High Museum to Offer Half-Price Tickets for Dalí Exhibition

ATLANTA, GA.- Beginning next Tuesday, August 17, the High will offer half-price adult tickets ($9), all day, for walk-up visitors only on Tuesdays through August 31. Visitors purchasing a new museum membership on these Tuesdays will also receive a free gift. Groups of 10 or more will receive two additional free tickets when booking for these Tuesdays by calling 404-733-4550. Beginning September 7 through October 29, the High will offer half-price tickets ($9) every weekday (Tuesday–Friday) from 11 a.m. until [...]

Old Master Paintings from a Private Collection to Be Offered at Sotheby’s

LONDON.- The word Venice is, to many, evocative of grand canals and sleepy backwaters, lined with the facades of beautiful palazzi. What lies behind those facades, however, often remains a mystery. Sotheby’s sale, the Splendour of Venice, to be held in London on Tuesday July 6, 2010, allows a glimpse into the dazzlingly beautiful world that existed inside some of Venice’s most splendid palazzi during some of the most prosperous and charmed years of the Venetian Republic. The sale will [...]

Titian’s Monumental “Diana” Paintings to Travel to U.S. for First Time

ATLANTA, GA.- The High Museum of Art, in collaboration with the National Galleries of Scotland (NGS), will present an exhibition of 25 masterpieces of the Venetian Renaissance—12 paintings and 13 drawings—that will include two of the greatest paintings of the Italian Renaissance, Titian’s “Diana and Actaeon” and “Diana and Callisto” (1556–1559). The two monumental paintings have never before traveled to the United States . The exhibition will also include paintings by Tintoretto, Veronese and Lotto from the collection of the [...]