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.

January’s Selection

The Birth of Venus: a Novel by Sarah Dunant

THE BIRTH OF VENUS breathes life into the history of Florence — its art, philosophy, religion and politics — but it is clearly Alessandra’s story. The character of Alessandra was born when Sarah Dunant, who owns a home in Florence, discovered a lack of records about women artists during the fifteenth century. Was the desire there, she wondered, to play a part in the city’s art movement but not the means to express it? (Review available here)