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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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  • The Maidservant by Camille Pissarro

    Thu, Jan 3, 2008
    Jenna Madison gives an in-depth view on the background of French Impressionist Camille Pissarro's painting, *The Maidservant*.
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  • Visit to the Museum by Edgar Degas

    Thu, Dec 6, 2007
    Julia Forbes lends her expertise to a close-up look at Edgar Degas' *Visit to the Museum*.
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  • The Tiber

    Thu, Nov 1, 2007
    Philip Verre discusses *The Tiber*, on loan to Atlanta's High Museum of Art from the Louvre in Paris. The colossal, 10-foot-long sculpture by an unknown artist is one of the largest in the Louvre's collections.
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  • Exploring Harry and Eleanor Callahan

    Thu, Nov 8, 2007
    Photographers Chip Simone and John McWilliams, personal friends of the late photographer Harry Callahan, joined Julian Cox to discuss the artist and his muse, Eleanor, as teacher and artist, and to feature examples of their own work.
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  • Luncheon of the Boating Party

    Sun, Nov 11, 2007
    Susan Vreeland discusses her latest book, *Luncheon of the Boating Party*, a vivid exploration of one of the most beloved Renoir paintings in the world. With a palette of vibrant characters, Vreeland paints their lives, loves, losses, and triumphs in a brilliant portrait of her own.
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  • Tribute to James Brown

    Thu, Sep 27, 2007
    A panel pays tribute to the musical legacy of James Brown. During the 1960s James Brown gained the titles “Godfather of Soul” and the “Hardest Working Man in Show Business.” Brown's sound reflected the nation's generational struggle, and his influence reached across the Atlantic to Bamako, Mali, where his style and music became a source of inspiration for the growing youth culture. It was this vibrant culture that Malick Sidibe dynamically captured through his photographs.
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  • Renzo Piano: A New High In Atlanta

    Tue, Nov 15, 2005
    Architect Renzo Piano speaks about the three new buildings he designed which more than double the Museum's size to 312,000 square feet. Piano's work is allowing the High to display more of its growing collection, increase educational and exhibition programs, and offer new visitor amenities to address the needs of larger and more diverse audiences.
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  • Julia Forbes: The First Emperor

    Wed, Nov 12, 2008
    Julia Forbes, head of museum interpretation for the High Museum of Art, shares a glimpse into *The First Emperor: The Terracotta Army of China*, an exhibition inspired by one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of the 20th century. The exhibition represents one of the largest groups of works relating to the First Emperor ever to be loaned to the US by the Museum of the Terracotta Army and the Cultural Relics Bureau of Shaanxi Province in Xian, China. This event is hosted by The Englishman Gallery of Atlanta and the Culture Club.
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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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