Art
Kelli Connell’s Queer Americana
She does not refuse the romanticized American landscape that Edward Weston and Charis Wilson helped visualize, but her photographs filter it through a lens of lesbian desire.
High Museum of Art
Art
Why Are We Celebrating Dutch Imperialism in 2024?
An exhibition relishes in the opulence of the objects produced by Dutch globalism while disingenuously acknowledging its destruction on unpictured shores.
News
Works by Over a Dozen Self-Taught Southern Artists Gifted to High Museum
Spanning painting, drawing, and sculpture, the donation features work by over a dozen artists including Sister Gertrude Morgan and Nellie Mae Rowe.
Art
Romare Bearden's Collages of Life in the Rural South and Industrial North
For the first time in decades, more than 30 collages from Bearden's Profile series is being shown together.
Art
How Atlanta’s High Museum Attracted a 45% Non-White Audience
In an era where art museums are having trouble diversifying their audiences, the High Museum of Art is making great strides.
News
Art Institutions Share Secrets to Kick Off #MuseumWeek
Yesterday marked the beginning of Museum Week, an annual social media campaign that gives museums around the world the opportunity to engage with the public in a number of ways.
In Brief
Sylvester Stallone Knocked Out by Video Art
The High Museum of Art in Atlanta was recently visited by onscreen boxer, bottled water enthusiast, and aspiring abstract painter Sylvester Stallone, who documented his visit in a shaky video selfie he shared on Instagram today.
Announcement
High Museum of Art Premieres North American Tour of Iris van Herpen's Innovative Haute Couture Designs
From November 7, 2015, to May 15, 2016, Atlanta's High Museum of Art will showcase work by Iris van Herpen, a notable contemporary Dutch fashion designer.[http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6MTAzNTE5LCJhdCI6MjAsImJ0IjowLCJjbSI6MzIyMDUwLCJjaCI6MTkzMCwiY2siOnt9LCJjciI6MTIxNjY4NywiZG0iOjQsImZjIjoxMjk
Art
Drunken Ancients and Mummy Restoration: The Best GIFs from #MusGIF Day
Culture Themes, the same group behind #AskACuratorDay, has organized yet another fun way for museums to engage the public with objects in their collections.
News
Atlanta's High Museum Gets a New Folk Art Curator
On Wednesday the High Museum in Atlanta announced that it had hired Katherine Jentleson to be its next curator of folk and self-taught art.