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2021
First Community Day of 2021-MLK Jr. Day Celebration: Breaking Down Barriers, Monday, January 18
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2020
The Newark Museum of Art Supports Mayor's Effort to Combat COVID-19
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Museum Announces Call for Submissions for 2021 New Jersey Arts Annual: ReVision and Respond
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Museum's First Virtual Community Day Celebrates Earth Day!
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The Newark Museum of Art Names New CFO & Deputy Director of Infrastructure
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2019
The Newark Museum of Art Presents Major Retrospective of American Abstract Painter Norman Bluhm
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The Newark Museum of Art: A New Name for New Jersey’s Largest Art and Culture Institution
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Dr. Silvia Filippini Fantoni Named Deputy Director of Education and Audience Engagement
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Catherine Evans Named Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs
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Annual Kevin Shanley Tibetan Lecture
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Newark Museum Black Film Festival Marks 45th Anniversary of Vibrant Filmmaking
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Newark Museum Asian Art Exhibition to Showcase Birds in Art: Birding in Asian Art
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Newark Museum’s Revitalized Galleries Spotlight American Modern and Contemporary Artists from Georgia O’Keeffe to Matthew Brandt
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PSEG Foundation Grant Supports Newark Museum Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives
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Newark Museum Exhibition Celebrates Sparkling Gift of Steuben Glass Unexpected Color: A Journey Through Glass Opens May 1, 2019
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2018
Newark Museum’s Sonnet Takahisa Honored with Katherine Coffey Award Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums Presents Award Named After Newark Museum’s Fourth Director
In recognition of her distinguished service and lifetime achievements in the museum field, Sonnet Takahisa, the Newark Museum’s Director of Strategic Education Initiatives, has been awarded the Katherine Coffey Award by the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums.
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Newark Museum Showcases New Media Installation By Kambui Olujimi
Skywriters & Constellations: Full Dome Film and Related Exhibition
Highlighting the Museum’s longtime mission of aligning visual art and science, on November 4th the Newark Museum will launch Skywriters & Constellations, a new exhibition installed in the Alice and Leonard Dreyfuss Planetarium and the Garden Passage.
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Newark Museum Spotlights Contemporary Artist Wendy Red Star with Mid-Career Survey Wendy Red Star: A Scratch on the Earth February 23 through May 19, 2019
The most comprehensive exhibition of Wendy Red Star’s work to date, and the Portland-based artist’s first solo museum exhibition on the East Coast, Wendy Red Star: A Scratch on the Earth will open at the Newark Museum on February 23, 2019. This unprecedented show features 60 works by Red Star, including loans from museum collections throughout the United States, and highlights15 years of Red Star’s studio practice, from 2006 to 2019.
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2018 Newark Black Film Festival Announces Paul Robeson Award Winners
The Newark Museum has announced the winners of the Newark Black Film Festival 2018 Paul Robeson Awards, a biennial competition that recognizes excellence in independent filmmaking. The competition, established in 1985 in honor of the late activist, performer and athlete, is the longest running festival of its kind in the United States. It is made possible through the support of Bank of America.
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Newark Museum Exhibition Highlights Impact of Japanese Aesthetics on Global Fashions from John Galliano to Comme des Garçons
Kimono Refashioned: 1870s-Now! On view: October 13, 2018-January 6, 2019
A new exhibition at the Newark Museum will showcase the impact of Japanese garments, textiles, design and aesthetics on global fashions created by internationally recognized designers such as John Galliano, Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen, Iris van Herpen and Issey Miyake.
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Catch the K-Wave at the Newark Museum’s Second Sunday
Celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month on May 13 at the Newark Museum with Second Sunday activities exploring the breadth of K-Wave culture from K-Pop to K-Food to K-Fashion, with inspiration from the Museum’s Arts of Asia collection. Activities will take place from noon to 5 pm and are free with Museum admission.
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Honorees Named for Newark Museum Legacy Gala Saturday, May 12, 2018
Newark Mayor Ras J. Baraka; Newark Council President Mildred C. Crump and the Newark Municipal Council; pioneering architectural firm Michael Graves and Associates; and United Airlines will be honored at the Newark Museum’s 2018 Legacy Gala on Saturday, May 12 for their long-time support of the Museum.
