The Coca-Cola Bottle: An American Icon at 100 explores the iconic design and creative legacy of the Coca-Cola bottle. Presented on the occasion of the bottle’s centennial, the exhibition features more than 100 objects, including more than 15 works of art by Andy Warhol and more than 40 photographs inspired by or featuring the bottle. Visitors […]

Stopping into MODA for the first time before the Coca-Cola Exhibition opening… POSSE PHOTOS:  

In this exhibition, the High honors one of the 20th century’s most influential artists and the important recent acquisition of Romare Bearden’s only known self portrait,Profile/Part II, The Thirties: Artist with Painting and Model (1981). Bearden (1911-1988) infused his work with themes central to the Black experience. This late-career collage is a retrospective work in which […]

From Renaissance and Baroque artists like Bellini and Tiepolo to 19th century French impressionism including Monet and Pissarro, the High’s European collection reflects important paintings and sculptures from that continent. The core of the collection was donated in 1958 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, and includes Giovanni Bellini’s Madonna and Child, Tommaso del Mazza’s […]

The High Museum of Art will present rarely seen photographs by trailblazing African American artist and filmmaker Gordon Parks in this exhibition, presented in collaboration with The Gordon Parks Foundation. The exhibition features more than 40 of Parks’ color prints – most on view for the first time in over half a century – created […]

Los Trompos (“Spinning Tops”) is the High’s second large-scale, interactive design installation by contemporary Mexican designers Héctor Esrawe and Ignacio Cadena on the Woodruff Arts Center’s Carroll Slater Sifly Piazza. This site-specific work continues a multi-year initiative to activate the outdoor space and engage visitors. As a blank canvas for community engagement and programming, Los Trompos draws its […]

While traveling in Germany in 1962, freelance photojournalist Leonard Freed encountered a black American soldier guarding the divide between East and West Germany. This scene of a man defending a country where his own rights were in question resonated with Freed and provoked him, upon his return to New York in 1963, to embark on […]

JANUARY 15 – FEBRUARY 20, 2015 OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday, January 15, 6-9pm ARTIST TALK: Thursday, February 12, 7pm *with Brett Abbott, Donald and Marilyn Keough Family Curator of Photography at the High Museum of Art Curated by Marianne Lambert The Swan Coach House Gallery and the Forward Arts Foundation are pleased to present Lucinda’s World, Part 2: A Collection of […]

The High Museum of Art, Musée du Louvre, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the Terra Foundation for American Art will present the third installation in their four-year collaboration focusing on the history of American art. American Encounters: Anglo-American Portraiture in an Era of Revolution provides a close look at five portraits that demonstrate how portraiture […]

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, […]

“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 […]

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 […]

EXHIBITION OVERVIEW In the mid-twentieth century, businessman Henry Pearlman, the founder of Eastern Cold Storage Company, assembled an extraordinary collection of European modern art. He was particularly drawn to the work of Paul Cézanne, one of the most pivotal figures in the development of modernism. Pearlman acquired some twenty-four of Cézanne’s paintings, including one of […]

Through November 30, the High invites Atlanta to enjoy the interactive installation Mi Casa, Your Casa. Located in the center of the Woodruff Arts Center’s campus on the Carroll Slater Sifly Piazza, the installation features 36 three-dimensional, open frames in the shape of a house. The houses form a blank canvas for community engagement and activity […]

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 […]

FRI SEP 19 2014 — SAT NOV 29 2014 Rudd van Empel (Dutch, b. November 21, 1958) is an artist from Breda, The Netherlands, best known for his work in the field of visual arts. Trained as a graphic designer, van Empel is known for using Photoshop and other computer programs in his works. He […]

The Aishmans” Hagedorn Foundation Gallery Featuring work by: Steve Aishman Exhibition: Thu, Sep 18, to Mon, Oct 27 STEVE AISHMAN (b.1975, Michigan) – Love comes in many colors. So do love notes. Steve Aishman’s work displays a permanent state of romance where shopping lists convey as much love as a sonnet. People don’t send love letters anymore, […]

Exhibition: Thu, Sep 18, to Mon, Oct 27 CLAIRE ROSEN (b.1983 New Jersey)- Known as a photographer whose whimsical imagery is inspired by fairy tales and fables, Rosen presents birds that are posed against complimentary vintage wallpaper. The resulting optical illusion of visual blending is reminiscent of Victorian Optical Illusion Postcards in which the image of […]

Exhibition: Thu, Sep 18, to Mon, Oct 27 GUILLERMO SRODEK-HART – (b.1977, Argentina) drives deep into the Argentine countryside to tell human stories by pointing his camera at the spaces where people have lived and worked on a timescale and agenda separate from the familiar, contemporary urban life. Srodek-Hart’s images speak to authentic lives, as the […]

Kahn & Selesnick Jackson Fine Art Friday, September 19, 2014- Wednesday, November 5, 2014 About Richard Selesnick and Nicholas Kahn, both born in 1964, are a collaborative artist team who work primarily in the fields of photography and installation art. The duo have been collaborating as Kahn/Selesnick since 1988 on a series of complex narrative […]