High Life Magazine by Charles Noerenberg

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Member Magazine DECEMBER / JANUARY / FEBRUARY 2013

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Table of Contents DECEMBER / JANUARY/ FEBRUARY 2013

FROM THE DIRECTOR

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FAST FORWARD Exhibition Overview Lecture: Glenn Ligon

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FRIDA & DIEGO Interview with a Curator Exhibition Overview Special Programs

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EXHIBITIONS The Art of Thornton Dial Gogo: Nature Transformed Susan Cofer: Draw Near

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NEWS In Memoriam: Gudmund Vigtel Collectors Evening

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PROGRAMS Family Program Highlights Evenings at the High

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NEWS Just for Members Museum Shop Wine Auction

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DINING AT THE HIGH Members receive a 10% discount at the Café and C.J.’s Coffee Bar with their membership cards. MUSEUM SHOP Museum members receive 10% off all regularly priced items in our Museum Shop and online at high.org. GROUP DISCOUNTS Let us help you plan a memorable group outing at the High! Groups enjoy discounted tickets, Shop discounts, and more. For details, call 404-733-4550. FULTON FREE SATURDAYS The High would like to thank Fulton County Arts and Culture for their generous support. In addition to helping provide a variety of programs to Museum visitors, this funding allows the High to offer Fulton County Saturdays, when walk-up admission is free for Fulton County, Georgia, residents on the first Saturday of each month. This program is a wonderful opportunity to bring non-member guests to experience the Museum. ONLINE OFFERINGS • Visit our website at high.org • Like us on Facebook • Follow us on Twitter: @ highmuseumofart • See our videos on YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/highmuseum • Visit our Family Programs Blog at highlyhandson.wordpress.com • Download our free Fast Foward ArtClix smartphone app at the App Store or Google Play • Visit our Film Blog at screensonhigh.wordpress.com FOR ADVERTISING INFORMATION Margaret Malone, Cultural Media Inc. 1001 West Van Buren Street Chicago, Illinois 60607 e-mail: maggie@culturalmediainc.com 312-593-3355

FEATURED IN THE FAST FORWARD EXHIBITION COVER: Henri Matisse (French, 1869–1954), The Blue Window, 1913, oil on canvas, 511/2 x 35 5/8 inches. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund. © 2012 Succession H. Matisse/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

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From the Director

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Dear Members, As you will notice, this issue of HighLife looks a bit different from our previous editions. For the first time, HighLife includes a select number of advertisements. We have made this change in order to provide you with four additional pages of the content you have requested, including articles on our exciting slate of upcoming exhibitions, programs, and events. The High is committed to bringing the finest art in the world to Atlanta. This fall and winter we continue that mission with two fantastic exhibitions. Our big fall show is Fast Forward: Modern Moments 1913››2013, a groundbreaking exhibition that features works from The Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA). Fast Forward will examine how world events shaped the development of modern art and features many of the most important artists and artworks from the past century. Beginning with Henri Matisse and his contemporaries and moving all the way up through Jeff Koons and rising star Sarah Sze, the exhibition will be an exclusive opportunity to see how modern art has developed over the past one hundred years. The exhibition includes masterpieces by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Salvador Dalí, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, and Andy Warhol, among many others. 4

In February we will present Frida & Diego: Passion, Politics, and Painting, a major exhibition of the works of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, the two central figures of Mexican Modernism. This exhibition marks the first time that important works by these artists will be shown in the Southeast, and the High will be the only U.S. venue for this show. So, if you are a fan of Frida and Diego, you will not want to pass up this rare opportunity to view their best-known works. The High has many other exhibitions you will enjoy, from the exquisite drawings of Susan Cofer (opening October 27) to the striking works of Thornton Dial (opening November 3) to the creative jewelry designs of Gogo Ferguson (opening January 19, 2013). In addition to our ever-expanding permanent collection, creative programming, and innovative events, these exhibitions ensure that there is always something exciting going on at the High. We look forward to seeing you soon!

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Sarah Sze (American, born 1969), Book of Parts (Centennial), 2012, mixed media, metal shelves, wood, lights, plaster, felt, and string, High Museum of Art commission, courtesy of the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York. Photo: Mike Jensen.

