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Series
- Ruth E. Carter: Afrofuturism in Costume Design
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- NCMA Highlights, 2022–23
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- Alphonse Mucha: Art Nouveau Visionary
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Exhibitions
- Dutch Art in a Global Age: Masterpieces from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Spring 2023 Billboards: Brandon Sadler
- The Surrealist Impulse
- Luis Rey Velasco
- Michael Richards: Are You Down?
- Ruth E. Carter: Afrofuturism in Costume Design
- Thinking through Making: NCMA College Exhibition
- Gentileschi/Wiley: Two Paintings of Judith 400 Years Apart
- Fall 2022 Billboards: Ralph Burns
- Start Talking: Fischer/Shull Collection of Contemporary Art
- Powers Concealed: Egúngúns from Africa and America
- Outlandish: Photographs by Ralph Burns from the Collection of Hedy Fischer and Randy Shull/Photographs from the Collection of Allen G. Thomas Jr.
- Spring 2022 Billboards: The Mountains to Sea Tale, Claire Alexandre
- Becoming the NCMA: 10 Decades of Collecting, 1924–2022
- Fall 2021 Billboards: Modern Mucha
- A Modern Vision: European Masterworks from The Phillips Collection
- The Altered Environment
- Container/Contained: Phil Freelon Design Strategies for Telling African American Stories
- Persevere
- Fault Lines: Art and the Environment
- TO BE RATHER THAN TO SEEM
- Golden Mummies of Egypt
- Break the Mold: New Takes on Traditional Art Making
- Fall 2021 Billboards: Moataz Nasr
- NC Artist Connections: The Beautiful Project, Stephen Hayes, and Hồng-Ân Trương
- Alphonse Mucha: Art Nouveau Visionary
- PARTICIPATE: Activate the Senses
- Talent Within: The NCMA Staff Art Exhibition
- Park Pictures
- West Building and the Architecture of Light
- Scott Avett: I N V I S I B L E
- To Be Young: Coming of Age in the Contemporary
- Moataz Nasr: Delicate Balance
- Miracle on Morgan Street: The Foundations of the NCMA, 1946–1960
- Reflections on Light: Works from the NCMA Collection
- The Bacchus Conservation Project: The Story of a Sculpture
- Rolling Sculpture: Art Deco Cars from the 1930s and ’40s
- Inspiring Beauty: 50 Years of Ebony Fashion Fair
- You Are Here: Light, Color, and Sound Experience
- Art in Translation: Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook
- Christopher Holt: Contemporary Frescoes/Faith and Community
- Josef Albers and Homage to the Square
- Property of the People: The Foundations of the NCMA, 1924–1945
- Luces y Sombras: Images of Mexico | Photographs from the Bank of America Collection
- Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection
- Bauhaus to Black Mountain: Josef and Anni Albers
- The Collector’s Eye
- What in the World Is a Grain Mummy?
- Southern Oracle: We Will Tear the Roof Off
- Wim Botha: Still Life with Discontent
- Within the Frame
- Sayler/Morris: Their World Is Not Our World
- The Audubon Experience
- The Art of Science and Innovation
- Candida Höfer in Mexico
- The Beyond: Georgia O’Keeffe and Contemporary Art
- Director’s Legacy: Larry Wheeler at the NCMA, 1994–2018
- Transience Emerging Artists Exhibition
- Ideal Space student showcase
- Night(Light)
- Rhythmic Vitality: Photographs by Barbara Morgan
- Donald Sultan: The Disaster Paintings
- Andrea Donnelly: We’ve Met Before
- Sabine Gruffat
- You + Me
- Looking South: Photographs by Eudora Welty
- Quayola: Pleasant Places
- Glory of Venice: Renaissance Paintings 1470–1520
- College Exhibition: Roots: Getting Reacquainted with Eastern North Carolina
- Ansel Adams: Masterworks
- William Noland: Occulted
- Amanda Parer: Intrude
- Human/Nature
- Panorama: North Carolina
- Zanele Muholi: Faces and Phases
- Reunited: Francescuccio Ghissi’s St. John Altarpiece
- William Noland: Dream Rooms
- History and Mystery: Discoveries in the NCMA British Collection
- Student Exhibition: Teens, Inspired
- Altered Land: Works by Damian Stamer and Greg Lindquist
- Burk Uzzle: American Chronicle
- Marks of Genius: 100 Extraordinary Drawings from the Minneapolis Institute of Art
