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July 2020
 
Editor’s Choice Award:
The Newark Museum of Art is a Thought-Provoking Date Venue With an Inclusive Spirit
DatingAdvice.com
 
 
May 2020
 
Museums Offer Interactive Ways to Experience Science
NJTV
 
What are Museum's - and their Directors - Doing Now?
Christies.com

Norman Bluhm's Sensual Spiritualism (by John Yau)
Hyperallergic
 
 
April 2020
 
Meet New Jersey's Arts Leaders Series
Linda C. Harrison, Director & CEO, Newark Museum of Art
Culture Vultures Jersey Arts
 

March 2020
 
About The Newark Museum of Art's Rehan Brooch:
Prizing Provenance
Rapaport
Prizing provenance: Siegelson
jewelryconnoisseur.net
 
 
February 2020
 
Interview with Linda Harrison
CBS News

Into the Bowels of Buddhist Hell
Lion's Roar 

Norman Bluhm: Metamorphosis
NJIT VECTOR
 

The Romantic: The 20th-century American painter Norman Bluhm gets a long-overdue retrospective.
Arts & Antiques

 
January 2020
 
Unexpected Color: A Journey Through Glass
Incollect and the 20th Anniversary issue of Antiques and Fine Art magazine
 
New Exhibitions Opening in NJ including Norman Bluhm: Metamorphosis
NJ Monthly

Sayaka Araki-Museum's New CFO and Deputy Director of Infastructure
ARTNEWS


Non-profits in New Jersey
New Jersey Now / WWOR-MY9

 
 
December 2019

The Newark Museum of Art Enters a Fresh Era
New Jersey Monthly

 

Newark Museum New Name Same Mission
FOX5 (Video)
 
Media Coverage of The Newark Museum of Art Rebrand / Namechange
Wednesday, November 6, 2019:

Newark Museum Rebranding
News12 News Clip (Video)
 
Newark Museum of Art Renaming
Fox5 News Clip (Video)

Newark Museum Unveils New Name
Fios1 News Clip (Video)
Newark Museum Rename
WPIX News Clip (Video)
110-year-old Newark Museum undergoes a name change

NJTV News

Newark Museum Rename
WINS-AM Radio Clip (Audio)
Newark Museum Changes Its Name
WCBS-AM Radio Clip (Audio)


Newark Museum Is Now the Newark Museum of Art
New York Times
Museum Rolls Out New Name to Highlight Its Art Collections
Star-Ledger
The Newark Museum Changes Name To The Newark Museum Of Art
New Jersey Stage
Newark Museum Announces Name Change
ArtForum
Newark Museum Changes Name, Celebrates with Free Admission
ArtNews
Newark Museum Adds “Art” to Its Title
ArtNet.com
Newark Museum Changes its Name, Will Expand Hours
Tap Into Newark
The Newark Museum of Art: New Name, Same Goals 
WBGO-FM
 

A Hidden Trove of Japanese Buddhist Art Revealed in New Jersey
The Buddhist Review: Tricycle (October 23, 2019)

 
NJ Celebrities are Focus of Photo Exhibit at Newark Museum
Star Ledger (October 20, 2019)
 
Newark Museum Appoints Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs
ArtNews
Carnegie Museum of Art's Chief Curator Joins Newark Museum
ArtForum
 
What Exit? The Spirit of New Jersey: Photographs by Timothy White
nj.com
 
Newark Museum's Revitalized Galleries Spotlight American Modern and Contemporary Artists from Georgia O'Keeffe to Matthew Brandt
NewJerseyStage.com
 
Newark Museum's Revitalized Galleries Spotlight American Modern and Contemporary Artists
LUSO-AMERICANO
 

Join the Newark Museum's Artist-in-Residence, Matthew Brandt, in Hands-on Workshop
HARRISONFYI

Matthew Brandt: Serial Artists
ZO Magazine

 
2018
 
 
Interview with NBFF Chair Richard Wesley  -- Jersey Arts.Com
Culture Vulture

Reviews of The Rockies & The Alps: Bierstadt, Calame, and the Romance of the Mountains
The Scholarly Skater  (05.017.18)
 
Early reviews of Kimono Refashioned -- 1870s-Now!
FN - Footwear News  (07.07.18)
 
Newark Museum Names New Director
New York Times (09.16.18)
 
Other reviews:
 
Celebrating NYC-ARTS special  (12.23.16)  
 
NJArts.net, Newark Museum offers intimate look at Nigerian royalty (4.1.15) 

TRUE,  Rock stars and royalty in Newark (3.31.15) 

State of the Arts NJ, Royals & Regalia: Inside the Palaces of Nigeria's Monarchs (3.20.15) 

Hyperallergic, Sitting at the Thrones of Nigerian Kings (3.16.15) 

HuffPost Arts and Culture, George Osodi and Hassan Hajjaj at the Newark Museum (3.9.15)

NJ.com, Art Review: Royals and Regalia at the Newark Museum (3.1.15)

Okayafrica, George Osodi’s Royal Portraits Of Nigerian Monarchs (3.1.15)

ArtNet, Step Aside Kehinde Wiley, These Portraits of Nigerian Royalty at the Newark Museum Are the Real Deal (2.28.15)

FT.com, Snapshot: ‘Royals and Regalia’, by George Osodi at Newark Museum (2.20.15)

Co.Design, Nigeria's Modern-Day Monarchs, In Pictures (1.30.15)

Slate, The Many Modern-Day Kings and Queens of Nigeria (1.27.15)

InCollect.com, Newark Museum: 106 Years Ahead Of The Curve (1.28.15)

Antiques and Fine Art, Newark Museum: 106 Years Ahead of the Curve (1.1.15) [PDF]

Magazine Antiques, The Newark Museum Now and Then (2.1.15) (PDF)

ArtNews, Tricia Laughlin Bloom Appointed American Art Curator at Newark (1.6.15)
 
Star-Ledger, The 2015 Art Season (1.4.15)
 
New England Antiques Journal, Museum of the Month (1.1.15) (PDF) 
 
Marketing & Public Relations Highlights (March 2017) (PDF)
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