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Wondrous Worlds: Art and Islam through Time and Place

Sponsored by:
Museum of Art
Featuring more than 100 outstanding works of art from the Newark Museum’s extraordinary collections, Wondrous Worlds will showcase the long history, vast geographic expanse and amazing diversity of works of art in the Islamic world. Two factors distinguish this exhibition: first, the inclusion of works from Southeast Asia and East and West Africa, areas largely overlooked in most exhibitions of Islamic art; and second, modern and contemporary works are featured side-by-side with historic objects.

Mahaney Arts Center, Museum of Art, Christian A Johnson Memorial Gallery

Open to the Public

Wondrous Worlds: Art and Islam through Time and Place

Sponsored by:
Museum of Art
Featuring more than 100 outstanding works of art from the Newark Museum’s extraordinary collections, Wondrous Worlds will showcase the long history, vast geographic expanse and amazing diversity of works of art in the Islamic world. Two factors distinguish this exhibition: first, the inclusion of works from Southeast Asia and East and West Africa, areas largely overlooked in most exhibitions of Islamic art; and second, modern and contemporary works are featured side-by-side with historic objects.

Mahaney Arts Center, Museum of Art, Christian A Johnson Memorial Gallery

Open to the Public

Wondrous Worlds: Art and Islam through Time and Place

Sponsored by:
Museum of Art
Featuring more than 100 outstanding works of art from the Newark Museum’s extraordinary collections, Wondrous Worlds will showcase the long history, vast geographic expanse and amazing diversity of works of art in the Islamic world. Two factors distinguish this exhibition: first, the inclusion of works from Southeast Asia and East and West Africa, areas largely overlooked in most exhibitions of Islamic art; and second, modern and contemporary works are featured side-by-side with historic objects.

Mahaney Arts Center, Museum of Art, Christian A Johnson Memorial Gallery

Open to the Public

Wondrous Worlds: Art and Islam through Time and Place

Sponsored by:
Museum of Art
Featuring more than 100 outstanding works of art from the Newark Museum’s extraordinary collections, Wondrous Worlds will showcase the long history, vast geographic expanse and amazing diversity of works of art in the Islamic world. Two factors distinguish this exhibition: first, the inclusion of works from Southeast Asia and East and West Africa, areas largely overlooked in most exhibitions of Islamic art; and second, modern and contemporary works are featured side-by-side with historic objects.

Mahaney Arts Center, Museum of Art, Christian A Johnson Memorial Gallery

Open to the Public

Wondrous Worlds: Art and Islam through Time and Place

Sponsored by:
Museum of Art
Featuring more than 100 outstanding works of art from the Newark Museum’s extraordinary collections, Wondrous Worlds will showcase the long history, vast geographic expanse and amazing diversity of works of art in the Islamic world. Two factors distinguish this exhibition: first, the inclusion of works from Southeast Asia and East and West Africa, areas largely overlooked in most exhibitions of Islamic art; and second, modern and contemporary works are featured side-by-side with historic objects.

Mahaney Arts Center, Museum of Art, Christian A Johnson Memorial Gallery

Open to the Public

Wondrous Worlds: Art and Islam through Time and Place

Sponsored by:
Museum of Art
Featuring more than 100 outstanding works of art from the Newark Museum’s extraordinary collections, Wondrous Worlds will showcase the long history, vast geographic expanse and amazing diversity of works of art in the Islamic world. Two factors distinguish this exhibition: first, the inclusion of works from Southeast Asia and East and West Africa, areas largely overlooked in most exhibitions of Islamic art; and second, modern and contemporary works are featured side-by-side with historic objects.

Mahaney Arts Center, Museum of Art, Christian A Johnson Memorial Gallery

Open to the Public

Weimar, Dessau, Berlin: The Bauhaus as School and Laboratory

Sponsored by:
Museum of Art
The Bauhaus (1919–1933) was an experimental school, a modern laboratory for artistic innovation. In three different German cities over a period of 14 tumultuous years, three different artistic directors, their colleagues, and students challenged the traditional hierarchy of the arts by placing the fine arts, design, and architecture on equal footing. Free

Mahaney Arts Center, Museum of Art, Christian A Johnson Memorial Gallery

Free
Open to the Public

Weekly Informal Gallery Talks with Photographer Jim Blair

Sponsored by:
Museum of Art
For more than thirty-five years, Jim Blair was one of the people who millions of National Geographic readers counted on each month to give them a sense of the greater world. His exhibition Being There: Photographs by James P. Blair documents the breadth of his career, and gives a sense of his dexterity, determination, and breadth of vision. His best images have become part of our visual lexicon and remind us that the world is a varied and stimulating place, sometimes breathtaking in its beauty and at other times heartbreaking in its degradation, but always informative. Free

Mahaney Arts Center, Museum of Art

Open to the Public

Weekly Informal Gallery Talks with Photographer Jim Blair

Sponsored by:
Museum of Art
For more than thirty-five years, Jim Blair was one of the people who millions of National Geographic readers counted on each month to give them a sense of the greater world. His exhibition Being There: Photographs by James P. Blair documents the breadth of his career, and gives a sense of his dexterity, determination, and breadth of vision. His best images have become part of our visual lexicon and remind us that the world is a varied and stimulating place, sometimes breathtaking in its beauty and at other times heartbreaking in its degradation, but always informative. Free

Mahaney Arts Center, Museum of Art

Open to the Public

Weekly Informal Gallery Talks with Photographer Jim Blair

Sponsored by:
Museum of Art
For more than thirty-five years, Jim Blair was one of the people who millions of National Geographic readers counted on each month to give them a sense of the greater world. His exhibition Being There: Photographs by James P. Blair documents the breadth of his career, and gives a sense of his dexterity, determination, and breadth of vision. His best images have become part of our visual lexicon and remind us that the world is a varied and stimulating place, sometimes breathtaking in its beauty and at other times heartbreaking in its degradation, but always informative. Free

Mahaney Arts Center, Museum of Art

Open to the Public