News Coverage & Press Releases

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At the Newark Museum, African Art, a beer mansion and 250 apartments
March 11, 2024
NJ.com | A plan announced in 2021 to expand the Newark Museum of Art and build 250 apartments on its downtown campus is once again moving ahead after being delayed by the COVID‑19 pandemic and other factors, according to city and museum officials and the development partner.

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New Fashion Exhibition at the Newark Museum is a Work of Art
March 8, 2024
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The Newark Museum of Art Announces Honorees for Art Ball 2024
February 27, 2024

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The Newark Art Museum highlights Black fashion in new exhibit “The Story of Newark Fashion: Atelier to Runway”
February 23, 2024
CBS News | The Newark Museum of Art is unveiling a new fashion exhibit that features two generations of Black designers, models and muses. 

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Newark Museum of Art Highlights Fashion Designers
February 20, 2024
Women's Wear Daily | The Newark Museum of Art's new show spotlights the work of Stephen Burrows, Narciso Rodriguez and others.

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Newark’s Fashion Legacy: Unveiling the Disco Era and Beyond at The Newark Museum of Art
February 19, 2024
BNN Breaking | The highlight of the exhibition is a meticulously crafted simulated runway, bringing the allure and glamor of the 1970s disco fashion back to life. It's here that the genius of Stephen Burrows unfolds, showcasing his revolutionary designs that once captivated the world during the historic Battle of Versailles in 1973.

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Newark Museum of Art Unveils Groundbreaking Fashion Exhibition: The Story of Newark Fashion: Atelier to Runway
February 15, 2024
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The Newark Museum of Art Announces Fashion Exhibition, The Story of Newark Fashion: Atelier to Runway, Opening February 22, 2024
February 1, 2024
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Explore centuries’ worth of artifacts at The Newark Museum of Art
January 25, 2024
News 12 New Jersey | The Newark Museum of Art is filled with centuries' worth of artifacts, including the arts of global Africa where visitors can interact with one of the pieces: a head dress.

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Inside the Newark Museum of Art’s Restored Ballantine House, a 27‑Room 1885 Mansion
December 14, 2023
Architectural Digest | A $12 million preservation project breathes new life into the New Jersey institution’s ornate interiors, which have been mindfully updated to center the city’s diverse history and community.

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The Experience Alchemists develops interpretive plan for The Ballantine House
December 12, 2023
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Can Dionne Warwick get an amen? Always.
November 28, 2023
Washington Post | Meeting at the art museum was her idea. She appreciates its embrace of her community. Waiting for her to arrive, I chat with Glenn Mason, a charming security guard who recalls seeing Warwick perform at the Garden State Arts Center back in 1970. He attended church with her Aunt Cissy and remembers little Whitney, then known by the nickname Nippy.

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Ballantine House Overhaul to ‘Wake It Up and Shake It Up’
November 15, 2023
The New York Times | Sumptuous gilded ornamentation still teems throughout the brick home of the Ballantine family of beer makers in Newark, built in 1885. But objects and artworks newly incorporated into the period rooms show how underappreciated strivers maneuvered in Newark society during the Ballantines’ heyday.

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Newark’s Ballantine House mansion set to reopen this week with ribbon‑cutting
November 13, 2023
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Newark Museum of Art installs African‑themed sculptures at entrance
October 20, 2023
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Revitalizing Newark
September 19, 2023
New Jersey Business Magazine | According to Linda Harrison, director and CEO of the Newark Museum of Art (NMOA), “Art and culture are key economic drivers of the city, and that NMOA has an important economic role to play​.”

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In a New Exhibition, Sanford Biggers Lives With “The Ruins of History”
September 13, 2023
W Magazine | Biggers also has an exhibition at Marianne Boesky, in New York, called Meet Me on the Equinox, up through October 14; and he’s unveiling two marble sculptures at the Newark Museum of Art in New Jersey on October 20.

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FOTOS: Confira o Agito da Festa Brasileira no Newark Museum of Art
August 8, 2023
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Cross Cultural Perspectives at Newark Museum of Art Opens the 2023 Newark Arts Festival
August 8, 2023
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Glass and Ceramics from The Newark Museum of Art’s Decorative Arts Collection on Display at Drumthwacket this Fall
July 27, 2023
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Top 15 Most Read Stories At New Jersey Stage From July 9‑15, 2023
July 16, 2023
New Jersey Stage | 3) 2023 Newark Black Film Festival to Take Place July 12‑16 ‑ (NEWARK, NJ) ‑‑ The 2023 Newark Black Film Festival takes place July 12‑16 at The Newark Museum of Art. This is the longest‑running Black film festival in the country and it celebrates films that appreciate the historic significance of the Black experience in the United States. 

