Book Club
NOMA Book Club Discussion Program – CANCELED
Join fellow book lovers as we read and discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art, artists, art museums, NOMA’s collections and exhibitions. The selection for March is Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad by Jacqueline Tobin and Raymond Dobar.
NOMA Book Club Curatorial Program – CANCELED
Join fellow book lovers as we read and discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art, artists, art museums, NOMA’s collections and exhibitions. The selection for April is Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Treasures of Central Asia by Peter Hopkirk.
NOMA Book Club Discussion Program – CANCELED
Join fellow book lovers as we read and discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art, artists, art museums, NOMA’s collections and exhibitions. Our full 2020 schedule and reading list has been announced. Organized by NOMA’s Felix J. Dreyfous Library, the Book Club is an informal group. You do not have to attend every meeting...
NOMA Book Club Discussion Program
Join fellow book lovers as we read and discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art, artists, art museums, NOMA’s collections and exhibitions. The selection for May is The Badass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts by Joshua Hammer.
NOMA Book Club Discussion Group
Join fellow book lovers as we read and discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art, artists, art museums, NOMA’s collections and exhibitions. The selection for June is An Orchestra of Minorities by Obioma Chigozie.
NOMA Book Club Discussion Group
Join fellow book lovers as we read and discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art, artists, art museums, NOMA’s collections and exhibitions. The selection for July is The Sympathizer: A Novel by by Viet Than Nyguen.
NOMA Book Club Discussion Group
Join fellow book lovers as we read and discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art, artists, art museums, NOMA’s collections and exhibitions. The selection for August is The Queen’s Embroiderer: A True Story of Paris, Lovers, Swindlers, and the First Stock Market Crisis by Joan DeJean. Book Club sessions are conducted on Zoom until further notice.
NOMA Book Club Curatorial Program
Join fellow book lovers as we read and discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art, artists, art museums, NOMA’s collections and exhibitions. The selection for September is The Forgotten Room by Karen White, Beatriz Williams, and Lauren Willig.
NOMA Book Club Discussion Program
Join fellow book lovers as we read and discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art, artists, art museums, NOMA’s collections and exhibitions. Our full 2020 schedule and reading list...
NOMA Book Club Discussion Program
Join fellow book lovers as we read and discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art, artists, art museums, NOMA’s collections and exhibitions. The selection for October is Seven Days in the Art World by by Sarah Thornton.
NOMA Book Club Special Event: Guest Speaker Susan Hymel
In conjunction with November's reading selection, A Dream and a Chisel: Louisiana Sculptor Angela Gregory in Paris, 1925–1928 by Angela Gregory and Nancy Penrose, NOMA's Book Club has invited Susan Hymel, the Gregory family historian, to share her insights into the renowned artist by way of a Zoom video conference.
NOMA Book Club Discussion Program
Join fellow book lovers as we read and discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art, artists, art museums, NOMA’s collections and exhibitions. The selection for November is A Dream and a Chisel: Louisiana Sculptor Angela Gregory in Paris, 1925 – 1928 by Angela Gregory and Nancy Penrose.