The High Museum of Art holds one of the most significant collections of photographs of the civil rights movement. The works on display are a small selection of the collection, which numbers more than 250 photographs that document the social protest movement, from Rosa Parks’s arrest to the Freedom Rides to the march on Washington, […]

Photographer Abelardo Morell’s inventive career is driven by creative discovery.  He has conceived of new ways of looking at everyday objects and harnessed the basic principles of optics to create unexpected and mesmerizing photographs.  The Universe Next Door is a major retrospective and presents more than one hundred of Morell’s works, including a new series […]

With a curatorial department devoted solely to African art since 2001, and a curatorial position endowed by Fred and Rita Richman, the High’s collection has grown to encompass the dynamic diversity of African art forms from ancient to contemporary. The heart of the collection are sculptures from west and central Africa created between 1850 and […]

The dust of the Civil War had barely settled when Horace Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune, famously urged America’s youth to turn from the rubble and go west. America’s future was anchored in the frontier. Between 1800 and 1900, the nation more than tripled in physical size. With the purchase of the Louisiana Territory […]

The Tuileries, a major Parisian tourist attraction, is one of the greatest public gardens in the world. The Art of the Louvre’s Tuileries Garden brings Paris to Peachtree Street, with picturesque boxed holly trees on the piazza, sculpture drawn directly from the grounds of the Tuileries, Impressionist paintings, and a three screen video of a stroll through […]

SEPTEMBER 7-FEBRUARY 2 HIGH MUSEUM Thirty years ago, the High unveiled the establishment of the Bunnen Collection – a major group of photographs put together on behalf of the Museum by Atlanta photographer and philanthropist Lucinda W. Bunnen. Working in collaboration with a small group of peers in the community, Bunnen had assembled a world […]

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American Encounters: Genre Painting and Everyday Life provides a close look at three major genre paintings, each of which offers a unique perspective on 19th century America. American genre painting, or scenes of everyday life, flourished during the first half of the 19th century, when the young nation sought images and narratives to define and bolster […]

NOVEMBER , 2013 Witness: The Art of Jerry Pinkney, organized by the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, touches on themes such as the African-American experience, the wonders of classic literature and the wisdom in well-loved folk tales. The works in the exhibition celebrate small, extraordinary moments, as well as significant historical events, reflecting the […]

SEPTEMBER 5-DECEMBER 7 SPELMAN COLLEGE MUSEUM OF FINE ART The Spelman College Museum of Fine Art is the first institution in the Southeast to present the nationally touring exhibition, “Posing Beauty in African American Culture.” Featuring more than 75 photographs by leading, emerging, and amateur photographers, “Posing Beauty” explores ways contemporary understanding of beauty has […]

OCTOBER 3-OCTOBER 31 PACE ACADEMY FINE ARTS CENTER Journey around the world with National Geographic photographer, Alison Wright, as she captures the universal human spirit through her photographs. Ms. Wright, a New York based documentary photographer, has spent a career capturing the universal human spirit through her photographs and writing. A recipient of the Dorothea […]

The High Museum of Art in collaboration with the Mauritshuis, The Hague, will present a major exhibition of Dutch masterworks in 2013, including Johannes Vermeer’s iconic “Girl with a Pearl Earring,” which has not been on view in the U.S. for more than 15 years and has never been seen in the Southeast. Drawn from […]

Drawing Inside the Perimeter June 29-September 22, 2013 Drawing Inside the Perimeter includes more than 45 drawings from the High’s permanent collection, as well as two wall drawings by HENSE and Rocio Rodriguez created exclusively for the exhibition. Artists in the exhibition include: Sean Abrahams, Alejandro Aguilera, Tristan Al–Haddad, Radcliffe Bailey, Philip Carpenter, Don Cooper, Brian […]

JULY 25,2013 Claes Oldenburg’s audacious, witty, and profound depictions of everyday objects have earned him a reputation as one of the most important artists of the 20th century. This exhibition examines the beginnings of Oldenburg’s extraordinary career with an in-depth look at his first two major bodies of work: The Street (1960) andThe Store (1961–64). During this intensely […]

JULY 24, 2013 The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Met’s spring 2013 Costume Institute exhibition, PUNK: Chaos to Couture, will examine punk’s impact on high fashion from the movement’s birth in the early 1970s through its continuing influence today. Featuring approximately one hundred designs for men and women, the exhibition will include […]

MoMA presents its first major exhibition on the work of Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, 1887–1965), encompassing his work as an architect, interior designer, artist, city planner, writer, and photographer. Conceived by guest curator Jean-Louis Cohen, the exhibition reveals the ways in which Le Corbusier observed and imagined landscapes throughout his career, using all the artistic […]

MAY 10, 2013 @ 3:30 PM HIGH MUSEUM OF ART, ATLANTA, GA The High is dedicated to supporting and collecting works by Southern artists and is distinguished as the only general museum in North America to have a full-time curator devoted to folk and self-taught art. The nucleus of the folk art collection is the […]

JANUARY 25, 2013 @ 3:30 PM HIGH MUSEUM OF ART, ATLANTA, GA The High’s decorative arts and design collection is the most comprehensive survey of American decorative arts in the southeastern United States with more than 2,000 objects dating from 1640 to the present. Highlights include The Virginia Carroll Crawford Collection of American decorative art […]

MARCH 15, 2013 @ 3:30 PM HIGH MUSEUM OF ART, ATLANTA, GA The High’s collection of modern and contemporary art comprises more than 2,400 works dating from 1946 to the present and includes paintings, sculpture, prints, and drawings by many of the most influential artists of our time. Installed on the Skyway level of the […]

FEBRUARY 22, 2013 @ 3:30 PM HIGH MUSEUM OF ART, ATLANTA, GA Few artists have captured the public’s imagination as have Mexican painter Frida Kahlo and her husband, the Mexican painter and muralist Diego Rivera. Through the investigation of their significant body of artwork, students will learn about their active participation in the historical happenings […]

DECEMBER 14, 2012 @ 3:30 PM HIGH MUSEUM OF ART, ATLANTA, GA The American art collection at the High features significant works by renowned nineteenth- and twentieth-century American artists such as William Merritt Chase, Childe Hassam, Henry Ossawa Tanner, John Twachtman, Marsden Hartley, and Andrew Wyeth. It includes landscapes by Hudson River School artists, figure […]

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OCTOBER 26, 2012 @ 3:30 PM HIGH MUSEUM OF ART, ATLANTA, GA Take your students on a journey through history to examine key artworks from the years 1913, 1929, 1950, 1961, 1988, and 2013. These works from The Museum of Modern Art, New York, illustrate the cultural, technological, and artistic shifts that have occurred over the […]

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012 @ 3:30 PM HIGH MUSEUM OF ART, ATLANTA, GA Organized by the Indianapolis Museum of Art, this exhibition highlights Thornton Dial’s significant contribution to the field of American art and shows how his work speaks to the most pressing issues of our time – including the war in Iraq, 9/11, and social […]

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012 @ 3:30 PM HIGH MUSEUM OF ART, ATLANTA, GA After a two-year tour of the southeastern United States, the High Museum of Art’s collection of European and American Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings and works on paper has returned home.  It now includes multiple works by Monet, Pissarro, Degas, and Renoir, tracing the […]

MARCH 23, 2012 @ 3:30PM HIGH MUSEUM OF ART, ATLANTA, GA The High Museum of Art will continue its collaboration with The Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA), with the exclusive presentation of the major exhibition “Picasso to Warhol: Fourteen Modern Masters” beginning October 2011. This exhibition will present approximately 100 works of art […]

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