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‘Juice’ director Ernest R. Dickerson on Newark, Tupac and prequel series as hip‑hop turns 50
July 15, 2023
NJ Advance Media | The celebration of the movie arrives during hip‑hop’s 50th anniversary year, which marks the music’s birth in New York in the summer of 1973. Also nearly 50 years old: the Newark Black Film Festival, the longest‑running Black film festival in the country.

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2023 Newark Black Film Festival to Take Place July 12‑16
July 9, 2023
New Jersey Stage | Since its introduction, the Newark Black Film Festival (NBFF) has provided a forum for writers, directors, producers, performers, and film patrons who enjoy African American and African Diaspora cinema. The goal of the Festival is to present programs that reflect the full diversity of the black experience both past and present, and encompass a wide range of forums and formulas from documentary to the avant‑garde.

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13 art destinations for day trips near New York City this summer
June 28, 2023
The Art Newspaper | An exhibition at the Newark Museum of Art pairs 17 new works by Sierra Leonean‑American photographer and visual artist Adama Delphine Fawundu with objects from the museum’s collection of global African art to explore ancestral memory and liberation. 

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Secrets to strengthening community engagement with The Newark Museum of Art
June 27, 2023
MuseumNext | At the heart of engagement for The Newark Museum of Art is a commitment to collaboration. Crafting new initiatives now includes a range of community voices as standard. 

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‘Seeing America’ galleries at Newark Museum of Art represent a reckoning with the past
June 20, 2023
NJArts.net | “Seeing America,” overseen by senior American Art curator Tricia Bloom, completes an ongoing act of provocation by the Museum — one that is felt more keenly the further back in time the galleries take us. The curators juxtapose art from the colonial and antebellum eras with pieces created in the past few years. 

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EMMY® AWARD WINNING NEWARK CONCERT FILM TRILOGY, “EMERGE,” BY YURI ALVES, TO SCREEN AT THE NEWARK MUSEUM OF ART ON JUNE 15
June 13, 2023
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Treasures of New Jersey: The Newark Museum of Art
May 24, 2023
PBS | The museum brings together community for education and social justice events, and recently unveiled its reimagined "Seeing America: 18th & 19th Century" galleries with highlights from their Indigenous, early and modern American works.

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NJ PBS Announces The Newark Museum of Art is the Next Treasures of New Jersey; New Episode Premieres Wednesday, May 24 at 8:30 p.m.
May 19, 2023
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The Newark Black Film Festival Returns to The Newark Museum of Art this Summer
May 18, 2023
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Professor Adama Delphine Fawundu ’18 Exhibiting Work at the Newark Museum of Art
May 9, 2023
Columbia University School of the Arts | The exhibition is part of the Museum’s Global Contemporary series, which fosters direct dialogue between contemporary artists and those within the Museum’s collections.

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Councilman Dupré ‘DoItall’ Kelly celebrates Newark’s hip‑hop history in battle rap event
May 4, 2023
Fox5 New York | The Art After Dark: Battle of the Wards event is set to take place at the Newark Museum of Art, where attendees will determine which two local artists have the talent to win the grand prize in each category. 

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Alice L. Walton Foundation, Ford Foundation, Mellon Foundation, and Pilot House Philanthropy Announce Investments for More Diverse Leadership in Art Museums
May 3, 2023
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Newark Arts Festival To Celebrate 50 Years Of Hip Hop And “Cross Cultural Perspectives” This Fall
March 31, 2023
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The Newark Museum of Art Announces New Board of Trustees Members
March 29, 2023
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The Newark Museum of Art Presents Adama Delphine Fawundu: In the Spirit of Àṣẹ
March 24, 2023
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Newark Museum of Art hosts Community Day to celebrate gallery reinstallations, new Harriet Tubman monument
March 11, 2023
CBS | Newark Museum of Art hosts Community Day to celebrate gallery reinstallations, new Harriet Tubman monument

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Celebrating Diversity At Newark Museum Of Art
March 10, 2023
WNBC | The Newark Museum of Art opened more than a century ago, but it will be celebrating its expanded collection over the weekend, which includes more artists who are women and people of color. News 4’s Jen Maxfield reports.