Fast Forward:

Modern Moments 1913››2013 THROUGH JANUARY 20, 2013 WIELAND PAVILION, COUSINS FAMILY SPECIAL EXHIBITION GALLERIES

Michael Rooks

Wieland Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art

One of the largest surveys of twentieth-century art ever to be exhibited in the southeastern United States, Fast Forward: Modern Moments 1913››2013 explores the development of modern and contemporary art during watershed moments in twentiethcentury art history. Fast Forward presents 164 works created during the years 1913, 1929, 1950, 1961, and 1988, by 105 of the most influential artists of our time, as well as the art of today. The exhibition examines the years prior to the start of World War I and the Great Depression, the lead-up to postwar American prosperity, and the years preceding the Cuban Missile Crisis and the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Willem de Kooning (American, born the Netherlands, 1904–1997), Woman, I, 1950–1952, oil on canvas, 75 7/8 x 58 inches, The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchase. © 2012 The Willem de Kooning Foundation/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

RELATED PROGRAMS Conversations with Contemporary Artists: Glenn Ligon Thursday, January 10 7 p.m., Rich Theatre O Tickets required. Visit high.org or call 404-733-5000.

Come see Fast Forward again and bring your friends. Guests of members receive $5 off walkup admission to the High.

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Fast Forward also includes the work of contemporary artists Aaron Curry, Katharina Grosse, and Sarah Sze. Curry’s sculptures on the Museum lawn are descendents of works by Jean Arp and David Smith on view in the 1929 and 1950 sections of the exhibition, while Grosse’s abstract paintings on the Wieland Pavilion skyway level are connected to the Synchromist paintings of Stanton MacDonaldWright and Morgan Russell in the 1913 section. Finally, in its dense accrual of information, Sarah Sze’s ambitious installation Book of Parts (Centennial) encapsulates the exhibition in its entirety by exploring the show’s premise of representing one hundred years of history through art as well as the modern impulse to amass knowledge. Representing the present moment, Curry, Grosse, and Sze reflect upon the past to reveal how contemporary artists are influenced by art history and events on the world stage.

This exhibition is part of the MoMA Series, a collaboration between The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the High Museum of Art, Atlanta. PRESENTING SPONSOR

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LEAD SPONSORS The Gary W. and Ruth M. Rollins Foundation

Additional support is provided by The Rich Foundation, the Modern Masters Circle of the High Museum of Art, and an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.

Conversations with Contemporary Artists

Glenn Ligon

7 p.m.,Thursday, January 10, Rich Theatre Galleries open until 10 p.m.

Glenn Ligon is known for his resonant works in multiple media that explore issues surrounding race, sexuality, representation, and language. Ligon has said of his work that he wants to “make language into a physical thing, something that has real weight and force to it.” To this end he frequently uses evocative text—including quotations from culturally charged and historically relevant material by writers such as James Baldwin, Jean Genet, and Zora Neale Hurston—as both a source of imagery and a means of addressing the politics of representation. He works in a variety of media, including painting, neon, installation, video, and print. Ligon’s art surveys America’s cultural legacies and situates them in contemporary life. Glenn Ligon’s work is currently on view in the Fast Forward exhibition and in our permanent collection modern and contemporary galleries, located on the Wieland Pavilion skyway level.

The Conversations with Contemporary Artists program is made possible by presenting sponsor The Coca-Cola Company, with additional support provided by the Wish Foundation Fund of the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta and by Jane and Clay Jackson.

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Interview with Elliott King Consulting Curator of Frida & Diego

How did the exhibition get its start?

What excites you about the exhibition?

Frida & Diego came about collaboratively between the High’s director, Michael E. Shapiro, and the director of the Art Gallery of Ontario, Matthew Teitelbaum. Both had been seeking a project that would bring the two museums together, and when the opportunity arose to present two of Mexico’s most famous artists—Kahlo and Rivera—it was simply too wonderful to pass up!

The way I see it, this is an exhibition that challenges stereotypes: One tends to think of Frida and Diego as very different types of artists. Diego is the more politically radical, over-the-top muralist painter, while Frida takes the submissive role as his delicate, inward-looking wife. Frida & Diego sets aside these preconceptions. Although their approaches to painting differed, they shared a certain revolutionary spirit, a heartfelt identification with the workers of Mexico, and a pride in the country’s indigenous cultures and traditions. Until now, there has not been an exhibition of this scale to bring these two artists together, and that honestly surprises me. It’s a great story, and the direct comparison of their art raises some fascinating, overlooked parallels.

