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Located in the heart of Atlanta, Ga., the High Museum of Art connects with audiences from across the Southeast and around the world through its distinguished collection, dynamic schedule of special exhibitions and engaging community-focused programs. Housed within facilities designed by Pritzker Prize–winning architects Richard Meier and Renzo Piano, the High features a collection of more than 16,000 works of art, including an extensive anthology of 19th- and 20th-century American fine and decorative arts; major holdings of photography and folk and self-taught work, especially that of artists from the American South; burgeoning collections of modern and contemporary art, including paintings, sculpture, new media and design; a growing collection of African art, with work dating from pre-history through the present; and significant holdings of European paintings and works on paper. The High is dedicated to reflecting the diversity of its communities and offering a variety of exhibitions and educational programs that engage visitors with the world of art, the lives of artists and the creative process.
Underexposed: Women Photographers from the Collection
Saturday April 17, 2021 10:00 am EDT
Conceived in conjunction with the centennial of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, which granted suffrage for some women, this exhibition showcases more than 100 photographs from the High’s collection, many of them never before on view, and charts the medium’s history from the dawn of the mod...
Cost: Museum admission
April High Frequency Friday: Sound Table Pop Up
Friday April 2, 2021 06:00 pm EDT
Join us for the April installment of HIGH Frequency Friday, our sellout night of art and music curated by the Sound Table’s Karl Injex.
Dance your way through the Museum as you visit exhibitions, including Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors, a mesmerizing nine-channel sound and video installation, B...
Cost: Free-$20
Frame It Up
Thursday March 18, 2021 06:00 pm EDT
When you’re looking at a work of art, do you ever wonder about its frame? Join us for an evening devoted to American frames and their fascinating history.
This virtual event will explore the changing styles of frame fashion from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. This special focus co...
Cost: Free-$14.50
Toddler Thursday
Thursday March 11, 2021 10:30 am EST
Designed for children ages fifteen months through three years and their caregivers, Toddler Thursdays engage children’s creativity and incorporate weekly topics with related artwork, art-making activities, stories, and tours.
Explore, learn, and create every Thursday!
Three sessions each Thursda...
Cost: Free-$14.50
Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors
Saturday March 6, 2021 10:00 am EST
The High presents this acclaimed video installation by Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson, who is celebrated internationally for his work combining musical, theatrical, and cinematic elements. "The Visitors" is a mesmerizing nine-channel sound and video recording featuring performers and musicians ...
Cost: Museum admission
Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors special preview during High Frequency Friday
Friday March 5, 2021 06:00 pm EST
The High presents this acclaimed video installation by Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson, who is celebrated internationally for his work combining musical, theatrical, and cinematic elements.
The Visitors is a mesmerizing nine-channel sound and video recording featuring performers and musicians ...
Cost: Free-$20
Masterworks & Mindfulness
Wednesday March 3, 2021 12:30 pm EST
Categories: Mindfulness, Museum
Explore mindfulness practices and artworks from the High’s collection and special exhibitions from the comfort of your home. These interactive sessions employ such techniques as close looking and conscious breathing to facilitate engagement and help you become more at...
Cost: $12-$16
Masterworks & Mindfulness
Wednesday March 3, 2021 12:30 pm EST
Categories: Mindfulness, Museum
Explore mindfulness practices and artworks from the High’s collection and special exhibitions from the comfort of your home. These interactive sessions employ such techniques as close looking and conscious breathing to facilitate engagement and help you become more at...
Cost: $12-$16
Masterworks & Mindfulness
Wednesday February 24, 2021 12:30 pm EST
Categories: Mindfulness, Museum
Explore mindfulness practices and artworks from the High’s collection and special exhibitions from the comfort of your home. These interactive sessions employ such techniques as close looking and conscious breathing to facilitate engagement and help you become more at...
Cost: $12-$16
February Friday Jazz
Friday February 19, 2021 06:00 pm EST
This is not your typical Friday Jazz. Curated by jazz artist Milkshake Mayfield, the event will feature two musical areas, both inside and outside of the Museum, where duos and trios will play throughout the evening, layering notes, improvising melodies, and drawing on inspiration from jazz history....
Cost: Free-$25
Masterworks & Mindfulness
Wednesday February 17, 2021 12:30 pm EST
Categories: Mindfulness, Museum
Explore mindfulness practices and artworks from the High’s collection and special exhibitions from the comfort of your home. These interactive sessions employ such techniques as close looking and conscious breathing to facilitate engagement and help you become more at...
Cost: $12-$16
Toddler Thursday
Thursday February 11, 2021 10:30 am EST
Designed for children ages fifteen months through three years and their caregivers, Toddler Thursdays engage children’s creativity and incorporate weekly topics with related artwork, art-making activities, stories, and tours.
