Adults
Join us for engaging programs designed to enhance your appreciation of the Museum’s permanent collection, exhibitions, and stunning 164-acre park. From book club gatherings and Sunday afternoon lectures to events in the Museum Park, there are a variety of exciting possibilities for connecting with your Museum.
Friday, May 31 | 11 am
Lunch and Lecture: Art + Time
Curator Linda Dougherty presents an overview of the exhibition 0 to 60 and takes a closer look... Read more >
Friday, May 31 | 5:30 pm
Art in the Evening
Experience the NCMA after dark. Share small plates with friends. Wander the galleries. Relax... Read more >
Friday, May 31 | 6 pm
Friday Night Sound Bites: The Four Seasons
Artists’ interpretations of the passage of time through the year, from summer’s sizzle to... Read more >
Friday, May 31 | 7 pm
Friday Night Sound Bites: The Four Seasons
Artists’ interpretations of the passage of time through the year, from summer’s sizzle to... Read more >
Saturday, June 1 | 9 pm
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
British character actors join forces in an ensemble dramedy set in a crumbling hotel in Jaipur,... Read more >
Wednesday, June 5 | 6:30 pm
Book Club Discussion: Room
Room, Emma Donoghue
The exhibition Dwelling: Interiors by Page H. Laughlin and Pamela Pecchio... Read more >
Friday, June 7 | 5:30 pm
Art in the Evening
Experience the NCMA after dark. Share small plates with friends. Wander the galleries. Relax... Read more >
Friday, June 7 | 6 pm
Friday Night Sound Bites: The Language of Light
Explore impressionist paintings that celebrate this timeless focus: from the natural effects of... Read more >
Friday, June 7 | 7 pm
Friday Night Sound Bites: The Language of Light
Explore impressionist paintings that celebrate this timeless focus: from the natural effects of... Read more >
Saturday, June 8 | 7 pm
Art of the Auction 2013
Cruise into summer with the NCMA Foundation at our Art of the Auction fund-raiser. Hors... Read more >
Friday, June 14 | 5:30 pm
Art in the Evening
Experience the NCMA after dark. Share small plates with friends. Wander the galleries. Relax... Read more >
Friday, June 14 | 6 pm
Friday Night Sound Bites: The Impressionist Portrait
Whether featuring family members, friends, patrons, or simply a lingering glimpse of passers-by,... Read more >
Friday, June 14 | 7 pm
Friday Night Sound Bites: The Impressionist Portrait
Whether featuring family members, friends, patrons, or simply a lingering glimpse of passers-by,... Read more >
Friday, June 14 | 9 pm
Life of Pi
A storm savages a vessel carrying the Patel family zoo, stranding Pi in a lifeboat with a Bengal... Read more >
Saturday, June 15 | 7:30 pm
Glen Hansard
Glen Hansard last appeared on the Park Theater stage in 2010 with Marketa Irglova as The Swell... Read more >
Friday, June 21 | 5:30 pm
Art in the Evening
Experience the NCMA after dark. Share small plates with friends. Wander the galleries. Relax... Read more >
Friday, June 21 | 6 pm
Friday Night Sound Bites: Master, Mistress, and Muse
Complementing the NCMA’s own collection of Rodin bronzes, the image of his lover, Camille... Read more >
Friday, June 21 | 7 pm
Friday Night Sound Bites: Master, Mistress, and Muse
Complementing the NCMA’s own collection of Rodin bronzes, the image of his lover, Camille... Read more >
Friday, June 21 | 9 pm
Perks of Being a Wallflower
The white-hot hell of high school smolders in director Stephen Chbosky’s adaptation of his own... Read more >
Saturday, June 22 | 9 pm
Skyfall
Daniel Craig’s best Bond outing evokes classic (Sean Connery-era) Bond, as the world’s... Read more >
Friday, June 28 | 5:30 pm
Art in the Evening
Experience the NCMA after dark. Share small plates with friends. Wander the galleries. Relax... Read more >
Friday, June 28 | 6 pm
Friday Night Sound Bites: Mother and Child
Explore another timeless subject in art, mother and child, from Renaissance depictions of Mary... Read more >
Friday, June 28 | 7 pm
Friday Night Sound Bites: Mother and Child
Explore another timeless subject in art, mother and child, from Renaissance depictions of Mary... Read more >
Friday, June 28 | 9 pm
Madagascar 3
Homesick lion Alex, hippo Gloria, zebra Marty, and giraffe Melman are still trying to make it... Read more >
