Exhibitions are listed in reverse chronological order by opening date.
Body Wars: Fighting Infection, Staying Healthy
November 25, 2005 – June 22, 2008
This is an inquiry-driven interactive exhibition exploring the hidden world of microbes (bacteria, viruses, protozoa and fungi) and the dangers and benefits they pose to humans. Through animations, computers, videos and spectacular images, the exhibition instills an understanding of the diversity of both helpful and harmful microbes.
November 25, 2005 – January 8, 2006
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, annually offers visitors the opportunity to step back in time to learn about nineteenth-century life and traditions.
October 19, 2005 – January 22, 2006
The first exhibition in the United States to focus on African men’s dress showcases a range of spectacular clothing spanning the continent from Morocco to South Africa.
October 2005 – 2010
In 2004, the Cassini spacecraft arrived at Saturn to explore this world through 2008. The exhibit features the history of Saturn exploration and the latest information from Cassini. Through the latest technology, visitors will witness images as they are updated and explanations of new discoveries, allowing visitors to see the beauty of space as new discoveries are being made.
September 29, 2005 – January 22, 2006
Fascinated by how Dominican baseball players now dominate America’s national sport, artist Freddy Rodriguez was inspired to explore the impact of these athletes through a series of 12 “conceptual” portraits of some of the best known baseball players in the Major leagues. The works do not depict the likeness of the players profiled, but rather evoke their personalities and histories through the interplay of text, image and media.
September 23, 2005 – December 31, 2005
The Newark Museum’s renowned Tibetan collection is augmented by a special exhibit celebrating the 15th anniversary of the consecration of the Museum’s Buddhist Altar by His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama. A collection of objects and photographs related to the Dalai Lama as well as rare film footage are on display at the entrance to the altar, which was consecrated by the Dalai Lama on September 23, 1990.
June 9, 2005 – September 4, 2005
This traveling exhibition, which was first seen at The Phillips Collection in 1995, includes approximately 50 paintings that Duncan Phillips purchased from photographer Alfred Stieglitz by four American modernist painters: Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, John Marin and Georgia O'Keeffe—artists of the Stieglitz circle—as well as a number of photographs by Stieglitz himself.
April 9, 2005 – April 24, 2005
Organized by Congressman Donald M. Payne, this competition features artwork by high school students in Newark’s 10th Congressional District. The annual exhibition shows two-dimensional art in a variety of media including drawings, prints, paintings and computer/photographic arts.
March 30, 2005 – March 6, 2006
This exhibition surveys the history of silverware in America, from its early use in colonial times as “cash made useful,” to its ubiquity in Victorian America as a symbol of gentility and status, to its steady decline throughout the second half of the 20th century.
March 5, 2005 – March 20, 2005
The Museum’s annual celebration of 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 13-18 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 27, 2005 – September 4, 2005
During the spring and summer of 2005, the Newark Museum presents five exhibits that showcase wedding traditions around the world. Brides will be the centerpieces of the American, Asian and African galleries for a six-month period.
This exhibition traces the development of wedding gowns, banquets, trousseaux and family arrangements from the 19th century to the present through dresses, historic photographs, jewelry, furniture and films dating from San Francisco's Chinatown in the 1890's, 1920's Shanghai and 1970's Beijing. A Chinese banquet hall and bridal chamber are recreated in the Museum especially for this exhibit.
This installation recreates the setting for the belle époque private wedding of Alice Isabel Ballantine to Henry Young Jr., which took place in 1889 in the Ballantine House. It examines the wedding customs in America at the end of the 19th century, which have largely become the traditional wedding Americans know today and are the model for every modern bride’s fantasy wedding.
Celebrating the private worlds of married women and courtesans in 18th and 19th century Japan, this exhibition features a 19th c. Japanese embroidered wedding kimono and ceremonial gifts. Also shown are cosmetic items, poetry, paintings and ceramics by women artists, imperial court dolls, Ukiyoe prints and Netsukes depicting courtesans and famous women heroes.
This exhibition focuses on the bridal adornment of Imazighen (more commonly known as Berber) women in rural Morocco. The highlight is a complete marriage dress ensemble from southern Morocco, with its unique red headdress and jewelry of silver and amber. Also featured are objects from the bridal trousseau, including Moroccan jewelry, woven and handdyed textiles, and a wooden marriage chest.
Queen for a Day presents fine robes, crowns, gifts and paintings used in 19th and early 20th century Korean weddings. Also featured are fine textiles made by a bride-to-be for her dowry. A bride’s and groom’s gowns and crowns, a wedding screen and of special gifts such as carved ducks, chests and embroidered cloths complete the scene of a traditional Korean wedding from that period.
January 17, 2005 – March 6, 2005
This exhibition displays a collection of fifty portrait photographs of representative Black Americans—including Romare Bearden, Ella Fitzgerald, Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston—created by Carl Van Vechten between 1930 and 1960. The portraits are reproduced by hand gravure, a form of ink printing from copper plates etched from film positives. They were produced in 1983 for the Eakins Press Foundation by Richard M.A. Benson in an edition of 100 numbered sets.
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