Events happening Sunday, September 6 to Sunday, September 13
FINAL WEEKS! The Louvre and the Masterpiece – Closing Sunday, September 13!
INTERACT WITH US: Check out the High’s weekly “The Louvre and the Masterpiece” videos currently showing on our Facebook page. Also - receive updates via Facebook or Twitter, view and share photos at Flickr and watch video exclusives from visiting artists, members and more on YouTube. www.High.org/interact
Art in the City: Thursday Nights at the High
Thursday, September 10, 5 to 8 p.m. ½ Price Tickets
Relax and rejuvenate at the High after work! The Museum offers extended hours at half price every Thursday until 8 p.m. This is a great way to see the museum’s special exhibitions and permanent collection while avoiding the weekend crowds. A guided tour of Permanent Collection highlights is offered at 6:30 p.m.
Free with museum admission and free to members
SPECIAL EVENT: College Night at the High
Saturday, September 12; 7 p.m. to midnight
Say “Bon-voyage” to “Louvre Atlanta” with a night of gallery viewing, music, films and much more.
Admission: $7 with valid student I.D.; free for student members; $18 general public
FILM SERIES: Film Festival of India – Running through September 12, 8 p.m.
Visit the Film Blog http://highmuseum.wordpress.com/ to find out what Linda Dubler, our curator of media Arts is watching as well as what's going on in local film and more! Please note that we also have a new blog contributor, film critic, Eleanor Ringel-Cater.
“Salaam Bombay,” Friday, September 11, 8 p.m., Rich Theatre
Before “Slumdog Millionaire” won a king’s ransom of Oscars, Mira Nair (“Monsoon Wedding”) captured the teeming streets of Bombay and the lives of its forgotten children in her much acclaimed debut feature “Salaam Bombay.” The story of Krishna, who works as a tea boy, and the improvised family he creates with a pimp, a prostitute, and a bunch of other strays who share the alley where he sleeps, “Salaam Bombay” owes its authenticity to Nair’s background as a documentary filmmaker. Praised by Leslie Camhi in the Village Voice for “the toughness and vitality” of its “perfect” cast (made up of both established Indian stars and non-professionals), the film won the Audience Award at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival. (India, 1988, 113 minutes.) In Hindi and English with subtitles.
“Conflict”/ “Samar,” Saturday, September 12, 8 p.m., Rich Theatre
Shyam Benegal, a director lauded for pioneering a “middle cinema” between commercial Bollywood and art-house fare, made this darkly comedic drama about the persistence of caste and the different ways its inequities are viewed by rural folks and urban sophisticates. Using a film-with-a film structure, Benegal tells the story of a real-life conflict and of a movie crew who have arrived on location to create a fictionalized version of the events. The story is set in a Madhya Pradesh village where tensions over the use of a well by both “untouchables” and others sparks protests. Violence ensues after a local landowner, furious at the poor for their rebellion, tries keeping them from their fields and starving them. In The Times of India, writer R. Sengupta praised “Samar’s multilayered treatment, which allows Benegal to critique, comment, satirize, and sympathize.” The film won India’s National Film Award for Best Film. (India, 1999, 126 minutes.) In Hindi with subtitles.
FAMILY PROGRAMMING:
TODDLER THURSDAYS
Thursdays; 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Greene Family Education Center
· September 10: Plein Air Drawing* - Join us outside to draw Impressionistic landscapes using water-soluble oil pastels, then spray water to give it a watercolor finish. *Weather permitting
Experience this popular preschool art education program! Parents and children ages two to four are encouraged to look at works of art within the Museum’s special exhibitions and permanent collections, as well as to create a masterpiece to take home. Drop by any time and stay as long as you like. A treat for parents and toddlers alike! Sponsored by Carters/ OshKosh. No registration required. Free with Museum admission and free to members.
Second Sunday Fundays
September 13, 1 to 4 p.m., All ages; Greene Family Education Center and the Stent Atrium, Sifly Piazza weather permitting.
· Sunday, September 13 -Masterpieces on the Move: Bon Voyage Louvre Atlanta!
Its art-filled fun for the whole family every Second Sunday of the month at the High! Delight in a dynamic artist demonstration, express your inner-artist in our open studio, and connect to different cultures through magical live performances. From painting and drawing to storytelling and music, the High’s Fundays are a fun place to discover art – both indoors and out. No registration required. Free with museum admission. Free for members.
GENERAL VISITOR INFORMATION
MUSEUM HOURS
Mondays CLOSED
Tuesday and Wednesday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Thursday 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Friday and Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Sunday 12 noon to 5 p.m.
* Friday Jazz (3rd Friday of every month) 5 to 10 p.m.
Check www.High.org for special extended hours during special exhibitions and events.
Closed January 1, July 4, Thanksgiving and December 25.
GENERAL ADMISSION
$18 Adult
$15 Senior citizens and college students with I.D.
$11 Children ages 6 to 17
Free Children under age 6 and members
Tickets are available online at www.High.org. Tickets may also be purchased at the High Museum admission desk, Woodruff Arts Center Box Office or by phone at 404-733-5000 (404-733-5386 TDD). All ticket orders placed by phone will incur a $3-per-ticket service charge.
Audio Guides
An audio guide including “The Louvre and the Masterpiece” will be available for purchase for $5 for general public, and $3 for members, complete group bookings and children age 17 and under. The audio guide will be included for school group admission.
