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.
Get a preview of the upcoming exhibition New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations, with a panel discussion on contemporary West African masquerade.
Thomas J Price’s Time Unfolding is the first of three new additions in celebration of the garden’s 20th anniversary.
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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What`s your favorite sport to watch in the Olympics? 🛶🤺💦🤸🛹🏋️
We`re getting in the mood for the Paris Summer Games by remembering when @nbcolympics popped up in front of NOMA in 2022.
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📷: @dpritykin
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On Thursday, August 15, join the museum’s book club for a discussion about Tania James’s “Loot.” 📚
NOMA’s book club meets monthly to discuss fiction and non-fiction books inspired by art in the museum’s collection and exhibitions. Copies are available at the @nomamuseumshop, @nolalibrary, or your favorite place to find books.
Visit noma.org/read for more program information.
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Thank you @stcharlesavenuemag for spotlighting the chairs of this fall`s Visionaries Gala and Garden Party Presented by First Horizon Bank on your July cover!
Celebrating 20 years of NOMA`s Besthoff Sculpture Garden, the two events—on Thursday, November 7, and Friday, November 8—will highlight the natural and artistic beauty of the garden.
All funds raised from the Visionaries Gala and Garden Party support the future of NOMA and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden.
Click the link in our bio to learn more and get your ticket today.
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Swipe to explore a scene of natural beauty, erudite conversation, and convivial consumption. 🍃🍶
Currently on view at NOMA, this folding screen and its pair present a lively and engaging scene of scholars gathered together in a rural setting. Yokoi Kinkoku, one of the great individualist painters of the late 18th and early 19th centuries in Japan, chose as his subject an 8th-century drinking poem by the Chinese poet Du Fu. The poem documented an actual drinking club made up of eight Tang-dynasty scholars, famed for their capacity to consume copious amounts of alcohol. The red-robed fellow being dragged along, visible in slide number two, is Li Bo, another of the greatest poets in Chinese history.
A monk of the Shugendo sect, Kinkoku was an irreverent iconoclast who, due to his habitual drunkenness and disregard for orthodoxy, was removed from positions of authority in several monastic establishments. Eventually he found stability and notoriety in Shugendo, a syncretic religion that brought together Shinto mountain worship, Buddhism, and folk religion.
Among its spiritual exercises was ritualized mountain climbing, thought to bring its practitioners supernatural power. Kinkoku is now recognized as an idiosyncratic and inventive painter, famous for his dense mountain landscapes, as well as lively figural depictions.
This folding screen is currently on view in "Envisioning Japan: Transformational Gifts from Kurt A. Gitter, MD, and Alice Yelen Gitter," which honors more than five decades of philanthropy by the Gitters.
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🎨: Yokoi Kinkoku, "Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup," 1815. Ink and color on paper. Museum Purchase, 2023.2.a,b.
📍: Third floor, Kurt A. Gitter, MD, and Alice Yelen Gitter Gallery
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Cool off at the museum with wellness programming from @moveyabrass filled with gentle movement, breathwork, and sound baths. 🧘
Led by instructor Kathleen Barry, these low-intensity classes invite participants to move inward and restore themselves this summer.
Enjoy the AC and the creative energy throughout the museum every Thursday morning through August 22.
Classes are free with advance registration. Click the link in our bio to reserve your spot today.
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Did you know that #EdgarDegas created sculptures as well as paintings? 🧑🎨
The artist only exhibited sculpture once during his lifetime, and in these two examples on view on NOMA’s second floor, visitors can see how Degas used three dimensions to explore movement and space.
#Degas was born #OnThisDay in 1834 in Paris.
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🎨: Edgar Degas, “Walking Horse,” c. 1880. Bronze. Gift of the Musson Family, 50.4.
🎨: Edgar Degas, “Dancer Adjusting Her Stocking.” Bronze. Museum purchase through the Ella West Freeman Foundation Matching Fund, 72.21
📍: Second floor, Blumenthal Stich Jepsen Gallery
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