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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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    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 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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    21st Century Allure: A Designer's Perspective

    Sat, Apr 24, 2010
    George McCowan, Digital Designer, Navistar International Corporation, explores the world of automobile design. McCowan discusses his lifelong passion for drawing cars and shares insights into the field drawn from his career designing high performance automobiles like the Cadillac V-Series and Corvette to Navistar International trucks, big rigs, and eighteen wheelers.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • Taste for American Art: Heroes, Villains, and the Art Market Today

    Thu, Nov 19, 2009
    Harvard art professor Theodore E. Stebbins Jr. discusses the interests and the influence of such pioneering art collectors as William T. Evans, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, and Maxim Karolik. Stebbins examines the ways taste changes, how certain styles or artists come to be admired, and the historical irrationality of the art market.
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  • Tierney Gearon on Her Career as a Photographer

    Thu, Oct 29, 2009
    Acclaimed photographer Tierney Gearon discusses the entire span of her career as a photographer--beginning with her first portraits of her family, her early commercial work as a fashion photographer in Europe, her discovery by Charles Saatchi, subsequent shows at The Gagosian Gallery, "The Mother Project", and her newest series, "Explosure". This lecture is presented in conjunction with an exhibition of Ms. Gearon's work on view at Jackson Fine Art.
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