Wang Qingsong creates elaborately staged large-format photographs that focus on the dramatic social, political, and cultural changes in China in the post-Mao era.
Creative Assembly member Jourdan Barnes will share a selection of photography from his Black People Be series, which aims to portray the vibrancy of Black existence.
This art and wine series blends the sacred and social elements of guided meditation and wine appreciation to relax the mind and elevate the seven senses.
Stay cool and experience creative energy across the museum with a Move Ya Brass wellness class.
Join the NOMA book club on Thursday, July 18, for a discussion on Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Winfred Rembert.
Thomas J Price’s Time Unfolding is the first of three new additions in celebration of the garden’s 20th anniversary.
Get a preview of the upcoming exhibition New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations, with a panel discussion on contemporary West African masquerade.
Celebrate 20 years of the Besthoff Sculpture Garden with a year-long celebration of events and more.
This major solo exhibition of work by Wangechi Mutu brings together nearly one hundred sculptures, paintings, collages, drawings, and films to present the breadth of the Kenyan–American artist’s multidisciplinary practice.
Read moreThis exhibition highlights some of the most pioneering African artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in the museum’s collection.
Read moreThis exhibition explores the unique methods in which the South, in particular New Orleans, dealt with the passage of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, which banned alcohol in the United States.
Read moreDrawn from NOMA’s permanent collection, works by Ilse Bing, Ruth Bernhard, Lola Alvarez-Bravo, Carlotta M. Corpron, Florence Henri, and Lee Miller illustrate ways that women pushed the boundaries of surrealist art.
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A few more days to catch "Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined" at NOMA ✨ Do you have weekend plans to visit?
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📸: coachreed83 @cafenoma @anna.ton @nomad.nelle @margotnorton
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An invitation from curator Orlando Hernández Ying to visit the museum’s collection of Precolumbian art on the third floor 👋
Hérnandez Ying is NOMA’s Lapis Curator of the Arts of the Americas, the first permanent curatorial role at the museum decorated to an expanded look at the arts of North, Central, and South America.
His research focuses on the art of the ancient Americas, the Spanish American viceroyalties, and modern and contemporary Latin America.
Over the next few years, Hernández Ying is working on a major permanent installation at NOMA that takes an expansive and inclusive look at “American art” over time—a project supported by the Terra Foundation for American Art.
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Join us this Friday, July 12, for NOMA at Night as we close out “Wangechi Mutu: Interwined” with a bang! 💥
👉 Performances from @kumbuka_african_dance_co and @laurenashleemessina
💿 DJ sets from @mynameisphlegm
🎤 Gallery talks and after-hours access to the exhibition
🧑🎨 Art-making activities for all ages
🍸 Food or drink available for purchase from @cafenoma
Discounted admission for museum members and free entry for visitors ages 19 and under. Click the link in our bio to get your tickets today.
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📸: @angelo._ from the opening celebration of “Wangechi Mutu Intertwined”
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Have you seen “Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined” at NOMA? The major retrospective of nearly 100 works by the Kenyan-American artist closes next Sunday, July 14. ...
Quiz time ⏰ Can you name the three artists whose works are shown in this illustration?
To celebrate 20 years of NOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture Garden, winter design intern @hannahjb.art sketched a few of her favorite views in rhetorical garden.
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People say we’re alike, they say we got the same hair
Let’s work it out on the remix
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🎨: Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema, “Shrine of Venus” (detail), 1889. Oil on wood panel. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Chapman H. Hyams, 15.3.
📍: Second floor, Bea and Harold Forgotston Gallery
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