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The Newark Museum of Art Presents Community Day: Her Story/Our Story
February 27, 2023
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The Newark Museum of Art Receives $500,000 Grant Toward Advancing Latinx Art
February 24, 2023
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Major Reinstallation of Seeing America: 18th & 19th Century Galleries
February 10, 2023
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Association of Art Museum Directors Announces New Officers, Trustees Following Conclusion of 2023 Annual Meeting
February 1, 2023
AAMD website | The new president is Julia Marciari‑Alexander (The Walters Art Museum); she takes over from Julián Zugazagoitia (The Nelson‑Atkins Museum of Art), who has completed his term. Newly elected officers include: Vice President Amada Cruz (Seattle Art Museum); 2nd Vice President & Secretary Stephan Jost (Art Gallery of Ontario); and Treasurer Linda Harrison (Newark Museum of Art). 

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Go Wild in Animal Kingdom at Newark Museum of Art
January 19, 2023
New York Family | Families and kids can now learn about and celebrate the wonders of the animal kingdom from the comfort of an art museum

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The Newark Museum of Art Welcomes Atteqa Ali as the New Associate Curator of Arts of Global Asia
January 13, 2023
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The Newark Museum of Art Unveils New Portrait of Tracey Norman by Artist Mickalene Thomas, Commissioned for the Museum’s Collection
December 14, 2022
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The Newark Museum of ArtReceives Highest National Recognition: Awarded Re‑Accreditation from the American Alliance of Museums
December 12, 2022
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The Newark Museum of Art Announces Stephanie Lyles as Deputy Director of People, Culture, and Operations
December 9, 2022
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ArtForum Top 10
December 1, 2022
ArtForum | Number 4: Carlos Villa. In his artwork and teaching, Villa (1936‑2013) braided together cultures, races, localities, modes of depiction, and temporalities, demonstrating an inimitable ability to manifest neighborhoods of pleasure in which the estranged become family. 

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Art Tells New Jersey Stories at Newark’s New Terminal A
November 14, 2022
The New York Times | For the art commissions at Newark’s Terminal A, designed and built by Tutor Perini/Parsons, an advisory council led by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts with representatives from the Newark Museum of Art and Rutgers University, among other local stakeholders, contributed names of artists for consideration.

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How ‘Bros’ Built an LGBTQ Museum for Billy Eichner’s Gay Rom‑Com
October 4, 2022
Variety | The museum needed to feel like a real museum. It becomes ridiculous in the end, but the exhibits needed to feel real. Our location manager and Lisa found the Newark Museum of Art, so we used that for the front of the building and for almost all the museum spaces inside.

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Animal Kingdom – Air Mail
September 7, 2022
Air Mail | The international art collective teamLab is taking over the Newark Museum of Art in honor of animals. The vision is to bring creatures from around the world into the gallery spaces of an art museum. 

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Newark Museum of Art opening digital aquarium by teamLab
September 3, 2022
Blooloop | The Newark Museum of Art is opening a digital aquarium installation created by teamLab as part of its upcoming Animal Kingdom exhibition.

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Hyperallergic Fall 2022 New York Art Guide
August 31, 2022
Hyperallergic | Brooklyn‑based artist Saya Woolfalk’s socially realistic fiction is a posthuman world where the Empathics, a special race of women, fuse diverse cultures to produce hybrid artifacts and relics. 

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Animal Kingdom – Time Out
August 30, 2022
Time Out | The kids will surely love this one: the Newark Museum of Art has just announced the opening of "Animal Kingdom," a new immersive exhibit that explores the concept of ecology and nature through art, digital workshops and more.

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Newark Museum of Art Animal Kingdom exhibit
August 25, 2022
New Jersey Monthly | Animal Kingdom, Newark’s newest exhibit, is an interactive visual display that showcases nature’s diversity and how humans affect the environment, for better and for worse. 

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Rare and intimate photos of Billie Holiday in the ‘50s
August 3, 2022
Huck Magazine | The photographs, now on view in Billie Holiday at Sugar Hill: Photographs by Jerry Dantzic, offer an intimate look at the life of ‘Lady Day’ (as she was nicknamed) ‑ an extraordinary woman whose image was larger than life. Through her music, she fought racism, misogyny, and drug laws that criminalised the Black community.

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See Stunning Photos of Billie Holiday, Eartha Kitt and Other Jazz Legends From Newark Museum of Art Exhibits
July 27, 2022
Variety | The Newark Museum of Art is presenting two stunning exhibits of photography featuring Billie Holiday and a selection of jazz legends. “Jazz Greats: Classic Photographs from the Bank of America Collection” and “Billie Holiday at Sugar Hill: Photographs by Jerry Dantzic” opened last month and will run through August 22, 2022.