Saturday, June 29 | 8 pm
Indigo Girls
Revered musicians and activists Amy Ray and Emily Saliers met in elementary school outside... Read more >
Friday, July 5 | 5:30 pm
Art in the Evening
Experience the NCMA after dark. Share small plates with friends. Wander the galleries. Relax... Read more >
Friday, July 5 | 6 pm
Friday Night Sound Bites: The French Vogue for All Things Japanese
Enthralled by the beauty of Japanese art and design, 19th-century artists in France indulged in... Read more >
Friday, July 5 | 7 pm
Friday Night Sound Bites: The French Vogue for All Things Japanese
Enthralled by the beauty of Japanese art and design, 19th-century artists in France indulged in... Read more >
Friday, July 12 | 11 am
Armchair Travel Series: Three French Provinces - Provence
Breathtakingly beautiful photographs, many taken by Museum lecturer Joseph Covington, transport... Read more >
Friday, July 12 | 5:30 pm
Art in the Evening
Experience the NCMA after dark. Share small plates with friends. Wander the galleries. Relax... Read more >
Friday, July 12 | 6 pm
Friday Night Sound Bites: The Language of Light
Explore impressionist paintings that celebrate this timeless focus: from the natural effects of... Read more >
Friday, July 12 | 7 pm
Friday Night Sound Bites: The Language of Light
Explore impressionist paintings that celebrate this timeless focus: from the natural effects of... Read more >
Friday, July 12 | 7 pm
Dale Watson and The Lonestars followed by screening of Bernie
Pull up your boots, grab a longneck beer, and enjoy an evening of entertainment, Texas style.... Read more >
Saturday, July 13 | 8 pm
The Duhks
It’s not surprising that North Carolina audiences have taken to the Canadian stringband The... Read more >
Friday, July 19 | 5:30 pm
Art in the Evening
Experience the NCMA after dark. Share small plates with friends. Wander the galleries. Relax... Read more >
Friday, July 19 | 6 pm
Friday Night Sound Bites: The Impressionist Portrait
Whether featuring family members, friends, patrons, or simply a lingering glimpse of passers-by,... Read more >
Friday, July 19 | 7 pm
Friday Night Sound Bites: The Impressionist Portrait
Whether featuring family members, friends, patrons, or simply a lingering glimpse of passers-by,... Read more >
Friday, July 19 | 9 pm
Silver Linings Playbook
Pat (Cooper), freshly sprung from a mental institution after stalking his ex-wife, moves in with... Read more >
Saturday, July 20 | 11 am
Lunch and Lecture: Masterworks from the Chrysler Museum
Curator David Steel discusses works from the Chrysler Museum in Virginia that are on loan to the... Read more >
Saturday, July 20 | 9 pm
Argo
Oscar’s Best Picture is a rattling ride set in the Me Decade and channeling the paranoid... Read more >
Friday, July 26 | 5:30 pm
Art in the Evening
Experience the NCMA after dark. Share small plates with friends. Wander the galleries. Relax... Read more >
Friday, July 26 | 6 pm
Friday Night Sound Bites: Mother and Child
Explore another timeless subject in art, mother and child, from Renaissance depictions of Mary... Read more >
Friday, July 26 | 7 pm
Friday Night Sound Bites: Mother and Child
Explore another timeless subject in art, mother and child, from Renaissance depictions of Mary... Read more >
Friday, July 26 | 7 pm
Lecture: Rodin’s Paris
Museum lecturer Joseph Covington talks about the extraordinary French sculptor Auguste Rodin.... Read more >
Friday, July 26 | 9 pm
Cars
Pixar’s blockbuster animation visits Radiator Springs, a tiny town full of people-less cars that... Read more >
Saturday, July 27 | 9 pm
American Graffiti
Two buddies spend a ’62 summer night cruising their old haunts, searching for milk shakes and... Read more >
Friday, August 2 | 11 am
Armchair Travel Series: Three French Provinces - Normandy
Breathtakingly beautiful photographs, many taken by Museum lecturer Joseph Covington, transport... Read more >
Friday, August 2 | 5:30 pm
Art in the Evening
Experience the NCMA after dark. Share small plates with friends. Wander the galleries. Relax... Read more >
Friday, August 2 | 6 pm
Friday Night Sound Bites: Master, Mistress, and Muse
Complementing the NCMA’s own collection of Rodin bronzes, the image of his lover, Camille... Read more >
Friday, August 2 | 7 pm
