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SUMMARY:NOMA Book Club Discussion Group
DESCRIPTION:Join 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 2020 schedule and reading list has been announced. \nOrganized 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. \nRSVP for the meetings you wish to attend so we can prepare the meeting space. \nPlease contact NOMA’s Education Department at 504.658.4128 or education@noma.org for information about joining the NOMA Book Club. \nJuly 2020\nThe Sympathizer: A Novel by by Viet Than Nyguen\nGrove Press\, 2016\, ISBN: 0802124941 \nThe narrator of this sweeping epic of love and betrayal\, is a man of two minds. Half-French\, half-Vietnamese\, the army captain arranges to come to America after the Fall of Saigon\, and while building a new life with other Vietnamese refugees in Los Angeles is secretly reporting back to his communist superiors in Vietnam. The Sympathizer is a blistering exploration of identity and America\, a gripping espionage novel\, and a powerful story of love and friendship. \nTUESDAY\, JULY 28\, 12 – 1 pm | BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/51373/
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200626T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200626T130000
DTSTAMP:20260430T101815
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LAST-MODIFIED:20191115T171711Z
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SUMMARY:NOMA Book Club Discussion Group
DESCRIPTION:Join 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 2020 schedule and reading list has been announced. \nOrganized 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. \nRSVP for the meetings you wish to attend so we can prepare the meeting space. \nPlease contact NOMA’s Education Department at 504.658.4128 or education@noma.org for information about joining the NOMA Book Club. \nJune 2020\nAn Orchestra of Minorities by Obioma Chigozie\nLittle\, Brown and Company\, 2019\, ISBN: 0316412392 \nSet on the outskirts of Umuahia\, Nigeria\, and narrated by a chi\, or guardian spirit\, this novel tells the love story of Chinonso\, a young poultry farmer\, and Ndali\, who is from a wealthy family. When Ndali’s family objects to their union\, Chinonso sells his possessions to attend a college in Cyprus. Spanning multiple continents\, traversing the earth and cosmic spaces\, and told by a narrator who has lived for hundreds of years\, the novel is a contemporary twist of Homer’s Odyssey. Written in the mythic style of the Igbo literary tradition\, Chigozie Obioma weaves a heart-wrenching epic about destiny and determination. \nFRIDAY\, JUNE 26\, 12 – 1 pm | BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/noma-book-club-discussion-group-45/
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200528T130000
DTSTAMP:20260430T101815
CREATED:20191115T171215Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191115T171215Z
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SUMMARY:NOMA Book Club Discussion Program
DESCRIPTION:Join 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 2020 schedule and reading list has been announced. \nOrganized 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. \nRSVP for the meetings you wish to attend so we can prepare the meeting space. \nPlease contact NOMA’s Education Department at 504.658.4128 or education@noma.org for information about joining the NOMA Book Club. \nMay 2020\nThe Badass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts by Joshua Hammer\nSimon and Schuster\, 2017\, ISBN: 9781476777412 \nIn the 1980s\, a young adventurer and collector for a government library\, Abdel Kader Haidara\, journeyed across the Sahara Desert and along the Niger River\, tracking down and salvaging tens of thousands of ancient Islamic and secular manuscripts that had fallen into obscurity. In 2012\, as thousands of Al Qaeda militants seized control of most of Mali\, Haidara organized a dangerous operation to sneak all 350\,000 volumes out of Timbuktu to the safety of southern Mali. Journalist Joshua Hammer tells the story of Haidara’s heroic and ultimately successful effort to outwit Al Qaeda and preserve Mali’s—and the world’s—literary patrimony. \nTHURSDAY\, MAY 28\, 12 – 1 pm | BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/noma-book-club-discussion-program-5/
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200428T130000
DTSTAMP:20260430T101815
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LAST-MODIFIED:20200406T212252Z
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SUMMARY:NOMA Book Club Discussion Program – CANCELED
DESCRIPTION:Join 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 2020 schedule and reading list has been announced. \nOrganized 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. \nRSVP for the meetings you wish to attend so we can prepare the meeting space. \nPlease contact NOMA’s Education Department at 504.658.4128 or education@noma.org for information about joining the NOMA Book Club. \nApril 2020\nForeign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Treasures of Central Asia by Peter Hopkirk\nJohn Murray Publishers\, 2006\, ISBN: 0719564484 \nThe Silk Road\, which linked imperial Rome and distant China\, was once the greatest thoroughfare on earth. Along it traveled precious cargoes of silk\, gold\, and ivory\, as well as revolutionary new ideas. Its oasis towns blossomed into thriving centers of Buddhist art and learning. In time it began to decline. Traffic slowed\, merchants left\, and towns vanished beneath the desert sands to be forgotten for a thousand years. Legends grew of lost cities filled with treasures and in the early years of the last century foreign explorers began to investigate these stories. Art and manuscripts were carried away and today are scattered through museums of a dozen countries. Peter Hopkirk tells the story of the intrepid men who\, at great personal risk\, led these long-range archaeological raids. \nTUESDAY\, APRIL 14\, 12 – 1 pm | CURATORIAL PROGRAM \nTUESDAY\, APRIL 28\, 12 – 1 pm | BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/noma-book-club-discussion-program-6/
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200414T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200414T130000
DTSTAMP:20260430T101815
CREATED:20191115T170833Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200317T235912Z
