North Carolina Museum of Art

 

The North Carolina Museum of Art is an art museum that houses the art collections of North Carolina. It is located in Raleigh, NC.

Museum

The museum has an extensive permanent collection which is free to visit. The museum also hosts many artistic and cultural events such as concerts and movie showings which require a separate ticket for a fee. Guided tours are offered free daily or visitors may choose an audio tour for a small fee.

Admission is free to the permanent collection, but there are charges for special exhibits and events. Recently, the museum became the beneficiary of 22 statues by Rodin, a gift from Iris Cantor. Additionally, groundbreaking on a new $70+ million museum was celebrated in December 2006. The new museum is to be completed in 2009.

The museum has a 449 seat open-air amphitheatre in which concerts and live performances are held. The museum hosts several performances a year, and has featured such artists as Doc Watson, Los Lobos, and Allen Toussaint.

Permanent Collection

The permanent collection spans more than 5,000 years, from ancient Egypt to the present and includes * over 5,000 works of art.

Ancient Collection

Egyptian funerary art including 2 Egyptian coffins, sculpture and vase painting from the Greek and Roman worlds. Also includes works from ancient civilizations of Mexico, South America, Central America Mesoamerica, Peru and Costa Rica.

African Collection

Consists of African art from the 19th and 20th centuries including objects made of wood, terracotta, cast metals, textiles and ivory.,

European Collection

Works by masters of European painting and sculpture, covering the Renaissance through impressionism. Includes works by Giotto, Sandro Botticelli, Raphael, Anthony van Dyck, Peter Paul Rubens, Antonio Canova, and Claude Monet.

Modern Collection

Includes works by Marsden Hartley, Georgia O'Keeffe, Franz Kline, Frank Stella, John Biggers, Jacob Lawrence, Thomas Hart Benton, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Paul Delvaux, Henry Moore, Anselm Kiefer and Gerhard Richter. The collection spans 1910-2000.

Judaic Collection

The NCMA is home to one of only two galleries in the United States devoted to Jewish ceremonial art, spaning the 18th through the 20th century. includes works of precious materials such as silver, gold and ivory.

Museum Park

In addition to the indoor museum there is a 164 acre area called the Museum Park where art installations are spread throughout trails, streams and open spaces. Visitors are encouraged to explore art and ecology together. The park was developed from donated land where a farm formerly sat along with a now relocated state youth prison. Park planning is done by the museum in cooperation with the North Carolina State College of Natural Resources.

One of the highlights of the museum park is

Exhibitions

In addition to the permanent collection, the museum generally has at least one travelling or temporary exhibition on display.

Current Exhibitions

The BIG Picture - Through September 2, 2007 Large format photographs from thirteen contemporary photographers.

Upcoming Exhibition

Landscapes from the Age of Impressionism, October 21, 2007 through January 13, 2008 Spanning 1850s to the early twentieth century, works by French artists as Gustave Courbet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Claude Monet as well as Americans Childe Hassam and John Singer Sargent will showcase an array of impressionistic landscapes. Organized by the Brooklyn Museum.

Previous Exhibitions

• Temples and Tombs: Treasures of Egyptian Art from The British Museum - March 15, 2007--July 8, 2007. Includes 85 seldom-seen treasures from The British Museum’s collection of ancient Egyptian art.
• Contemporary North Carolina Photography from the Museum's Collection - September 3--February 18, 2007
• Revolution in Paint - September 17, 2006--February 11, 2007
• Monet in Normandy - October 15, 2006--January 14, 2007
• Common Ground: Discovering Community in 150 Years of Art, Selections from the Collection of Julia J. Norrell - May 7--July 16, 2006
• Sordid and Sacred: The Beggars in Rembrandt's Etchings, Selections from the John Villarino Collection - March 5--May 28, 2006
• The Potter's Eye: Art and Tradition in North Carolina Pottery - October 30, 2005--March 19, 2006
• Crosscurrents: Art, Craft, and Design in North Carolina - September 25, 2005--January 8, 2006
• Shadow Boxes: Collages of Experience and Memory - August 15--December 11, 2005
• Fusion: Contemporary Glass Art from North Carolina Collections - May 8--August 7, 2005
• In Focus: Contemporary Photography From The Allen G. Thomas Jr. Collection - April 3--July 17, 2005
• American Eden: Landscape Masterworks of the Hudson River School, From the Collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art - June 6--August 29, 2004
• Brushes With Life: Art, Artists And Mental Illness - Ended August 15, 2004
• Augustus Saint-Gaudens: American Sculptor of the Gilded Age - February 23--May 11, 2003.
• Accent of Africa - April 6--August 10, 2003
• In Memoriam: George Bireline (1923--2002) - December 18, 2002--August 3, 2003
• Art in the Age of Rubens and Rembrandt - Oct.ober 13, 2002--January 5, 2003
• Selections from The Birds of America by John James Audubon - July 14--December 1, 2002
• The Reverend McKendree Robbins Long: Picture Painter of the Apocalypse - April 7--August 25, 2002
• Empire of the Sultans: Ottoman Art from the Khalili Collection - May 19--July 28, 2002
• Toulouse-Lautrec: Master of the Moulin Rouge From the Collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art - November 11, 2001--February 17, 2002
• Picasso, Braque, Leger: Paintings From the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Julian H. Robertson - June 10--September 9, 2001
• Xu Bing: Reading Landscape - April 29--August 5, 2001
• Stanton Macdonald-Wright and Synchromism - March 4--July 1, 2001
• Is Seeing Believing? - January 14-- April 1, 2001
• Ansel Adams - October 8, 2000--January 7, 2001
• Rodin - April 16--August 13, 2000

External links

• Official Website

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