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Dawn DeDeaux’s work addresses apocalyptic themes. She discusses her forthcoming retrospective in 2021.
Often focusing on the confines of her own home, Dorothea Tanning transformed ordinary furniture into painted scenes where magical experiences might unfold.
Engage children ages 1 to 2 with free Facebook Live workshops on Saturday mornings through June 20.
Curator Nic Aziz discusses a future collaboration between NOMA+, a mobile pop-up museum, and The Black School, an experimental art academy focusing on radical Black history.
Russel Wright’s “Saturn” punch service is an innovative example of the use of aluminum in mid-century modern design.
You Are Here embraces photography’s success as a faithful record but also questions the medium’s effectiveness in depicting and sharing fragments of our world.
Join Saturday morning family-oriented virtual workshops with a NOMA teaching artist. Limited enrollment remains for January 16. Advance registration required.
NOMA staff, in partnership with independent New Orleans bookseller Octavia Books, offer a list of titles centered upon themes of home.
Photographers make choices within the singularity of a home-space and whether to expand or explode the domestic myths they have been invited to turn into a picture.
Create a self-portrait on paper from collaged materials using your hand as a representation of your body.
Like all pictures of windows, Leslie Gill’s Studio Window, West 56th Street, New York is an example of “photographing photography.”
During the stay-at-home order, a team of NOMA employees are making an ongoing effort to call every Museum Member.
Teens are invited to submit photographs to NOMA’s Instagram account in a “Captured in Quarantine” photo challenge.
Kathleen Tunnell Handel discusses her ongoing project photographing residential mobile homes and manufactured housing communities. Photo: ©2020 Kathleen Dreier
![In the 1950s, Japanese designer Junichi Arai began weaving with metallic fibers, which were traditionally made by wrapping metal wire around a thread of cotton, wool, or silk, to give the fabric the desired shine.
After eight years of study at Gunma University, Arai developed an original method to melt aluminum onto processed polyester films to update the technique. This textile—presented in "Atomic Number Thirteen: Aluminum in 20th-Century Design"—is an example of this process for vacuum-plating aluminum and other metals to the surface of polyester film. The metal-plated film was cut into very thin strips, which were then woven together with traditional wool fibers.
Arai's technical innovations led to high-profile collaborations with Rei Kawakubo, Issey Miyaki, Thierry Mugler, Gianni Versace, and others.
👉 Click the link in our bio to read the full Object Lesson from curator Mel Buchanan.
[Detail of Jun-ichi Arai, "Textile: Blue," 1995. Wool, polyester, and aluminum. Transfer from the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh.]
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