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Neighborhood Photography Workshop

Neighborhood Photography Workshop

Explore the ways that photography with your phone can be used as an easily accessible, generative art-making tool with Creative Assembly artist Paige DeVries.

Cross-Cultural Conversations

Cross-Cultural Conversations

ARCAthens resident artists and two of NOMA’s Creative Assembly members will share their experiences, perspectives, and creative processes.

Contemporary African Arts at NOMA

Contemporary African Arts at NOMA

Afropolitan highlights some of the most pioneering African artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in the museum’s collection.

The Nita & Zita Project

The Nita & Zita Project

Join us for a screening and panel discussion on the documentary The Nita & Zita Project, a story of two legendary New Orleans dancers.

National Symposium for Emerging Scholars

National Symposium for Emerging Scholars

Watch Curatorial Fellow Laura Ochoa Rincon discuss the progression of her curatorial vision, including her studies on NOMA’s extensive glass collection.

20 YEARS OF THE BESTHOFF SCULPTURE GARDEN

20 YEARS OF THE BESTHOFF SCULPTURE GARDEN

Celebrate 20 years of the Besthoff Sculpture Garden with a year-long celebration of events and more.

FI YI YI FOREVER

FI YI YI FOREVER

NOMA hosted the retirement celebration for Big Chief Victor Harris, honoring 59 years as a Black Masking Indian.

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Explore the exhibition catalogue of Debbie Fleming Caffery’s first major career retrospective, In Light of Everything.

This major solo exhibition of work by Wangechi Mutu brings together nearly one hundred sculptures, paintings, collages, drawings, and films to present the breadth of the Kenyan–American artist’s multidisciplinary practice.

Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined

This major solo exhibition of work by Wangechi Mutu brings together nearly one hundred sculptures, paintings, collages, drawings, and films to present the breadth of the Kenyan–American artist’s multidisciplinary practice.

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This exhibition explores the unique methods in which the South, in particular New Orleans, dealt with the passage of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, which banned alcohol in the United States.

Rebellious Spirits: Prohibition and Resistance in the South

This exhibition explores the unique methods in which the South, in particular New Orleans, dealt with the passage of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, which banned alcohol in the United States.

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Drawn from NOMA’s permanent collection, works by Ilse Bing, Ruth Bernhard, Lola Alvarez-Bravo, Carlotta M. Corpron, Florence Henri, and Lee Miller illustrate ways that women pushed the boundaries of surrealist art.

Double Space: Women Photographers and Surrealism

Drawn from NOMA’s permanent collection, works by Ilse Bing, Ruth Bernhard, Lola Alvarez-Bravo, Carlotta M. Corpron, Florence Henri, and Lee Miller illustrate ways that women pushed the boundaries of surrealist art.

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Including nearly 100 dramatic black-and-white photographs, this exhibition is the first career retrospective for the important Louisiana-born artist.

Debbie Fleming Caffery: In Light of Everything

Including nearly 100 dramatic black-and-white photographs, this exhibition is the first career retrospective for the important Louisiana-born artist.

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The sculptures grouped on this platform in "Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined" are macroscopic impressions of viruses. 🦠⁠ ⁠ Reminiscent of pottery, they are made from the distinctive and highly fertile red volcanic soil found in the highlands region of Kenya—a lifegiving material that is the source of the region’s dense forests and abundant horticulture.⁠ ⁠ Enlarging their scale highlights their geometry, symmetry, and distinctive textures, which evolved over millennia to facilitate the viruses’ infiltration of and reproduction within human, plant, and animal cells.⁠ ⁠ Mutu has specifically chosen to represent viruses that have historically been deployed as bioweapons of colonization (like measles and smallpox) as well as those that are tied to specific geopolitical contexts (like Zika and Dengue) or are otherwise interwoven with human societies (the common cold). ⁠ ⁠ Such pathogens cause sickness and disease but also speak to⁠ fears, vulnerabilities, and experiences that unify humanity.⁠ ⁠ "Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined" is on view at NOMA through July 14.⁠ —⁠ 🎨: Wangechi Mutu, various works, 2016–22. Red soil, paper pulp, and wood glue. Courtesy the artist, Gladstone Gallery, and Prout-Lara Collection, Vancouver.⁠ 📍: First floor, Ella West Freeman Galleries⁠ 📸: @annrowsonlove