Explore, learn, and create every Thursday!
Three sessions each Thursda...
Cost: Free-$14.50
Masterworks & Mindfulness
Wednesday February 10, 2021 12:30 pm EST
Categories: Mindfulness, Museum
Explore mindfulness practices and artworks from the High’s collection and special exhibitions from the comfort of your home. These interactive sessions employ such techniques as close looking and conscious breathing to facilitate engagement and help you become more at...
Cost: $12-$16
David Driskell: Icons of Nature and History
Saturday February 6, 2021 10:00 am EST
The exhibition surveys seven decades of David Driskell's painterly practice from the 1950s to the 2000s, featuring works from museums and private collections and the artist’s estate. Select works establish the evolution of his use of collage as a medium, while others exemplify his signature incorpor...
Cost: Museum admission
February High Frequency Friday: Sound Table Pop Up
Friday February 5, 2021 06:00 pm EST
These unprecedented times have changed many things. At the High, we want to bring you a moment of respite and fun in our galleries. For this HIGH Frequency Friday, we are partnering with the Sound Table to bring you a soundtrack to enhance your art experience on the first Friday of each month.
Thi...
Cost: Free-$20
Conversation Pieces
Tuesday January 26, 2021 12:00 pm EST
Join professional museum educators each week in looking closely at artworks in the Museum’s collection: one work, thirty minutes, deep conversations and discoveries. All curious and eager learners are welcome!
Mid Twentieth Century Basket by Tutsi Artist (from Rwanda or Burundi) with Yema Thomas, ...
Cost: Free-$14.50
Conversation Pieces
Tuesday January 19, 2021 12:00 pm EST
Join professional museum educators each week in looking closely at artworks in the Museum’s collection: one work, thirty minutes, deep conversations and discoveries. All curious and eager learners are welcome!
Alison Saar’s Tobacco Demon, 1993 with Laurel Humble, Head of Creative Aging.
Cost: Free-$14.50
January Friday Jazz
Friday January 15, 2021 06:00 pm EST
Friday Jazz in January will take cues from the remarkable works of painter Julie Mehretu, whose large-scale abstractions are evocative of the spontaneous nature of jazz music. Layering, improvisation, and historical references are rooted in Mehretu’s work, providing the perfect complement to this ex...
Cost: Free-$25
January High Frequency Friday
Friday January 8, 2021 06:00 pm EST
These unprecedented times have changed many things. At the High, we want to bring you a moment of respite and fun in our galleries. For HIGH Frequency Friday in January, we are partnering with the Sound Table to bring you a soundtrack to enhance your art experience on the first Friday of each month....
Cost: Free-$20
December Friday Jazz
Friday December 18, 2020 06:00 pm EST
Friday Jazz in December and January will take cues from the remarkable works of painter Julie Mehretu, whose large-scale abstractions are evocative of the spontaneous nature of jazz music. Layering, improvisation, and historical references are rooted in Mehretu’s work, providing the perfect compleme...
Cost: Free-$25
Bestowing Beauty: Masterpieces from Persian Lands
Saturday December 12, 2020 10:00 am EST
This exhibition celebrates the rich artistic traditions of Persian civilization through the significant private collection of Hossein Afshar, with works from the sixth to the nineteenth century
Cost: Museum admission
Bestowing Beauty: Masterpieces from Persian Lands
Saturday December 12, 2020 12:00 am EST
This exhibition celebrates the rich artistic traditions of Persian civilization through the significant private collection of Hossein Afshar, with works from the sixth to the nineteenth century
Cost: Museum admission
Bestowing Beauty: Masterpieces from Persian Lands
Saturday December 12, 2020 12:00 am EST
This exhibition celebrates the rich artistic traditions of Persian civilization through the significant private collection of Hossein Afshar, with works from the sixth to the nineteenth century
Cost: Museum admission
Bestowing Beauty: Masterpieces from Persian Lands
Saturday December 12, 2020 12:00 am EST
This exhibition celebrates the rich artistic traditions of Persian civilization through the significant private collection of Hossein Afshar, with works from the sixth to the nineteenth century
Cost: Museum admission
Masterworks & Mindfulness
Monday November 23, 2020 03:00 pm EST
Categories: Mindfulness
Explore mindfulness practices and artworks from the High Museum’s collection and special exhibitions from the comfort of your home. Led by mindfulness practitioner Charisse M. Williams, you will learn to quiet your mind, relax your body, and see works of art with new eyes. Ea...
Cost: $15-$20
Masterworks & Mindfulness
Monday November 23, 2020 03:00 pm EST
Categories: Mindfulness
Explore mindfulness practices and artworks from the High Museum’s collection and special exhibitions from the comfort of your home. Led by mindfulness practitioner Charisse M. Williams, you will learn to quiet your mind, relax your body, and see works of art with new eyes. Ea...
