The MOA will welcome guest lecturer Dr. Rasmus Nøjgaard, Ph.D., who will speak to museum patrons Thursday, May 9 at 7 p.m. in the MOA Auditorium. Nøjgaard, Head Priest of the Sankt Jakobs Kirke in Copenhagen, Denmark, will respond to Carl Bloch’s altarpiece, The Resurrection, which is permanently housed in Sankt Jakobs Kirke. He will [...]

Issues about women’s work and gender roles have recently been at the forefront of Utah’s news media, and an upcoming contemporary art exhibition at the MOA will weigh in on the topic. Work To Do: Trent Alvey, Pam Bowman, Jann Haworth, Amy Jorgensen, will open to the public May 17 at 7 p.m. with a [...]

His Excellency Peter Taksoe-Jensen, Danish Ambassador to the United States, graced the galleries of the BYU Museum of Art during a recent visit to campus to speak as part of the Kennedy Center’s Ambassador Lecture Series. Museum of Art Director Mark Magleby led Taksoe-Jensen on a tour of the museum, including a stop in front [...]

The final First Friday of the semester will be held April 5 from 7 to 10 p.m. The event will include two new contemporary art exhibition openings — Edward Burtynsky: The Industrial Sublime and e.g.: Brian Patterson — as well as a dance performance by BYU’s Contemporary Dance Company Kinnect and refreshments. The day after the event, the exhibition We Could Be Heroes: The [...]

Following Dawn Pheysey’s recent appointment as Head Curator, the BYU Museum of Art welcomed BYU honors alum Ashlee Whitaker to the curatorial team, replacing Pheysey as new Curator of Religious Art. “I am thrilled to be part of the BYU Museum of Art,” Whitaker said. “I feel especially passionate about working with the religious collection [...]