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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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Claude Monet's Water Lilies

Sat, Jun 6, 2009

Dr. David Brenneman, director of collections and exhibitions and Frances B. Bunzl, family curator of European Art, explores the impact of Claude Monet's *Water Lilies* on the history of modern art. The focus of Monet's last 25 years, the *Water Lilies* represents his largest body of work from his famed garden in Giverny. Though now known as Impressionist masterpieces, this series is also cited as one of the first forays into Abstract Expressionism.

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Looking Deeply Into Louvre-Atlanta

Sat, Oct 11, 2008

David Brenneman, the High Museum's director of collections and exhibitions, and Isabelle Lemaistre, the Louvre sculpture curator, talk about key points of Louvre-Atlanta. This has been an unprecedented collaboration between the Musee du Louvre in Paris and the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, bringing three years of special exhibitions to the United States--some of the artworks never before displayed.

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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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Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture

Sat, Mar 14, 2009

Dr. Richard J. Powell discusses his new book, *Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture*. He examines the distinctive nature of modern and contemporary portraits of people of African descent. He shows that these images can be viewed as a category of portraiture that differs significantly from depictions of people with other racial and ethnic backgrounds.

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Homage to Ellsworth Kelly

Sat, Jun 27, 2009

Artist Jennie C. Jones talks about the connections between abstract painting, the color of birds, jazz and Blue Note LP cover designs. Her recent installation at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center is a tribute to the influence of his formal aesthetic filtered through issues of ethnicity.

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The Nature of a Jazz Masterpiece

Sat, Feb 21, 2009

Dwight Andrews, noted musician and scholar, discusses what makes a jazz masterpiece. In every discipline of western art, certain works have been deemed emblematic of an era, a style, or an artist. How is a canon established within the art world? What is a jazz masterpiece? Is there a jazz canon? Andrews handles these and other questions in a multi-media presentation.

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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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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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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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