Cost: $15-$20
Dawoud Bey: An American Project
Sunday November 22, 2020 12:00 am EST
"Dawoud Bey: An American Project" traces lines through 45 years of Bey’s career and his profound engagement with the young Black subject and African American history. The title intentionally inserts his photographs into a long-running conversation about what it means to represent America with a came...
Cost: Museum admission
Drawing from Experience
Saturday November 21, 2020 01:00 pm EST
Join us for outdoor drawing sessions that take inspiration from the High Museum’s campus, collection, and special exhibitions. Led by artist Larkin Ford, each session focuses on a different way of seeing and capturing the world around us while allowing participants to explore their own personal expr...
Cost: $25-$40
Drawing from Experience
Wednesday November 18, 2020 11:00 am EST
Join us for outdoor drawing sessions that take inspiration from the High Museum’s campus, collection, and special exhibitions. Led by artist Larkin Ford, each session focuses on a different way of seeing and capturing the world around us while allowing participants to explore their own personal expr...
Cost: $25-$40
Drawing from Experience
Wednesday November 18, 2020 11:00 am EST
Join us for outdoor drawing sessions that take inspiration from the High Museum’s campus, collection, and special exhibitions. Led by artist Larkin Ford, each session focuses on a different way of seeing and capturing the world around us while allowing participants to explore their own personal expr...
Cost: $25-$40
Masterworks & Mindfulness
Monday November 16, 2020 03:00 pm EST
Categories: Mindfulness
Explore mindfulness practices and artworks from the High Museum’s collection and special exhibitions from the comfort of your home. Led by mindfulness practitioner Charisse M. Williams, you will learn to quiet your mind, relax your body, and see works of art with new eyes. Ea...
Cost: $15-$20
Drawing from Experience
Saturday November 14, 2020 01:00 pm EST
Join us for outdoor drawing sessions that take inspiration from the High Museum’s campus, collection, and special exhibitions. Led by artist Larkin Ford, each session focuses on a different way of seeing and capturing the world around us while allowing participants to explore their own personal expr...
Cost: $25-$40
Masterworks & Mindfulness
Monday November 9, 2020 03:00 pm EST
Masterworks & Mindfulness takes place on Zoom on Mondays (October 12–November 23, 2020) from 3 to 4 p.m.
Explore mindfulness practices and artworks from the High Museum’s collection and special exhibitions from the comfort of your home. Led by mindfulness practitioner Charisse M. Williams, you wil...
Cost: $15-$120
Masterworks & Mindfulness
Monday November 2, 2020 03:00 pm EST
Explore mindfulness practices and artworks from the High Museum’s collection and special exhibitions from the comfort of your home. Led by mindfulness practitioner Charisse M. Williams, you will learn to quiet your mind, relax your body, and see works of art with new eyes. Each week we will focus on...
Cost: $15-$20
MURMURATION
Thursday October 29, 2020 12:00 pm EDT
The High Museum of Art has been engaging visitors of all ages in participatory art experiences on the Carroll Slater Sifly Piazza since 2014. This year’s site-specific commission Murmuration was designed by the architectural firm SO – IL. Inspired by Atlanta’s reputation as the “city in a forest” an...
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
JULIE MEHRETU
Thursday October 29, 2020 12:00 pm EDT
Julie Mehretu, co-organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and the Whitney Museum of American Art, is the artist’s first comprehensive survey exhibition featuring her meticulously crafted paintings, drawings, and prints. Including early work influenced by the notion of cities as soc...
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
PICTURE THE DREAM: THE STORY OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT THROUGH CHILDREN’S BOOKS
Thursday October 29, 2020 12:00 pm EDT
Picture the Dream is the first exhibition of its kind to delve into the events, people, and themes of the civil rights movement through the children’s picture book. Picture books are one of the most compelling forms of visual expression, and this exhibition showcases them as an effective bridge betw...
Cost: Free with Museum Admission
Masterworks & Mindfulness
Monday October 26, 2020 03:00 pm EDT
Masterworks & Mindfulness takes place on Zoom on Mondays (October 12–November 23, 2020) from 3 to 4 p.m.
Explore mindfulness practices and artworks from the High Museum’s collection and special exhibitions from the comfort of your home. Led by mindfulness practitioner Charisse M. Williams, you wil...
Cost: $15-$120
Julie Mehretu
Friday October 23, 2020 10:00 am EDT
"Julie Mehretu", co-organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and the Whitney Museum of American Art, is the artist’s first comprehensive survey exhibition featuring her meticulously crafted paintings, drawings, and prints. Including early work influenced by the notion of cities as s...
