Judaic Art Gallery Closes to Expand
The gallery, the first and finest permanent display of Jewish ceremonial art in an American art museum, is undergoing a major renovation…
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Behind the Scenes
Motherwell’s Mistakes
Motherwell wrote, “I begin painting with a series of mistakes. The painting comes out of the correction of mistakes by feeling.”..
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Museum Celebrates 20 Years with Larry Wheeler
Conversations that shaped the two decades of his tenure
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The Story behind Harpo Marx’s Benton
Years after witnessing the “dread realities of flood misery” in Missouri, Thomas Hart Benton returns to a sketch he made of a struggling family…
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Early Nights at the Movies
The NCMA’s role in pioneering outdoor cinema in the Triangle
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A Clear Look at Ancient Glass
An outside expert assesses the NCMA’s glass collection, with some surprising discoveries.
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Where Did Bacchus Go?
Conservators have removed this composite sculpture in order to detach its rare ancient torso.
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A Hair-Raising Experience
This high rooster-tail ‘do truly defies gravity. “You need a product for that,†observed Dr. Tania String, art history professor at UNC—Chapel Hill…
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A Scott Family Who’s Who
The art of early modern England has elicited a labyrinth of wishful attributions and false identities: enter the NCMA’s Scott-Jacobean project…
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Under the Iceberg: Planning a Student Exhibition
“The submerged bit of the museum is much more of an iceberg than [a] picture gallery.â€â€”Neil MacGregor, Director, British Museum..
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Great Scotts!
Paintings of the Scott family dating to the Jacobean/Elizabethan era are the focus of an in-depth research project.
Name Dropping
Night Flight of Dread and Delight. Homage to the Square. A Peasant Spreading Manure. Who comes up with the titles for visual art?