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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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  • David C. Driskell: Artist and Humanitarian

    Sat, Feb 16, 2008
    Artist, educator, historian, curator, and humanitarian David C. Driskell talks about his southern upbringing, his education in at Howard and Catholic Universities, and the many people with whom his life has intersected. He discusses artists Romare Bearden and Jacob Lawrence, and how they helped to set the stage for Driskell's remarkably productive and influential life.
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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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