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Prudential funds Newark Museum community programs as part of $30 million in grants for Newark nonprofits
The Newark Museum is one of 17 Newark nonprofit organizations to receive part of the $30 million in grants from Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE: PRU) to fund capital campaigns and endowments throughout Newark’s five wards. The Museum will receive $1 million to support the expansion of its community programs.
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Visitors Can Unleash Their Inner Fashion Designer on New Jersey Makers Day at the Newark Museum March 10, noon- 5pm
The Newark Museum will be celebrating New Jersey Makers Day on March 10 with a fashion-focused event inspired by world-renowned fashion designer Lie Sangbong. Visitors will learn how to create their own custom fashionable items with tools in the Museum’s MakerSPACE. The Museum is one of nearly 300 participating locations throughout the state; activities will take place from noon to 5 pm and are included with Museum admission.
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Newark Museum Asian Art Exhibition to Showcase Textile Techniques Dramatic Threads: Textiles of Asia March 14, 2018-Feburary 2019
Objects ranging from theatrical and political costumes to architectural and decorative textiles will be featured in an upcoming exhibition at the Newark Museum that showcases a wide range of making techniques from throughout the Asian continent. Dramatic Threads: Textiles of Asia opens March 14 and is on view through February 2019.
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Newark Museum Association to Elect Three New Members at Annual Meeting
The membership of the Newark Museum Association will elect Jeffrey S. Jacobson, Marshall B. McLean and Andrew H. Richards to its Class of 2022 at the 108th Annual Meeting on February 20.
Inaugural Exhibition in Newark Museum's New Special Exhibition Gallery Explores Masterworks of Alpine Art
The Rockies and the Alps: Bierstadt, Calame, and the Romance of the Mountains
The Newark Museum will mark the opening of a new special exhibition gallery and its newly reopened Washington Street entrance with a major exhibition featuring beloved Hudson River School landscape paintings from the permanent collection and major loans from private and public collections.
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Newark Museum Greatly Enhances Its Visibility and Community Engagement
With residential and commercial development booming in Newark, the Newark Museum is adding to the revitalization by reopening its Washington Street doors after two decades on February 21.
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Newark Museum Awarded Grant To Diversity Leadership in Art Museums
The Newark Museum has been selected by the Ford Foundation and the Walton Family Foundation as a partner in a major initiative aimed at diversifying the art museum profession.
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Newark Museum Reinstalls Arts of Global Africa Collection in Flagship Galleries
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Ancient Mediterranean Collection Given New Gallery Space, Visibility at Newark Museum
After 28 years, Newark Museum’s Ancient Mediterranean collection is getting a new home. The Newark Museum’s classical collection of art from Egypt, Greece and Roman is comprised of nearly 4,500 objects dating from 3000 BC to 600 AD.
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Newark Museum Explorers Program Recognized by Federal Arts and Culture Agencies with Nation's Top Honor
Cited as one of the best creative youth development programs in the country
International Landscape Influences Explored in First Exhibition in Newly Redesigned Gallery at Newark Museum
A major loan exhibition at the Newark Museum will explore Alpine landscape art and culture in the United States and Europe in the 19th century.
Newark Museum Awarded Bank of America Art Conservation Project Grant
The Newark Museum has been awarded a Bank of America Art Conservation Project grant for the conservation of the 1871 oil painting The Arch of Titus by George Peter Alexander, Frederic Edwin Church and Jervis McEntee.
Newark Museum Association Elects Six New Members at Annual Meeting
The membership of the Newark Museum Association elected six new members to its Class of 2021 at its 107th Annual Meeting on February 14.
Newark Museum Debuts Important Acquistion by William Kentridge in Lead Up to Reinstallation of Arts of Global Africa Collection
In anticipation of the relocation and reinstallation of its Arts of Global Africa collection in November 2017, the Newark Museum debuts a newly acquired video installation by artist William Kentridge, What Will Come (2007).