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The Antoinette Montague Experience Has Shows In Newark and Morristown
July 12, 2022
New Jersey Stage | Raised in Newark and surrounded by music, Antoinette Montague brings a passion and energy to every performance drawing on influences such as Ella Fitzgerald and Aretha Franklin as well as her mentors Carrie Smith and Etta Jones. 

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Previewing The Newark Black Film Festival
July 11, 2022
WNYC | A preview of our upcoming Festival in WNYC's "All Of It with Alison Stewart" in conversation with our Community Outreach Lead Darryl Walker.

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Top 15 Most Read Stories at New Jersey Stage from June 26 – July 2, 2022
July 3, 2022
New Jersey Stage | The Newark Museum of Art continues its legacy to present films that heighten the historic importance of the Black experience in the United States with the 46th Newark Black Film Festival, which takes place July 12‑17.

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NMOA & The International Artist Residency in Hayama, Japan
June 30, 2022
In 2021, the NMOA supported Artists in Residence Nadia Liz Estela and linn meyers. 

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The Newark Museum of Art Presents Animal Kingdom
June 30, 2022
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Newark Black Film Festival Returns to The Newark Museum of Art
June 30, 2022
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Miles Davis, Joey Alexander, Azymuth & More: The Week in Jazz
June 28, 2022
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The humanity of Billie Holiday shown in Jerry Dantzic’s intimate photos at Newark Museum of Art
June 22, 2022
NJ INDY | As a result of Jerry Dantzic’s unique level of access to Holiday’s private life during her one‑week engagement at Sugar Hill jazz club in Newark, the collection of photographs works to push back against the historically dominant narrative of who Holiday was.

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Mayor Baraka Re‑Names Washington Park After Harriet Tubman And Launches Arts And Education District At The Park
June 20, 2022
Major institutions in the Arts and Education District currently include the Newark Museum of Art, the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Newark Symphony Hall, Rutgers‑Newark, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Prudential Arena, Seton Hall Law School, Newark School of the Arts, and Mulberry Commons, among others.

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The new Black vanguard of portrait photography, plus four other photo shows worth seeing
June 20, 2022
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21 Art Shows to See in New York This Summer
June 14, 2022
Hyperallergic | New York photojournalist Jerry Dantzic captured Lady Day’s residency at a Newark, New Jersey nightclub in 1957. His archives, part of the Newark Museum’s larger summer program on jazz history, portray the public and private labor that the legendary singer put into her short but triumphant career.

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Two Jazz Photography Exhibits to Open at Newark Museum of Art
June 9, 2022
Jazz Times

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The Newark Museum of Art & New Jersey Symphony present NMOA Summer Series
June 8, 2022
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Billie Holiday at Sugar Hill: Photographs by Jerry Dantzic
May 31, 2022
Air Mail | The Newark Museum presents Jerry Dantzic’s intimate photographs of the jazz and blues star, featuring commentary by master of letters Zadie Smith.

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The Newark Museum of Art Presents Jazz Greats: Classic Photographs from the Bank of America Collection
May 9, 2022
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The Newark Museum of Art Presents Billie Holiday at Sugar Hill: Photographs by Jerry Dantzic
May 9, 2022
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What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries Right Now
May 6, 2022
The New York Times | Together, the works form a fascinating document of Villa’s bold and experimental, but deeply considered, search for the means of self‑expression. The high point is the feathers. 

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Carlos Villa’s First Major Retrospective Makes Filipino Art History
April 26, 2022
W magazine | Carlos Villa: Worlds in Collision at the Newark Museum of Art tells the story of a Filipino artist finding his footing—and a social activist fighting for marginalized people everywhere.

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New York magazine’s Approval Matrix
April 22, 2022
New York Magazine | Carlos Villa: Worlds in Collision features prominently in the Approval Matrix's quadrant for Brilliant and Highbrow. 

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The Breakthrough Retrospective of Carlos Villa
April 17, 2022
Hyperallergic | After an early career as a minimalist, Villa’s turn toward cultural expression was influenced by his study of Oceanic and African art to fill in the lacuna of Filipino art in art historical narratives.

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The Newark Museum of Art opens first‑ever museum retrospective highlighting Filipino American artist Carlos Villa
March 23, 2022
ArtDaily | Villa’s unique, large‑scale, mixed media paintings and cloaks, which incorporate feathers and other unexpected materials on unstretched canvases, are being showcased along with works ranging from photography to body casts and body paintings.