Friday Night Sound Bites: Master, Mistress, and Muse
Complementing the NCMA’s own collection of Rodin bronzes, the image of his lover, Camille... Read more >
Friday, August 2 | 9 pm
Drive
Driver, a nameless loner in a white satin scorpion-embellished jacket, takes the wheel for an... Read more >
Saturday, August 3 | 8 pm
Bruce Hornsby & the Noisemakers
Bruce Hornsby is a musical wunderkind. The ever-restless and adventurous singer-pianist-composer... Read more >
Wednesday, August 7 | 6:30 pm
Book Club Discussion: Cold Running Creek
Cold Running Creek, Zelda Lockhart
Following the lives of three generations of women... Read more >
Friday, August 9 | 5:30 pm
Art in the Evening
Experience the NCMA after dark. Share small plates with friends. Wander the galleries. Relax... Read more >
Friday, August 9 | 6 pm
Friday Night Sound Bites: The French Vogue for All Things Japanese
Enthralled by the beauty of Japanese art and design, 19th-century artists in France indulged in... Read more >
Friday, August 9 | 7 pm
Friday Night Sound Bites: The French Vogue for All Things Japanese
Enthralled by the beauty of Japanese art and design, 19th-century artists in France indulged in... Read more >
Friday, August 9 | 9 pm
Glory
Union officer Robert Gould Shaw commands the first regiment of black soldiers recruited for the... Read more >
Saturday, August 10 | 9 pm
Lincoln
Daniel Day-Lewis deservedly won an Oscar for his portrayal of a president so determined to do... Read more >
Friday, August 16 | 5:30 pm
Art in the Evening
Experience the NCMA after dark. Share small plates with friends. Wander the galleries. Relax... Read more >
Friday, August 16 | 6 pm
Friday Night Sound Bites: The Language of Light
Explore impressionist paintings that celebrate this timeless focus: from the natural effects of... Read more >
Friday, August 16 | 7 pm
Friday Night Sound Bites: The Language of Light
Explore impressionist paintings that celebrate this timeless focus: from the natural effects of... Read more >
Friday, August 16 | 8:30 pm
Moonrise Kingdom
In 1965 a pair of tween romantics reorient themselves along the New England coast, far from... Read more >
Saturday, August 17 | 10 am
Sculpture Workshop: Dynamic Torsos
Using the Museum’s Rodin collection as inspiration, award-winning sculptor Paris Alexander leads... Read more >
Saturday, August 17 | 8 pm
Tift Merritt
Hometown heroine Tift Merritt has established herself as one of America’s finest... Read more >
Sunday, August 18 | 10 am
Sculpture Workshop: Dynamic Torsos
Using the Museum’s Rodin collection as inspiration, award-winning sculptor Paris Alexander leads... Read more >
Friday, August 23 | 11 am
Armchair Travel Series: Three French Provinces - Burgundy
Breathtakingly beautiful photographs, many taken by Museum lecturer Joseph Covington, transport... Read more >
Friday, August 23 | 5:30 pm
Art in the Evening
Experience the NCMA after dark. Share small plates with friends. Wander the galleries. Relax... Read more >
Friday, August 23 | 6 pm
Friday Night Sound Bites: The Impressionist Portrait
Whether featuring family members, friends, patrons, or simply a lingering glimpse of passers-by,... Read more >
Friday, August 23 | 7 pm
Friday Night Sound Bites: The Impressionist Portrait
Whether featuring family members, friends, patrons, or simply a lingering glimpse of passers-by,... Read more >
Friday, August 23 | 8:30 pm
Vertigo
This is ostensibly a twisty mystery about a detective with a fear of heights, but its true... Read more >
Saturday, August 24 | 7 pm
Lost Bayou Ramblers followed by screening of Beasts of the Southern Wild
“Sometimes miraculous films come into being, made by people you've never heard of, starring... Read more >
Friday, August 30 | 5:30 pm
Art in the Evening
Experience the NCMA after dark. Share small plates with friends. Wander the galleries. Relax... Read more >
Friday, August 30 | 6 pm
Friday Night Sound Bites: Mother and Child
Explore another timeless subject in art, mother and child, from Renaissance depictions of Mary... Read more >
Friday, September 6 | 8 pm
Pink Martini
This wonderfully eclectic ensemble based in Portland, Oregon, has traveled the globe, selling... Read more >
Saturday, September 7 | 8:30 pm
The Big Lebowski
Jeff Bridges’s signature role is the Dude, the laziest man in L.A. County, a... Read more >
