Amy Sherald + Isamu Noguchi at the High Museum

Join us for two significant art exhibits at the High in June. *Amy Sherald: American Sublime* \- the Columbus\, Georgia native's first major museum retrospective\, organized by SFMOMA \- brings roughly fifty paintings spanning two decades to Atlanta as the tour's fourth and final stop\, following sold\-out runs at SFMOMA\, the Whitney\, and the Baltimore Museum of Art\. The Whitney called Sherald "one of the foremost artists of our time"; SFMOMA places her, alongside Edward Hopper, Alice Neel, and Kerry James Marshall, as "one of America's defining contemporary portraitists." ArtMajeur called the exhibit "more than a retrospective; it's a correction." Sherald's grayscale skin tones, vibrant wardrobes, and quietly monumental compositions reframe who is permitted to occupy the American portrait canon - and Essence captured the show's charge precisely, calling her sitters "stylists of self" rather than mere subjects. The final gallery includes *Trans Forming Liberty* (2024), Sherald's Statue of Liberty reimagined as a trans woman holding a torch of marigolds - the rare explicitly political work in a body that the artist, who is openly queer, frames as "a salve, a call to remember our shared humanity and an insistence on being seen." Sherald trained in Atlanta, graduated from Clark Atlanta University, and won the High's Driskell Prize in 2018. *Isamu Noguchi: "I am not a designer,"* the first design retrospective of the Japanese American artist's work in nearly twenty-five years,…