Newark Museum Celebrates the Golden Legacy of Chief Curator Ulysses Dietz
When the Newark Museum’s Chief Curator Ulysses Grant Dietz steps down from his position at the end of 2017, he will leave behind a 37-year legacy marked with silver, jewels, ceramics and a Victorian mansion.
2016
Lonnie G. Bunch III to Be Honored at 2017 Newark Museum Legacy Gala
Lonnie G. Bunch III, founding director of the newly opened Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), will receive the John Cotton Dana Medal for Visionary Leadership in Museums at the Newark Museum’s Legacy Gala on Saturday, May 13, 2017.
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AT&T Contribution Supports Newark Museum Explorers Program
Thanks to a generous contribution from AT&T, the Newark Museum will continue to provide inner city youth with a unique learning experience built around its art and science collections.
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Newly Reinstalled Galleries Showcase Newark Museum’s Holdings of Native American Art
Native Artists of North America Long Term Installation
The Newark Museum has unveiled its newly redesigned Native American galleries. Featuring more than 100 objects from throughout the United States and Canada, Native Artists of North America presents a fully reinterpreted selection of works from the Museum’s permanent collection, dating from the early 19th century to the present, including many objects never before exhibited.
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Aroha Philanthropies Grant Expands Newark Museum Program Offering for Older Adults
Thanks to a grant from Aroha Philanthropies, the Newark Museum is expanding its Creative Aging programs with a series of six workshops that are designed to inspire and enable older adults to learn, make and share the arts in ways that are novel, complex and socially engaging. The Museum was one of 15 non-profit organizations from across the country selected by Aroha to support the development and expansion of successful artful aging programs, document their effectiveness and share the information broadly.
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Exhibition Honors Four Benefactors of the Newark Museum
Newark Stories: Four Newarkers Who Made a Difference
As part of the Newark Museum’s commemoration of Newark’s 350th anniversary, a new exhibition will showcase the stories of four Newarkers who were key benefactors of the Museum: Lida Clanton Broner, Caroline Bamberger Fuld, Howard W. Hayes and W. Clark Symington. Newark Stories: Four Newarkers Who Made a Difference opens on June 18 and runs through January 8, 2017.
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Exhibition Highlights Newark Museum's Collection of African-American Art
Building on the Museum’s historic role as a leader in collecting and exhibiting African-American art, a new exhibition at the Newark Museum will present a distinguished group of works by leading modern and contemporary artists.
Newark Museum Exhibition Showcases Extraordinary Holdings of Islamic Art
Bringing together both historic and contemporary objects from its diverse collections—Asian, African, American and the decorative arts of Europe—the Newark Museum’s winter 2016 feature exhibition will showcase the history and breadth of Islamic art.
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2015
Unique, Large-Scale Sculptural Work Focal Point of Gabriel Dawe Exhibition at Newark Museum
NEWARK: This fall, the Newark Museum will present The Shape of Light: Gabriel Dawe, featuring large-scale, site-specific installations, as well as textile-based sculpture and works on paper by internationally known artist Gabriel Dawe.
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Newark Museum’s Collection Spotlighted in 61st Annual Winter Antiques Show 106 Years Ahead of the Curve at the Newark Museum
Did you know that the modern American museum was invented in Newark in 1909? The Newark Museum’s vast and diverse collections will be highlighted at the 61st annual Winter Antiques Show, which will take place at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City from January 23-February 1, 2015.
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2014
Newark Museum Takes a Rare View Inside the Palaces of Nigeria's Monarches
The Newark Museum will present an exhibition of 40 largescale portraits from a new series by acclaimed Nigerian photographer George Osodi. Royals and Regalia: Inside the Palaces of Nigeria’s Monarchs will open February 25 and run through August 9, 2015.
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New Video Installation by Artist Hassan Hajjaj
The Newark Museum is presenting a video installation by UK-based artist Hassan Hajjaj, along with a related series of photographs, in a exhibition titled Hassan Hajjaj: My Rock Stars, opening Feb. 25, 2015.
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