The core of the exhibition comes from three important private collections of Mexican art: the Dolores Olmedo Collection, the Galería Arvil, and the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection. We couldn’t have asked for better partners, and through their generosity we will be displaying some of the artists’ most iconic works. When I was brought aboard as Consulting Curator, we took a look at what was already a very strong checklist—about seventy paintings in the core group, including twenty-five percent of Kahlo’s entire body of work—to which we were able to add some exciting loans from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; and other museums and private collections. There will be nearly 140 works on view—by far the most extensive exhibition ever to bring these artists together. Why was it important to visit Mexico City in preparation for the exhibition?

Prior to visiting Mexico City, I had a very academic understanding of Frida’s and Diego’s art. It’s one thing to read books, but one gets a completely different, very personal perspective experiencing the people, culture, and traditions that clearly meant so much to both artists. Touring the Blue House, it was powerful to see the photographs of Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin that Frida hung over her bed and to imagine that in this courtyard in 1938 Frida and Diego would have been having a leisurely lunch with Leon Trotsky. Still, today, Mexico City is incredibly vibrant, politically active, and hyperaware of its indigenous past; modern buildings are directly situated next to temples that have been there since the time of the Aztecs. It is easy to see why Frida and Diego were so connected to Mexico.

André Breton, the founder of Surrealism, labeled Frida as a Surrealist upon seeing her work for the first time. As an expert on Salvador Dalí, Surrealism’s best-known contributor, what are your thoughts on Frida as a Surrealist?

When André Breton visited Frida and Diego’s home in 1938, her work was a revelation—Breton later described Frida’s painting as “a ribbon around a bomb.” But it’s important to remember that she never intended to be a Surrealist. Surrealism is about trying to access the subconscious and create without any social, aesthetic, or moral boundaries. Frida was not trying to broach her subconscious through her art—as she said in an interview, “They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.” Frida’s imagery, while often eroticized and even graphic, is very deliberate in its autobiographical content. As such, her painting really has much more in common with traditional Mexican votive paintings and the tradition of Magic Realism. At the same time, however, I think it’s fair to say that Surrealism at least rubbed off a little bit onto her work. We have a great still-life painting, The Bride Frightened at Seeing Life Opened, and it really is a terrific example of Surrealist imagery. Maybe the comparison to Dalí is especially apt: neither artist can really be defined by Surrealism alone.

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Passion, Politics, and Painting FEBRUARY 14–MAY 12, 2013 WIELAND PAVILION, COUSINS FAMILY SPECIAL EXHIBITION GALLERIES

Frida & Diego is the first large-scale exhibition to pair the work of two of Mexico’s most famous artists, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. Rivera achieved international fame as Mexico’s most famous muralist, while Kahlo’s intimate paintings and self-portraits were embraced by the Surrealists but largely unrecognized until well after both artists’ deaths. Frida & Diego offers a new perspective on the couple’s artistic relationship, encompassing how each artist’s work reflects a shared commitment to the political and cultural values of post-revolutionary Mexico. Assembled from three distinguished collections of Mexican art—the Museo Dolores Olmedo, the Gelman Collection, and Galería Arvil—together with key loans from other museums and private collections, the exhibition provides the 14

opportunity to view almost one-quarter of Kahlo’s entire body of work and a range of Rivera’s painting styles, from his early Cubist period and mural studies to his portraits and later landscapes. The exhibition features nearly 140 works, including eighty paintings. RELATED PROGRAMS Exclusive member preview dates on page 26. Frida Kahlo (Mexican, 1907–1954), Self-Portrait with Monkeys (Autorretrato con Monos), 1943, oil on canvas. Diego Rivera (Mexican, 1886–1957), Calla Lily Vendor (Vendedora de Alcatraces), 1943, oil on Masonite, The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection of Mexican Art. © 2012 Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D. F./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

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This exhibition is co-organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; and the Museo Dolores Olmedo, Mexico City, in association with The Vergel Foundation, The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection of Mexican Art, and Galería Arvil. This exhibition is supported by a generous grant from the Forward Arts Foundation, The Sara Giles Moore Foundation, MetLife Foundation, and The Eleanor McDonald Storza Exhibition Endowment Fund.

