High Museum of Art, Atlanta

Happy Birthday to Minnie Evans, who was born on this day in 1892. Minnie Evans referred to the colorful, intertwining forms she captured on paper as lost art. On Good Friday of 1935, Evans began experiencing waking dreams that revealed to her lush scenes of plant and animal life from a civilization that was destroyed by the biblical flood. When Evans’s work was featured in a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art forty years later this work appeared on the co...ver of her exhibition brochure. The magic writing on the open book held by the leftmost figure in this work may be a form of writing in tongues. The book and the scene around it may also (or alternatively) depict the throne of God as described in the fourth and fifth chapters of the Book of Revelation. Minnie Evans (American, 18921987), Modern Art, 1963, Oil, ink, and crayon on paper board.

We are excited to announce that Bestowing Beauty: Masterpieces from Persian Lands is now on view at the High Museum through April 18, 2021. Organized by @mfahouston, works in the exhibition include carpets, textiles, manuscripts, paintings, ceramics, lacquer, metalwork, scientific instruments, and jeweled objects. Highlights include exquisite miniature paintings from the Shahnama (Book of Kings), the Persian national epic; rare Qur’an pages; and monumental silk carpets from... the height of Safavid carpet production. Woven throughout the tales of these extraordinary artworks are experiences, ideas, and emotions shared by all peoples, grouped within the exhibition into the universal themes of faith and piety, love and longing, banquets and battles, kingship and authority, and earth and nature. Learn more: https://high.org/exhibition/bestowing-beauty/ Signed Mahmud Muzahhib, Uzbek, active sixteenth century, The Severity of a Teacher Is Better than the Love of a Father, folio from a Gulistan of Sa‘di, Uzbekistan, Bukhara, ca. 15451560 Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper.

You heard it here first! The #HighMuseum will be an early voting site for Fulton County residents for the Georgia run-off election! Fulton County residents are eligible to #vote during the early voting period of December 1430 in the High's Anne Cox Chambers Wing (Closed December 24 and 25). #ProTip: Vote and visit with Museum Pass. Get unlimited access to the High for only $4 a month with our new pass-holder subscription! ... : @macauleyrogers

Get Creative at Home: Painting Fresh Flowers Learn about depictions of flowers in European art and learn how to create your own permanent floral display. Read more: https://medium.com//tk-get-creative-at-home-painting-fresh

Today is the first night of Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights. Happy Holidays to those who are celebrating! This photograph by Edward Serotta is from a Hanukkah concert in synagogue in Piatra Naemt (1986).

Are you age sixty or over? If so, the High Museum of Art wants to hear from you! We are seeking Metro Atlanta residents ages sixty and older to participate in thirty-minute individual interviews that cover topics including interests and experiences with art and culture and perspectives on aging. If you are interested in taking part in one of these interviews, please complete the eligibility survey. You do not need to be a High member or to have visited the Museum recently to participate. Learn more: https://buff.ly/35inmtA

#NowOnView: "Dawoud Bey: An American Project" opens today at the High Museum. Since the beginning of his career in the 1970s, Bey has used his camera to create poignant meditations on visibility, race, place, and American history. From early street portraits made in Harlem to a recent series imagining an escape from slavery on the Underground Railroad, Bey explores photography’s potential to reveal communities and stories that have been underrepresented or even unseen.

Work from home be like.... Today is #MusMeme! Share your High Museum related memes with us and we might reshare yours on our page! Ralph Earl (American, 17511801), Portrait of David Baldwin, 1790, Oil on canvas. ... Louis-Claude Vassé (French, 17161772), Study for A Sleeping Shepherd, ca. 1745, Terracotta. See more

Gift Guide: Meet the Makers Featured in the High’s Virtual Holiday Market Read more: https://medium.com//gift-guide-meet-the-makers-featured-in

Dawoud Bey was named one of five artists in The New York Times's The Greats, which celebrates those who have changed their field and mastered their craft. "Dawoud Bey: An American Project" opens at the High Museum tomorrow and is on view through March 14, 2021. READ MORE: https://www.nytimes.com///10/19/t-magazine/dawoud-bey.html

Enjoy this great conversation with Lois Reitzes and Lauren Tate Baeza, the High Museum’s new curator of African art from WABE. Listen now: https://wabe.org//the-high-museum-of-arts-new-curator-of/

Tickets are still available for #SecondSunday! That means #free admission to the High Museum from 12 noon to 5 p.m. this Sunday, November 8. Tickets must be purchased in advance. Learn more: https://buff.ly/2GBeHmB

Enjoy a socially distanced afternoon of art-making with your toddler at the High Museum during #ToddlerThursday. Spaces are still available for this week. Reserve your spot now: https://buff.ly/2pJFqap

Picture the Dream: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through Children’s Books is on view at the High through this Sunday, November 8. If you were not able to visit the exhibition in-person, enjoy this #virtual up close look at the show with the High Museum's Research Assitant, Nalani Dowling.

#NowOnView: "Dawoud Bey: An American Project" opens today at the High Museum. Since the beginning of his career in the 1970s, Bey has used his camera to create poignant meditations on visibility, race, place, and American history. From early street portraits made in Harlem to a recent series imagining an escape from slavery on the Underground Railroad, Bey explores photography’s potential to reveal communities and stories that have been underrepresented or even unseen.

With Drawn Arms opened at the High Museum in the fall of 2018. The exhibition was the culmination of a multiyear collaboration between Los Angelesbased conceptual artist Glenn Kaino and Olympic gold medalist Tommie Smith. By bridging the past and present, the exhibition powerfully resonated in the current moment of reckoning with racial injustice in America. The show closed a few months later, but Kaino’s Invisible Man (Salute) is still on view on the High’s campus. The story of With Drawn Arms continues in a new documentary by Glenn Kaino and Afshin Shahidi, available now on STARZ.

Today is #electionday! Roughly 10,000 Fulton County residents chose the High Museum as their early voting location. If you didn't vote early, be sure to get out and #VOTE today! : @victoriacyanne

Tide Pool: A Sensory Collage of Autumn’s Exhale It’s smoke rising through the trees, a deep sigh of release, yellow and orange, the smell of burning firewood. Explore artworks, a Spotify playlist, and a poem to immerse in an autumn mood. Read more: https://medium.com//tide-pool-a-sensory-collage-of-autumns

Happy #Halloween! Don't forget your mask. This eerie scene of masked children on Halloween illustrates street photography’s core principle of capturing evocative moments in ordinary life. Among the important early pioneers of the style, Helen Levitt photographed her home neighborhood of Brooklyn beginning in the 1930s and developed a distinctive style that secured her position in the canon. Children were her most common subject. Helen Levitt (American, 19132009), New York, 1939, Gelatin silver print.