Exhibitions
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Electrifying Design: A Century of Lighting,
Through September 26, 2021Electrifying Design: A Century of Lighting
Electrifying Design features nearly eighty rare lighting examples from the past one hundred years, considering how electric lighting has served as a catalyst for technological and artistic innovation within major avant-garde design movements.
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Permanent Collection Installation
Pioneers, Influencers, and Rising Voices: Women in the Collection,
OngoingPermanent Collection Installation
Pioneers, Influencers, and Rising Voices: Women in the CollectionIn observance of the 2020 centennial of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granting women the right to vote, this installation is drawn from the High Museum’s collection and features artworks made exclusively by women.
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Permanent Collection Installation
Shaheen Collection of French Works,
OngoingPermanent Collection Installation
Shaheen Collection of French WorksThe Doris and Shouky Shaheen Collection focuses on French art of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Gatecrashers: The Rise of the Self-Taught Artist in America,
August 20–December 11, 2021Gatecrashers: The Rise of the Self-Taught Artist in America
After World War I, artists without formal training began showing their work in major museums, “crashing the gates” of the elite art world. This exhibition will celebrate more than a dozen early twentieth-century painters who fundamentally reshaped who could be an artist in the United States and paved the way for later generations of self-taught artists.
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Our Good Earth: Rural Life and American Art,
April 17–August 1, 2021Our Good Earth: Rural Life and American Art
Through a selection of prints, drawings, and photographs from the High’s collection, Our Good Earth will explore the many ways in which Americans imagined and engaged with life beyond the city limits over the course of a century.
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Underexposed: Women Photographers from the Collection,
April 17–August 1, 2021Underexposed: Women Photographers from the Collection
For nearly all of photography’s one hundred eighty-year history, women have shaped the development of the art form and experimented with every aspect of the medium. This exhibition showcases more than one hundred photographs from the High’s collection, many of them never before on view, and charts the medium’s history from the dawn of the modern period to the present through the work of women photographers.
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David Driskell: Icons of Nature and History,
February 6–May 9, 2021David Driskell: Icons of Nature and History
David Driskell (1931-2020) was one of the most revered American artists of his generation. This is the first exhibition to bring together his paintings and works on paper and survey seven decades of the artist’s practice from the 1950s to the 2000s, featuring works from museums and private collections and the artist’s estate.
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Bestowing Beauty: Masterpieces from Persian Lands,
December 12, 2020–April 18, 2021Bestowing Beauty: Masterpieces from Persian Lands
Bringing together nearly one hundred works highlighting the rich and artistic cultural heritage of Iranian civilization from the sixth to the nineteenth century, Bestowing Beauty draws from one of the most significant collections of Persian art privately owned and rarely publicly displayed.
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Picture the Dream: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through Children’s Books,
August 15–November 8, 2020Picture the Dream: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through Children’s Books
This exhibition is the first of its kind to delve into the events, people, and themes of the civil rights movement, both celebrated and forgotten, through one of the most compelling forms of visual expression, the children’s picture book.
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The Plot Thickens: Storytelling in European Print Series,
February 22–July 19, 2020The Plot Thickens: Storytelling in European Print Series
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.
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Our Strange New Land: Photographs by Alex Harris,
November 27, 2019–May 3, 2020Our Strange New Land: Photographs by Alex Harris
This latest chapter in the High’s “Picturing the South” commission series features new work made by North Carolina-based photographer Alex Harris on independent film sets throughout the South to explore how the region is seen, imagined and created by contemporary visual storytellers.
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David Driskell: Icons of Nature and History,
David Driskell: Icons of Nature and History
David Driskell (1931-2020) was one of the most revered American artists of his generation. This is the first exhibition to bring together his paintings and works on paper and survey seven decades of the artist’s practice from the 1950s to the 2000s, featuring works from museums and private collections and the artist’s estate.
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Picture the Dream: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through Children’s Books,
Picture the Dream: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through Children’s Books
This exhibition is the first of its kind to delve into the events, people, and themes of the civil rights movement, both celebrated and forgotten, through one of the most compelling forms of visual expression, the children’s picture book.
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2018 Reinstallation | Permanent Collection,
2018 Reinstallation | Permanent Collection
Experience a new High—Refreshed. Reimagined. Revealed. With old favorites, new acquisitions, and previously stored artworks now on view, the redesigned collections embrace growth and diversity while creating dynamic experiences for our visitors.
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