010
    Lynn Boland, Pierre Daura Curator of European Art at the Georgia Museum of Art and adjunct Professor of Art History at the University of Georgia, discusses the Surrealist movement and its underlying theories along with an overview of Dali's art. Boland also explores the often turbulent relationship Dalí had with other Surrealists, which colored his later career.
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  • The First Emperor's Terracotta Army

    Sat, Nov 15, 2008
    Jane Portal, Matsutaro Shoriki chair of the department of Asia, Oceana, and Africa at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and curator of The First Emperor, discusses the world-famous terracotta warriors from Xi'an, China. She also covers the vision, achievements, and legacy of the First Emperor, Qin Shihuangdi.
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  • Harry Shearer's The Silent Echo Chamber

    Fri, Nov 20, 2009
    Artist and performer Harry Shearer discusses his recent video work, *The Silent Echo Chamber*. Stuart Horodner, artistic director of the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center; Jim Clancy, anchor of CNN International; and Michael David Murphy, program manager of Atlanta Celebrates Photography, join the panel.
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  • Renaissance Designers: Architects as Artists

    Sat, Dec 5, 2009
    Some of Atlanta's most talented architects discuss how an artistic practice informs their architectural practice and in turn how their architectural work inspires their art making. This program is presented in collaboration with the Atlanta Chapter of the American Institute of Architects.
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  • The Treasure of Ulysses Davis

    Sat, Jan 31, 2009
    Susan Crawley, High Museum of Art curator of folk art, discusses the work of self-taught sculptor Ulysses Davis. Davis filled his Savannah barber shop with finely carved depictions of heroes from American history and the Bible, figures influenced by his study of African sculptural forms, and creatures from his extraordinary imagination.
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  • Da Vinci's Sculptures Decoded

    Sat, Oct 3, 2009
    High Museum of Art Exhibition Curator Gary M. Radke discusses how art historians try to reconstruct Leonardo da Vinci's sculptural production. Da Vinci evidently made plans for and produced sculpture throughout his career, but little of it survives. Radke also presents arguments for attributing two previously unrecognized figures to da Vinci.
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    Home Sweet Home: A Feminist Look at Nellie Mae Rowe

    Thu, Mar 11, 2010
    Nellie Mae Rowe's art overflows with images of house and home – a giant teapot, her favorite rocking chair, bright quilts, and patterned surfaces. Professor Cohen examines Rowe's distinctive expressions of a woman's space and a woman's life within the context of 20th century feminist theory.
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    Patricia E. Kane on American Decorative Arts

    Sat, Mar 6, 2010
    Patricia E. Kane, the foremost scholar in 18th and 19th century Rhode Island furniture, shares highlights from her recent research including a previously unattributed desk and bookcase now known to be by Thomas Spencer, nephew of Newport furniture maker John Goddard. Kane pieces together clues from the past such as inscriptions, estate records, stylistic details and construction techniques to illuminate a hidden masterpiece.
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