The sculptures grouped on this platform in "Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined" are macroscopic impressions of viruses. 🦠⁠
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Reminiscent of pottery, they are made from the distinctive and highly fertile red volcanic soil found in the highlands region of Kenya—a lifegiving material that is the source of the region’s dense forests and abundant horticulture.⁠
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Enlarging their scale highlights their geometry, symmetry, and distinctive textures, which evolved over millennia to facilitate the viruses’ infiltration of and reproduction within human, plant, and animal cells.⁠
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Mutu has specifically chosen to represent viruses that have historically been deployed as bioweapons of colonization (like measles and smallpox) as well as those that are tied to specific geopolitical contexts (like Zika and Dengue) or are otherwise interwoven with human societies (the common cold). ⁠
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Such pathogens cause sickness and disease but also speak to⁠
fears, vulnerabilities, and experiences that unify humanity.⁠
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"Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined" is on view at NOMA through July 14.⁠
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🎨: Wangechi Mutu, various works, 2016–22. Red soil, paper pulp, and wood glue. Courtesy the artist, Gladstone Gallery, and Prout-Lara Collection, Vancouver.⁠
📍: First floor, Ella West Freeman Galleries⁠
📸: @annrowsonlove ...

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Apr 22

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No better way to celebrate #EarthDay than with a walk outside through the Besthoff Sculpture Garden. 🌿🌞🌍 ⁠ —⁠ 🎨: Arnaldo Pomodoro, "Una Battaglia (A Battle: For the Resistance Fighters)," 1971. Bronze and stainless steel. Gift of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Foundation, 98.144.⁠ 📍: Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden⁠ 📸: @crazymajax

No better way to celebrate #EarthDay than with a walk outside through the Besthoff Sculpture Garden. 🌿🌞🌍 ⁠
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🎨: Arnaldo Pomodoro, "Una Battaglia (A Battle: For the Resistance Fighters)," 1971. Bronze and stainless steel. Gift of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Foundation, 98.144.⁠
📍: Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden⁠
📸: @crazymajax ...

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Apr 21

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Thank you, Councilmember Oliver Thomas (@otforus), for speaking to some of the pre-K students who are part of NOMA’s Mini Masters program, which combines in-school instruction and museum visits to bolster learning through the arts. 🎨🏛️✍️

Thank you, Councilmember Oliver Thomas (@otforus), for speaking to some of the pre-K students who are part of NOMA’s Mini Masters program, which combines in-school instruction and museum visits to bolster learning through the arts. 🎨🏛️✍️ ...

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Apr 20

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Scenes from Symphony of the Sown, a runway presentation by @odaomo in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden ✨🌿🪡 — 🎥: @_tkcollins_ @toneontop

Scenes from Symphony of the Sown, a runway presentation by @odaomo in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden ✨🌿🪡
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🎥: @_tkcollins_ @toneontop ...

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Feliz cumpleaños, Fernando Botero! 🎉 Museum Educator Laura Moreno discusses the artist’s work “Mother and Child” in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden. — 🎨: Fernando Botero, “Mother and Child,” 1988. Bronze. Museum purchase, Sydney and Walda Besthoff Foundation Fund, 2003.157.

Feliz cumpleaños, Fernando Botero! 🎉 Museum Educator Laura Moreno discusses the artist’s work “Mother and Child” in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden.
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🎨: Fernando Botero, “Mother and Child,” 1988. Bronze. Museum purchase, Sydney and Walda Besthoff Foundation Fund, 2003.157. ...

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