- American Impressionist: Childe Hassam and the Isles of Shoals
- “This small yet nuanced place”: Photographs of the Isles of Shoals by Alexandra de Steiguer
- Island Boy: Original Illustrations for Barbara Cooney’s Classic Children’s Book
- Actual State
- Wolfgang Staehle
- Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Leicester and the Creative Mind
- The Worlds of M. C. Escher: Nature, Science, and Imagination
- The Energy of Youth: Depicting Childhood in the NCMA’s Photography Collection
- Robin Rhode
- Chisel and Forge: Works by Peter Oakley and Elizabeth Brim
- Zoosphere
- Director’s Cut: Recent Photography Gifts to the NCMA
- The Patton Collection: A Gift to North Carolina
- Field Guide: James Prosek’s Un/Natural World
- Jason Mitcham Video Installations
- Small Treasures: Rembrandt, Vermeer, Hals and Their Contemporaries
- Private Eye: Allen G. Thomas Jr. Photography Collection
- Line, Touch, Trace
- Sacred Motherhood: Mother-and-Child Representations from the Permanent Collection
- Porsche by Design: Seducing Speed
- Brian Ulrich Copia – Retail, Thrift, and Dark Stores, 2001–2011
- Close to Home: A Decade of Acquisitions
- 0 to 60: The Experience of Time through Contemporary Art
- Bull City Summer
- Dwelling: Interiors by Page H. Laughlin and Pamela Pecchio
- A Discerning Eye: Julian T. Baker Jr. Photography Collection
- Alter Ego: A Decade of Work by Anthony Goicolea
- 30 Americans
- Front Burner: Highlights in Contemporary North Carolina Painting
- Good as Gold: Fashioning Senegalese Women
- Leonardo Drew: Making Chaos Legible
- North Carolina Aviation Art Contest
- Boys and Girls Clubs of America Arts Contest Southeast Regional Winners
Blog
- Ruth E. Carter: Afrofuturism in Costume Design
- Innovative AIM Program Reaches Thousands
- Love in the Galleries
- A Studio of Their Own
- Powers Concealed
- A Modern Vision: Curator’s Picks
- Naming the Nameless
- Sneak Peek: A Modern Vision
- Meet Thomas Sayre
- The Africa We Ought to Know
- The NCMA’s New Visual Identity
- Find Yourself in a Mirrored Labyrinth
- Paired with a Purpose
- Toxic Beauty: Aerial Photographs Offer Warnings
- Summer at the NCMA
- Fault Lines: Art and the Environment
- What’s Blooming This Spring in the NCMA’s Ann and Jim Goodnight Museum Park
- Black and: A Conversation about the Arts and Black@Intersection
- PARTICIPATE Activates Accessibility at the NCMA
- From Ideas to Buildings
- How We Remember: Memory and Vernacular Photography
- Boghossian Is Back
- Seneca Artist Casts Collective Stories
- NCMA Wins Grant to Reimagine Judaic Art Gallery
- Mucha and His Roots
- Mucha and Rodin: Friendship beyond Borders
- How We Remember: Museums and Vernacular Photography
- Talent Within: Julia Caston
- Modern Beauty
- Talent Within: Christopher Ciccone
- Reimagining the People’s Collection
- Spotlight on Simone Leigh
- Alphonse Mucha’s Art for the People
- Breaking the Mold of Tradition
- Talent Within: Angela Lombardi
- Using Their Flowers as Their Words
- Talent Within: Michael Klauke
- Deities, Angels, and Allegories: Winged Figures of the NCMA
- The NCMA through Artists’ Eyes
- Bringing Mummies to Life
- Golden Mummies: Reckoning with Colonialism and Racism in Egyptology
- Introduction to Golden Mummies of Egypt
- Dismembering the Past: A Provocative New Acquisition That Re-Members History
- Best of Circa 2020
- Taste: A Conversation between Makers and Users
- Goldsmiths at Work
- Closing the Book on Bacchus
- Mysterious and Spooky
- Valuing Objects: A Negotiation of Attributes
- Leonardo Drew: Making Chaos Legible
- “Raise the Cup of Deliverance”: Thoughts on an 18th-century Beaker and the Jewish New Year
- Black and White Gaze
- Young Artists Exhibition Goes Virtual
- Beauty, Complicity, Complexity
- Four Crowns in One: The Museum’s Venetian Torah Crown
- Style: The Language of Design
- Bacchus after the Makeover
- The Art of Healing: Potent Pigments
- Nature’s Art in the Museum Park
- Art Advocacy: The Aesthetic of Solidarity
- Why 20th-century African art is both the best art you’ll ever experience and not art at all.
