Mysterious and Spooky
With Halloween just around the corner, it’s the perfect time to celebrate some of the Museum Park residents with the creepiest reputations!
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Behind the Scenes
Beauty, Complicity, Complexity
The story behind Senegalese gold jewelry, and the women who wore it in the 18th and 19th centuries, is layered with a history of oppression and empowerment.
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Bacchus after the Makeover
Curious about Bacchus’s transformation? Take a look at this video clip documenting the entire conservation treatment, and see Bacchus transform before your eyes.
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The Art of Healing: Potent Pigments
In our Art of Healing blog series, we’ve seen the role of ritual objects and venerated images of saints, gods, and goddesses. But can art cure our afflictions like a medicine? From time immemorial we have put our belief in powerful objects with the hope of overcoming sickness. Pilgrimage was invented for this. Delphi, Lourdes, and
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Just How Did Those “Rings” Come About?
The earth beckons, calling to be recast as Thomas Sayre’s ever-popular outdoor sculpture Gyre.
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Giving Enthusiasm, Gaining Experience
It’s the art, of course. No, it’s the people! Fall ’19 interns sound off on what’s best about working at the NCMA.
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Kings, Comedians, and Captains of Industry: Trails of Art Ownership
Many works at the North Carolina Museum of Art have interesting past ownership stories too detailed for a short wall label. Senior editor Karen Kelly shares a few of her favorites.
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Power Figures: The Ethics of In-depth Analysis
Many objects of African origin that are housed in museums now have a new level of use and power, as objects for scholarship and contemplation.
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Postcards from Africa in the Early 20th Century
Images that a Tarboro man sent home during his travels hint at what outsiders may have thought about Africa a century ago.
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The Man with the Red Earring
Mystery hangs over our early English portraits, and none is more mysterious than that of the brash young man in flashy armor and fanciful red earring…
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Behind the Canvas
Two North Carolina artists discuss the issues and motivations behind the work in their joint exhibition Altered Land.
Sleuths on the Loose
History and Mystery is not your typical NCMA exhibition. It might strike you as half-finished or unresolved. But don’t we all enjoy a good mystery?..
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