Your ticket to Museums around the world, Museum Crawl is a collaboration between The Newark Museum of Art and a different institution each session.
January 21
Museum Crawl: Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Noon
Join us as we explore the work of one of the most significant artists of the 20th century, with Ariel Plotek, Curator of Fine Art at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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Georgia O'Keeffe, Pedernal, 1945. Pastel on paper, 21 1/2 x 43 1/4 inches
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Gift of The Burnett Foundation 1997.6.8
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PAST SESSIONS
October 14
Recorrido de Museo: Museo de Historia, Antropología y Arte de la Universidad de Puerto Rico
Museum Crawl: Museum of History, Anthropology and Art of the University of Puerto Rico
El Museo de Historia, Antropología y Arte de la Universidad de Puerto Rico fue fundado en 1951 para recolectar, mantener y conservar, con fines de investigación y divulgación cultural, todo lo que constituye parte del tesoro histórico, antropológico y artístico de Puerto Rico. En esta presentación, el Museo presentará una muestra de su inmensa colección de carteles, que representan diversos aspectos culturales puertorriqueños.
The Museum of History, Anthropology and Art of the University of Puerto Rico was established in 1951 to collect, maintain and conserve, for research and cultural dissemination purposes, everything that constitutes part of the historical, anthropological and artistic treasure of Puerto Rico. In this Museum Crawl, the Museum will present a sample of their immense collection of posters, which represent diverse Puerto Rican cultural aspects.
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September 2
Museum Crawl: Art Olympics
Two Museums go head to head, but there can only be one winner! In this audience driven competition, you get to decide which Museum has the creepiest object, most romantic object, weirdest use, and best dressed just to name a few. Get a look inside the collections of the Chrysler Museum of Art & The Newark Museum of Art as they show off their best and most unique works. Each round the Museums will share their artwork that best fits the different categories.
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August 12
Museum Crawl: Museo Egizio (Egyptian Museum of Turin)
Join us as we discover one of the largest and most significant collections of Egyptian antiquities in the world. Our guide will be Christian Greco, Director of the Museo Egizio in Turin, Italy.
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July 8
Museum Crawl: Latin American Art, with the Cleveland Museum of Art
Nadiah Rivera Fellah, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art, and Elena Muñoz, Curatorial Assistant at the Newark Museum of Art, will share their thoughts on artwork from Latin America in the CMA and The Newark Museum of Art’s collection. Rivera Fellah will highlight works currently on view as part of the CMA’s exhibition, A Graphic Revolution: Prints and Drawings in Latin America. There will be a Q&A period after the discussion.
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June 24
Museum Crawl: Chinese and Hong Kong Art, with Sun Museum, Hong Kong
Explore Hong Kong art and Chinese culture with Elaine Ngan, Assistant Curator at Sun Museum, a private museum in Hong Kong.
This session will be accessible on Zoom and Facebook Live.
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Ho Siu Chung Alex, Shore
Sun Museum Collection
June 10
Artists at the Jaipur Court, with The City Palace of Jaipur
Explore the treasures of an 18th Century Indian palace with Giles Tillotson, Consultant Director at The City Palace of Jaipur. This session will be accessible on Zoom and Facebook Live.
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A dancing girl dressed as Krishna: a detail of Sahib Ram's Raas Lila
Courtesy of The Trustees, MSMS II MUseum, The City Palace, Jaipur
May 27
Fashion and Design with the Peabody Essex Museum
Discover how design is all around us by exploring PEM's fashion and design gallery with Petra Slinkard, The Nancy B. Putnam Curator of Fashion and Textiles at the Peabody Essex Museum.
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Fashion and Design Gallery, Peabody Essex Museum
Photo: Elizabeth Gardner
May 13
The Pre-Raphaelites, with the Birmingham Museums Trust, UK, 11 am
Discover the dramatic works of Victorian avant garde painters, the Pre-Raphaelites, with Victoria Osborne of the Birmingham Museums Trust, UK.
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Proserpine, 1882, Birmingham Museums Trust
Ford Madox Brown, The Last of England, 1852-1855, Birmingham Museums Trust
