John Portman Exhibit at High Museum

“John Port­man: Art and Archi­tec­ture” is a won­der­ful exhibit that can now be viewed at the High Museum through April 18, 2010. This venue fea­tures some of the extra­or­di­nary projects designed by the incom­pa­ra­ble Atlanta native.

In addi­tion to many of John Portman’s design plans, large-scale pho­tographs, arti­cles and detailed archi­tec­tural mod­els will be shown.

Per­haps the most inter­est­ing works in the gallery are John Portman’s paint­ings and sculp­ture. Most of these have never been pub­licly pre­sented at an exhibit before.

John Port­man grad­u­ated from the Geor­gia Insti­tute of Tech­nol­ogy in 1956. In 1967 he gar­nered inter­na­tional acclaim for his design of the 22 story atrium, the first of its kind, in the Hyatt Regency Atlanta.

Down­town Atlanta is home to many of his other land­mark projects includ­ing the Westin Peachtree Plaza, The Atlanta Mar­riott Mar­quis, Amer­i­c­as­Mart, and the Peachtree Cen­ter Com­plex. Amer­i­c­as­Mart is cur­rently the largest whole­sale mar­ket­place in the world.

Even more com­pelling are his inter­na­tional projects such as the Incheon 151 Tower at Songdo Land­mark City, Incheon, Korea which will be the world’s sec­ong largest build­ing when com­pleted, or the Zhe Jiang For­tune Finance Cen­ter in Hangzhou, China. Other works include Tomor­row Square, Shang­hai, China; Bei­jing Yin­tai Cen­tre, Bei­jing, China; Marina Square, Sin­ga­pore; Jin Hongqiao Inter­na­tional Cen­ter, Shang­hai China; and the Wen­zhou Zhixin Plaza, Wen­zhou, China.

Other projects high­lighted at the fas­ci­nat­ing High Museum event, titled John Port­man: Art and Archi­tec­ture, com­prise of Ent­elechy I — his stun­ning Atlanta home built in 1964; Ent­elechy II his sprawl­ing home in Sea Island, Geor­gia; Sun Trust Plaza, Atlanta; the Embar­cadero Cen­ter and Hyatt Regency, San Fran­sico, the Westin Bonaven­ture Hotel, Los Ange­les, Cal­i­for­nia; and the mag­nif­i­cent Renais­sance Cen­ter in Detroit, Michigan.

To learn more about the John Port­man Exhibit and the High Museum of Art, please visit www.High.org.

Leonardo da Vinci Exhibit at the High Museum

“Leonardo da Vinci — Hand of the Genius” Exhibit is now Pre­mier­ing at the High Museum in Atlanta through Feb. 21.

This extra­or­di­nary Atlanta event at the High Museum of Art includes 50 works from Leonardo da Vinci and also Donatello, Rubens and Verrochio.

One of the more promi­nent works fea­tures Rustici’s colos­sal bronze sculp­tures from the facade of the Bap­tis­tery in Flo­rence. Other works include col­lec­tions from the Vat­i­can Muse­ums, the British Museum, the Musee du Lou­vre and Her Majesty Queen Eliz­a­beth II.

There are new works divulged at the High Museum that are attrib­uted to Leonardo da Vinci. The recent restora­tion of Verrocchio’s Relief for the Sil­ver Alter revealed two of the fig­ures made very dif­fer­ently than the oth­ers. It indi­cates they were cre­ated by Leonardo da Vinci and not Ver­ro­chio who was his teacher.

Leonardo da Vinci: Hand of the Genius is the first exhibit to exam­ine the mas­ters inter­est into Renais­sance sculp­ture. More than 20 sketches and stud­ies by Leonardo will be on exhibit for the very first time in the United States.

For more infor­ma­tion visit www.high.org.

Pho­to­graph by Paul McPar­land — AtlantaGAToday.

Hank Aaron by Robert Weingarten

Hank Aaron — Dig­i­tal Pho­to­graph fea­tured at “The Por­trait Unbound: Pho­tographs by Robert Wein­garten” exhibit at the High Museum of Art.

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