Exhibitions
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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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Rodin in the United States: Confronting the Modern,
October 21, 2022–January 15, 2023Rodin in the United States: Confronting the Modern
The more than 70 sculptures and drawings in the exhibition encompass many of Rodin’s best-known compositions, including The Thinker, Monument to Balzac, and The Kiss, as well as less-familiar subjects and an exceptional number of his expressive and probing drawings.
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Joseph Stella: Visionary Nature,
February 24–May 21, 2023Joseph Stella: Visionary Nature
Co-organized by the High and the Brandywine River Museum of Art, this is the first major museum exhibition to exclusively examine the nature-based works of pioneering American modernist Joseph Stella (1877-1946).
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Bruce Onobrakpeya: The Mask and the Cross,
April 7–July 30, 2023Bruce Onobrakpeya: The Mask and the Cross
This is the first solo exhibition at an American museum for sculptor and printmaker Bruce Onobrakpeya (born 1932), one of the fathers of Nigerian modernism and a founding member of the Zaria Art Society, an art collective that developed the “natural synthesis” aesthetic that came to define early postcolonial Nigerian art.
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Oliver Jeffers: 15 Years of Picturing Books,
April 15–August 7, 2022Oliver Jeffers: 15 Years of Picturing Books
Oliver Jeffers is an award-winning artist and author working in painting, bookmaking, illustration, collage, performance, and sculpture. This retrospective exhibition showcases nearly one hundred artworks, some never seen, including original line drawings, sketches, and finished illustrations, from sixteen of Jeffers’s picture books.
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Permanent Collection Installation
Pioneers, Influencers, and Rising Voices: Women in the Collection,
March 7, 2020–May 29, 2022Permanent 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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Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe,
September 3, 2021–January 9, 2022Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe
Based on the High’s leading collection of Nellie Mae Rowe’s art, Really Free is the first major exhibition of her work in more than twenty years and the first to consider her practice as a radical act of self-expression and liberation in the post-civil rights-era South.
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Gatecrashers: The Rise of the Self-Taught Artist in America,
August 20–December 12, 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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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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Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe,
Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe
Based on the High’s leading collection of Nellie Mae Rowe’s art, Really Free is the first major exhibition of her work in more than twenty years and the first to consider her practice as a radical act of self-expression and liberation in the post-civil rights-era South.
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Gatecrashers: The Rise of the Self-Taught Artist in America,
Gatecrashers: 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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Methuselah,
Methuselah
Working with butterfly experts, taxidermists, animators, computer modelers, and software designers for over a year, artist Reynier Leyva Novo translated the methuselah monarch butterfly from an analog specimen into a digital animation. The virtual avatar can be observed 24 hours a day during a one-year cycle. Seen moving against a black backdrop, the butterfly flutters, flies, feeds, and rests with the ease and delicacy of a real insect. At any given time, the software program determines the butterfly’s movements in space, drawing upon numerous data points related to monarch migration patterns.
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