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SUMMARY:NOMA Book Club Curatorial Program – CANCELED
DESCRIPTION:Join 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 2020 schedule and reading list has been announced. \nOrganized 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. \nRSVP for the meetings you wish to attend so we can prepare the meeting space. \nPlease contact NOMA’s Education Department at 504.658.4128 or education@noma.org for information about joining the NOMA Book Club. \nApril 2020\nForeign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Treasures of Central Asia by Peter Hopkirk\nJohn Murray Publishers\, 2006\, ISBN: 0719564484 \nThe Silk Road\, which linked imperial Rome and distant China\, was once the greatest thoroughfare on earth. Along it traveled precious cargoes of silk\, gold\, and ivory\, as well as revolutionary new ideas. Its oasis towns blossomed into thriving centers of Buddhist art and learning. In time it began to decline. Traffic slowed\, merchants left\, and towns vanished beneath the desert sands to be forgotten for a thousand years. Legends grew of lost cities filled with treasures and in the early years of the last century foreign explorers began to investigate these stories. Art and manuscripts were carried away and today are scattered through museums of a dozen countries. Peter Hopkirk tells the story of the intrepid men who\, at great personal risk\, led these long-range archaeological raids. \nTUESDAY\, APRIL 14\, 12 – 1 pm | CURATORIAL PROGRAM \nTUESDAY\, APRIL 28\, 12 – 1 pm | BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/noma-book-club-discussion-program-4/
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200324T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200324T130000
DTSTAMP:20260430T101815
CREATED:20191115T170602Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200316T233206Z
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SUMMARY:NOMA Book Club Discussion Program – CANCELED
DESCRIPTION:Join 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 2020 schedule and reading list has been announced. \nOrganized 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. \nRSVP for the meetings you wish to attend so we can prepare the meeting space. \nPlease contact NOMA’s Education Department at 504.658.4128 or education@noma.org for information about joining the NOMA Book Club. \nMarch 2020\nHidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad  by Jacqueline Tobin and Raymond Dobard\nAnchor\, 2000\, ISBN: 0385497679  \nIn 1993\, historian Jacqueline Tobin met African American quilter Ozella Williams amid piles of beautiful handmade quilts in the Old Market Building of Charleston\, South Carolina. With the admonition to “write this down\,” Williams began to describe how slaves made coded quilts and used them to navigate their escape on the Underground Railroad. During the three years it took for Williams’s narrative to unfold—and as the friendship and trust between the two women grew—Tobin enlisted New Orleans native Raymond Dobard\, Ph.D.\, an art history professor and well-known African American quilter\, to help unravel the mystery.  \nTUESDAY\, MARCH 24\, 12 – 1 pm | BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/noma-book-club-discussion-program-3/
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200228T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200228T130000
DTSTAMP:20260430T101815
CREATED:20191115T164902Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200130T182328Z
UID:51349-1582891200-1582894800@nomastaging.org
SUMMARY:NOMA Book Club Discussion Program
DESCRIPTION:Join 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 2020 schedule and reading list has been announced. \nOrganized 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. \nRSVP for the meetings you wish to attend so we can prepare the meeting space. \nPlease contact NOMA’s Education Department at 504.658.4128 or education@noma.org for information about joining the NOMA Book Club. \nFebruary 2020\nThe Glass Room: A Novel by Simon Mawer \nOther Press\, 2009\, ISBN: 1590513967 \nHoneymooners Viktor and Liesel Landauer are filled with the optimism and cultural vibrancy of central Europe of the 1920s when they meet modernist architect Rainer von Abt. He builds for them a home to embody their exuberant faith in the future\, and the Landauer House becomes an instant masterpiece. The honesty and idealism of 1930 quickly evaporate with the onset of World War II\, and the marriage also shows signs of strain. This family must leave their old life behind\, but the house’s story is far from over. As it passes from hand to hand\, from Czech to Russian\, both the best and the worst of the history of Eastern Europe becomes embodied and perhaps emboldened within the beautiful and austere surfaces and planes of the carefully designed house. \nFRIDAY\, FEBRUARY 28\, 12 – 1 pm | BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/noma-book-club-discussion-program-2/
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200130T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200130T130000
DTSTAMP:20260430T101815
CREATED:20191115T164552Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191115T170051Z
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SUMMARY:NOMA Book Club Discussion Program
DESCRIPTION:Join 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 2020 schedule and reading list has been announced. \nOrganized 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. \nRSVP for the meetings you wish to attend so we can prepare the meeting space. \nPlease contact NOMA’s Education Department at 504.658.4128 or education@noma.org for information about joining the NOMA Book Club. \nJanuary 2020\nThe Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert Picador\nHenry Holt & Comany\, 2015\, ISBN: 1250062187 \nOver the last half-billion years\, there have been five mass extinctions\, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction\, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. In prose that is frank\, entertaining\, and deeply informed\, Elizabeth Kolbert tells us why and how human beings have altered life on the planet in a way no species has before. Providing a moving and comprehensive account of the disappearances occurring before our very eyes\, Kolbert shows how the sixth extinction is likely to be mankind’s most lasting legacy\, compelling us to rethink the fundamental question of what it means to be human. \nTHURSDAY\, JANUARY 9\, 12 – 1 pm | CURATORIAL PROGRAM with Russell Lord\, Freeman Family Curator of Photography \nTHURSDAY\, JANUARY 30\, 12 – 1 pm | BOOK DISCUSSION
URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/noma-book-club-discussion-program/
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20200109T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20200109T130000
DTSTAMP:20260430T101815
CREATED:20191115T164344Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191115T170249Z
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SUMMARY:NOMA Book Club Curatorial Program
DESCRIPTION:Join 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 2020 schedule and reading list has been announced. \nOrganized 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. \nRSVP for the meetings you wish to attend so we can prepare the meeting space. \nPlease contact NOMA’s Education Department at 504.658.4128 or education@noma.org for information about joining the NOMA Book Club. \nJanuary 2020\nThe Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert Picador\nHenry Holt & Comany\, 2015\, ISBN: 1250062187 \nOver the last half-billion years\, there have been five mass extinctions\, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction\, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. In prose that is frank\, entertaining\, and deeply informed\, Elizabeth Kolbert tells us why and how human beings have altered life on the planet in a way no species has before. Providing a moving and comprehensive account of the disappearances occurring before our very eyes\, Kolbert shows how the sixth extinction is likely to be mankind’s most lasting legacy\, compelling us to rethink the fundamental question of what it means to be human.  \nTHURSDAY\, JANUARY 9\, 12 – 1 pm | CURATORIAL PROGRAM with Russell Lord\, Freeman Family Curator of Photography \nTHURSDAY\, JANUARY 30\, 12 – 1 pm | BOOK DISCUSSION 
URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/noma-book-club-curatorial-program-7/
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20191119T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20191119T130000
DTSTAMP:20260430T101815
CREATED:20190618T214305Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190618T214305Z
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SUMMARY:Book Club Discussion Group
DESCRIPTION:Join 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 2019 schedule and reading list has been announced. \nOrganized 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. \nRSVP for the meetings you wish to attend so we can prepare the meeting space. \nPlease contact NOMA’s Education Department at 504.658.4128 or education@noma.org for information about joining the NOMA Book Club. \nNovember 2019 Selection\nSea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh\nPicador\, 2009\, ISBN: 978-0312428594 \nThis historical novel crammed almost to the bursting point with incidents and characters\, but Amitay Ghosh deftly keeps everything under control. It’s 1838\, and Britain is set on maintaining the opium trade between India and China as a buttress of its economic\, political and cultural power. Ghosh orchestrates his polyphonic saga with a composer’s fine touch. He lays out multiple narrative lines\, initially separate\, that eventually conjoin on the Ibis\, a schooner bound from Calcutta to China across the much-feared “Black Water.”…The density of settings\, from rural India to teeming Calcutta to the Sudder Opium Factory\, is historically convincing\, and the author pays close attention to variations in speech\, from the clipped formality of the educated class to a patois (“the kubber is that his cuzzanah is running out”) that definitely requires the glossary that Ghosh provides. —Kirkus Reviews \nFriday\, November 8\, 12 – 1 p.m. | Curatorial Program with Lisa Rotondo-McCord\, Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs/Curator of Asian Art \nTuesday\, November 19\, 12 – 1 p.m. | Book Discussion Group
URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/book-club-discussion-group-5/
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20191108T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20191108T130000
DTSTAMP:20260430T101815
CREATED:20190618T214005Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190618T214005Z
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SUMMARY:Book Club Curatorial Program
DESCRIPTION:Join 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 2019 schedule and reading list has been announced. \nOrganized 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. \nRSVP for the meetings you wish to attend so we can prepare the meeting space. \nPlease contact NOMA’s Education Department at 504.658.4128 or education@noma.org for information about joining the NOMA Book Club. \nNovember 2019 Selection\nSea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh\nPicador\, 2009\, ISBN: 978-0312428594 \nThis historical novel crammed almost to the bursting point with incidents and characters\, but Amitay Ghosh deftly keeps everything under control. It’s 1838\, and Britain is set on maintaining the opium trade between India and China as a buttress of its economic\, political and cultural power. Ghosh orchestrates his polyphonic saga with a composer’s fine touch. He lays out multiple narrative lines\, initially separate\, that eventually conjoin on the Ibis\, a schooner bound from Calcutta to China across the much-feared “Black Water.”…The density of settings\, from rural India to teeming Calcutta to the Sudder Opium Factory\, is historically convincing\, and the author pays close attention to variations in speech\, from the clipped formality of the educated class to a patois (“the kubber is that his cuzzanah is running out”) that definitely requires the glossary that Ghosh provides. —Kirkus Reviews \nFriday\, November 8\, 12 – 1 p.m. | Curatorial Program with Lisa Rotondo-McCord\, Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs/Curator of Asian Art \nTuesday\, November 19\, 12 – 1 p.m. | Book Discussion Group
URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/book-club-curatorial-program-2/
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20191029T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20191029T130000