Cost: Free-$14.50
Conversations with Contemporary Artists: Julie Mehretu
Thursday October 22, 2020 06:00 pm EDT
The group will discuss the first-ever comprehensive retrospective of Mehretu’s career, which covers over two decades of her examination of history, colonialism, capitalism, geopolitics, war, global uprising, diaspora, and displacement through abstraction, architecture, landscape, movement, and most ...
Cost: $20
"Picture the Dream; The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through Children's Books"
Saturday August 15, 2020 12:00 am EDT
"Picture the Dream" is the first exhibition of its kind to delve into the events, people, and themes of the civil rights movement through the children’s picture book. Picture books are one of the most compelling forms of visual expression, and this exhibition showcases them as an effective bridge be...
Cost: Free-$14.50
"Murmuration"
Friday July 17, 2020 12:00 am EDT
Inspired by Atlanta’s reputation as the “city in a forest” and by the High’s proximity to the city’s abundant greenspace Piedmont Park, SO – IL has designed a 2,350-square-foot mesh canopy that evokes the environment of neighboring trees. This sculptural pavilion, complete with feeding stations and ...
Cost: Free
CANCELED: speechless: different by design
Saturday April 25, 2020 12:00 am EDT
Editor's Note: This event has been canceled amid growing concern over the coronavirus.
Organized by the High Museum of Art and the Dallas Museum of Art, speechless: different by design merges research, aesthetics, and innovative new design to explore the vast spectrum of sensory experiences and ne...
Cost: Museum admission
CANCELED: Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon
Saturday April 4, 2020 12:00 pm EDT
Editor's Note: This event has been canceled amid growing concern over the coronavirus.
Less than 10% of Wikipedia's editors are women. Less than 17% of Wikipedia's biographies are about women. Let's change that!
-Take a tour and learn about women artists at the High
-Learn how Wikipedia works wi...
Cost: $14.50
CANCELED: Live Lab: Photography Residency and Exhibition
Monday March 16, 2020 12:00 am EDT
Editor's Note: This event has been canceled amid growing concern over the coronavirus.
Organized by the High in collaboration with the international photographic cooperative Magnum, the Live Lab is a residency and related exhibition that will address contemporary life in Atlanta by involving the c...
Cost: $14.50
Paa Joe: Gates of No Return
Saturday February 29, 2020 12:00 am EST
Artist and master craftsman Joseph Tetteh Ashong (Ghanian, b. 1947), also known as Paa Joe, is the most celebrated figurative coffin maker of his generation. In the tradition of figurative coffins—or abeduu adekai (which means “proverb boxes”)—the structures represent the unique lives of the dead.
...
Cost: Museum admission
The Plot Thickens
Saturday February 22, 2020 12:00 am EST
Long before comics and graphic novels, artists used pictures to tell stories. This exhibition presents six series of etchings, lithographs, and woodcuts that do just that.
Cost: $14.50
Sights and Sounds: Romare Bearden’s Profile Series
Sunday December 15, 2019 04:00 pm EST
Take a musical journey through this exhibition with your guides Dwight Andrews and Robert G. O’Meally as they explore how Bearden’s Profile series has inspired other artists across many different media.
Composer, musician, educator, and minister Dwight Andrews joined the Emory College faculty in 1...
Cost: $14.50
Teen Friday Night Kickback: Winter Solstice
Friday December 13, 2019 06:00 pm EST
Join us for Teen Friday Night Kickback, a night of art making, music, and mingling on the second Friday of every month. Enjoy a laid-back atmosphere and fun surprises, all programmed for teens by teens.
In the galleries, join the Teen Team for Art Talks Back, a lively in-gallery discussion that fo...
Cost: Free-$5
Talk: Alvin Hall and Jonathan Calm
Saturday December 7, 2019 02:00 pm EST
Join journalist Alvin Hall and photographer Jonathan Calm for a discussion of their 2016 BBC Radio 4 documentary project The Green Book. A guide published annually between 1936 and 1967, The Negro Motorist Green-Book helped black travelers find safe and welcoming businesses during an era of virulent...
Cost: $15
Holiday Artisan Market
Friday November 29, 2019 11:00 am EST
Meet local artisans, and shop for handmade gifts including jewelry, textiles, home goods, accessories, and more. You’ll be sure to find the best gifts for your holiday list! The Holiday Artisan Market at the High Museum of Art is a two-day event that brings together 20 of Atlanta’s top artists, crea...
Cost: Free with museum admission
Holiday Artisan Market
Friday November 29, 2019 11:00 am EST
Meet local artisans, and shop for handmade gifts including jewelry, textiles, home goods, accessories, and more. You’ll be sure to find the best gifts for your holiday list! The Holiday Artisan Market at the High Museum of Art is a two-day event that brings together 20 of Atlanta’s top artists, crea...
