Circa: The NCMA Blog
Arts and Exhibitions
How We Remember: Memory and Vernacular Photography
NCMA intern Julianne Miao explores how photographers often memorialize unknown figures, raising provocative questions ab…
Feb 9, 2022
Eye to Eye
Boghossian Is Back
The NCMA welcomes home one of its treasured paintings by Skunder Boghossian, recently featured in The Met’s blockb…
Feb 4, 2022
What’s New
NCMA Wins Grant to Reimagine Judaic Art Gallery
The Mandell Foundation offers generous support for the Museum’s special collection of Judaic ceremonial art.
Jan 7, 2022
Arts and Exhibitions
Mucha and Rodin: Friendship beyond Borders
Mucha’s friendship with French sculptor Auguste Rodin was fruitful for both artists. NCMA curator Michele Frederic…
Dec 15, 2021
Arts and Exhibitions
How We Remember: Museums and Vernacular Photography
NCMA intern Julianne Miao raises the question of how found art might become fine art.
Dec 8, 2021
Eye to Eye
Modern Beauty
“Beauty,” says Lumbee artist Alisha Locklear Monroe, “is knowing who you are and not apologizing for i…
Nov 15, 2021
Eye to Eye
Talent Within: Christopher Ciccone
NCMA collections photographer Chris Ciccone discusses the portrait he has featured in the staff-artist exhibition on vie…
Nov 15, 2021
Arts and Exhibitions
Bringing Mummies to Life
With the use of CT scans and digital technology, visitors to the Golden Mummies exhibition can explore what lies beneath…
Jun 8, 2021
Arts and Exhibitions
Golden Mummies: Reckoning with Colonialism and Racism in Egyptology
Golden Mummies of Egypt brings to Raleigh an exhibition that is more than just about mummies. NCMA Egyptologist Caroline…
Jun 8, 2021
Behind the Scenes
Bacchus after the Makeover
Curious about Bacchus’s transformation? Take a look at this video clip documenting the entire conservation treatment, …
Aug 11, 2020
Eye to Eye
Art Advocacy: The Aesthetic of Solidarity
Do allies participate in oppressive systems that further marginalize the communities they attempt to support? Artists in…
Jul 23, 2020
Eye to Eye
Why 20th-century African art is both the best art you’ll ever experience and not art at all.
At least not in the Western sense. NCMA intern Sarah Frisbie explains.
Jul 9, 2020