DTSTAMP:20260430T101815
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SUMMARY:Book Club Discussion Group
DESCRIPTION:Join 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 2019 schedule and reading list has been announced. \nOrganized 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. \nRSVP for the meetings you wish to attend so we can prepare the meeting space. \nPlease contact NOMA’s Education Department at 504.658.4128 or education@noma.org for information about joining the NOMA Book Club. \nOctober 2019 Selection\nThe Last Painting of Sara de Vos: A Novel by Dominic Smith \nPicador\, 2017\, ISBN: 978-1250118325  \nAmsterdam\, 1631: Sara de Vos becomes the first woman to be admitted as a master painter to the city’s Guild of St. Luke. Though women do not paint landscapes (they are generally restricted to indoor subjects)\, a wintry outdoor scene haunts Sara: She cannot shake the image of a young girl from a nearby village\, standing alone beside a silver birch at dusk\, staring out at a group of skaters on the frozen river below. Defying the expectations of her time\, she decides to paint it. \nTuesday\, October 29\, 12 – 1 p.m. | Book Discussion Group
URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/book-club-discussion-group-4/
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190924T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190924T130000
DTSTAMP:20260430T101815
CREATED:20190618T212425Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190618T213110Z
UID:46698-1569326400-1569330000@nomastaging.org
SUMMARY:Book Club Discussion Group
DESCRIPTION:Join 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 2019 schedule and reading list has been announced. \nOrganized 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. \nRSVP for the meetings you wish to attend so we can prepare the meeting space. \nPlease contact NOMA’s Education Department at 504.658.4128 or education@noma.org for information about joining the NOMA Book Club. \nSeptember 2019 Selection\nde Kooning: An American Master by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan\nAlfred A. Knopf\, 2006\, ISBN: 978-0375711169 \nWillem de Kooning is one of the most important artists of the twentieth century\, a true “painter’s painter” whose protean work continues to inspire many artists. In the thirties and forties\, along with Arshile Gorky and Jackson Pollock\, he became a key figure in the revolutionary American movement of abstract expressionism. Of all the painters in that group\, he worked the longest and was the most prolific\, creating powerful\, startling images well into the 1980s. \nFriday\, September 13\, 12 – 1 p.m. | Curatorial Program with Allison Young\, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow for Modern and Contemporary Art \nTuesday\, September 24\, 12 – 1 p.m. | Book Discussion Group
URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/book-club-discussion-group-3/
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190913T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190913T130000
DTSTAMP:20260430T101815
CREATED:20190618T211614Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190912T145043Z
UID:46692-1568376000-1568379600@nomastaging.org
SUMMARY:Book Club Meet the Author Program
DESCRIPTION:Join 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 2019 schedule and reading list has been announced. \nOrganized 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. \nRSVP for the meetings you wish to attend so we can prepare the meeting space. \nPlease contact NOMA’s Education Department at 504.658.4128 or education@noma.org for information about joining the NOMA Book Club. \nSeptember 2019 Selection\nde Kooning: An American Master by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan\nAlfred A. Knopf\, 2006\, ISBN: 978-0375711169 \nWillem de Kooning is one of the most important artists of the twentieth century\, a true “painter’s painter” whose protean work continues to inspire many artists. In the thirties and forties\, along with Arshile Gorky and Jackson Pollock\, he became a key figure in the revolutionary American movement of abstract expressionism. Of all the painters in that group\, he worked the longest and was the most prolific\, creating powerful\, startling images well into the 1980s. \nFriday\, September 13\, 12 – 1 p.m. | Meet the Author: New Orleans writer C. F. Hampton will read from his short story\, Paris: City of Culture\, December 1982\, and answer questions from the group. \nTuesday\, September 24\, 12 – 1 p.m. | Book Discussion Group
URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/book-club-curatorial-program/
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190822T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190822T130000
DTSTAMP:20260430T101815
CREATED:20190618T210937Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190618T210937Z
UID:46690-1566475200-1566478800@nomastaging.org
SUMMARY:Book Club Discussion Group
DESCRIPTION:Join 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 2019 schedule and reading list has been announced. \nOrganized 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. \nRSVP for the meetings you wish to attend so we can prepare the meeting space. \nPlease contact NOMA’s Education Department at 504.658.4128 or education@noma.org for information about joining the NOMA Book Club. \nAugust 2019 Selection\nThe Brilliant History of Color in Art by Victoria Finlay \nJ. Paul Getty Museum\, 2014\, ISBN: 978-1606064290 \nThe Brilliant History of Color in Art by Victoria Finlay covers the development of art and color through the ages. Packed with fascinating detail and beautiful illustrations\, this book combines colorful imagery with smartly-written text. Most of the publication’s 166 color illustrations represent works from the J. Paul Getty Museum collections. They exemplify the power of pictures to convey meaning\, and Finlay’s informative text blends seamlessly with these high-quality reproductions. The matte-finished pages show them to good advantage. —Foreword Review \nThursday\, August 8\, 12 – 1 p.m. | Curatorial Program \nThursday\, August 22\, 12 – 1 p.m. | Book Discussion Group \n 
URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/book-club-discussion-group-2/
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190726T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190726T130000
