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High develops new smartphone application for "Picasso to Warhol" exhibition

ATLANTA, GA.- The High Museum of Art, working with award-winning Second Story Interactive Studios, has developed a new Smartphone application called ArtClix, which brings together photo-recognition software and social media to create a new kind of museum app that moves beyond traditional audio tours. The app has been created in its initial iteration to be used in conjunction with the High’s exhibition “Picasso to Warhol: Fourteen Modern Masters,” which opened to the public on Saturday, October 15. ArtClix is free and currently available both for iPhones and Androids. It is available for download from Apple’s App Store and the Android Marketplace. “Museums are evolving, and we want to create additional ways for our visitors to experience art,” said Michael Shapiro, the High’s Nancy and Holcombe T. Green, Jr., Director. “Visitors want to do more than just read our labels—they want to t