High Museum's Picasso to Warhol exhibit is worth a trip to Atlanta

Unsure what to do with the kids all week while they're out of of school? Check out “Picasso to Warhol: Fourteen Modern Masters” exhibit at Atlanta's High Museum of Modern Art. This exhibit offers a wonderful glimpse at the famous work of Henri Matisse, Piet Mondrian, Constantin Brancusi, Fernand Léger, Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, Giorgio de Chirico, Joan Miró, Alexander Calder, Romare Bearden, Louise Bourgeois, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns. The exhibit of over 100 works of art was created exclusively for The High from the collection at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

Click here for a list of the High Museum's special family events planned for Thanksgiving weekend.

Social media users with Smartphones will enjoy a new app called ArtClix developed by Second Story Interactive Studios. The app brings together photo-recognition software and social media. While at the museum, guests can pull up the app, take a photo of the icon near the work of art that they are viewing and information about the artist and the piece will appear on the user's phone. ArtClix is free and available on iPhones and Androids.

Download the app before you get to the museum. Service was sketchy in the different gallery rooms. I was glad that I still paid a few extra dollars to get the traditional headphone and audio recording set. I enjoyed listening to curators and other artists talking about certain pieces. On the traditional headphone set, a family tour option is also available. I think it would be fun for kids because it gives them an opportunity to look for hiding elements in paintings and to compare different works of art.

Admission to the museum is $18 for adults, $15 for seniors (65 and older) and students, $11 for kids ages 6-17 and free for kids 5 and younger. You can buy timed tickets online here but most days you can purchase tickets at the door without a long wait.

The museum is closed on Mondays and on Thanksgiving. Regular hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday; noon-5 p.m. Sunday and 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Thursday (except for Thanksgiving, of course).

If you can't make it this weekend, there's no reason the panic. The exhibit is open until April 29. If you have some extra time off around the winter holiday break, you might want to visit then.

A few highlights of "Picasso to Warhol":

Henri Matisse’s “Dance (I),” 1909

Pablo Picasso’s “Girl before a Mirror,” 1932, and “Night Fishing at Antibes,” 1939

Jasper Johns’s “Map,” 1961

Andy Warhol’s “Self-Portrait,” 1966

Constantin Brancusi’s “Bird in Space,” 1928

Jackson Pollock’s “Number 1A,” 1948

Fernand Léger’s “Three Women,” 1921–1922

Romare Bearden’s “The Train,” 1970

Alexander Calder’s “Portrait of a Man,” 1929, and “Spider,” 1939

Louise Bourgeois’s “Quarantania, I,” 1947–1953

Giorgio de Chirico’s “The Song of Love,” 1914

Marcel Duchamp’s “In Advance of the Broken Arm,” 1964

Joan Miró’s “Person Throwing a Stone at a Bird,” 1926

Piet Mondrian’s “Composition No. II, with Red and Blue,” 1929

This story was originally published November 21, 2011 at 10:51 AM with the headline "High Museum's Picasso to Warhol exhibit is worth a trip to Atlanta."