Cost: Free with museum admission
Virgil Abloh: “‘Figures of Speech’”
Tuesday November 12, 2019 12:00 am EST
This fall, the High presents the first museum exhibition devoted to the work of Virgil Abloh, the modern, genre-bending artist and designer who became creative director of Louis Vuitton’s menswear line in 2018. "Figures of Speech" focuses on Abloh’s creative process, collaborative work and pioneerin...
Cost: Museum admission
Fine Lines; American Works on Paper
Saturday October 26, 2019 12:00 am EDT
Fine Lines celebrates a recent gift to the High of 50 late nineteenth-century drawings from Atlanta collector Paul Stein that will be on view at the Museum for the first time. In addition, the exhibition features a suite of watercolors on loan from Stein. Together, these works highlight the diversit...
Cost: Museum admission
“Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings”
Saturday October 19, 2019 12:00 am EDT
For more than 40 years, Sally Mann has made experimental, elegiac and hauntingly beautiful photographs that explore the overarching themes of existence: memory, desire, death, the bonds of family, and nature’s indifference to human endeavor. "A Thousand Crossings" features more than 100 figure studi...
Cost: Museum admission
OneBeat
Friday October 4, 2019 06:00 pm EDT
A series of immersive and roving performances at the High Museum of Art, hosted by OneBeat.
Cost: $14.50
“‘Something Over Something Else’”: Romare Bearden’s Profile Series
Saturday September 14, 2019 12:00 am EDT
Organized by the High Museum of Art, this touring exhibition is the first to bring dozens of works from Romare Bearden’s eminent “Profile” series together since its debut nearly 40 years ago. Inspired by the High’s recent acquisition of a key work from the series, “Something Over Something Else” is ...
Cost: Museum admission
Evening for Educators
Saturday August 17, 2019 05:00 pm EDT
Welcome Back to School!
This event is FREE for teachers, school administrators, and community educators and up to five guests each. Join us for a special evening in partnership with the Alliance Theatre!
Cost: Free for educators
Illuminated Whimsy: Picture Books, Childhood, and the Work of Maira Kalman
Thursday August 8, 2019 07:00 pm EDT
Dr. Paige Gray will discuss the history and influence of picture books and children’s literature, as well as the ways in which these texts both reflect and shape our ideas about childhood and how Maira Kalman’s work figures into this trajectory. Gray is a professor of liberal arts at the Atlanta cam...
Cost: Free (for members and with museum admissions)
Conversation Pieces
Tuesday August 6, 2019 12:00 pm EDT
Join professional museum educators each month in looking closely at artworks in the Museum’s collection: one work, thirty minutes, deep conversations and discoveries. All curious and eager learners are welcome!
Cost: Free with admission
Supple Means of Connection
Saturday August 3, 2019 12:00 am EDT
The High Museum of Art has commissioned its first choreographer as artist in residence, glo founder Lauri Stallings, to create this new suite of live art designed for the Museum’s galleries. The choreography activates the Cousins galleries on the second level of the High’s Wieland Pavilion—relating ...
Cost: Free with museum admission
August Frequency Friday: 80s Night
Friday August 2, 2019 06:00 pm EDT
We’re hitting rewind at Frequency Friday! Dust off your acid-washed jeans because we’re throwing it back to the 1980s on August 2! Enjoy a Millionaire cocktail inspired by Max Makes a Million while grooving to the sounds of DJ Ree de la Vega at our after-work art party.
Cost: Free (for members and with museum admission)
July Friday Jazz
Friday July 19, 2019 06:00 pm EDT
Mark your calendar for live jazz at the High, hosted by Jamal Ahmad from Jazz 91.9 WCLK, Atlanta’s jazz station! On the third Friday of every month, you’ll enjoy music, drinks, and art. Each month will feature a different style of jazz, from straight ahead to free jazz, bebop to swing, and more.
T...
Cost: Free with admission
July Second Sunday
Sunday July 14, 2019 12:00 pm EDT
On the second Sunday of each month the High offers FREE admission for all visitors and special family-friendly programming! Enjoy art-making activities, tours, performances, and the High’s permanent collection and special exhibitions.
Cost: Free
Curatorial Conversation: Heather Pesanti and Michael Rooks
Saturday July 13, 2019 07:00 pm EDT
Join the High for a discussion about curatorial practices and ideas between Heather Pesanti, Chief Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs at The Contemporary Austin, and Michael Rooks, Wieland Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the High Museum.
