Former President Jimmy Carter toured the exhibit with High Museum director Michael Shapiro and I like going to Atlanta, but I hate driving to Atlanta.
Fortunately, the past few years, one of my sisters has always driven there. We usually go grocery shopping at one of the Japanese stores.
And, of course, we go to eat. Almost always in a Japanese restaurant.
I do go to some shows at the Fox Theatre with my friend Bill Rich. And I make him drive.
Some of the 15 Terracotta Warriors, the emperor's retinue and even a horse is in "The First Emperor: China's Terracotta Army" at the High Museum of Art.Right now, the High Museum of Art, 1280 Peachtree St. N.E., has an extraordinary exhibit, "The First Emperor: China's Terracotta Army." Besides that, it still has the final year of the Louvre's loaned masterpieces.
The High has nine terracotta warriors, including a general, from the Museum of the Terracotta Army and the Cultural Relics Bureau of Shaanxi Province in Xi’an, China.
The site at Xi’an is one of the places I really, really want to see.
And I can’t wait to see it. I know it’s not China, but since I blew my whole budget for the next couple of years going to Japan last summer, this will be closest I get to Xi’an.
Besides the general (only one of seven unearthed so far), the foot soldiers and archers, there are acrobats, musicians, a court official, a stable boy, a strongman and a chariot horse. There are even some bronze birds.
It’s speculated that the birds were trained to dance while the musicians played.
There are lots of photographs and artifacts from the archaeological digging as well.
Besides this exhibit, you can see the last exhibit from the Louvre, “Louvre Atlanta: The Louvre and the Masterpiece,” through Sept. 4. Johannes Vermeer’s “The Astronomer” will leave Feb. 15 and will be replaced by Georges de la Tour’s “The Card-Sharp (with Ace of Diamonds)” on Feb. 17.
The museum is open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Wednesday and Friday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Thursday and noon-5 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $11-$18.
Call 404-733-4444 or go to www.high.org
Now it’s going to be incredibly crowded. In fact, the museum has sold more than 100,000 tickets already. The best times to go are weekday afternoons because most school groups come in the morning, said Cassandra Champion Streich, the High’s senior manager of public relations.
Ther is another blockbuster exhibit, “Tutankhamuh: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs,” in the Atlanta Civic Center, 395 Piedmont Ave. N.E., and is presented by the Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University through May 25.
This is one of four of King Tut's "coffinette," an ornately decorated canopic vessel that held his internal organs. More than 150 artifacts can be seen in this exhibit from 2,000 years of ancient Egyptian history, including the largest image of King Tut ever found. This 10-foot-tall statue may have been placed at his mortuary temple and it retains much of its original paint.
The Tut exhibit is open 9 a.m.–7 p.m. daily, with the last ticket sold at 5 p.m., except 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Christmas Eve, with the last ticket sold at 2:30 p.m.; closed Christmas day.
This is a funerary mask of King Tut.
Call 404-727-4282 or go to www.kingtut.org
If you're on a budget, but want to see both exhibits, there is a way to do that.
You can go to both the King Tut and Terracotta Warriors exhibits for one price.
Through the Atlanta Convention & Visitors Bureau, you can buy a ticket for $39 for Tuesday-Thursday or $41 for Friday-Sunday. You must choose the day and time slot. Tickets for youths are $25.
There’s another attractive ticket package: $29.99-$39.99 for the King Tut exhibit and the Georgia Aquarium. When you buy your ticket, you must choose the day and the time slot you want to be at the Atlanta Civic Center.
You can spend one day at one of the attractions and then go back within 30 days to see the other.
Believe it or not, I have yet to see the Georgia Aquarium. So maybe this will be my incentive to see the Tut exhibit and the fish!
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