I have another confession. If you’ve read my past columns, you know I have a show addiction. I’m also a nerd. The inner nerd became more hidden with age. In elementary school, I didn’t know that I should tamper it and would always ask my Grandma Peggy to quiz me about various things. She was a talented, creative art afficionado who later in life became a sculptor. Some of her favorite places were “the Met” (Metropolitan Museum of Art) and MOMA (Museum of Modern Art). “Name that artist” became one of my favorite nerdy games as we would walk around and look at works produced by famous people. While her artistic talent did not pass along in my DNA, I love art museums and make time to visit the High in Atlanta regularly. If you have never been, the architecture is just as stunning as the art. My recent visit there was planned months in advance because Amy Sherald’s exhibit “American Sublime” is currently on display until September 27, 2026. If you are an art lover and have not been yet, you won’t want to miss it. According to Webster’s, sublime is an adjective that means “lofty, grand, of outstanding spiritual, intellectual, or moral worth, tending to inspire awe usually because of elevated quality (as of beauty or grandeur) or transcendent excellence.” In art history, the word was most often used to describe the majestic American landscapes produced by the Hudson River School painters in the19th century. Sherald has redeployed the term for her collection of African American…
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