Frida & Diego Programs LECTURE: ELLIOTT KING VIVA LA VIDA: THE ART OF FRIDA KAHLO AND DIEGO RIVERA + O

FILMS MUSEUM AND A MOVIE SATURDAYS + O In conjunction with Frida & Diego we will be screening the films Que Viva México (1931) at 12 noon and Frida (2002) at 2 p.m in the Hill Auditorium every Saturday from February 16 through May 11. Filmed in 1930–1931 by famous Russian director Sergei Eisenstein, Que Viva México is an archival treasure whose striking aesthetics and avant-garde sensibility continue to stand the test of time. Frida (2002), starring Salma Hayek in the title role and Alfred Molina as Diego Rivera, captures the vibrancy, theatricality, and spectacle of the Mexican duo’s life and art. Come enjoy the work and lives of Frida and Diego with a morning in the galleries and an afternoon of film.

Carlos Reygadas. © Photofest

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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23 2 p.m., Rich Theatre Portrait of Gabriel Figueroa by George Hoyningen-Huene, 1945.

FILMS EXTRAORDINARY VISIONS: MEXICO’S PAST AND PRESENT THROUGH THE EYES OF GABRIEL FIGUEROA AND CARLOS REYGADAS O Gabriel Figueroa defined Mexico’s image in the 1930s during the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema. By adapting cutting-edge American cinematographic techniques, Figueroa illuminated Mexico’s cultural landscape and set a precedent for capturing its stark beauty—unmatched until director Carlos Reygadas burst onto the film scene with an equally awe-inspiring vision of Mexico’s terrain and people. Reygadas, winner of numerous international awards, including the 2012 prize for Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival, is a passionate aesthete who uses Mexico’s magisterial landscape to tell his stories. He surveys his country’s cultural niches and troubled relationships and has secured for Mexico a spot on the international art-cinema stage. Schedule at high.org.

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Frida and Diego each achieved international recognition in the history of modern art. Rarely, however, have their paintings been considered in relation to each other, largely due to the view that they worked in very different styles and with separate intentions. In celebration of the opening of Frida & Diego, Consulting Curator Elliott H. King will discuss the artistic relationship the two shared during their twentyfive years together as a married couple. Although their approaches to painting differed, both were influenced early on by traditional European painting; both caught the attention of the international avant-garde; and both were passionately committed to Mexico’s indigenous people, traditions, and post-revolutionary values. Through the pairing of works in the Frida & Diego exhibition, King will expand upon two artists who individually may be familiar but about whom as a couple much remains to be said.

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Hard Truths: The Art of Thornton Dial THROUGH MARCH 3, 2013 ANNE COX CHAMBERS WING

Thornton Dial has lived his life in Alabama, and little-known Southern black artistic practices inform his work. He has spent the last two decades exploring the complexities and contradictions of American history and culture, tackling a wide range of social and political subjects in his art. Dial also has created many works that examine the plights of women, the homeless, the rural and urban poor, and minorities. An array of symbolically charged salvaged materials appears in his heavily built up canvases and elaborate assemblages filled with multi-layered meanings. Speaking in a voice that offers new perspectives and understandings, Dial has forged a potent aesthetic 16

Susan Crawley Curator of Folk Art

language rooted in the allegorical found-object displays of African American yard art. This major survey presents fifty-nine of Dialâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s large-scale paintings, sculptures, and wall assemblages that present the human spectacle, with its narratives of corruption and moral strength, folly and triumph. This exhibition is organized by the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Generous support of this exhibition is provided by the Friends of Thornton Dial and Art Partners. Thornton Dial (American, born 1928), The Beginning of Life in the Yellow Jungle, 2003, plastic soda bottles, doll, clothing, bedding, wire, found metal, rubber glove, turtle shell, artificial flowers, Splash Zone compound, enamel, and spray paint on canvas on wood, 75 x 112 x 13 inches, collection of Nancy and Tim Grumbacher.

