School of One, Times Two
Peerless and particular, sure. But what else did M. C. Escher and Leonardo da Vinci have in common?
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What’s New
Curators Preview Fall Exhibitions
We interrupted curators during their workday and asked them for an informal preview of this fall’s exhibitions.
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NCMA, Duke Develop Conservation Tool
New software helps conservators analyze paintings using X-ray images.
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Hayv Kahraman’s Art of Displacement
The artist was just 10 years old when her family fled Iraq in 1992.
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Connections in the Patton Collection
Besides adding new artists to the NCMA collection, this transformative gift deepens our appreciation of artists already represented…
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Inside Art in Bloom 2016
Project Manager for Art in Bloom Laura Finan takes you inside the NCMA’s second annual festival of art and flowers.
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Inside Art in Bloom
“The energy and excitement in the galleries is phenomenal. There’s a buzz that’s not from bees.â€
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Books in Bloom
Spring forward into Art in Bloom with these colorful NCMA Library books on floral display and the secret language of flowers.
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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Depicting the Papacy in Late Baroque Rome
A bronze medallion from the permanent collection, on view in West Building for the first time, is newly reattributed to the great baroque sculptor Bernini…
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Pope Clement X and Cardinal Camillo Massimo
The pope’s high chamberlain likely commissioned the medallion of Clement X now in the NCMA collection.
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