Upcoming Events
Engage directly with works of art in the galleries through docent-led HIGHlights tours every Tuesday through Sunday. Tours begin at 1 p.m. in the Taylor Lobby near the elevators.
Family Saturdays incorporate arts programming for everyone. Friends and families of any age can experiment, play, and make art in studio workshops and learn about art on view through gallery tours.
Join us for a conversation inspired by Kim Chong Hak, Painter of Seoraksan. We will explore how Kim’s expressive synthesis of painting traditions—connecting Korean art history and folk art with expressive, Western-style painting—anticipated the current vogue for fusing centuries of Korean tradition with aspects of contemporary global culture. The panelists, creatives of Korean descent, will discuss how they synthesize tradition and contemporaneity in their work.
Call your friends or family or show up on your own for a one-of-a-kind photo opportunity at the High Museum of Art. Choose from a selection of three different backgrounds within the museum.
Join us for an evening conversation featuring Matt DiGiacomo, aka Matty Boy, as he discusses his fashion trajectory and current projects with Andrew Westover, the Eleanor M. Storza Deputy Director of Learning & Civic Engagement.
Call your friends or family or show up on your own for a one-of-a-kind photo opportunity at the High Museum of Art. Choose from a selection of three different backgrounds within the museum.
Pulitzer Prize-winning fashion editor and writer Robin Givhan discusses her new book Make It Ours: Crashing the Gates of Culture with Virgil Abloh.
Call your friends or family or show up on your own for a one-of-a-kind photo opportunity at the High Museum of Art. Choose from a selection of three different backgrounds within the museum.
Led by local artist Peter Ferrari, this walking tour will explore new murals painted for Forward Warrior, an annual festival founded and curated by Ferrari himself.
Discover the beauty of botanical forms through your own creative lens in this flexible, drop-in workshop experience. Drawing inspiration from Kim Chong Hak’s vivid interpretations of nature and treasures from our permanent collection, explore multiple creative stations at your own pace.
Become a Member
Members enjoy early access to new exhibitions, free admission, exclusive discounts when shopping and dining, complimentary parking, and other great perks. Being a member also means you’re a key part of helping us fulfill our mission to deliver the best of visual arts to Atlanta and beyond.
Our Collections
From nineteenth-century sculpture to contemporary folk art, our seven themed collections include more than 19,000 works of art from around the world. We regularly rotate what’s on display, so you’ll never have the same visit twice.
African Art
The High Museum of Art’s African Art collection prominently features the art and material culture of West and Central African makers, reflecting the cultural, social, and visual histories of these regions from antiquity to modern day.
American Art
The High Museum of Art’s historical American Art collection includes over 1,200 paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints made by artists working within the United States between 1780 and 1980. With strengths in historical painting and sculpture, the collection demonstrates the evolution of a distinctly American point of view in artistic representation.
Decorative Arts and Design
The High’s Decorative Arts and Design collection explores the broad materializations of design across time and place. It features the renowned Virginia Carroll Crawford Collection—the most comprehensive survey of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American decorative arts in the southeastern United States; the Frances and Emory Cocke Collection of English Ceramics from 1640 to 1840; Southern works; and global contemporary design.
European Art
The High’s European Art collection comprises more than a thousand paintings, sculptures, and works on paper, spanning six centuries of artistic endeavor, from the 1300s through the 1900s.
Folk and Self-Taught Art
Not all great artists attended art schools. The artists featured in the High’s Folk and Self-Taught Art collection instead were shaped primarily by lessons learned from family, community, work, and spiritual experiences. Some painted on canvas, while others depended on more readily available materials: stone from local quarries, decommissioned doors, scrapyard metal, leftover fabric, and even chewing gum.
Modern and Contemporary Art
The Modern and Contemporary Art collection encompasses art from 1945 to the present in all media and from diverse geographic locations and cultures. It provides a broad overview of the art of our time with outstanding examples of work by definitive artists who emerged in the postwar era; midcareer artists who have expanded and challenged the canon since the early 2000s; and emerging artists whose influential work suggests new directions for the future.
Photography
The High Museum of Art began collecting photographs in the early 1970s, making it among the earliest museums to commit to the medium. With more than 8,500 prints, the Photography department comprises the Museum’s largest collection. It is particularly strong in American modernist and documentary traditions from the mid-twentieth century and in contemporary trends.
