Join NOMA staff and fellow book lovers as we read and discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art, artists, art museums, NOMA’s collections and exhibitions. Our full 2018 schedule and reading list has been announced.

Organized by NOMA’s Felix J. Dreyfous Library, the Book Club is an informal group. You do not have to attend every meeting and we understand if you have to leave a discussion or program early. The book club offers several types of programs: a book discussion group that meets once a month (no reading in December), curatorial programs, field trips, and Meet the Author receptions. Most book club programs start promptly at noon, but please arrive at 11:30 a.m. if you wish to bring a sack lunch or meet beforehand. NOMA will provide water and soft drinks.

RSVP for the meetings you wish to attend so we can prepare the meeting space.

Please contact Sheila A. Cork at 504.658.4117 or scork@noma.org for information about joining the NOMA Book Club.

April 2018 Selection

Please contact Sheila A. Cork at 504.658.4117 or scork@noma.org for information about joining the NOMA Book Club.

Vermeer’s Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World by Timothy Brook

Bloomsbury Press; Reprint edition, 2009. ISBN: 978-1596915992

Timothy Brook uses works by Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer, and other contemporary images from Europe, Asia, and the Americas, to trace the rapidly growing web of global trade, and the explosive, transforming, and sometimes destructive changes it wrought in the 1700s when globalization really began.

Wednesday, April 25, 1:30 – 3 pm | Curatorial program with Vanessa Schmid, Senior Research Curator for European Art