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Best Art Exhibit in a Museum BOA Award Winner

Year » 2017
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2017 » Poets, Artists, & Madmen » Readers Pick

High Museum of Art (Featured)

Best Art Exhibit in a Museum BOA Award Winner

Year » 2016
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2016 » Poets, Artists, & Madmen » Readers Pick

High Museum of Art (Featured)

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Best Art Exhibit in a Museum BOA Award Winner

Year » 2015
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2015 » Poets, Artists, & Madmen » Readers Pick

High Museum of Art (Featured)

Best Art Exhibit in a Museum BOA Award Winner

Year » 2014
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2014 » Poets, Artists, & Madmen » Readers Pick

High Museum of Art (Featured)

Best Art Exhibit in a Museum BOA Award Winner

Year » 2013
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2013 » Poets, Artists, & Madmen » Readers Pick

High Museum of Art (Featured)

Best Art Exhibit in a Museum BOA Award Winner

Year » 2013
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2013 » Poets, Artists, & Madmen » Critics Pick

High Museum of Art (Featured)

Advocacy is always a hot topic in the Atlanta art scene, and the High Museum has long been criticized as a chilly ivory tower disinterested in emerging local work. As such, the exhibition Drawing Inside the Perimeter (on view until Sept. 22), which features works on paper by more than 40 Atlanta artists acquired by High curator Michael Rooks and collector Marianne Lambert, is the most significant show of support in recent memory. Wall drawings by artists HENSE and Rocio Rodriguez also make it one of the more dynamic exhibitions curated by the High. At a time when Atlanta’s gallery scene is reinventing itself, the High’s decision to highlight and invest in the careers of these artists is commendable. less...

Best Art Exhibit in a Museum BOA Award Winner

Year » 2012
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2012 » Poets, Artists, & Madmen » Readers Pick

High Museum of Art (Featured)

Best Art Exhibit in a Museum BOA Award Winner

Year » 2011
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2011 » Poets, Artists, & Madmen » Readers Pick

High Museum of Art (Featured)

Best Art Exhibit in a Museum BOA Award Winner

Year » 2010
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2010 » Poets, Artists, & Madmen » Readers Pick

High Museum of Art (Featured)

Runner-up: Dali: The Late Work

High Museum of Art, 1280 Peachtree St. N.E., 404-733-4444, www.high.org

Best Art Exhibit in a Museum BOA Award Winner

Year » 2009
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2009 » Poets, Artists, & Madmen » Readers Pick

High Museum of Art (Featured)

Runner-up Louvre Atlanta at the High Museum of Art 1280 Peachtree St., 404-733-4444, www.high.org

Best Art Exhibit in a Museum BOA Award Winner

Year » 2009
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2009 » Poets, Artists, & Madmen » Readers Pick

“The First Emperor: China’s Terracotta Army” at the High Museum of Art

Best Art Exhibit in a Museum BOA Award Winner

Year » 2008
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2008 » Poets, Artists, & Madmen » Critics Pick

Spelman College Museum of Fine Art (Featured)

CINEMA REMIXED AND RELOADED at the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art did pretty much everything right. The massive, two-part exhibit brought together a frequently overlooked set of artists &#150; black women working in film, video and other time-based media &#150; and finally offered the perspective and critical analysis that’s been due since about the early ’80s. In a curatorial tour de force, director Andrea Barnwell Brownlee and Valerie Cassell Oliver (of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston) brought together Wangechi Mutu, Lorna Simpson, Xaviera Simmons and two dozen other artists who’d never shown together before. Excellently installed and smartly presented, Cinema Remixed was a show of national importance, and we’re glad we had it in our own back yard. less...

Best Art Exhibit in a Museum BOA Award Winner

Year » 2008
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2008 » Poets, Artists, & Madmen » Readers Pick

High Museum of Art (Featured)

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Best Art Exhibit in a Museum BOA Award Winner

Year » 2008
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2008 » Poets, Artists, & Madmen » Readers Pick

Annie Leibovitz Photographs

Best Art Exhibit in a Museum BOA Award Winner

Year » 2007
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2007 » Poets, Artists, & Madmen » Critics Pick

High Museum of Art (Featured)

The explosively hued MORRIS LOUIS NOW: AN AMERICAN MASTER REVISITED was a memorable celebration of color and size at the High Museum. The retrospective was a welcome shout-out to old-school painting, featuring wall-sized &#147;stained&#148; canvases from the 1950s and early &#146;60s. Though the High was more inclined to promote its continuing Louvre exhibitions, the Morris Louis show proved there was room for everyone in the new and much-improved museum. Both vibrant and oddly soothing, the impressive paintings allowed modern and contemporary art curator Jeffrey Grove to explore an essential American artist. less...

Best Art Exhibit in a Museum BOA Award Winner

Year » 2007
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2007 » Poets, Artists, & Madmen » Readers Pick

High Museum of Art (Featured)

Best Art Exhibit in a Museum BOA Award Winner

Year » 2007
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2007 » Poets, Artists, & Madmen » Critics Pick

Morris Louis Now - An American Master Revisited

1280 Peachtree St. 404-733-4444 http://www.high.org The explosively hued MORRIS LOUIS NOW AN AMERICAN MASTER REVISITED was a memorable celebration of color and size at the High Museum. The retrospective was a welcome shout-out to old-school painting, featuring wall-sized

Best Art Exhibit in a Museum BOA Award Winner

Year » 2006
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2006 » Poets, Artists, & Madmen » Critics Pick

Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (Featured)

ORIGIN: ANDREW ROSS INSTALLATIONS was the breathtaking solo show featuring former Atlanta artist Ross&#146; meditation on the fragile history of humankind. It delivered the conceptual goods and had visual impact to burn. By coupling Ross&#146; work with a show of the local art collaborative Golden Blizzard&#146;s acid-trip drawings, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia proved it could bring it when it came to smart, happening conceptual art. less...

Best Art Exhibit in a Museum BOA Award Winner

Year » 2006
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2006 » Poets, Artists, & Madmen » Readers Pick

High Museum of Art (Featured)

Best Art Exhibit in a Museum BOA Award Winner

Year » 2006
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2006 » Poets, Artists, & Madmen » Critics Pick

High Museum of Art (Featured)

CONTEMPORARY ART AT THE HIGH MUSEUM! The High brings contemporary and regional artists into the Dead Guys mix with the traveling Chuck Close: Self-Portraits show, The Quilts of Gee&#146;s Bend and the exquisite New Photography exhibition. Such shows allow the High to slowly insinuate itself backmore...