Tag: High Museum of Art

“When we think of modernism, we associate it with urban spaces,” says Stephanie Heydt, the High’s American art curator. This exhibition showcases modernist works set outside of city limits.

This January has everything: Monster trucks, marching bands, the Little Mermaid, a submarine car, and more!

The High Museum of Art decreased ticket prices to $14.50 last October, but it’s most accessible on the second Sunday of every month, when the doors open from 1 to 4 p.m. for free.

Ronald Lockett, a little-known self-taught artist, used found materials and barn metal scraps to create pieces about everything from the Holocaust to his own experience as a black man in the post–civil rights era South. Preserving—and putting a spotlight on—this legacy, and that of other so-called “outsider” artists, has been a priority for the High for more than 20 years.

Have a ghostly good time with Headless Horsemen, spooky storytelling, kite flying, carnival games, and more

Things we welcome: cooler weather and a barrage of family-friendly events. Here's what you can do this month.

Pack the last days of summer with family fun, including ice cream eating contests, calf-roping, sprinkler runs, world music, and Olympic fever.

Summer's heating up, but we've got plenty of kid-friendly happenings to keep you cool and content.

Athletes, musicians, local leaders, and metro Atlanta residents share their memories of the games—taking home the gold, chauffeuring Muhammad Ali, collecting pins, riding MARTA, performing for Bill and Hillary Clinton, and more.

Students of history know that “the one percent” are not an invention of the recession. In the U.S., income inequality flourished at its highest level more than 80 years ago, just before the Great Depression, when Walker Evans was dispatched by the Farm Security Administration to document small-town life and the successes of the New Deal.