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Atlanta, GA
http://www.high.org/

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.

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.

Lectures
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12.9.2010 (48:20)

Michael R. Taylor: God and the Atom

11.4.2010 (1:15:40)

Lynn Boland: The Supreme Pleasure of Being Salvador Dali

10.20.2010 (1:24:47)

The Past Again: Reflections of the Daguerreotype

9.16.2010 (22:27)

Norman Seeff: The Power and Passion to Create

8.7.2010 (1:05:11)

Dali: The Late Work

4.24.2010 (1:07:09)

21st Century Allure: A Designer's Perspective

3.11.2010 (1:28:40)

Home Sweet Home: A Feminist Look at Nellie Mae Rowe

3.6.2010 (1:03:50)

Patricia E. Kane on American Decorative Arts

12.5.2009 (1:34:16)

Renaissance Designers: Architects as Artists

11.20.2009 (1:34)

Harry Shearer's The Silent Echo Chamber

11.19.2009 (1:01:56)

Taste for American Art: Heroes, Villains, and the Art Market Today

10.29.2009 (1:06:41)

Tierney Gearon on Her Career as a Photographer

10.3.2009 (1:55)

Da Vinci's Sculptures Decoded

6.27.2009 (48:53)

Homage to Ellsworth Kelly

6.6.2009 (50:41)

Claude Monet's Water Lilies

3.14.2009 (54:54)

Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture


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