The Newark Museum

 

   
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Generation Fit: Steps to a Healthier Lifestyle 

ongoing

The Newark Museum's new interactive family experience explores issues of nutrition and exercise, and provides an interactive "tool kit" for disease prevention and healthy behavior.

 

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Tibetan Collection Centennial Exhibitions
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Framing the Museum's consecrated Tibetan Buddhist altar, five permanent galleries will be reinstalled to celebrate different facets of Tibetan art and culture.

 

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The Teapot

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The Narrative Tradition in African-American Art
ongoing
This installation of African-American contemporary works was selected from the Newark Museum's permanent collection and focuses on the tradition of storytelling that is part of the African-American experience. The Narrative Tradition in African-American Art includes works by Jacob Lawrence, Alison Saar, Bob Thompson and Faith Ringgold, among others.

 

 


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The Glitter and The Gold: Jewelry From the Newark Museum

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The Glitter & The Gold showcases a broad cross-section of masterworks from the Museum's extensive jewelry holdings,
from the early 1700s to the present.

 
 

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Red Luster: Lacquer & Leatherworks of Asia

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The first exhibition to span vastly different cultural and historical legacies of Asia from the Near to Far East, including rare and previously not exhibited objects from the Museum's world-class Asian collections.

 
 

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From Meiji to Modern: Japanese Art Goes Global, 19th to 21st Centuries 
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This exhibition celebrates Japanese artistic preservation, re-invention and transformation from an elaborate Edo aesthetic to Victorian excess, through sleek Art Nouveau and structured Art Deco to modern minimalism and the complexities of contemporary art and craft. 
 
 

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Present Tense: Arts of Contemporary Africa        

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Featuring works from the museum's permanent collection of contemporary African art, this new gallery is the first such dedicated exhibition space in the country.

 


 

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Skies Alive! Bird Migration in the Garden State
through January 2012
Skies Alive focuses on New Jersey's role in bird migration.  The interactive exhibit illustrates the uniqueness of the state's diverse environments and the importance of preserving its natural resources to ensure the survival of these transient birds.