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Gogo: Nature Transformed JANUARY 19–JUNE 23, 2013 STENT FAMILY WING, SKYWAY LEVEL Sarah Schleuning

Curator of Decorative Arts and Design

This exhibition explores the role of the natural environment in shaping the jewelry and homewares created by Georgia designer Gogo Ferguson. Cumberland Island, the southernmost barrier island on the Georgia coast, plays a formative role in Gogo’s work as both her home base and her main source of inspiration. Mostly uninhabited by people, Cumberland Island is a nature-lover’s paradise; wild horses, boars, turkeys, and other feral animals roam freely. In 1986 Gogo returned permanently, with her infant daughter Hannah, to her family homestead on Cumberland and developed a new business, Gogo Jewelry. From the bones of animals to shells and seaweed washed ashore, nature provides the foundation for the elegant and eclectic works of wearable art produced through Gogo’s creative lens. Though the root of Gogo’s inspiration has remained unchanged, her work has evolved and transformed over time using different materials and techniques. The exhibition will celebrate the evolution of Gogo’s work, from the genesis of her rattlesnake-inspired logo to the exploration of a single form, such as bracelets inspired by various flora and fauna, and will debut new large-scale works—a seaweed sculpture and a sea urchin pouf—that offer new, previously unexplored creative possibilities. This exhibition is organized by the High Museum of Art. Generous support of this exhibition is provided by Friends of Gogo and the Isobel Anne Fraser–Nancy Fraser Parker Exhibition Endowment. Boar’s Tusk Necklace, 1986–1988, designed and made by Gogo Ferguson, 1986–1988, boar tusk and sterling silver beads, Deidra Smith Collection.

RELATED ITEMS Gogo Ferguson collaborated with her friend fashion designer Nicole Miller to create an exclusive silk ottoman scarf in celebration of Gogo: Nature Transformed. Member price $112.50 Non-member price $125

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Susan Cofer: Draw Near THROUGH JANUARY 27, 2013 WIELAND PAVILION LOWER LEVEL GALLERIES

Michael Rooks

Wieland Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art

The Museum is proud to present the first survey of drawings by Atlanta-based artist Susan Cofer. For more than three decades, Cofer has been known in the Southeast for her painstakingly delicate abstract drawings. Draw Near presents nearly one hundred drawings from 1975 to the present, eleven of which are from the High’s collection. The exhibition will follow Cofer’s career from her earliest explorations of macro- and microcosmic orders in the natural world through images inspired by such diminutive objects as nutshells and seedpods. Cofer’s endlessly inventive and evocative images emerge through a minute network of pencil lines, often suggesting phases of germination in plant life and organisms in embryonic stages of development.

The exhibition also includes sculptures made from wood, soapstone, and shaped paper, as well as sketchbooks containing drawings from Cofer’s travels in the Middle East. The exhibition invites viewers to experience Cofer’s drawings in several different ways by displaying them both on and off the wall—drawings are shown on desktops and in vitrines designed by the artist—offering a more intimate experience of the work, whose delicate and highly detailed surfaces beg for close scrutiny. This exhibition is organized by the High Museum of Art. Susan Cofer, Untitled (Water Form), 1980, colored pencil on paper, 101/2 x 191/2 inches, courtesy of the artist.

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In Memoriam: Gudmund Vigtel July 9, 1925–October 20, 2012

Gudmund Vigtel, 1983

The Board of Directors and staff of the High Museum of Art honor the extraordinary life of our friend and mentor Gudmund Vigtel. Vig, as he was commonly known, served as the director of the High Museum of Art for twenty-eight years, from 1963 to 1991. Gudmund Vigtel’s official title was Director, but in the early years, he handled everything from curatorial duties and development to volunteers and local artist encouragement. Vig took the helm at the High in the year following the tragic 1962 plane crash at Paris’s Orly airport, which took the lives of 122 Atlanta arts patrons. Despite these challenging circumstances, during his tenure he tripled the size of the Museum’s perma-

nent collection, established more than $15 million of endowment and trust funds, and increased the Museum’s operating budget from $60,000 to $9 million. He also grew the Museum’s staff from four to 150. Most notably, it was Vig who spearheaded the campaign that resulted in the construction of the High’s iconic Richard Meier–designed building, which opened to the public in 1983. The High Museum of Art as we know it today would not exist without the dedication and vision of Gudmund Vigtel. He was an artist, a scholar, a leader, and a true friend of the arts. The High and the Atlanta community are indebted to him for the way he transformed both the Museum and the city. 21

Collectors Evening

An exciting evening of competition

LEFT TO RIGHT: Curators Susan Crawley, Brett Abbott, Stephanie Mayer Heydt, Sarah Schleuning, David Brenneman, Michael Rooks, and Carol Thompson.

