More than 500 years ago, Japanese artists developed a technique that celebrates breakage as a part of life’s journey. This ceramic-repair methodology, known as kintsugi, highlights cracks as part of the beauty and the history of an object, rather than something to disguise. Read More
Lotte Stam-Beese’s portrait of fellow Bauhaus student Albert Braun reflects the innovative creative process nurtured by the Bauhaus School of Design in Weimar-era Germany. Read More
In a new body of large-scale sculptures, painting, installations, and performances, which includes The Mete of the Muse, Fred Wilson focuses on histories of the African diaspora, and the lingering legacy of colonialism and slavery in the United States and around the world. Read More
Commissioned in honor of NOMA’s centennial, Forever is a large-scale wall painting by the Philadelphia-based, Nigerian-born artist Odili Donald Odita. Extending 150 feet, the mural contains 87 colors, calibrated to… Read More
Taken on its own as a visual object, this punch service in NOMA’s decorative arts collection is striking. A large aluminum sphere punch bowl centers a galaxy of spherical cups riding on a ring like Saturn’s, the repeated shapes emphasized and softened by spherical birchwood handles. Read More