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From the Director
June 1, 2021 | Rand Suffolk
Your support for the Museum through these challenging times has kept our doors open and ensured that we remain stable and relevant.
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Picturing the South: 25 Years
June 1, 2021 | Gregory Harris
In 1996, the High launched Picturing the South, a commissioning initiative that taps contemporary photographers to create new work about the South’s rich cultural and geographic landscape.
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Gatecrashers: The Rise of the Self-Taught Artist in America
June 1, 2021 | Katherine Jentleson
Featuring more than fifty paintings, Gatecrashers will investigate how living self-taught artists overcame class-, race-, and gender-based obstacles to enter the inner sanctums of the mainstream art world.
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Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe
June 1, 2021 | Katherine Jentleson
Based on the High’s leading collection of Rowe’s art, this exhibition of about seventy works is the first to consider her practice as a radical act of self-expression and liberation in the South after the civil rights movement.
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Outside the Lines
June 1, 2021 | Monica Obniski
Outside the Lines is an immersive maze of accessible, sensory environments.
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Recent Acquisitions: Robert Frank
June 1, 2021 | Sarah Kennel
In 1955–1956, Swiss-born photographer Robert Frank traveled ten thousand miles by car around the United States making pictures of his adopted country.
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Recent Acquisitions: Vaughn Spann
June 1, 2021 | Michael Rooks
In We used to play amongst the fireflies, Spann addresses an autobiographical anecdote through the formal concerns of color, texture, and materiality.
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Calder-Picasso
June 1, 2021 | Claudia Einecke
Alexander Calder and Pablo Picasso were two giants of twentieth-century modernism. Both devoted their long, illustrious careers to challenging basic assumptions about the nature of art and applied their prodigious creative genius to the pursuit of new solutions to aesthetic and conceptual questions.
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Lauren Tate Baeza Appointed Fred and Rita Richman Curator of African Art
February 1, 2021 | Kevin W. Tucker
Lauren Tate Baeza joined the High Museum of Art in November as its Fred and Rita Richman Curator of African Art.