CityPass TicketsIncludes admission to six Atlanta attractions. $69 for adults (valued at $212.01) and $49 for children ages 3–12 (valued at $88.61). For more information on CityPass, please visit http://citypass.com/city/atlanta?mv_source=high
WHERE
High Museum of Art
1280 Peachtree Street
Midtown Atlanta
MARTA: Arts Center
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Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Fall College Night Celebrates "Louvre Atlanta"
8/12/09 The High will host a fall College Night on Saturday, September 12, from 7 p.m. to 12 midnight. The event coordinates with the final weekend of “Louvre Atlanta,” the High’s unprecedented three-year collaboration with the Musée du Louvre in Paris. The final exhibition, “The Louvre and the Masterpiece,” explores the definition of a masterpiece and features ninety-one works of art—spanning 4,000 years—drawn from all eight of the Louvre’s collection areas.
In addition to live musical performances by DJ Tabone, Tealights and Jimi Cravity, students and visitors will enjoy a night of gallery viewing, do-it-yourself craft workshops with Jen Morris and Cristina Vidal of Young Blood Gallery & Boutique, drawing in the galleries and a showing of the film “The City of the Louvre.” Food and non-alcoholic beverages will be available for purchase.
College Night will also offer the special opportunity to participate in the High’s collaboration with the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center on the Mel Chin “Fundred Dollar Bill Project.” This project is raising national awareness of the problem of lead pollution in New Orleans through the production of “FUNDRED DOLLAR BILLS”—original interpretations of U.S. one-hundred-dollar bills hand-drawn by school children and community members across the country. For more information, visit www.fundred.org.
Student admission will be $7 with a valid student I.D., $5 per student (with valid student I.D.) when booking a group of 10 or more and $18 for general admission. Students with High Museum Student memberships get in FREE. Tickets and membership information are available online at www.high.org.
High Museum of Art
The High Museum of Art, founded in 1905 as the Atlanta Art Association, is the leading art museum in the southeastern United States. With more than 11,000 works of art in its permanent collection, the High Museum of Art has an extensive anthology of 19th- and 20th-century American and decorative art; significant holdings of European paintings; a growing collection of African American art; and burgeoning collections of modern and contemporary art, photography and African art. The High is also dedicated to supporting and collecting works by Southern artists and is distinguished as the only major museum in North America to have a curatorial department specifically devoted to the field of folk and self-taught art. The High’s Media Arts department produces acclaimed annual film series and festivals of foreign, independent and classic cinema. In November 2005, the High opened three new buildings by architect Renzo Piano that more than doubled the Museum’s size, creating a vibrant “village for the arts” at the Woodruff Arts Center in Midtown Atlanta. For more information about the High, please visit www.High.org.
The Woodruff Arts Center
The Woodruff Arts Center is ranked among the top four arts centers in the nation. The Woodruff is unique in that it combines four visual and performing arts divisions on one campus as one not-for-profit organization. Opened in 1968, the Woodruff Arts Center is home to the Alliance Theatre, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the High Museum of Art and Young Audiences. To learn more about the Woodruff Arts Center, please visit www.woodruffcenter.org.
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In addition to live musical performances by DJ Tabone, Tealights and Jimi Cravity, students and visitors will enjoy a night of gallery viewing, do-it-yourself craft workshops with Jen Morris and Cristina Vidal of Young Blood Gallery & Boutique, drawing in the galleries and a showing of the film “The City of the Louvre.” Food and non-alcoholic beverages will be available for purchase.
College Night will also offer the special opportunity to participate in the High’s collaboration with the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center on the Mel Chin “Fundred Dollar Bill Project.” This project is raising national awareness of the problem of lead pollution in New Orleans through the production of “FUNDRED DOLLAR BILLS”—original interpretations of U.S. one-hundred-dollar bills hand-drawn by school children and community members across the country. For more information, visit www.fundred.org.
Student admission will be $7 with a valid student I.D., $5 per student (with valid student I.D.) when booking a group of 10 or more and $18 for general admission. Students with High Museum Student memberships get in FREE. Tickets and membership information are available online at www.high.org.
High Museum of Art
The High Museum of Art, founded in 1905 as the Atlanta Art Association, is the leading art museum in the southeastern United States. With more than 11,000 works of art in its permanent collection, the High Museum of Art has an extensive anthology of 19th- and 20th-century American and decorative art; significant holdings of European paintings; a growing collection of African American art; and burgeoning collections of modern and contemporary art, photography and African art. The High is also dedicated to supporting and collecting works by Southern artists and is distinguished as the only major museum in North America to have a curatorial department specifically devoted to the field of folk and self-taught art. The High’s Media Arts department produces acclaimed annual film series and festivals of foreign, independent and classic cinema. In November 2005, the High opened three new buildings by architect Renzo Piano that more than doubled the Museum’s size, creating a vibrant “village for the arts” at the Woodruff Arts Center in Midtown Atlanta. For more information about the High, please visit www.High.org.
The Woodruff Arts Center
The Woodruff Arts Center is ranked among the top four arts centers in the nation. The Woodruff is unique in that it combines four visual and performing arts divisions on one campus as one not-for-profit organization. Opened in 1968, the Woodruff Arts Center is home to the Alliance Theatre, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the High Museum of Art and Young Audiences. To learn more about the Woodruff Arts Center, please visit www.woodruffcenter.org.
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