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Toxic Beauty: Aerial Photographs Offer Warnings
Shows at the NCMA and its satellite museum, SECCA, connect art and environmentalism with powerful images.
Summer at the NCMA
While West Building is closed in preparation for Reimagining the People’s Collection this fall, there’s still so much to experience and enjoy at your favorite museum of art.
Fault Lines: Art and the Environment
Through video, photography, sculpture, and mixed-media works, the 14 contemporary artists in Fault Lines focus on current environmental concerns and offer new perspectives that make us think.
What’s Blooming This Spring in the NCMA’s Ann and Jim Goodnight Museum Park
Now’s the perfect time to spend an afternoon in the Museum Park, where nature’s works of art are showing off.
Black and: A Conversation about the Arts and Black@Intersection
The NCMA’s Moses T. Alexander Greene sits down with SECCA’s guest curator Duane Cyrus to talk about the diversity of Blackness, diversity in the arts, and how museums should foster both to create a sense of belonging and joy for all.
PARTICIPATE Activates Accessibility at the NCMA
Please touch! And smell, and hear. The NCMA invites visitors to engage all their senses in this interactive exhibition, the first of its kind at the Museum.
From Ideas to Buildings
Guest curator Emily Makas discusses the late Phil Freelon’s architectural legacy, celebrated in the exhibition Container/Contained.
How We Remember: Memory and Vernacular Photography
NCMA intern Julianne Miao explores how photographers often memorialize unknown figures, raising provocative questions about their lives and relationships.
Boghossian Is Back
The NCMA welcomes home one of its treasured paintings by Skunder Boghossian, recently featured in The Met’s blockbuster exhibition Surrealism Beyond Borders.