Cost: Included in admssion
Patron Member Exclusive: Closing Cocktails Celebrating European Masterworks: The Phillips Collection
Thursday July 11, 2019 05:30 pm EDT
Help us toast this remarkable exhibition before it returns to Washington, D.C.! Join fellow Donor Patron and Sustaining Patron members on Thursday, July 11 for this exclusive celebration.
Explore the exhibition with Claudia Einecke, the Frances B. Bunzl Family Curator of European Art, and enjoy on...
Cost: An exclusive benefit for Donor Patron and Sustaining Patron Members
July Frequency Friday
Friday July 5, 2019 06:00 pm EDT
Beat the heat at Frequency Friday! Escape to Europe through the eyes of van Gogh, Monet, Degas, and other legendary artists in European Masterworks: The Phillips Collection as the Summer Series continues. Dance to soulful sounds and enjoy a glass of Picasso Punch sangria at our after-work art party.
Cost: Free with admission
Music and Masterworks
Saturday June 29, 2019 02:00 pm EDT
Spend an afternoon indulging your eyes and ears. We begin the afternoon with an organ concert at First Presbyterian Church played by Director of Worship and the Arts and Organist, Jens Korndorfer. The musical pieces chosen are inspired by European Masterworks: The Phillips Collection.
Cost: Included in admission
“The Pursuit of Everything: Maira Kalman’s Books for Children”
Saturday June 22, 2019 12:00 am EDT
The High Museum of Art premieres this colorful exhibition exploring the extensive catalog of Maira Kalman’s imaginative stories and illustrations, which have delighted readers of all ages for more than 30 years. The Pursuit of Everything provides an immersive panorama of Kalman’s picture book career...
Cost: Museum admission
June Friday Jazz
Friday June 21, 2019 06:00 pm EDT
Mark your calendar for live jazz at the High, hosted by Jamal Ahmad from Jazz 91.9 WCLK, Atlanta’s jazz station! On the third Friday of every month, you’ll enjoy music, drinks, and art. Each month will feature a different style of jazz, from straight ahead to free jazz, bebop to swing, and more.
Cost: Included in admission
Member Preview Day: Maira Kalman's Books For Children
Friday June 21, 2019 10:00 am EDT
Members, be the first to experience this colorful exhibition exploring the extensive catalog of Maira Kalman’s imaginative stories and illustrations, which have delighted readers of all ages for more than 30 years.
Members will have exclusive access to The Pursuit of Everything: Maira Kalman’s Boo...
Cost: Free-$5
June Second Sunday
Sunday June 9, 2019 12:00 pm EDT
On the second Sunday of each month, the High offers FREE admission for all visitors and special family-friendly programming! Enjoy art-making activities, tours, performances, and the High's permanent collection and special exhibitions.
Cost: Free
June Frequency Friday
Friday June 7, 2019 06:00 pm EDT
This way for rosé! Escape to the nightlife of Paris with Monet, Degas, Cézanne, and other iconic artists in European Masterworks: The Phillips Collection at our after-work art party. Enjoy Parisian-inspired dance music with a glass of rosé to kick off our Summer Series at the High.
Cost: Included in admission
Conversation Pieces
Tuesday June 4, 2019 12:00 pm EDT
Meet Margaret Wilkerson, Coordinator of Education Volunteers, as she examines today’s artwork.
June’s conversation will feature Jean-Michel Basquiat’s, Untitled (Cadmium).
Cost: Included in admission
“Of Origins and Belonging, Drawn from Atlanta”
Saturday June 1, 2019 12:00 am EDT
This summer, the High Museum of Art presents “Of Origins and Belonging, Drawn from Atlanta”, an exhibition featuring six Atlanta-based artists who address issues related to place, belonging and heritage in their work: Jessica Caldas, Yehimi Cambrón, Xie Caomin, Wihro Kim, Dianna Settles and Cosmo Wh...
Cost: Museum admission
More for Members: Docent-Led Tour of Strange Light
Saturday May 25, 2019 12:00 pm EDT
Dubbed the “Father of American Surrealism,” Clarence John Laughlin (1905–1985) was the most important Southern photographer of his time. Explore an impressive collection of his signature photographs during this members-only tour on May 25.
Known primarily for his atmospheric depictions of the deca...
Cost: Free - $14.50
Historic Jewish Atlanta Tour: The High Museum
Wednesday May 22, 2019 10:15 am EDT
Join The Breman Museum for a special guided tour of Atlanta's High Museum. This tour will focus on works of art that depict Jewish themes from the Bible to today. Also, see how an artist's Jewish lens has influenced their contemporary art and its message.
Where
Meet at The High Museum, 1280 Peacht...
Cost: $15-$20
Historic Jewish Atlanta Tour: The High Museum
Wednesday May 22, 2019 10:00 am EDT
Experience History at its Source!