- The Art of Healing: Conjuring the Supernatural
- The Art of Healing: Desperate Measures
- The Art of Healing: Faith and Affliction
- The Art of Healing: African Fusion
- The Art of Healing: Cat Power for Egypt
- Virtual Mother’s Day Tour
- The Art of Healing: NCMA Caregivers Are Saints
- West Building Turns Ten
- Attracting Wildlife to Your Garden
- Just How Did Those “Rings” Come About?
- Stuck at home? Find art inspiration around you!
- Front Burner Artists: Migrating to North Carolina
- Front Burner Artists: Migrating to North Carolina
- Restoring Balance to an Old Master Painting
- The Coming of the King: From Rome to Raleigh
- Ekphrasis at the NCMA
- The Art of Describing Art
- Interact with Interchanges
- Giving Enthusiasm, Gaining Experience
- Who Was Saul?
- Getting in Touch with Art
- An Interview with Cornelio Campos
- Frida and Diego at the NCMA
- A New Perspective on Andrew Wyeth’s Weather Side
- Honoring Frida Kahlo’s Life and Legacy
- Strengthening Our Knowledge of Other Worldviews
- Celebrating a Significant Gift of African Art
- Bauhaus to Black Mountain
- Kings, Comedians, and Captains of Industry: Trails of Art Ownership
- Invisible No More
- Do Enjoy But “Do Not Touch”
- Humans of the NCMA Sound Off!
- Every Picture Tells a Story
- What in the World Is a Grain Mummy?
- Spanish Gold, Piracy, and an English Portrait
- More Humans of the NCMA
- Power Figures: The Ethics of In-depth Analysis
- Getting beneath Surfaces: A Conservator and Curator Collaborate
- First News of the Battle of Lexington
- Humans of the NCMA
- Material and Meaning: An Interview with Wim Botha
- Art Is for Everybody
- Floral Favorites
- Porsche, Ferrari, and the Sun King
- Magnasco and the Meatball Mystery
- Within the Frame
- The Fraught Beauty of Discontent: An Interview with Wim Botha
- Art Outside the Galleries
- Five Great Quotes about Art and Basketball
- The Audubon Experience
- Interview with a Guerrilla
- B is for Bacchus … and Basketball
- Postcards from Africa in the Early 20th Century
- Art in Bloom: What’s New for 2019
- Their World Is Not Our World
- Bacchus 2.0
- Artist Videos Enrich Georgia O’Keeffe Exhibition
- The Coming of the King
- O’Keeffe and the Flower Equation
- Less Is More: A Minimalist Hanukkah Lamp
- Embracing Ephemerality, Erasing Divinity
- Park Flowers Inspire Louise Jones Mural
- Portable Altarpiece on the Move
- Q&A with Valerie Hillings
- Sharing Grief
- Liquid Art Inspired by O’Keeffe
- Filmed on Location: Ride the Pink Horse
- Georgia O’Keeffe and the Beyond
- Valerie Hillings Named Next Director of the North Carolina Museum of Art
- Amy Sherald Portrait on View
- Fighting the Forces of Nature
- The Fine Art of Bees
- It’s Meat and Potatoes for This Monster
- I, Buffalo Explores the American Narrative
- A Dutch and Flemish Facelift
- A Carolina Whodunnit
- Five Great Quotes from Artists about Their Subject Matter
- Photos in the Round: 3-D Insights into Art
- Bacchus Gets a Scientific Checkup
- Dana Ruttenberg Sees Dance Everywhere
- Catching Color and Animal Symbolism
- Art + Nature + People: Find Yourself at the NCMA
- Emanuel Leutze and the Vacillating King
- Seeing the Light in West Building
- Dog Hunting at the NCMA
- At the Intersection of Darkness and Light
- Five Great Quotes by American Artists
- What Is Art?
