Currier Museum enewsletter
vietnam
"Visual Dispatches is simultaneously about history and morality as well as art. These photographs are at once documentary evidence, indictment, and tribute. They record acts of compassion as well as cruelty,"  -Mark Feeney, Boston Globe
FIRST THURSDAY LIVE!
Thursday, September 5
5:30-8 p.m.
 
First Thursday Live! with local singer/songwriter MB Padfield and featuring Rita Cary, morning host from The River 92.5, Boston's Independent Radio.
 
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FILM SCREENING
Thursday, September 12
7 p.m. at the Music Hall Loft in Portsmouth

This documentary follows renowned war photojournalist James Nachtwey, who has chronicled various events, including combat in Afghanistan, Chechnya and Kosovo, genocide in Rwanda and the events of September 11, 2001, in New York City.

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IN GALLERY DISCUSSIONS: TALK WITH A VETERAN
SEPT. 11, 15 & 28
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Family Fun
jazz brunch  

We have so much to offer families!
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Sunday, September 8
11 a.m.-2 p.m.
Reservations recommended
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HOURS    

Mon, Wed, Thurs*, Fri, and Sun 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sat** 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; CLOSED Tuesdays
*First Thursday of each month open 11 a.m.-8 p.m. 
**Free admission hours for all NH residents on Saturdays from 10 a.m.-noon 
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IMAGES FROM LEFT TO RIGHT, TOP TO BOTTOM:

Larry Burrows, English, b. 1926, London; d. 1971, Laos, Ammunition Airlift, Operation Pegasus, April 1968 (printed later), dye-transfer print, 20 1/2 x 29 3/4 in. Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH. Larry Burrows, LIFE Copyright Time Inc. Courtesy Larry Burrows Collection.

Don McCullin, British, b. 1935, Finsbury Park, London, Wounded Soldier against Wall, Vietnam, 1968 (printed 1980s), gelatin silver print, 16 x 20 in. Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH. Copyright Don McCullin, courtesy of Hamiltons Gallery, London. 

 

Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville. Ekpenyong Bassey Nsa, Nigerian, born 1973, Ebonko Masquerade Ensemble, 2010, multiple media, general size when costume is on form: 5 ft. x 29 in. (160 x 73.7 cm). Museum purchase with funds from the Caroline Julier and James T. Richardson Acquisition Fund, 2010.68.1. Photo credit: Randy Batista Photography.

 

Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville. Lawrence Ajanaku, Nigerian, b. 1926, Okakagbe Masquerade Costume (Otugo), 2003, Cotton, 7 ft. 6 in. x 50 in. Museum purchase, fund provided by the Caroline Julier and James G. Richardson Art Acquisition Fund, 2010.4. Photo credit: Randy Batista Photography.