Join us for a special guided tour of Atlanta’s High Museum as we explore the works of art that depict Jewish themes from the Bible to today. Also, see how an artist’s Jewish lens has influenced their contemporary art and its message.
View the entire Fall 2018...
Cost: $15 - $20
Curator-Led Member Tour of European Masterworks: The Phillips Collection
Monday May 13, 2019 11:00 am EDT
A plethora of works from Cezanne, Degas, Monet, Rodin, van Gogh, Kandinsky, Matisse, and Picasso and an exclusive guided tour led by Claudia Einecke, the High's Frances B. Bunzl Family Curator of European Art.
Registration opens May 1.
Donor Patron and Sustaining Patron members enjoy priority re...
Cost: Free for Members at the contributing level and above
“Strange Light: The Photography of Clarence John Laughlin”
Saturday May 11, 2019 12:00 am EDT
Dubbed the “Father of American Surrealism,” Clarence John Laughlin (1905–1985) was the most important Southern photographer of his time and a singular figure in the development of the American school of photography. The High Museum of Art celebrates his legacy with the comprehensive exhibition “Stra...
Cost: Museum admission
Screening: Film Love Retrospective Series
Thursday May 9, 2019 07:00 pm EDT
High Museum of Art
Hill Auditorium
Event Description Don’t miss out as the High and Film Love kickoff a retrospective series with selections chosen by Film Love curator, Andy Ditzler, from the more than 150 programs he has shown over the past 16 years.
For almost two decades, Film Love has expan...
Cost: Free - $14.50
AJFF Selects: The Museum
Wednesday April 17, 2019 07:30 pm EDT
The Atlanta Jewish Film Festival resumes its AJFF Selects series with a screening of The Museum. The film offers viewers an immersive exploration of Israel's most important cultural institution, the Israel Museum. Filmed over the course of 18 months during the museum's 50th-anniversary celebrations,...
Cost: $14-$18
Screening: Film Love Retrospective Series
Tuesday April 16, 2019 07:00 pm EDT
For almost two decades, Film Love has expanded the landscape of film culture in Atlanta, presenting rare and unusual cinema and highlighting the relationship between film and visual art through public screenings and events. The screenings will blend genres and methods of projection (from 16mm film t...
Cost: Free - $14.50
April Second Sunday
Sunday April 14, 2019 12:00 pm EDT
On the second Sunday of each month, we offer free admission for all visitors and special family-friendly programming from 1 to 4 p.m.
April’s Theme: Spring Fever
The High’s got the cure for your spring fever! Come along as we wander through landscapes and enjoy this season bursting with beginnings...
Cost: Free
Opening Weekend Talk: Dr. Susan Behrends Frank
Saturday April 6, 2019 02:00 pm EDT
European Masterworks: The Phillips Collection opens at the High Museum of Art on April 6, 2019. Dr. Susan Behrends Frank, curator at The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, will give the opening lecture for the exhibition.
Established in Washington, DC, at the end of World War I by the young co...
Cost: Free - $14.50
High Museum of Art European Masterworks: The Phillips Collection
Saturday April 6, 2019 10:00 am EDT
An exhibition dedicated to the curation approach of art pioneer Duncan Phillips, who opened the first modern art museum in the United States in 1921. Phillips saw his museum as a sort of “experiment station,” where he championed diverse and independent artists in an attempt to earn European modernis...
Cost: Free- $14.50
Member Preview Evening celebrating European Masterworks: The Phillips Collection
Thursday April 4, 2019 05:30 pm EDT
Members see it first! Enjoy exclusive access to European Masterworks: The Phillips Collection before it opens to the public. Join us on April 4 to explore this remarkable new exhibition while enjoying music by Black Box Disco, a live painting demonstration, and more. Van Gogh, Monet, and Picasso mig...
Cost: Free for Members
Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon
Saturday March 30, 2019 12:00 am EDT
Wikipedia’s gender gap leaves us with an alarming lack of representation in the world’s most popular online research tool. Join us for the Art+Feminism Edit-a-Thon and be part of an international movement to improve coverage of women and the arts on Wikipedia.
Learn about women artists
Learn how W...
Cost: Free with pre-registration
High Museum Atlanta Wine Auction
Wednesday March 20, 2019 09:00 am EDT
The largest charity wine auction in the United States benefiting the arts, the Auction has raised more than $30 million over the past 26 years for the High Museum of Art. In addition to welcoming two James Beard Award Winners, Jordan MacKay and Rajat Parr, as the Auction’s special guests of honor, w...
Cost: TBA
Way Out There: The Art of Southern Backroads
Sunday March 17, 2019 12:00 pm EDT
Inspired by “Walks to the Paradise Garden,” poet and publisher Jonathan Williams’ guide to Southern ‘backroads’ artists, Way Out There: The Art of Southern Backroads focuses on self-taught artists and their unique views on contemporary America. The High will be showcasing self-taught artists’ drawin...
