Join the NOMA Book Club! Each month Book Club reads art-related fiction and non-fiction, and engages in discussion groups, curatorial programs and field trips correlating with each book.

Most Book Club programs start promptly at noon, but please come at 11:30 if you wish to bring a sack lunch and meet with friends. NOMA provides water and soft drinks. Please RSVP for the meetings you wish to attend.

Book Club members may buy their reading selections at the NOMA Museum Shop at a 20% discount. Call the Shop at 504.658.4133 for more information.

To join NOMA Book Club or for more information, contact 504.658.4117 or at bookclub@noma.org.

November’s Selection

Standing in the Sun: a Life of J.M.W. Turner by Anthony Bailey 

Back in print after a decade, this book, which A. S. Byatt called “a pleasure to read,” explores the life of J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851), Britain’s most mysterious painter, whose range of work encompasses seascapes and landscapes, executed in both immensely powerful oil paintings and intimate watercolors. Anthony Bailey crafts what the Guardian called a “very fine portrait” of Turner, the short and stout son of a Covent Garden barber, who achieved fame and fortune during his lifetime and whose works remain enormously popular and influential today. Bailey “writes with flair and imagination” (Sunday Times), using archival material, scholarly literature and research, and many of Turner’s sketchbooks, paintings, and watercolors to shed new light on this complicated and secretive artistic figure. (Description available here)