- Kusama’s Cosmos: Infinite Reverence
- Sculpting with Light
- You Are Here: Light, Color, and Sound Experiences
- Riemenschneider: Saintly Work in Wood
- Career Day: Top 5 Things to Know about Harriet Hoover
- Breaking Down Blue Panel
- Inspired Stitching
- Bacchus under Structured Light
- The Littlest Critic
- A Conversation with Margaret Sartor
- Sabine Gruffat on Inequality in the Art World
- Designing Beauty: Patrick Kelly
- A Conversation with Lynn Saville
- Artist at Work: Sabine Gruffat
- Night(Light): An Interview with Todd Hido
- The Vision of Ebony Fashion Fair
- Rhythmic Vitality: Photographs by Barbara Morgan
- Down the Runway with a Fashion Fair Model
- Best-Kept Secrets No More: Matrons of the Arts
- The Sound of Ebony Fashion
- André Leon Talley on Inspiring Beauty
- The Bodies in the Bog and Other Colorful Tales
- Fashion Fair Delivered Style + Empowerment
- A Conversation with Andrea Donnelly
- Andrea Donnelly: We’ve Met Before
- Weaving and Watching
- Carving Space: Southern African Work in the New African Gallery
- Destructive Sublime: Donald Sultan’s Disaster Paintings
- An Imperfect Utopia: The Museum Park’s Early Days
- Spot the Differences
- Inside the Mind of a Monster
- 20 Tuneful Years and Going Strong
- An American in Venice
- Looking inside Bacchus with Gamma Rays
- A Painting Said to Possess Miraculous Powers
- El Anatsui on the Move
- Onset of the Aerial View
- Landscape Photography in the State Parks
- Are You Curious about Venice?
- Make, Don’t Take, Digital Photos Together
- Museum Park Gains Two New Works of Art
- Loans Enrich African Art Gallery
- A Carolina Homecoming
- A New Gerard Seghers for the NCMA
- Ansel Adams: Fast Facts
- The Man with the Red Earring
- The Tatra: Deco Streamlining for the People
- Stout Scarab: Egyptology on Wheels
- Yesterday’s World of Tomorrow: Predicting the Future in the 1930s
- How St. Nicholas Became Santa Claus
- Growing Up at the Museum
- Return of the Whirligig
- Re-creating the Bugatti Type 57S Aérolithe: Experimental Archaeology?
- The Ann and Jim Goodnight Museum Park
- A Contemporary Garden of Delights
- Greetings from Art Deco North Carolina!
- Art on Wheels: The NCMA presents Rolling Sculpture
- For Families: Rolling Sculpture Scavenger Hunt
- Art Deco Cars: Three for the Ages
- A Rare Reunion
- NCMA Named One of World’s Top 125 Buildings
- Henry Moore: Knife Edge
- Behind the Canvas
- Personal History
- Sleuths on the Loose
- Out of War, the Organic Beauty of Ogromna
- Rodin’s Genius in Triplicate
- Surviving Death: Ancient Greek, Roman, and Egyptian Funerary Art
- Burk Uzzle on Creating Legacy Porch
- A Major American Painter from North Carolina
- Observation: The Intersection of Art and Science on Appledore Island
- American History through an Artist’s Eyes
- An Affection for Drawings, a Love of Paintings
- The Day I Fell in Love with the N.C. Museum of Art
- My Marooning: An Artist Follows Hassam in a Different Century, Season
- Behind the Scenes of an Exhibition
- Toxic Beauty
- Childe Hassam and Celia Thaxter’s Garden
- Marks of Genius: Judith and Holofernes
- Blooming Wonderful!
- In the Footsteps of Childe Hassam
- Notes from a Flexible Florist
- Sixty Years Ago Today
- Art in Bloom 2016: Coming Soon!
- Seeing What the Artist Saw
- Beyond the Pencil Sketch
- America’s Monet
- Still Bucking the Tide
- Conservation Live!
- Remember My Name
- Forward out of Slavery
- The Flipped Field Trip
- Happy New Year from the Director
- Pansies Perk Up the Plaza
- Inch by Inch, Revealing the Cavendish Portraits
- Escher and the Art of the Mezzotint
- A Museum Called Home
- Tessellations for Two
- Encountering Leonardo’s Scientific Imagination
- From Raleigh to the White House
- NCMA Hanukkah Lamp Chosen for Annual White House Ceremony
- Simurgh Watching
- Write Your Name in Hieroglyphs
- Escher and the Art of Lithography
- Engineering Infinity
- The Writing on the Walls
- An Immigration Story
- Escher, Physics, and Game Design
- School of One, Times Two
- Who Was M. C. Escher?