Please join us for our fourth exciting Collectors Evening on January 11, 2013. Competition among the Museum’s seven curators will be fierce as they persuade attendees to vote to acquire their objects for the Museum’s collection. Only a few curators will prevail. Previous Collectors Evenings have resulted in fifteen wonderful objects finding a home at the High. You can help your curator and the Museum by attending and voting, and you are guaranteed to have fun in the process. This year’s event will also include a live auction of donated works that will be available for sale to attendees. For information, visit high.org/collectorsevening or contact Ruth Richardson at 404-733-4557. 23

Family Program Highlights TOURS FAMILY WEEKEND TOUR + Saturdays and Sundays, 2 p.m.

Explore the High as a family on this interactive guided adventure in the galleries.

SECOND SUNDAY FUNDAYS

+ Second Sunday of every month 1 to 4 p.m.

Families can enjoy art-making workshops and interactive tours. December: Collage your way through the earliest years of Fast Forward: 1913 and 1929.

SELF-GUIDED TOURS + Self-guided family tours that focus on decorative arts, American art, and the High’s worldrenowned architecture. DISCOVERY PACKS + The Museum’s colorful backpacks are do-it-yourself gallery adventures that take families on engaging 30to 45-minute journeys.

January: Look at the work of living artists to get inspiration for making your own mini installation.

GREENE FAMILY LEARNING GALLERY +

February: Make art that you love in a very special Valentine’s Day workshop.

A hands-on discovery area with activities inspired by popular objects in the Museum’s collection.

TODDLER THURSDAY + Thursdays, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Join us for a new way of looking at the High’s collection through letters, numbers, colors, and shapes.

NEW! SUNDAY ART ADVENTURES: DOMINGOS DE AVENTURAS EN ART +

HOLIDAYS AT THE HIGH! +

Join us for our newest family program, which begins with the arrival of Frida & Diego. Each Sunday during the exhibition we’ll invite families to take part in interactive bilingual tours and special art-making workshops.

December 26–31, 1 to 4 p.m.

Make felt pastries inspired by Claes Oldenburg’s Pastry Case. It’ll be a sweet treat that you cannot eat!

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Every Sunday from February 17 to May 12 1 to 4 p.m.

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TEEN ARTLABS O Find inspiration in the High’s collections and exhibitions, then get your hands dirty in our workshops! You’ll work with some of Atlanta’s best artists, meet new people, and improve your DJ skills. An exhibition of student work in the High’s Greene Family Education Center will follow ArTLabs. For information: hmateenprograms@woodruffcenter. org or 404-733-4465. February: Teens explore the fashions of Frida! Design garb, craft accessories, and learn about the passion and politics of this fiery artist.

MLK DAY SLAM + Monday, January 21, 4 to 6 p.m.

Teen poets consider the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in Civil Rights Photography, 1956–1968 and respond to issues of social change at this special slam. TEEN FILM NIGHT + Thursday, January 17, 7 to 9 p.m.

Teen filmmakers find inspiration in the Fast Forward exhibition. Films are selected by the Teen Team.

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Evenings at the High VALENTINE’S DAY O Thursday, February 14, 6 to 10 p.m.

Love is in the air! Join us for an artfully romantic night at the Museum. Enjoy live music and dancing, see world-class works of art, and enjoy delicious food and champagne. Be among the first to see Frida & Diego: Passion, Politics, and Painting with works by one of the world’s most famous couples. Ticket includes admission and one glass of champagne. Additional food and beverages available for purchase. Admission: $30 per person; $50 per couple. Members: $15 per person; $30 per couple.

COLLEGE NIGHT +

FRIDAY JAZZ + O

Saturday, February 23, 7 p.m.–12 midnight

Third Friday of the month, 5–10 p.m.

The High is free for student members every day of the year, but on College Night we throw a party just for you! College students will mix, mingle, and explore the passionate, political worlds of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. Throw on that fancy tie, grab yourself a date, and come enjoy the party of the semester.

