Art, Tradition & Memory
Jack Owen probably wouldn’t have called himself an artist. He was a mountain man with a fifth grade education who loved the outdoors, gardening, and animals. He was also a creative genius with...
View ArticleColors of Progress
White While the installations are well underway in the white galleries, another dimension has begun: installation of the first of 2,000+ square yards of curtains. They are specifically designed and...
View ArticleThe Gift: Faces and Places
It’s been called the cube, the gift, the image installation, and the photo project. Conceived in brainstorming sessions of Museum education staff, the project would be a way for North Carolinians to...
View ArticlePrizewinning Sculpture On View
If you’ve visited West Building recently, you may have noticed a new work in the Larry Wheeler North Garden, adjacent to the African Galleries and Classical Court. Titled Cycle, this sculpture by...
View ArticlePlayful Pictures Turn Eye on Landscape
Now that we’re on the eve of a brisk and beautiful winter, it’s time for another walk in the Museum Park to check out the latest in our billboards project, Park Pictures. We’ve covered Park Pictures...
View ArticleThe World’s Most Expensive Book
December 7 was a date circled on my calendar, but not for Pearl Harbor. Sotheby’s announced for that day an auction in London of a rare complete set of Audubon’s Double Elephant Folio, the original...
View ArticleTrotman’s Truth
If there is one thing that my internship in the Curatorial Department at the NCMA has taught me, it is that I am undoubtedly an art nerd. You can imagine my excitement when there was an opportunity to...
View ArticleA Photographer’s Story
When I moved to North Carolina in 1989, I didn’t know a soul, I didn’t have a job, and I didn’t have a place to live; I stayed at the YMCA on Hillsborough Street before finding a room in a boarding...
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