- A Child Responds to Images of Youth
- A Guide at the Crossroads
- Artist Meetup: Chisel and Forge
- Curators Preview Fall Exhibitions
- What’s in a Nickname?
- Remembering through Contemporary Art
- NCMA, Duke Develop Conservation Tool
- Innocence and Loss: Images of Childhood
- Black Light on Bacchus: Inside a UV Exam
- Artist Allison Hunter on Zoosphere
- Time-Lapse: Installing the “Silver Tree”
- Hayv Kahraman’s Art of Displacement
- 13 Signs You’re a Member of the North Carolina Museum of Art
- Grappling with Nature
- Expanded Judaic Art Gallery Reopens
- Name or Nickname? That Is the Question!
- Strike a Pose: Interactive Art in the Museum Park
- Sparkler Art: Play Like Picasso
- Moves Like Escher
- Viper, Viper, Leaf, Nobleman
- Event Planning through the Lens of a Cocktail
- Connections in the Patton Collection
- Take a Cell Phone Tour
- Learn Hieroglyphs with Fefi
- Director’s Cut
- Once Grand, Now Forgotten
- Movies Are Better Together
- Storytelling and Art
- Unequal Lovers Unveiled
- Scratches on the Film
- Scratches on the Film
- Inside Art in Bloom 2016
- A Masterpiece among Many
- Must-Sees in the Patton Collection
- Slow Art Day
- Inside Art in Bloom
- A Visit to James Prosek’s Studio
- Meet Line, Touch, Trace Artist Kiki Farish
- Circa: What Does It Mean?
- Books in Bloom
- Judaic Art Gallery Closes to Expand
- Welcome to the New Website
- Depicting the Papacy in Late Baroque Rome
- Motherwell’s Mistakes
- Museum Celebrates 20 Years with Larry Wheeler
- The Story behind Harpo Marx’s Benton
- Inspiring Teens across North Carolina
- Letter from Berlin
- Early Nights at the Movies
- A Clear Look at Ancient Glass
- A Conversation with Sonia Romero
- Iris Recipe: Blueberry Zinfandel Sorbet
- A Conversation with Oscar Magallanes
- A Conversation with Vincent Valdez
- Pope Clement X and Cardinal Camillo Massimo
- Bernini and the Altieri Family of Rome
- A Baroque Papal Medallion in North Carolina
- The NCMA’s Monuments Men
- Iris Recipe: Sweet Potato Scallion Biscuits
- Where Did Bacchus Go?
- The Sounds of Silents
- I Remember Fireflies
- Two New Judaic Acquisitions
- A Hair-Raising Experience
- Film Still in Focus at the NCMA
- Hanukkah Lamp
- The Last Sleep
- A New Frontier for Museums
- Medusa Mystery
- The Dentist’s Art
- Steinhardt Collection of Judaica
- A Scott Family Who’s Who
- Watering the Horses
- Hearst’s Other Castle
- Harpo Marx’s Benton
- Saint-Gaudens Bronze Reinstalled
- Under the Iceberg: Planning a Student Exhibition
- New Acquisition by Kehinde Wiley
- Teens in Museums: Filmmaking Edition
- The Africa Connection: Ashley Bryan and El Anatsui
- Remembering Doc
- Great Scotts!
- The Uncrowned Queen Returns
- How do YOU say … El Anatsui
- Celebrating People in Action
- Sargent’s Israel and the Law
- Torah Silver Combines Beauty and History
- The Nerve: Painting over a Rembrandt
- Rembrandt Person or Not Rembrandt Person?
- Tears for Lucretia
- Masters among Us
- New in the American Galleries: George Bellows
- Revisiting the Thing in the Window
- Contemporary Art in North Carolina
- The Valentiner Files: Art and Nature
- The World’s Most Expensive Book
- A Blissful Disregard of Drama
- The Contemporary Art Whirl
- An Interview with Muralist Cornelio Campos
- Rockwell Flirts with Art History
- Name Dropping
- Our Own Dr. Kanof
- North Carolina’s O’Keeffe
- Thomas Moran’s Mordor
- Celebrating a Sustainable Museum
- Like Snowflakes in a Blizzard