DTSTAMP:20260430T101815
CREATED:20190618T210028Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190724T225109Z
UID:46684-1564142400-1564146000@nomastaging.org
SUMMARY:Book Club Discussion Group
DESCRIPTION:Join 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 2019 schedule and reading list has been announced. \nOrganized 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. \nRSVP for the meetings you wish to attend so we can prepare the meeting space. \nPlease contact NOMA’s Education Department at 504.658.4128 or education@noma.org for information about joining the NOMA Book Club. \nJuly 2019 Selection\nNow I Sit Me Down: From Klismos to Plastic Chair\, A Natural History by Witold Rybczynski\nFarrar\, Straus and Giroux\, 2016\, ISBN: 978-0374223212 \nIn Now I Sit Me Down\, distinguished architect and writer Witold Rybczynski chronicles the history of the chair from the folding stools of pharaonic Egypt to the ubiquitous stackable monobloc chairs of today. He tells the stories of the inventor of the bentwood chair\, Michael Thonet\, and of the creators of the first molded plywood chair\, Charles and Ray Eames. He reveals the history of chairs to be a social history—of different ways of sitting\, of changing manners and attitudes\, and of varying tastes. The history of chairs is the history of who we are. \nTuesday\, July 9\, 12 – 1 p.m. | Curatorial Program with Mel Buchanan\, RosaMary Curator of Decorative Arts and Design \nFriday\, July 26\, 12 – 1 p.m. | Book Discussion Group
URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/book-club-discussion-group/
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190709T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190709T130000
DTSTAMP:20260430T101815
CREATED:20190618T205644Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190618T205712Z
UID:46681-1562673600-1562677200@nomastaging.org
SUMMARY:Book Club Curatorial Program
DESCRIPTION:Join 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 2019 schedule and reading list has been announced. \nOrganized 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. \nRSVP for the meetings you wish to attend so we can prepare the meeting space. \nPlease contact NOMA’s Education Department at 504.658.4128 or education@noma.org for information about joining the NOMA Book Club. \nJuly 2019 Selection\nNow I Sit Me Down: From Klismos to Plastic Chair\, A Natural History by Witold Rybczynski\nFarrar\, Straus and Giroux\, 2016\, ISBN: 978-0374223212 \nIn Now I Sit Me Down\, distinguished architect and writer Witold Rybczynski chronicles the history of the chair from the folding stools of pharaonic Egypt to the ubiquitous stackable monobloc chairs of today. He tells the stories of the inventor of the bentwood chair\, Michael Thonet\, and of the creators of the first molded plywood chair\, Charles and Ray Eames. He reveals the history of chairs to be a social history—of different ways of sitting\, of changing manners and attitudes\, and of varying tastes. The history of chairs is the history of who we are. \nTuesday\, July 9\, 12 – 1 p.m. | Curatorial Program with Mel Buchanan\, RosaMary Curator of Decorative Arts and Design \nFriday\, July 26\, 12 – 1 p.m. | Book Discussion Group
URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/46681/
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190611T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190611T130000
DTSTAMP:20260430T101815
CREATED:20181127T222639Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190611T160750Z
UID:41031-1560254400-1560258000@nomastaging.org
SUMMARY:NOMA Book Club Group Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Join 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 2019 schedule and reading list has been announced. \nOrganized 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. \nRSVP for the meetings you wish to attend so we can prepare the meeting space. \nPlease contact Sheila A. Cork at 504.658.4117 or scork@noma.org for information about joining the NOMA Book Club. \nJune 2019 Selection\nThe Other Alcott: A Novel by Elise Hooper\nWilliam Morrow Paperbacks\, 2017\, ISBN: 978-0062645333 \nA mix of history and imagination\, this debut novel by Elise Hooper focuses on May Alcott\, the model for Amy in Little Women\, and the youngest sister of the book’s famous author\, Louisa May Alcott … May longs to be taken seriously as an artist. But the press has sharply criticized her illustrations for her sister’s book. Louisa\, meanwhile\, sees May as a high-spirited dilettante\, dedicated to having fun. Determined to prove Louisa wrong\, May dodges a serious suitor and signs up for rigorous art classes\, first in Boston\, then in Europe\, where she mingles with other artists (some real\, like Mary Cassatt\, others fictional or composites). Slowly\, her skill and confidence grow … Hooper is especially good at depicting the complicated blend of devotion and jealousy so common among siblings. —Kirkus Review \nTuesday\, June 11\, 12 – 1 p.m. | Book Discussion Group\nFriday\, June 28\, 11:30 a.m. – 2 p.m. | New Books Potluck Lunch \n\nBring food and set up at 11:30 a.m.\nDiscuss books and eat at 12 p.m.
URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/noma-book-club-group-discussion-4/
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190530T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190530T130000
DTSTAMP:20260430T101815
CREATED:20190507T205809Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190529T200534Z
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SUMMARY:NOMA Book Club Meet the Author Event
DESCRIPTION:Join 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 2019 schedule and reading list has been announced. \nOn Thursday\, May 30\, from 12 – 1 pm\, author Anne Boyd Rioux will discuss her book Meg\, Jo\, Beth\, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters. This event is planned in conjunction with the June book selection of The Other Alcott\, A Novel by Elise Hooper\, a fictionalized biographical account of Louisa May Alcott’s sister\, May Alcott. \nOrganized 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. \nRSVP for the meetings you wish to attend so we can prepare the meeting space. \nPlease contact NOMA’s Education Department at 504.658.4128 or education@noma.org for information about joining the NOMA Book Club.
URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/noma-book-club-meet-the-author-event/
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190516T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190516T130000
DTSTAMP:20260430T101815
CREATED:20181127T221547Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190515T214207Z
UID:41029-1558008000-1558011600@nomastaging.org
SUMMARY:NOMA Book Club Discussion Group
DESCRIPTION:Join 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 2019 schedule and reading list has been announced. \nOrganized 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. \nRSVP for the meetings you wish to attend so we can prepare the meeting space. \nPlease contact NOMA’s Education Department at 504.658.4128 or education@noma.org for information about joining the NOMA Book Club. \nMay 2019 Selection\nLeonardo Da Vinci by Walter Isaacson\nSimon & Schuster\, 2017\, ISBN: 978-1501139154  \nTo write this sweeping biography\, Walter Isaacson immersed himself in 7\,200 pages of notebooks by Leonardo da Vinci\, which are now dispersed across the globe. Da Vinci’s interests were even more divergent than previously known\, and Isaacson’s empathetic and deeply researched portrait illustrates how da Vinci willed himself to genius through endless curiosity and a creativity that sometimes crossed over into fantasy. Much like Isaacson’s previous subjects of Ben Franklin and Steve Jobs\, da Vinci was a polymath—he was passionate about art\, science\, nature\, and technology\, and he never stopped questioning\, practicing\, or experimenting. Isaacson points out that this is a particular form of genius that can teach us how to live our own lives. \nWednesday\, May 1\, 12 – 1 p.m. | Curatorial Program with Tracy Kennan\, Curator of Education\, who will lead a lesson on color. \nThursday\, May 16\, 12 – 1 p.m. | Book Discussion Group
URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/noma-book-club-discussion-group-44/
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190501T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190501T130000
DTSTAMP:20260430T101815
CREATED:20181127T221407Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190430T155542Z
UID:41027-1556712000-1556715600@nomastaging.org
SUMMARY:NOMA Book Club Curatorial Program
DESCRIPTION:Join 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 2019 schedule and reading list has been announced. \nOrganized 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. \nRSVP for the meetings you wish to attend so we can prepare the meeting space. \nPlease contact Sheila A. Cork at 504.658.4117 or scork@noma.org for information about joining the NOMA Book Club. \nMay 2019 Selection\nLeonardo Da Vinci by Walter Isaacson\nSimon & Schuster\, 2017\, ISBN: 978-1501139154  \nTo write this sweeping biography\, Walter Isaacson immersed himself in 7\,200 pages of notebooks by Leonardo da Vinci\, which are now dispersed across the globe. Da Vinci’s interests were even more divergent than previously known\, and Isaacson’s empathetic and deeply researched portrait illustrates how da Vinci willed himself to genius through endless curiosity and a creativity that sometimes crossed over into fantasy. Much like Isaacson’s previous subjects of Ben Franklin and Steve Jobs\, da Vinci was a polymath—he was passionate about art\, science\, nature\, and technology\, and he never stopped questioning\, practicing\, or experimenting. Isaacson points out that this is a particular form of genius that can teach us how to live our own lives. \nWednesday\, May 1\, 12 – 1 p.m. | Curatorial Program with Tracy Kennan\, Curator of Education\, who will lead a lesson on color. \nThursday\, May 16\, 12 – 1 p.m. | Book Discussion Group
URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/noma-book-club-curatorial-program-6/
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190423T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190423T130000
DTSTAMP:20260430T101815
CREATED:20181127T221112Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190422T135722Z
UID:41025-1556020800-1556024400@nomastaging.org
SUMMARY:NOMA Book Club Discussion Group
DESCRIPTION:Join 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 2019 schedule and reading list has been announced. \nOrganized 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. \nRSVP for the meetings you wish to attend so we can prepare the meeting space. \nPlease contact NOMA’s Learning and Engagement Department at education@noma.org or call 504.658.4128 for information about joining the NOMA Book Club. \nApril 2019 Selection\nPortrait of a Phantom: The Story of Robert Johnson’s Lost Photograph by Zeke Schein\nPelican Publishing Company\, 2017\, ISBN: 978-1455622450 \nLate one night in 2005\, Zeke Schein made an amazing discovery while searching for a vintage guitar on eBay: a grainy\, battered photograph captioned “Old Snapshot Blues Guitar BB King????” Neither man looked like King\, but one seemed to resemble the twentieth-century’s most mysterious musician\, Robert Johnson. Would others see what he saw? With only three or four known images of the legendary blues guitarist in existence\, this single picture was certainly an exceptional link to the past. \nThursday\, April 11\, 12 – 1 p.m. | Curatorial Program with Brian Piper\, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow for Photography \nTuesday\, April 23\, 12 – 1 p.m. | Book Discussion Group
URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/noma-book-club-discussion-group-43/
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190411T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190411T130000
DTSTAMP:20260430T101815
CREATED:20181127T220952Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190403T215550Z
UID:41023-1554984000-1554987600@nomastaging.org
SUMMARY:NOMA Book Club Curatorial Program
