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.
Saturday, May 18 | 10 am
Art Museum Day
Celebrate Art Museum Day at the NCMA with free admission to our ticketed exhibitions, 0 to 60:... Read more >
Saturday, May 18 | 2:30 pm
Lecture and Demonstration: The Artistry of Devotion
Sculptor Paris Alexander of Raleigh and art historian Stephen Perkinson of Bowdoin College... Read more >
Sunday, May 19 | 3 pm
Ensemble Vermillian: Gems from the Golden Age
Ensemble Vermillian is prized for its vivid interpretations of baroque-era music, performed with... Read more >
Friday, May 24 | 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 24 | 6 pm
Friday Night Sound Bites: Modern Devotion
Inspired by the images of saints, gods and goddesses, and other representations of the divine... Read more >
Friday, May 24 | 7 pm
Friday Night Sound Bites: Modern Devotion
Inspired by the images of saints, gods and goddesses, and other representations of the divine... Read more >
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 >
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 >
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 | 9 pm
Glory
Union officer Robert Gould Shaw commands the first company of black soldiers in the Civil War... 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 | 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 | 8 pm
Tift Merritt
Hometown heroine Tift Merritt has established herself as one of America’s finest... 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 | 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, 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 >