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After a nine-month search, evaluating candidates from across the country and overseas, the High Museum of Art has chosen Randall Suffolk, currently the director of the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Okla., to serve as the Atlanta museum’s new director, the AJC has learned exclusively.

Suffolk replaces Michael E. Shapiro, who for two decades led the High through enormous growth and dramatic change. Shapiro announced last October he would step down this summer. His last day at the High is Friday, July 31.

From the earliest images carved into cave walls to the present day, the human figure has been a profound source of inspiration for artists.

The Philbrook Museum of Art opens the exhibit “The Figure Examined: Masterworks from the Kasser Mochary Art Foundation,” which will feature more than 100 works by some of the most famous artists of the 19th and 20th centuries.

One of the missions of the Vilcek Foundation is to highlight the many contributions to American society and cultural made by immigrants to this country.

The exhibit “From New York to New Mexico: Masterworks of American Modernism from the Vilcek Foundation,” which opened Sunday at the Philbrook Museum of Art, explores the development of a uniquely American form of avant-garde art.

Philbrook Museum of Art announced the important gift of 364 works of Hopi art, including katsinas, basketry and other media from Atlanta and Santa Fe-based collector, Wayne S. Hyatt. Featuring works by more than 160 artists, the Hyatt Collection both expands and strengthens the impressive survey of 20th and 21st century Native American art within the Philbrook holdings.

The Hyatt family began traveling to the Hopi reservation in northern Arizona in the late 1980s, quickly becoming friends with many artists representing several Hopi communities. With the encouragement and involvement of his late wife Amanda, as well as the continued interest and support of his current wife Margaret, the Hyatt collection now includes a broad range of works spanning the late 1980s to 2013. “The Hopi Collection I am giving to Philbrook consists of far more than cottonwood and plant fibers, carvings and baskets,” said Hyatt. “It contains cultural, indeed spiritual, components as well. Visiting dear friends and ‘family’ on the Mesas and being receptive to what they help me understand has been a vital, motivating force to my collecting.”

In simplest terms, “Monet and the Seine: Impressions of a River,” the exhibit that opens Sunday at the Philbrook Museum of Art, is a show of only 17 paintings.

But it’s the sixth painting that one encounters in the course of moving through this exhibit that makes one realize that this seemingly modest show is something quite extraordinary.

The painting in question is “The Breaking of the Ice,” and it is, in itself, something of an anomaly. The winter of 1879 was one of the coldest on record, causing the Seine River to ice up completely.