DESCRIPTION:Join 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 2019 schedule and reading list has been announced. \nOrganized 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. \nRSVP for the meetings you wish to attend so we can prepare the meeting space. \nPlease contact NOMA’s Learning and Engagement Department at education@noma.org or call 504.658.4128 for information about joining the NOMA Book Club. \nApril 2019 Selection\nPortrait of a Phantom: The Story of Robert Johnson’s Lost Photograph by Zeke Schein\nPelican Publishing Company\, 2017\, ISBN: 978-1455622450 \nLate one night in 2005\, Zeke Schein made an amazing discovery while searching for a vintage guitar on eBay: a grainy\, battered photograph captioned “Old Snapshot Blues Guitar BB King????” Neither man looked like King\, but one seemed to resemble the twentieth-century’s most mysterious musician\, Robert Johnson. Would others see what he saw? With only three or four known images of the legendary blues guitarist in existence\, this single picture was certainly an exceptional link to the past. \nThursday\, April 11\, 12 – 1 p.m. | Curatorial Program with Brian Piper\, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow for Photography \nTuesday\, April 23\, 12 – 1 p.m. | Book Discussion Group
URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/noma-book-club-curatorial-program-5/
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190326T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190326T130000
DTSTAMP:20260430T101815
CREATED:20181127T220802Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190325T181228Z
UID:41021-1553601600-1553605200@nomastaging.org
SUMMARY:NOMA Book Club Group Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Join 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 2019 schedule and reading list has been announced. \nOrganized 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. \nRSVP for the meetings you wish to attend so we can prepare the meeting space. \nPlease contact Sheila A. Cork at 504.658.4117 or scork@noma.org for information about joining the NOMA Book Club. \nMarch 2019 Selection\nKeith Sonnier Until Today by Jeffrey Grove and Terrie Sultan\nPrestel\, 2018\, ISBN: 978-3791357324 \nOne of the first artists to use light\, specifically neon\, as a form of sculpture\, Keith Sonnier changed our ideas of what sculpture is and could be. From his early pieces\, such as Rat Tail Exercise and the Ba-O-Ba series\, to his most recent luminous neon-based series\, this book explores the progression and influence of Sonnier’s oeuvre. This beautiful monograph celebrates an artist who has never ceased experimenting—and never stopped astonishing his audience. NOMA will host a Sonnier retrospective from March 15 – June 2\, 2019. —Google Books  \nFriday\, March 15\, 12 – 1 p.m. | Curatorial Program with Katie Pfohl\, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art \nTuesday\, March 26\, 12 – 1 p.m. | Book Discussion Group
URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/noma-book-club-group-discussion-3/
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190315T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190315T130000
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SUMMARY:NOMA Book Club Curatorial Program
DESCRIPTION:Join 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 2019 schedule and reading list has been announced. \nOrganized 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. \nRSVP for the meetings you wish to attend so we can prepare the meeting space. \nPlease contact Sheila A. Cork at 504.658.4117 or scork@noma.org for information about joining the NOMA Book Club. \nMarch 2019 Selection\nKeith Sonnier Until Today by Jeffrey Grove and Terrie Sultan\nPrestel\, 2018\, ISBN: 978-3791357324 \nOne of the first artists to use light\, specifically neon\, as a form of sculpture\, Keith Sonnier changed our ideas of what sculpture is and could be. From his early pieces\, such as Rat Tail Exercise and the Ba-O-Ba series\, to his most recent luminous neon-based series\, this book explores the progression and influence of Sonnier’s oeuvre. This beautiful monograph celebrates an artist who has never ceased experimenting—and never stopped astonishing his audience. NOMA will host a Sonnier retrospective from March 15 – June 2\, 2019. —Google Books  \nFriday\, March 15\, 12 – 1 p.m. | Curatorial Program with Katie Pfohl\, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art \nTuesday\, March 26\, 12 – 1 p.m. | Book Discussion Group
URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/noma-book-club-curatorial-program-4/
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190221T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190221T130000
DTSTAMP:20260430T101815
CREATED:20181127T213707Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190221T165750Z
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SUMMARY:NOMA Book Club Group Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Join 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 2019 schedule and reading list has been announced. \nOrganized 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. \nRSVP for the meetings you wish to attend so we can prepare the meeting space. \nPlease contact Sheila A. Cork at 504.658.4117 or scork@noma.org for information about joining the NOMA Book Club. \nFebruary 2019 Selection\nDouble Vision: the Unerring Eye of Art World Avatars Dominique and John de Menil by William Middleton\nKnopf\, 2018\, ISBN: 978-0375415432 \nThis erudite and vigorously researched new biography of the the de Menils\, chronicles the Houston-based cosmopolitan couple renowned for their philanthropic endeavors and a bequeathed art collection that forms the core of their namesake museum. Double Vision takes the full measure of the de Menil’s achievements\, the well-known apotheosis of which is the Menil Collection\, the masterpiece of a museum designed by Renzo Piano that opened in their adopted hometown in 1987. \nTBD: The Book Club plans an overnight trip to Houston to visit the Menial Collection in February. If time permits\, we will also visit the Rothko Chapel\, Cy Twombly Gallery\, the Contemporary Arts Museum/Houston Center for Photography\, The Houston Museum of Fine Arts and other cultural institutions. More details to be announced. \nFriday\, February 21\, 12 – 1 p.m. | Book Discussion Group
URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/noma-book-club-group-discussion-2/
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190115T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190115T130000
DTSTAMP:20260430T101815
CREATED:20181127T213457Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190113T230714Z
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SUMMARY:NOMA Book Club Discussion Group
