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Toulouse-Lautrec and Friends at High Museum of Art (Atlanta)

Toulouse-Lautrec and Friends: The Stein Collection
High Museum of Art
January 29, 2011 –
The High Museum of Art today announced a gift of 47 works of art, the majority of which are prints and posters by major artists working in fin-de-siécle Paris, from prominent Atlanta collectors Irene and Howard Stein. The Stein collection includes many rare and extremely prized works by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, such as “La Clownesse au Moulin Rouge” (1897), one of only a handful of impressions of this color lithograph, and “Miss Loïe Fuller” (1893), a ghostly image of the famous American dancer that incorporates powdered gold. The gift also includes important prints and drawings by Pierre Bonnard, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Honoré Daumier and Paul Signac, and sculptures by Pieter Xavery, Martin Desjardins, Charles Cordier and Jules Dalou. In celebration of this gift, the High will mount a special exhibition titled “Toulouse-Lautrec and Friends: The Stein Collection,” which will open in January 2011.

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Henri Cartier-Bresson at High Museum of Art (Atlanta)

Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century
High Museum of Art
February 19–May 29, 2011
The High Museum of Art will host “Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century,” the first major retrospective in the U.S. in more than 30 years of one of photography’s most original and influential masters. On view from February 19 through May 29, 2011, the exhibition comprises more than 250 photographs dating from 1929 to 1989—at least one-fifth of which are previously unknown to the public—and focuses on the photographer’s most productive decades, the 1930s through the 1960s. Also included is a generous selection of original issues of Life, Paris Match and other magazines in which many of the photographs first appeared.

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Titian and the Golden Age of Venetian Painting at High Museum of Art (Atlanta, USA)

Titian and the Golden Age of Venetian Painting: Masterpieces from the National Galleries of Scotland
High Museum of Art
October 16, 2010 – January 2, 2011
The High Museum of Art, in collaboration with the National Galleries of Scotland (NGS), will present an exhibition of 25 masterpieces of the Venetian Renaissance—12 paintings and 13 drawings—that will include two of the greatest paintings of the Italian Renaissance, Titian’s ―Diana and Actaeon‖ and ―Diana and Callisto‖ (1556–1559). The two monumental paintings have never before traveled to the United States. The exhibition will also include paintings by Tintoretto, Veronese and Lotto from the collection of the National Galleries. The High’s presentation of ―Titian and the Golden Age of Venetian Painting: Masterpieces from the National Galleries of Scotland‖ launches a new collaboration between the High and NGS, with additional exhibitions currently under development.

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Henri Cartier-Bresson at High Museum of Art (Atlanta, USA)

Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century
High Museum of Art
February 19–May 29, 2011
The High Museum of Art will host “Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century,” the first major retrospective in the U.S. in more than 30 years of one of photography’s most original and influential masters. On view from February 19 through May 29, 2011, the exhibition comprises more than 250 photographs dating from 1929 to 1989—at least one-fifth of which are previously unknown to the public—and focuses on the photographer’s most productive decades, the 1930s through the 1960s. Also included is a generous selection of original issues of Life, Paris Match and other magazines in which many of the photographs first appeared.

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Salvador Dalí at High Museum of Art (Atlanta, USA)

Salvador Dalí: The Late Work
High Museum of Art
August 7, 2010–January 9, 2011
The first major exhibition to
reevaluate the last half of Salvador Dalí’s career will be presented exclusively at the High Museum of Art this August. Beginning in the late 1930s, Dalí went through a radical change in which he embraced Catholicism, developed the concept of nuclear mysticism and, in effect, reinvented himself as an artist.

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Peter Sekaer at High Museum of Art

Signs of Life: Photographs by Peter Sekaer
High Museum of Art
June 5, 2010 – January 9, 2011
The High Museum of Art will premiere the first major exhibition dedicated to the work of the Danish-born American photographer Peter Sekaer in June 2010. Consisting of approximately 75 vintage gelatin silver prints, several of which have never been on public view, the works in this exhibition span the years 1935 through 1945, and represent the first comprehensive assessment of Sekaer’s life and work in photography. The majority of works in the exhibition are new acquisitions—giving the High the largest museum holding of Sekaer’s photographs in the United States—complemented by selected loans from other public collections and the artist’s estate. Organized by the High, “Signs of Life: Photographs by Peter Sekaer” will be on view from June 5, 2010, to January 9, 2011.

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European Design Since 1985: Shaping the New Century

European Design Since 1985: Shaping the New Century
High Museum of Art
June 5 – August 29, 2010
The High Museum of Art will host “European Design Since 1985: Shaping the New Century,” the first comprehensive assessment of Western European design from 1985 to 2005. The exhibition traces the evolution of design with nearly 200 works by some of the most influential artists of this era, encompassing furniture, glass, ceramics, metalwork and a broad range of product design created by 117 designers from 14 Western European countries.

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The Allure of the Automobile

The Allure of the Automobile
High Museum of Art
March 21– June 20, 2010
The exhibition will present 18 of the world’s rarest and most brilliantly conceived cars ranging from the 1930s to the mid-1960s, including masterpieces by Bugatti, Duesenberg, Jaguar, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche and Ferrari.

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John Portman: Art and Architecture

John Portman: Art and Architecture High Museum of Art Through April 18, 2010 The High Museum of Art will be the sole venue for “John Portman: Art & Architecture,” an exhibition featuring architectural projects, furniture, paintings, and sculpture by Atlanta-based architect and artist John Portman. The fifteen completed and current architectural projects that will be […]

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The Portrait Unbound: Photographs by Robert Weingarten

The Portrait Unbound: Photographs by Robert Weingarten High Museum of Art January 23 to May 30, 2010 The High Museum of Art will premier an exhibition of new work by California-based photographer Robert Weingarten in January 2010. Consisting of twenty-one large-scale (60 x 90 in.) digitally created portraits of American icons, Weingarten’s project represents a […]

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