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The NOMA Egg Hunt and Family Festival NOMA Egg Hunt and Family Festival is a fun and festive event for families featuring art activities, crafts, games, face painting,

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.

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.

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.

Partner Sessions

Partner Sessions

You’re invited to discuss race, equity, and museums and help develop community-driven goals for NOMA.
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.

DEI Progress Report

DEI Progress Report

NOMA is committed to being a welcoming, inclusive, anti-racist institution. We invite you to follow our progress.

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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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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There’s still time ⏰ Bidding closes on Monday, March 18, at noon for the silent auction for Art in Bloom Presented by First Horizon.

All funds raised support NOMA and the @gardenstudyclubofno.

👉 Bid online at one.bidpal.net/aib.

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Have you peeped this year’s designs at Art in Bloom Presented by First Horizon? 🌸🏛️🌷🖼️ ...

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Flowers are popping up for Art in Bloom Presented by @first_horizon! 🌷Take a sneak peek at this year’s displays in the Great Hall before they are on view Thursday, March 14–Sunday, March 17, 10 am–5 pm 👀 #ExploreNOMA

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"Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined" presents a broad look at the Kenyan–American artist`s career from the 1990s and today and also gives added context to two works by Mutu permanently installed in NOMA`s Besthoff Sculpture Garden.⁠

This sculpture, titled "Crocodylus," merges the titular prehistoric creature with a futuristic being who may be part alien or cyborg. Her hands boldly clasped around the creature’s massive jaws—a heroic figure simultaneously riding and melding with the crocodile, her legs disappearing into its body.⁠

Through a uniform black patina, these figures become a composite science fiction machine: an image of interspecies hybridity that suggests both ancient wrath and futuristic biotechnology.⁠

With this work and others in "Intertwined," Mutu extends her practice in collage and sculptural assemblage to bronze, where the liquid nature of molten metal allows her to blur distinct parts into a chimerical whole.⁠

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🎨: Wangechi Mutu, "Crocodylus," 2020. Bronze. Gift of Sydney and Walda Besthoff, 2021.33. Courtesy of the artist and Gladstone Gallery.⁠
📍: Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden
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