Cost: Free-$14.50
Way Out There: The Art of Southern Backroads
Saturday March 16, 2019 10:00 am EDT
Inspired by “Walks to the Paradise Garden,” poet and publisher Jonathan Williams’ guide to Southern ‘backroads’ artists, Way Out There: The Art of Southern Backroads focuses on self-taught artists and their unique views on contemporary America. The High will be showcasing self-taught artists’ drawin...
Cost: Free-$14.50
Way Out There: The Art of Southern Backroads
Friday March 15, 2019 10:00 am EDT
Inspired by “Walks to the Paradise Garden,” poet and publisher Jonathan Williams’ guide to Southern ‘backroads’ artists, Way Out There: The Art of Southern Backroads focuses on self-taught artists and their unique views on contemporary America. The High will be showcasing self-taught artists’ drawin...
Cost: Free-$14.50
Screening: Film Love Retrospective Series
Thursday March 14, 2019 07:00 pm EDT
Don’t miss out as the High and Film Love kickoff a retrospective series with selections chosen by Film Love curator, Andy Ditzler, from the more than 150 programs he has shown over the past 16 years.
For almost two decades, Film Love has expanded the landscape of film culture in Atlanta, presentin...
Cost: $14.50
Way Out There: The Art of Southern Backroads
Thursday March 14, 2019 10:00 am EDT
Inspired by “Walks to the Paradise Garden,” poet and publisher Jonathan Williams’ guide to Southern ‘backroads’ artists, Way Out There: The Art of Southern Backroads focuses on self-taught artists and their unique views on contemporary America. The High will be showcasing self-taught artists’ drawin...
Cost: Free-$14.50
Way Out There: The Art of Southern Backroads
Wednesday March 13, 2019 10:00 am EDT
Inspired by “Walks to the Paradise Garden,” poet and publisher Jonathan Williams’ guide to Southern ‘backroads’ artists, Way Out There: The Art of Southern Backroads focuses on self-taught artists and their unique views on contemporary America. The High will be showcasing self-taught artists’ drawin...
Cost: Free-$14.50
Way Out There: The Art of Southern Backroads
Tuesday March 12, 2019 10:00 am EDT
Inspired by “Walks to the Paradise Garden,” poet and publisher Jonathan Williams’ guide to Southern ‘backroads’ artists, Way Out There: The Art of Southern Backroads focuses on self-taught artists and their unique views on contemporary America. The High will be showcasing self-taught artists’ drawin...
Cost: Free-$14.50
Member Event: Coffee with the Curators
Monday March 11, 2019 10:00 am EDT
Collaboratively organized by the museum’s renowned photography and folk and self-taught art departments, Way Out There celebrates the convergence of contemporary American photography, literature, and self-taught artists.
On March 11, join fellow Museum members for coffee with the exhibition’s cura...
Cost: Free for Members
Conversation: Guy Mendes and Roger Manley
Saturday March 9, 2019 02:00 pm EST
The High’s newest exhibition, Way Out There, was inspired by an offbeat guidebook to Southern self-taught artists. Hear from the photographers whose colorful images brought this manuscript to life when Guy Mendes and Roger Manley join us to share anecdotes from their travels through colorful backroa...
Cost: Free - $14.50
Margaret and Terry Stent Distinguished Lecture in American Art: Dr. Mary Schmidt Campbell
Thursday March 7, 2019 07:00 pm EST
Don’t miss this special evening with Dr. Mary Schmidt Campbell, President of Spelman College, as she discusses her new book, An American Odyssey: The Life and Work of Romare Bearden.
Reserve your ticket today. Join us for a pre-lecture reception beginning at 6 p.m. in the High’s Robinson Atrium.
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Cost: Free - $14.50
Kusama—Infinity: The Life and Art of Yayoi Kusama
Wednesday February 13, 2019 07:00 pm EST
Screening of Kusama - Infinity giving a glimpse into the life and art style of Yayoi Kusama. This program was partnered with The Japan-America Society of Georgia. Free for members. $14.50 for non-members.
Cost: free - $14.50
February Second Sunday
Sunday February 10, 2019 12:00 pm EST
Every Second Sunday of each month the High Museum of Art offers free admission for their visitors and special family programs
Art Making 1–4 p.m. Greene Family Education Center
Story Times 1:30, 2:30, and 3:30 p.m. Museum Galleries
Family Tour 2 p.m. Meet in Taylor Lobby
Cost: Free
Hours
Monday – Thursday, Saturday: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Friday: 10 a.m. – 9 p.m.
Sunday: Noon – 5 p.m.