Friday Jazz is an evening of music and art held every third Friday (except December) at the High. In January we will host trumpeter Melvin Jones, and in February keyboardist Ike Stubblefield will perform. The entire Museum is open during Friday Jazz.

This program is made possible by presenting sponsor The Coca-Cola Company.

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Just for Members

Catherine Fink Senior Manager of Membership and Guest Relations Our schedules seem to get busier all the time! One misconception about visiting a museum is that you have to make it an all-day affair. One of the greatest benefits to being a member of the High is that you can drop by often for short visits. Here are some ideas for incorporating the High into your schedule. Stroll through the galleries on a rainy day.

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Take in a lecture on a Thursday evening.

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• Bring your family to a Second Sunday Funday for an hour or two. • Entertain business clients with the daily HIGHlights tours at 1 p.m. • Grab a sandwich in the Café and explore the latest exhibition during your lunch hour. • Enjoy a cocktail at Friday Jazz before your dinner reservation at a Midtown restaurant.

Your membership support plays an important role in the daily life of the High. In turn, we hope to make the Museum a greater part of your daily life. Thank you for your continued support. I look forward to seeing you in the galleries again soon.

Sarah Meister, curator in the Department of Photography, Museum of Modern Art, giving a tour to Museum members Phyllis and Sidney Rodbell.

Frida & Diego Member Previews Look for your invitation in the mail! Members are invited to be the first to preview this exhibition. GENERAL MEMBER * + February 9 and 13, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. February 10 and 12, 12 noon to 5 p.m. CIRCLE MEMBER TOURS * + Sunday, February 10, 6 to 9 p.m. CONTRIBUTING THROUGH PATRON MEMBER * + Monday, February 11, 6 to 9 p.m.

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Calling All Book Lovers! Rhonda Rogers and Pamela Ashe Art Partners Book Club Co-Chairs

Tina Marie Smith, Paige Marlow, and Erin Hollenbank.

Young Professionals Castleberry Hill Art Stroll As a Young Professional (YP) member of the High Museum of Art, I was treated to a private event at Emerging Art Scene this past August to kick off the monthly Castleberry Hill Art Stroll. Gallery owner Denise Jackson opened her space exclusively to YP members for a pre-stroll preview party and an artist lecture from Melissa Laskin, whose work was featured in the gallery’s exhibition Dressing a Canvas. Laskin’s abstract paintings on un-stretched, raw canvases were on view next to corresponding apparel; Laskin also makes abstract t-shirts inspired by her paintings in a line called Elvis Laskin. YP members then walked to Besharat Contemporary, Raw Space Gallery, Eyedrum Gallery, and more. Each space showcased local talent, with artists on hand to discuss their art and inspirations, and works were available for purchase at affordable prices. I appreciated that this YP event focused on the Atlanta art scene, which is as eclectic and edgy as the Castleberry Hill district itself. —ERIN HOLLENBANK To learn more about membership in Young Professionals, visit www.high.org/yp.

Merge your love of art and reading by joining our book club! Art Partners, the High’s social and philanthropic organization, sponsors a book club focused on art-related books. In January we are reading Barbara Kingsolver’s The Lacuna, partially set in Mexico and featuring Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera as characters, in gearing up for Frida & Diego: Passion, Politics, and Painting. The novel immerses readers in the history and culture that inspired Frida’s and Diego’s art. The book club is a great way to expand your connection to this special exhibition. For information about Art Partners, please visit high.org/artpartners. To find out about joining the book club, e-mail us at artpartners@woodruffcenter.org Members-only Special Offer Save on Gift Memberships! INDIVIDUAL MEMBERSHIP Buy one for $65 $55 or two for $130 $100 (save up to $30) DUAL OR FAMILY MEMBERSHIP Buy one for $95 $85 or two for $190 $160 (save up to $30) Three ways to give the gift of art LOG ON to High.org/gift CALL 404-733-4575 VISIT the on-site Membership Desk Valid on new memberships only; offer expires December 31, 2012. Order before December 7 to guarantee delivery by December 24. Memberships run one full year from purchase date.