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Black History Month: New Jersey artist Bisa Butler celebrates Black life in America through intricate quilts
February 17, 2022
CBS News | As we continue to celebrate Black History Month, CBS2's Maurice DuBois met Bisa Butler, an artist who's elevated quilt making to the walls of some of our finest museums.

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The Newark Museum Of Art To Host First Ever Museum Retrospective Highlighting Filipino American Artist Carlos Villa
February 11, 2022
Asian Journal | New Jersey’s largest museum to show five decades of groundbreaking works exploring global art history, immigration and the art of identity

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Newark Museum of Art to Showcase Works of Filipino American Artist Carlos Villa
January 3, 2022
Tap Into Newark | An exhibit showcasing nearly five decades of work by renowned Filipino American artist Carlos Villa is set to come to The Newark Museum of Art next month. 

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The Newark Museum of Art Welcomes New Associate Curator of Arts of Global Africa
January 3, 2022
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The Newark Museum of Art to Host First Ever Museum Retrospective Highlighting Filipino American Artist Carlos Villa
December 14, 2021
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The Newark Museum ofArt Launches New Digital Guide Featuring Virtual Tours, Games and More to Enrich Both In‑Person and Off‑site Visits
December 2, 2021
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How Can You Maximize Your Time as an Artist in Residence? For Saya Woolfalk, the Key Is to Pick the Brains of Those Around You
November 30, 2021
Artnet News | The artist has a kaleidoscopic solo show at the Newark Museum of Art, where she recently completed a residency.

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Endangered!, a New Exhibition at The Newark Museum of Art, Explores Stories Behind Extinct, Threatened and Lower‑Risk Species
November 10, 2021
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The Newark Museum of Art Announces Details of Unique, Transformative Museum Parc Project
November 5, 2021
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The Newark Museum of Art Hosts its 2021 Annual Fall Fundraising Luncheon, Artist as Global Citizen
October 26, 2021

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New Installation by Light Artist Phillip K. Smith III to Illuminate The Newark Museum of Art
October 14, 2021
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New Solo Exhibition, Showcasing Work of New York‑Based Artist Saya Woolfalk, Debuts this Fall
October 7, 2021

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The Newark Museum of Art Plans Ambitious Fall of Events and Exhibitions
October 4, 2021

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The Newark Museum of Art Presents Community Day: Fiesta Latina
August 25, 2021

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2021 New Jersey Arts Annual: ReVision and Respond is in its Final Two Weeks
August 9, 2021

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Celebrate New Times — The Newark Museum of Art Reopens
June 21, 2021
Jersey Arts Features | Celebrate New Times — The Newark Museum of Art Reopens

Newark Museum Of Art Spotlights New Jersey Artists In Special Exhibition
June 17, 2021
CBS New York | Newark Museum Of Art Spotlights New Jersey Artists In Special Exhibition

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Newark Museum Of Art Spotlights New Jersey Artists In Special Exhibition
June 17, 2021
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The Newark Museum of Art Presents Community Day: Juneteenth
June 14, 2021

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The Newark Museum of Art Reopens on June 3; Museum Launches Summer Arts in the Garden Series in Partnership with New Jersey Symphony Orchestra
May 14, 2021

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NMOA Director Appointed to Association of Art Museum Directors Board of Trustees
March 22, 2021

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The Newark Museum of Art’s March Schedule Sees New Twist on Virtual Events
March 4, 2021

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The Newark Museum of Art Names Two Senior Executives to Head Board
February 18, 2021

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The Newark Museum of Art Presents First Community Day of 2021—MLK Jr. Day Celebration: Breaking Down Barriers
January 11, 2021

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The Newark Museum of Art Announces Call for Submissions for 2021 New Jersey Arts Annual: ReVision and Respond
November 10, 2020

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The Newark Museum of Art Reopens, Oct. 8, 9 and 10
September 16, 2020

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16 Museum Directors Show Us the Art That Hangs in Their Offices, From Richard Armstrong’s Al Held to Zoé Whitley’s Lynette Yiadom‑Boakye
June 3, 2020
Artnet News | Hanging behind my desk is the striking BundleHouse:Borderlines #2 by Nyugen Smith (2012). 

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Norman Bluhm’s Sensual Spiritualism
May 9, 2020
Hyperallergic | Norman Bluhm transformed the vocabulary we associate with the gestural branch of Abstract Expressionism into something that others of the so‑called Second Generation did not pursue, much less attain.

