Current Exhibitions

Louvre Atlanta: The Louvre and the Ancient World

Through September 7, 2008
Anne Cox Chambers Wing

This exhibition features masterpieces from the founding cultures of Western civilization and will include more than 70 works from the Louvre’s unparalleled Egyptian, Near Eastern and Greco-Roman antiquities collections.

FINAL WEEK:Louvre Atlanta: The Eye of Josephine

Through May 18, 2008
Anne Cox Chambers Wing


The Eye of Josephine reassembles more than 60 masterworks from the collection of Greco-Roman and Egyptian antiquities that were installed by the Empress Josephine Bonaparte at Malmaison, her residence located on the outskirts of Paris.

Young Americans: Photographs by Sheila Pree Bright
May 3 – August 10, 2008
Lower Level, Wieland Pavilion

This new dynamic body of work by Atlanta-based photographer Sheila Pree Bright will debut at the High Museum of Art in May 2008. Young Americans is a portraiture project that explores the attitudes and opinions of young Americans (18–25 years) toward their nation and their identity as Americans. The works in this exhibition are not only relevant to the 2008 election year, they also complement the themes of Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956–1968 and After 1968: Contemporary Artists and the Civil Rights Legacy, which will be on view simultaneously. 

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Cassatt, Pissarro, Bonnard, Vuillard: New Acquisitions for the Collection
Through August 17, 2008
Skyway Level, Stent Family Wing

This special installation of eight Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works highlights four new acquisitions, including the pastel Mother and Child, by Mary Cassatt; the oil painting Snowscape withCows, Montfoucault, by Camille Pissarro; the oil painting The Breakfast, by Pierre Bonnard; and the painting on paper Villa les Écluses, St. Jacut, Brittany, by Édouard Vuillard.

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Street Life: American Photographs from the 1960s and 70s
Through August 10, 2008
Lower Level, Wieland Pavilion

This permanent collection exhibition features photographs by Garry Winogrand, Danny Lyon, Susan Meiselas, and Dennis Carlyle Darling made in America in the 1960s and 1970s. Each body of work examines social groups living on the fringes of mainstream culture during the critical decades in American history that witnessed the Women’s Liberation Movement, anti-Vietnam War demonstrations, and the emergence of the American counterculture.

Toshiko Takaezu: Master Ceramist
Ongoing
Stent Family Wing Special Exhibitions Gallery

A leader in the American studio ceramics movement of the 1950s, Takaezu played an integral role in elevating her practice beyond its roots in traditional utilitarian craft production and into the realm of sculpture. As an instructor at Princeton University and Skidmore College for three decades, her creativity and has inspired generations of ceramists.

Southern Vernacular: Nineteenth-Century Southern Folk Art

Ongoing
3rd Floor, Stent Family Wing

This permanent collection installation highlights more than 40 pieces from the High’s collection of 19th-century Southern decorative arts, folk art painting, sculpture, and ceramics. These objects, most of which have not been on view since 1999, are particular favorites of many High Museum of Art patrons.