Queen Nefertari’s Egypt

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This exhibition presents the work of an artist who was celebrated by the American craft world.

Katherine Choy: Radical Potter in 1950s New Orleans

This exhibition presents the work of an artist who was celebrated by the American craft world.

Images of Reclusion and Retirement in Japanese Edo-Period Painting

The Free Hermit Life

Images of Reclusion and Retirement in Japanese Edo-Period Painting

Photographer Anne Noggle often looked to herself to produce revelatory images.

Anne Noggle: Herself

Photographer Anne Noggle often looked to herself to produce revelatory images.

The sculptures, paintings, and manuscripts on view illuminate the visual traditions of Jainism.

The Pursuit of Salvation: Jain Art from India

The sculptures, paintings, and manuscripts on view illuminate the visual traditions of Jainism.

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Egyptian tupperware for the afterlife? 🤯 #Explo

Egyptian tupperware for the afterlife? 🤯 #ExploreNOMA with Objects Conservator Ingrid Seyb, who tells us about the distinct smell of one object in "Queen Nefertari's Egypt."

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🎨: Food Storage Box, from the Tomb of Imhotep, Valley of the Queens, New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, Reign of Thutmose I (about 1493–82 BCE). Wood with organic material. Collection of the Museo Egizio, S.05081.
🎥: @ddrewwsstubbss

FINAL WEEK: "Treasure Island" runs through this Fr

FINAL WEEK: "Treasure Island" runs through this Friday, May 27. 🗺⁠
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Don't miss @thenolaproject's all-new adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic pirate tale in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden. Designed for all ages, this production follows the story of Jim and his mother Ruth, who are simple innkeepers in a quiet seaside village. All that changes with a surprise visit of a mysterious sailor on the run from a one-legged pirate named Silver. Soon, they find themselves on a ship bound for infamous Skull Island.⁠
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☠️ Get your tickets at the link in our bio.

Over centuries, Jain art has focused largely on th

Over centuries, Jain art has focused largely on the depiction of the twenty-four Jinas, or Tirthankaras, who serve as model examples for those who are trying to break the cycle of reincarnation and reach enlightenment, or kevala jnana.⁠
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Sometimes specific Jinas in this lineage are identifiable by their physical appearance or other symbols. At other times, the figures are generic, suggesting the ways in which, from a spiritual standpoint, each of the twenty-four Jinas serves the same essential function for devotees.⁠
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This South Indian painting from the nineteenth century depicts a caturvimshati, or a configuration of all twenty-four of the Jinas, each shown flanked by a pair of attendant gods and goddesses.⁠
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👉 To learn more about the visual traditions of Jainism through works dating back to the third century, visit "The Pursuit of Salvation: Jain Art from India," on view at NOMA through October 9.⁠
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🎨: "Caturvimshati, an Ensemble with Twenty-Four Tirthankaras," from Karnataka, Mysore, c. 1825–75. Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper. On loan from the collection of Dr. Siddharth K. Bhansali, EL.2020.4.42.

#GertrudeKäsebier was part of a network of photog

#GertrudeKäsebier was part of a network of photographers, including Eva Watson-Schütze and Anne W. Brigman, who advocated for the artistic possibilities of the medium.⁠
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Instead of merely documenting one's surroundings, Pictorialist artists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries thought about how cameras could be used to create truly modern works of art as evocative as a painting or a sculpture. This photograph by Käsebier features Beatrice Baxter Ruyl, who was a frequent model for the artist's pictures exploring womanhood.⁠
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Käsebier was born #OnThisDay in 1852. 🎂⁠
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🎨: Gertrude Käsebier, "The Sketch [Beatrice Baxter Ruyl]," 1903. Platinum print. Museum purchase, Dedicated Funds to Zemurray Foundation, 78.77.

Paint the town with these ancient Egyptian artist

Paint the town with these ancient Egyptian artist tools. 🧑‍🎨⁠
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The village of Deir el-Medina was a planned community for the highly skilled workers and artisans who constructed and decorated the royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings and the Valley of the Queens. The masons, painters, and other craftspeople of Deir el-Medina used tools and materials such as the brushes, chisels, and hammers seen here, to create the pharaohs' and their wives' homes for the afterlife.⁠
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Roughly in operation from the 16th to 11th centuries BCE, Deir el-Medina was continuously occupied until the fall of the New Kingdom. One of the most important archaeological sites in Egypt, Deir el-Medina was excavated by Ernesto Schiaparelli, then director of the @museoegizio, in 1905. The village continues to be a crucial source of information about the ways in which ordinary people lived in ancient Egypt.⁠
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👉 See these artist materials and learn more about the village of Deir el-Medina in "Queen Nefertari's Egypt," on view through July 17.⁠
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📷: @justenwilliams for @visitneworleans

NOW ON VIEW 👀 A new exhibition looks closely at

NOW ON VIEW 👀 A new exhibition looks closely at the work of Katherine Choy, an artist who combined expression with handicraft to create forward-looking artworks in ceramics and other media.⁠
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Choy’s early works show inspiration from Asian clay traditions, as was popular among American potters in the 1950s. However, while director of ceramics at Newcomb College, Choy subverted those conventions to produce jagged, painterly vessels that were truly her own.⁠
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📍 "Katherine Choy: Radical Potter in 1950s New Orleans" is on view through April 23, 2023. Click the link in our bio to learn more.⁠
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🎨: Katherine Choy, "Group of Two Vases and a Pitcher," c. 1952–57. Glazed stoneware. Collection of the @clayartcenter, Port Chester, New York.

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