Friday, September 13 | 6:20 pm
Paperhand Puppet Intervention
Creating fantastical worlds with the most ordinary of materials, the amazing Paperhand Puppet... Read more >
Saturday, September 14 | 6:20 pm
Paperhand Puppet Intervention
Creating fantastical worlds with the most ordinary of materials, the amazing Paperhand Puppet... Read more >
Sunday, September 15 | 6:20 pm
Paperhand Puppet Intervention
Creating fantastical worlds with the most ordinary of materials, the amazing Paperhand Puppet... Read more >
Thursday, September 26 | 11 am
Art History Survey Course: Egypt and the Purposes of Art
Popular NCMA lecturer and art educator Joseph Covington covers 5,000 years of art history, “From... Read more >
Friday, September 27 | 7 pm
Art History Survey Course: Egypt and the Purposes of Art
Popular NCMA lecturer and art educator Joseph Covington covers 5,000 years of art history, “From... Read more >
Thursday, October 3 | 11 am
Art History Survey Course: Greece, the Aegean, and the Power of Abstraction
Popular NCMA lecturer and art educator Joseph Covington covers 5,000 years of art history, “From... Read more >
Friday, October 4 | 7 pm
Art History Survey Course: Greece, the Aegean, and the Power of Abstraction
Popular NCMA lecturer and art educator Joseph Covington covers 5,000 years of art history, “From... Read more >
Thursday, October 10 | 11 am
Art History Survey Course: Rome and the Power of Empire
Popular NCMA lecturer and art educator Joseph Covington covers 5,000 years of art history, “From... Read more >
Friday, October 11 | 7 pm
Art History Survey Course: Rome and the Power of Empire
Popular NCMA lecturer and art educator Joseph Covington covers 5,000 years of art history, “From... Read more >
Thursday, October 17 | 11 am
Art History Survey Series: The Maya, Ancient America’s Most Brilliant Civilization
Popular NCMA lecturer and art educator Joseph Covington covers 5,000 years of art history, “From... Read more >
Friday, October 18 | 7 pm
Art History Survey Course: The Maya, Ancient America’s Most Brilliant Civilization
Popular NCMA lecturer and art educator Joseph Covington covers 5,000 years of art history, “From... Read more >
Thursday, October 24 | 11 am
Art History Survey Course: Spiritual Expression: Early Christian and Byzantine
Popular NCMA lecturer and art educator Joseph Covington covers 5,000 years of art history, “From... Read more >
Friday, October 25 | 7 pm
Art History Survey Course: Spiritual Expression: Early Christian and Byzantine
Popular NCMA lecturer and art educator Joseph Covington covers 5,000 years of art history, “From... Read more >
Thursday, October 31 | 11 am
Art History Survey Course: Medieval Europe: Romanesque and Gothic
Popular NCMA lecturer and art educator Joseph Covington covers 5,000 years of art history, “From... Read more >
Friday, November 1 | 7 pm
Art History Survey Course: Medieval Europe: Romanesque and Gothic
Popular NCMA lecturer and art educator Joseph Covington covers 5,000 years of art history, “From... Read more >
Thursday, November 7 | 11 am
Art History Survey Course: Coming Down to Earth: Early Still Life and Landscape
Popular NCMA lecturer and art educator Joseph Covington covers 5,000 years of art history, “From... Read more >
Friday, November 8 | 7 pm
Art History Survey Course: Coming Down to Earth: Early Still Life and Landscape
Popular NCMA lecturer and art educator Joseph Covington covers 5,000 years of art history, “From... Read more >
Thursday, November 14 | 11 am
Art History Survey Course: The Early Renaissance in Italy
Popular NCMA lecturer and art educator Joseph Covington covers 5,000 years of art history, “From... Read more >
Friday, November 15 | 7 pm
Art History Survey Course: The Early Renaissance in Italy
Popular NCMA lecturer and art educator Joseph Covington covers 5,000 years of art history, “From... Read more >
Thursday, November 21 | 11 am
Art History Survey Course: Masters of the Renaissance
Popular NCMA lecturer and art educator Joseph Covington covers 5,000 years of art history, “From... Read more >
Friday, November 22 | 7 pm
Art History Survey Course: Masters of the Renaissance
Popular NCMA lecturer and art educator Joseph Covington covers 5,000 years of art history, “From... Read more >