Fast forward

de Jodi Hauptman, Samantha Friedman, Michael Rooks

The High Museum of Art will explore the development of modern and contemporary art by selecting key years in art history that represent watershed moments in the 20th century in the upcoming exhibition 'Fast Forward: Modern Moments 1913 >> 2013'. The exhibition will present approximately 100 works of art created during the years 1913, 1929, 1950, 1961, and 1988, as well as the art of today. The exhibition will examine the years prior to the start of World War I and the Great Depression, the lead-up to postwar American prosperity and the years preceding the Cuban Missile Crisis, the fall of the Berlin Wall and how artists responded to and were influenced by events on the world stage. The exhibition will also present the works of contemporary artists Aaron Curry, Katharina Grosse, and Sarah Sze, whose work extends themes first explored in the 20th century and updates them for the 21st century. 'Fast Forward: Modern Moments 1913 >> 2013' will be one of the largest surveys of 20th-century art to ever be exhibited in the southeastern United States. Co-organized by the High Museum of Art and The Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA), as part of the two museums' ongoing collaboration, the exhibition will be on view from October 13, 2012, through January 20, 2013.--Press release.