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 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 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.

NOMA Book Club Curatorial Program

The NOMA Book Club meets monthly to discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art in NOMA’s collection and exhibitions. The selection for January is Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art by Mary Gabriel.

NOMA Book Club Group Discussion

The NOMA Book Club meets monthly to discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art in NOMA’s collection and exhibitions. The selection for February is The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks.

Book Club Group Discussion

The NOMA Book Club meets monthly to discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art in NOMA’s collection and exhibitions. The selection for March is Midnight Blue: A Novel by Simone van der Vlugt.

Book Club Curatorial Program

The NOMA Book Club meets monthly to discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art in NOMA’s collection and exhibitions. The selection for April is Louis Armstrong, In His Own Words: Selected Writings by Louis Armstrong, edited and introduction by Thomas Brothers.