DESCRIPTION:Join 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 2019 schedule and reading list has been announced. \nOrganized 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. \nRSVP for the meetings you wish to attend so we can prepare the meeting space. \nPlease contact Sheila A. Cork at 504.658.4117 or scork@noma.org for information about joining the NOMA Book Club. \nJanuary 2019 Selection\nAn Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro\nVintage International\, 1989\, ISBN: 978-0679722663 \nThis novel by Nobel Prize-winning British author Kazuo Ishiguro is set in post-World War II Japan and is narrated by Masuji Ono\, an aging painter who reflects on his past. He laments that his once illustrious reputation has faltered since the collapse of Imperial Japan when he served as a police informant and adviser to the Committee of Unpatriotic Activities. Ono struggles with accepting the mistakes of his past. Other themes explored in the novel include arranged marriage\, the changing roles of women\, and the declining status of “elders” in Japan since 1945. \nTuesday\, January 15\, 12 – 1 p.m. | Book Discussion Group
URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/noma-book-club-discussion-group-42/
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190111T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190111T130000
DTSTAMP:20260430T101815
CREATED:20181127T213321Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190110T191201Z
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SUMMARY:NOMA Book Club Curatorial Program
DESCRIPTION:Join 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 2019 schedule and reading list has been announced. \nOrganized 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. \nRSVP for the meetings you wish to attend so we can prepare the meeting space. \nPlease contact Sheila A. Cork at 504.658.4117 or scork@noma.org for information about joining the NOMA Book Club. \nJanuary 2019 Selection\nAn Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro\nVintage International\, 1989\, ISBN: 978-0679722663 \nThis novel by Nobel Prize-winning British author Kazuo Ishiguro is set in post-World War II Japan and is narrated by Masuji Ono\, an aging painter who reflects on his past. He laments that his once illustrious reputation has faltered since the collapse of Imperial Japan when he served as a police informant and adviser to the Committee of Unpatriotic Activities. Ono struggles with accepting the mistakes of his past. Other themes explored in the novel include arranged marriage\, the changing roles of women\, and the declining status of “elders” in Japan since 1945. \nFriday\, January 11\, 12 – 1 p.m. | Curatorial Program with Lisa Rotondo-McCord\, Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs/Curator of Asian Art \nTuesday\, January 15\, 12 – 1 p.m. | Book Discussion Group
URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/noma-book-club-curatorial-program-3/
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20181115T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20181115T130000
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CREATED:20180103T035452Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181113T211357Z
UID:30360-1542283200-1542286800@nomastaging.org
SUMMARY:NOMA Book Club Discussion Group
DESCRIPTION: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. \nOrganized 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. \nRSVP for the meetings you wish to attend so we can prepare the meeting space. \nPlease contact Sheila A. Cork at 504.658.4117 or scork@noma.org for information about joining the NOMA Book Club. \nNovember 2018 Selection\nMadame de Pompadour by Nancy Mitford \nNew York Review of Books Classics\, 2001. ISBN: 978-0940322653 \nWhen Madame de Pompadour became the mistress of Louis XV\, no one expected her to retain his affections for long. A member of the bourgeoisie rather than an aristocrat\, she was physically too cold for the carnal Bourbon king\, and had so many enemies that she could not travel publicly without risking a pelting of mud and stones. History has loved her little better. Nancy Mitford’s delightfully candid biography recreates the spirit of eighteenth-century Versailles with its love of pleasure and treachery. We learn that the Queen was a “bore\,” the Dauphin a “prig\,” and see France increasingly overcome with class conflict. With a fiction writer’s felicity\, Mitford restores the royal mistress and celebrates her as a survivor\, unsurpassed in “the art of living\,” who reigned as the most powerful woman in France for nearly twenty years. \nThursday\, November 15\, 12 – 1 pm | Book Discussion Group
URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/30360/
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20181114T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20181114T150000
DTSTAMP:20260430T101816
CREATED:20180103T035010Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181113T211042Z
UID:30355-1542202200-1542207600@nomastaging.org
SUMMARY:NOMA Book Club Discussion Group
DESCRIPTION: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. \nOrganized 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. \nRSVP for the meetings you wish to attend so we can prepare the meeting space. \nPlease contact Sheila A. Cork at 504.658.4117 or scork@noma.org for information about joining the NOMA Book Club. \nNovember 2018 Selection\nMadame de Pompadour by Nancy Mitford \nNew York Review of Books Classics\, 2001. ISBN: 978-0940322653 \nWhen Madame de Pompadour became the mistress of Louis XV\, no one expected her to retain his affections for long. A member of the bourgeoisie rather than an aristocrat\, she was physically too cold for the carnal Bourbon king\, and had so many enemies that she could not travel publicly without risking a pelting of mud and stones. History has loved her little better. Nancy Mitford’s delightfully candid biography recreates the spirit of eighteenth-century Versailles with its love of pleasure and treachery. We learn that the Queen was a “bore\,” the Dauphin a “prig\,” and see France increasingly overcome with class conflict. With a fiction writer’s felicity\, Mitford restores the royal mistress and celebrates her as a survivor\, unsurpassed in “the art of living\,” who reigned as the most powerful woman in France for nearly twenty years. \nWednesday\, November 14\, 1:30 – 3 pm | Book Discussion Group
URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/noma-book-club-discussion-group-41/
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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