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…
The gallery, the first and finest permanent display of Jewish ceremonial art in an American art museum, is undergoing a major renovation…
Motherwell wrote, “I begin painting with a series of mistakes. The painting comes out of the correction of mistakes by feeling.”..
Conversations that shaped the two decades of his tenure
Years after witnessing the “dread realities of flood misery” in Missouri, Thomas Hart Benton returns to a sketch he made of a struggling family…
An outside expert assesses the NCMA’s glass collection, with some surprising discoveries.
Conservators have removed this composite sculpture in order to detach its rare ancient torso.
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…
The art of early modern England has elicited a labyrinth of wishful attributions and false identities: enter the NCMA’s Scott-Jacobean project…
“The submerged bit of the museum is much more of an iceberg than [a] picture gallery.â€â€”Neil MacGregor, Director, British Museum..
Paintings of the Scott family dating to the Jacobean/Elizabethan era are the focus of an in-depth research project.
Night Flight of Dread and Delight. Homage to the Square. A Peasant Spreading Manure. Who comes up with the titles for visual art?