High Museum of Art

Voice and Vision in Southern Self-Taught Art
Susan Crawley
April 12, 2007
01:25:28
The High Museum's Susan Crawley, associate curator of folk art, moderates a panel discussion inspired by Carol Crown and Charles Russell's recent publication Sacred and Profane: Voice and Vision in Southern Self-Taught Art. Noted scholars discuss self-taught art in a cultural context.
Marie Antoinette: Patron of the Arts
Virginia Shearer
April 5, 2007
00:49:30
Virginia Shearer discusses the Bust of Marie Antoinette, 1782, by the Svres Porcelain Factory. The High Museum of Art presents Shearer, the High's Associate Chair for Education.
Jane Prophet: An Artist's View of the Future of the Museum
Jane Prophet
April 4, 2007
01:09:57
Jane Prophet, a British artist who works across disciplines to create internationally acclaimed projects that have broken new ground in art, technology, and science, discusses her artwork.
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Selective Attention: Neuroscience and the Art Museum
Barbara Stafford
March 22, 2007
01:12:40
Barbara Stafford, William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of the University of Chicago's Department of Art History, discusses the relationship between art museums and neuroscience.
Lives and Landscapes of the French Monarchy
William Beik
March 17, 2007
00:48:57
French historian William Beik of Emory University explores the lives of the monarchs, including Kings Louis XIV, Louis XV, and Louis XVI, and the transformation of French culture into the pinnacle of art and refinement.
Marie-Antoinette, Queen of Fashion
Caroline Weber
March 10, 2007
01:12:38
Caroline Weber tells the story of how Marie-Antoinette's clothing choices helped make and unmake her reputation, altering the very course of French history.
American Artists and the Louvre: Morse Gallery
Paul Staiti
February 24, 2007
02:12:05
Paul Staiti speaks about Samuel F.B. Morse in the context of other early nineteenth-century American artists who sought training in Paris, and Jean-Philippe Antoine presents on issues of imitation and reproduction vis-a-vis Morse's inventive painting.
Shifting Meaning: African Art in the World
Susan Vogel
February 22, 2007
00:55:19
New York University professor Susan Vogel, a renowned museum founder and specialist in African art shares her eight-minute film Fang: An Epic Journey, which covers the adventures of an African sculpture as it moves from Cameroon in 1910 to America in the 1970s.