Exhibitions are listed in reverse chronological order by opening date.
November 26, 2004 – December 31, 2005
This exhibition highlights the Museum’s extensive collection of ceramic vessels from sub-Saharan Africa. In Africa, pottery is typically a woman’s art, and female potters work without the aid of potter’s wheels, which makes their technical achievement all the more impressive. The vessels they create reveal a deep understanding of the relationship between form and function as well as a demonstrated aesthetic sensibility.
November 26, 2004 – January 9, 2005
The trappings and the trimmings of a traditional Victorian holiday are re-created in the 1885 Ballantine House, a restored National Historic Landmark. The historically accurate installation, complete with period menus, offers visitors the opportunity to step back in time to learn about nineteenth century life and traditions.
November 10, 2004 – February 27, 2005
Organized by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, this exhibition showcases approximately seventy-five of the Judith Leiber’s unique day and evening handbags created over a thirty year period. The collection makes a visual statement through the use of fine materials, and the handbags often take on many forms. The exhibition celebrates the designer's artistic vision and profound influence on three decades of fashion.
September 29, 2004 – January 9, 2005
Exploring the Russian imperial family's private life, this exhibition features displays filled with scores of never-before-seen treasures from Russia's state collections, including items by Fabergé, children’s toys and family albums. Nicholas and Alexandra turned their residence outside of St. Petersburg into their version of a cozy Victorian home, filling it with personal treasures much like any close-knit family of the late nineteenth century.
June 17, 2004 – August 29, 2004
This multi-media exhibition explores singer Bruce Springsteen’s use of cars and highways as motifs in his music and related visual imagery. It features records, memorabilia and over 70 photographs by artists Annie Leibovitz, David Gahr, Joel Bernstein, David Michael Kennedy, Lynn Goldsmith, Edie Baskin, David Rose, Frank Stefanko and Springsteen's sister, Pamela.
June 16, 2004 – August 22, 2004
The Craft Arts Annual is the first in this twenty-year series to focus on the native traditions behind contemporary craft artists living and working in New Jersey. It includes a wide range of Asian and Latin American communities within New Jersey as well as individuals working with inspiration from their own native or ethnic traditions.
May 15, 2004 – May 29, 2005
The Sun, seen almost every day, still offers unexpected excitement. This exhibit introduces visitors to the basic nature of the sun, including basic solar facts, a scale model of the Sun, structure and composition, features visible on its surface, and the effect of solar activity on Earth. Solar Fireworks is a collaborative effort between the Newark Museum and New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Big Bear Observatory.
April 10, 2004 – May 2, 2004
Organized by Congressman Donald M. Payne, this competition features artwork by high school students in New Jersey’s 10th Congressional District. This annual exhibition shows two-dimensional art in a variety of media including drawings, prints, paintings, and computer/photographic arts.
March 24, 2004 – October 3, 2004
From the turn of the twentieth century to his death in the late 1920s, F. Walter Lawrence was a prominent jeweler in Newark, creating sumptuous, elegant jewelry in the art nouveau style. Respected and successful during his lifetime but forgotten in death, this exhibit includes over 30 objects which offer a glimpse into this unknown master's work.
March 6, 2004 – March 24, 2004
The Museum’s annual celebration of nationally-recognized Youth Art Month centers around this two-part event that highlights the visual and performing arts talents of students from the city’s public secondary schools. The exhibition features original works by artists ages thirteen to eighteen in a variety of media, including watercolor, tempera, oil and more. An opening day concert showcases the gifts of teen vocalists, instrumentalists and dancers.
February 18, 2004 – May 9, 2004
Jungles is a personal exploration of nature, as experienced over a period of twenty years by National Geographic photographer Frans Lanting. These unique images showcase life in the jungle, from the lowlands of the Congo to the cloud forests of the Andes. Broken down into categories, the photographs range from spectacular gatherings of rainbow-colored macaws to the misty exhalations of a forest at dawn.
February 18, 2004 – May 9, 2004
Jewelry has always offered a complex network of social and cultural meanings, both for the people who wear it and for those who admire it. These meanings are explored through over two hundred spectacular pieces of jewelry. Groundbreaking in its approach, this exhibition adopts a cross-cultural perspective that reveals both the similarities of use as well as the diversity of artistic expression embodied in personal adornment.
February 1, 2004 – July 3, 2004
This exhibition presents the work of three portrait photographers from Africa: Seydou Keita of Bamako, Mali; Sukhdeo Bobson Mohanlall of Durban, South Africa; and Samuel Fosso of Bangui, Central African Republic. Spanning the mid-1950s to the late 1970s, these works offer insight into the shaping of modern identities during a period of tremendous social change.
February 1, 2004 – October 3, 2004
Presented in conjunction with My Ethiopia: Recent Paintings by Wosene Worke Kosrof, this exhibition showcases a selection of Ethiopian art, dating from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries from the Museum’s permanent collection. This exhibition serves as a historical foundation for the contemporary concepts expressed by Wosene.
February 1, 2004 – October 3, 2004
Jointly organized by the Newark Museum and the Neuberger Museum of Art, this exhibition features recent paintings by noted contemporary Ethiopian artist Wosene Worke Kosrof. An expatriate living in Berkeley, California, Wosene explores the aesthetic potential of language, using the written symbols of his native Amharic dialect as the major compositional element.
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