Have Fun with Color in the High Shop LCD ALARM CLOCK designed by Theo Williams, this clock has four displays: time, date, weekday, temperature. Assorted colors available. Member price: $40.50. Non-member price: $45. GO CARS are one of our most popular toys for both boys and girls. Member price: $14.85. Non-member price: $16.50. COLOREVOLUTION WATCH is water-resistant to 5 ATM and features eye-catching graphics with a changing color palette as time passes. Member price: $90. Non-member price: $100. TM

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High Museum Atlanta Wine Auction March 20–23, 2013

AFTER TWENTY-ONE YEARS, THE TIME IS RIPE! JOIN US AS WE CELEBRATE A New Vintage in the Twenty-first Year of the High Museum Atlanta Wine Auction in 2013! Wine enthusiasts and food lovers will once again come together for the High’s largest fundraiser to celebrate the art of wine at the twenty-first annual High Museum Atlanta Wine Auction! Our co-chairs Christie Baty Hudgins and Alyson Rogers have made exciting plans for the Wine Auction’s twenty-first anniversary. Andy Beckstoffer of Beckstoffer Vineyards will join us in the tents as our Special Guest of Honor for the celebration. Old friends and new, world-renowned winemakers, and legendary chefs will come together for four unforgettable days of wine, art, food, and friends. This is one party you will not want to miss! 30

Our twenty-first year will be the debut party for a whole new vintage of the Wine Auction. You will be able to bid for the best in wine, travel, and food experiences and other exclusive items in the seriously sassy yet sophisticated atmosphere that only the High Museum Atlanta Wine Auction can deliver. Be a part of our twenty-first anniversary! For more details on benefactor packages, tickets, and a preview of special auction lots, please visit www.atlanta-wineauction.org or call 404-733-4543. Arrangements can be made for sealed and telephone bidding. Phone or e-mail us at wineauctioninfo@woodruffcenter.org for an auction catalogue.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS THE SECRET CELLARS TOUR Sunday, February 24 Private residences in Atlanta We are giving you the keys to the inner sanctums of Atlanta’s most serious wine lovers. Take the chauffeured tour, meet the city’s expert sommeliers, sample wines, and savor a delicious dinner.

DINE AROUND DINNERS Wednesday, March 20 Restaurants throughout Atlanta Imagine going to a top Atlanta restaurant where the chef is preparing an exclusive multi-course meal not found on the regular menu especially for you! Then imagine the world’s best winemakers joining you and pouring wines they have paired perfectly with the chef ’s special menu. You cannot make reservations like this anywhere else. WINEMAKER DINNERS Thursday, March 21 Private residences in Atlanta Atlanta’s finest private residences provide the beautiful settings for these creative culinary dinner parties. Atlanta’s best chefs and several from around the South will take over the kitchen and create an experience you will not soon forget. Top winemakers will contribute the other half of this collaborative masterwork, bringing the rarest treasures from their cellars to your glasses.

LEFT: Victoria and Howard Palefsky, Louise Sams, and Michelle and David Crosland celebrate the kick-off of the twenty-first annual Wine Auction. ABOVE: The 2013 co-chairs, Christie Baty Hudgins and Alyson Rogers, unveil the 2013 Wine Auction theme with founder Dick Denny. Images: ©Ross Henderson Photography

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TASTING SEMINARS Friday, March 22 Atlanta’s finest restaurants Taste exceptional wines from around the globe, poured and described by the winemakers. These exclusive tastings will offer magnificent experiences that will swirl in your glass. OFFICIAL AIRLINE

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VINE-TO-TABLE Friday, March 22 The tents in Atlantic Station In keeping with the changing times, the 2013 Wine Auction is inaugurating a new event for Friday night—the Vine-to-Table Feast. This year we are taking a simple and fresh approach to our Friday night dine-and-dance party. The seating is still reserved, and the winemakers will be right there with you as always, but there will be a looser, more relaxed vibe in the air—right down to the music we play. VINTNERS’ RECEPTION AND LIVE AUCTION Saturday, March 23 The tents in Atlantic Station The Vintners’ Reception will kick the day off in style by featuring wine tastings from many of the world’s top wineries as winemakers pour generous samples of the latest and greatest wines. Dozens of Atlanta’s best restaurants and chefs will serve choice samples of mouthwatering foods.

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Other Select Corporate Sponsors include: Four Seasons Hotel Atlanta, Lanier Parking Solutions, Sherlock’s Wine Merchant, St. Regis, SunTrust, The Coca-Cola Company, and smartwater.