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The Newark Museum of Art Celebrates the Earth at First Virtual Community Day
April 15, 2020

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Norman Bluhm: Metamorphosis
February 27, 2020
NJIT Vector | The Newark Museum of Art is currently displaying “Norman Bluhm: Metamorphasis.”

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6 Art Exhibits Opening in NJ This February
January 29, 2020
New Jersey Monthly | “Norman Bluhm: Metamorphosis” showcases five decades of the artist’s abstract paintings.

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The Newark Museum of Art Names New CFO & Deputy Director of Infrastructure
January 9, 2020

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The Newark Museum of Art Presents Major Retrospective of American Abstract Painter Norman Bluhm
November 19, 2019

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Newark Museum Is Now the Newark Museum of Art
November 6, 2019
The New York Times | The museum’s director said the decision was an essential part of updating its identity and attracting new visitors.

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Museum Rolls Out New Name to Highlight Its Art Collections
November 6, 2019
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The Newark Museum of Art: A New Name for New Jersey’s Largest Art and Culture Institution
November 6, 2019

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Catherine Evans Named Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs of Newark Museum
November 1, 2019

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Newark Museum Welcomes New Deputy Director of Education and Audience Engagement
October 28, 2019

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Newark Museum to Host Latest Event in the Kevin Shanley Tibetan Art Lecture Series on October 25 at 12:30 p.m.
October 25, 2019

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NJ Celebrities Are Focus of Photo Exhibit At Newark Museum
October 20, 2019
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‘What Exit’ celebrates N.J. celebrities in photo exhibit at the Newark Museum
October 17, 2019
NJ.com | If you’re from New Jersey, you could be anywhere in the world ‑ the Siberian steppes, an Argentinian archipelago, the desert of Death Valley ‑ and you’ll get the same question about your home state, “What exit?”

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Newark Museum Eyes Japanese Buddhism
October 3, 2019
Bergen Record

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Newark Museum exhibit showcases Zen artwork dating back hundreds of years
September 26, 2019
NorthJersey.com | As the title suggests, "Beyond Zen" aims to put Zen in a larger context — as one of three major schools of Japanese Buddhism.

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Wendy Red Star at the Newark Museum: A Powerful Portrait of the Crow Nation
June 5, 2019
The New York Times

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Newark Museum Asian Art Exhibition to Showcase Birds in Art
May 17, 2019

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Newark Museum’s Revitalized Galleries Spotlight American Modern and Contemporary Artists from Georgia O’Keeffe to Matthew Brandt
May 17, 2019

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Wendy Red Star’s New Exhibition Is Part Historical Corrective, Part Ghost Story
March 2, 2019
Vogue | The centerpiece of Wendy Red Star’s exhibition at New Jersey’s Newark Museum, “Wendy Red Star: A Scratch on the Earth,” is a sweat lodge.

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Newark Museum Spotlights Contemporary Artist Wendy Red Star with Mid‑Career Survey
February 4, 2019

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Newark Museum Exhibition Highlights Impact of Japanese Aesthetics on Global Fashions from John Galliano to Comme des Garçons
February 1, 2019

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Newark Museum Exhibition Celebrates Sparkling Gift of Steuben Glass
February 1, 2019

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PSEG Foundation Grant Supports Newark Museum Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives
January 28, 2019

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Kimono Meets Couture
October 12, 2018
Wall Street Journal

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‘Dramatic Threads: Textiles of Asia’ Review: The Very Fabric of Asian Societies
March 17, 2018
Wall Street Journal | More than beautiful creations, textiles functioned as financial instruments, status symbols and devotional aids.

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Your Concise New York Art Guide for Spring 2018
February 28, 2018
Hyperallergic

Repertoire by Molly Hatch
January 16, 2018
Wall Street International | The Newark Museum has commissioned a site‑specific, three‑part installation by ceramic artist Molly Hatch that calls attention to the iconic architecture in its Charles W. Engelhard Court.

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Modern Heroics
December 12, 2016
Wall Street Journal | 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.

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Newark Museum Highlights African‑American Expression, From Romare Bearden to Mickalene Thomas
June 17, 2016
Artnet News | The show includes a Norman Lewis canvas unseen in nearly 60 years.

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Two Projects Share a Goal: Challenge Stereotypes of Islam and Arabs
April 9, 2016
The New York Times | “One of the very unusual things about this exhibition is that we’re featuring works from all over the world, not just the Middle East,” said Katherine Anne Paul, lead curator of the exhibition and the curator of Arts of Asia at the museum. 

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Kambui Olujimi: Skywriters & Constellations
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