VISIT US MEMBERSHIP EXHIBITIONS TOURS PROGRAMS ART CENTER

Members can join us to celebrate the opening of this new exhibition on Thursday, September 18 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. or come to the Member's Only Day on Friday, September 19 from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. It's never too late to become a Museum Member!

Two Families, Centuries Apart

Now on view, two large-scale Currier favorites are juxtaposed in the galleries for the first time ever. Jan de Bray's Banquet of Antony and Cleopatra (1669) and Marisol's The Family (1963) have never been exhibited side-by-side, but even though they were created 300 years apart, they have a great deal in common. Jan de Bray's painting portrays his deceased family members in the guise of famous historical characters and can be understood as a memorial to beloved relatives. Marisol, on the other hand, was a single woman in her 30s when she created an assemblage of life-sized, standing figures that can be understood as her take on the modern family. Even though these works have very different contexts we hope they inspire great conversations and thinking around the theme of family and gender roles. Come visit us soon to see this interesting pairing in person!

Thanks to you, our Members and friends, fiscal year 2014 came to a successful close on June 30.

The Annual Fund surpassed the $200,000 mark for the first time in Museum history. Through your generous contributions, the Currier offered our community a diversity of programming.

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Make your donation to the 2015 Annual Fund today!

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS AT A GLANCE

M.C. Escher: Reality and Illusion on view September 20, 2014 - January 5, 2015

Still Life: 1970s Photorealism on view January 24 - May 3, 2015

Audubon's Wild Animals of North America on view May 23 - August 30, 2015

Witness to History: James Nachtwey's 9/11 Portfolio on view September 11, 2015 - January 3, 2016

HOURS

Mon, Wed, Thurs*, Fri, and Sun 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sat** 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; CLOSED Tuesdays

*Open until 9 p.m. for Currier After Hours events. This month on Friday, September 5!

**Free admission hours for all NH residents on Saturdays from 10 a.m.-noon

The Currier's presentation of the M.C. Escher: Reality and Illusion and related educational programs are sponsored by TD Charitable Foundation and TD Bank; Dyn; The Badger Fund and the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation; and by individual support from Dwight and Susi Churchill and Barbara and Thomas Putnam. Escher-inspired programs are supported by the Nashua Arts & Sciences Fund and the Ruth and James Ewing Fund of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation and the Netherland-America Foundation. From the collection of Herakleidon Museum, Athens, Greece, www.herakleidon-art.gr.