The High Museum of Art is pleased to present Top Drawer, a selection of drawings from four of the museum’s curatorial departments. Separated by centuries and continents, these diverse drawings are brought together by the unique insights each work brings into its creation. The term “drawing” encompasses a varied set of techniques: objects in pencil, ink, […]
Monthly Archives: December 2014
December
19
THE HIGH: WYNN BULOCK: REVELATIONS
posted by Layla
“The camera is not only an extension of the eye, but of the brain. It can see sharper, farther, nearer, slower, faster than the eye…Instead of using the camera only to reproduce objects, I want to use it to make what is invisible to the eye, visible.” — Wynn Bullock The arc of Bullock’s innovative […]
December
13
MET OPERA LIVE IN HD: Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg
posted by Layla
RICHARD WAGNER 2014-2015 HD OPERA SEASON DECEMBER 13, 2014 @ 12:00 PM RUN TIME: 6 HRS James Levine returns to one of his signature Wagner works conducting this epic comedy—back at the Met for the first time in eight years—about a group of Renaissance “master singers” whose song contest unites a city. Johan Reuter, Johan Botha, and […]
December
05
THE HIGH: THE FORTY PART MOTET BY JANET CARDIFF & “MAKE A JOYFUL NOISE” RENAISSANCE ART & MUSIC AT FLORENCE CATHEDRAL
posted by Layla
Described as “achingly beautiful” (The New Yorker) and “transcendent” (The New York Times), sound artist Janet Cardiff’s critically acclaimed installation The Forty Part Motetwill travel to the High in fall 2014. From the collection of The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Cardiff’s The Forty Part Motet is a mesmerizing reworking of a 40-part choral piece by Tudor composer […]
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