High Museum of Art in Atlanta

Atlanta High Museum of Art is an art museum in the southeast of the first floor. The museum is located on Peachtree Street in Midtown Atlanta. The High Museum is a division of the Woodruff Arts Center, which also includes the Alliance Theatre and the 14th Street Playhouse. Since the museum’s collection grew over the next two decades, money has been raised to build a larger structure. After collecting $ 20 million, the high moved into a new building in 1983, designed by award winning architect Richard Meier. This tripled the museum’s exhibition space. In a new development in 2005, three new buildings designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano opened.

The High Museum of Art has more than 12,000 pieces from his collection. Among these 7:20 p.m. century American art, crafts and design, European art, African art, folk art, modern and contemporary art and photography. In addition to permanent collections, the windows of a large number of temporary exhibitions per year. Three special exhibitions are now in his final weeks at the High Museum.

“Salvador Dali”… The final work is the first exhibition of his works since 1940, the exhibition includes over 100 works by Spanish surrealist paintings, drawings and engravings of Atlanta is the only place for this exhibition, which runs until January 9 2011. “Titian and the Golden Age of Venetian Painting” runs through Jan. 2, 2011 the exhibition includes 25 works from the Renaissance Italian painter of the National Gallery of Scotland, some of which have never shown in America, “Signs of Life … Photography Peter Seka contains 88 prints by the photographer of Danish origin. The exhibition ends on January 9, 2011.

The High Museum of Art recently received a donation of 47 works of art, most of these posters and prints, the largest Parisian artists such as Toulouse-Lautrec. A special exhibition of works entitled “Toulouse-Lautrec and Friends” will open in January 2011.