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I imagine that very few of us will be sorry to place 2020 in the rearview mirror. As professor Nancy Koehn of the Harvard Business School recently stated, we’ve each been struggling to live with and manage a “slow burning, high risk crisis.”

Born in Eatonton, Georgia, David Driskell (1931–2020) was a revered American artist whose work inspired generations of artists and audiences alike.

At the end of 2020, the Museum announced a major acquisition of historical American folk art from the collection of Anne and Robert Levine.

In September 2020, the Museum received an extraordinary gift of forty-one prints, ten sculptures, one drawing, and one oil painting, the generous bequest of the High’s longtime benefactors Irene and Howard Stein.

Alexander Calder and Pablo Picasso—two giants of twentieth-century modernism whose works are widely known but who are not usually mentioned in the same breath.

Electrifying Design will reexamine lighting as a primary object—a catalyst of innovation and an agent of experience—as well as the key aspects that make it unique as a discipline.

This exhibition showcases one hundred twenty photographs, charting the medium’s history from the dawn of the modern period to the present through the work of women photographers.

Through prints, drawings, and photographs drawn from the High’s collection, this exhibition explores the many ways Americans engaged with life beyond the city limits.

Ragnar Kjartansson is celebrated internationally for his work that combines musical, theatrical, and cinematic structures and scenarios to evoke personal and collective meaning through an immersive and emotional experience of art.