Upcoming Events

As part of its commitment to providing professional development to artists, the Naples Art Association hosts a variety of juried and non-juried exhibitions throughout the year.  If you’re looking for ways to get your art in front of a new audience and increase recognition, NAA invites you to participate in some of the many showcase opportunities throughout the year. From the renowned, annual Art in the Park event, to shows, exhibits and community events, there are numerous ways to gain…

Known for his novels and plays, Victor Hugo was also a practiced draftsman who painted experimental works on paper. Over 3,000 sheets of Hugo's ink and wash drawings exist today, although the writer's visual art seemed a private endeavor and rarely displayed during his lifetime. The exhibition presents over 75 select drawings and photographs from major European and American public and private collections, including the Maison de Victor Hugo, the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, the Art Institute of Chicago, and…

Harry Potter: A History of Magic, New York Historical Society • An immersive exhibit that combines digital interactive displays, medieval books, documents, manuscripts, J.K. Rowling's own manuscripts, and illustrations from the book cover artists, Harry Potter: A History of Magic explores Rowling's real-life British inspirations for her Hogwarts world. Different rooms focus on wizarding foundations, such as Herbology, Charms, Potions and Astrology. The exhibition began in London's British Library to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the release of the the…

Known as the 'Golden Twenties,' this period in Berlin history epitomized the extravagance and decadence of the Weimar Republic, an era marked by unrestraint both in artistic creation and in social upheaval. Featuring works by Otto Dix, Raoul Hausmann, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Kazimir Malevich, Aleksandr Rodchenko, Max Beckmann, George Grosz, Hannah Höch.

Contemporary artist and provocateur, Yasumasa Morimura, captivates New York with his first major show, Ego Obscura, this fall in New York City. Morimura creates tableaux vivants with himself as the main character in the style of Cindy Sherman—while simultaneously drawing from and reinventing Western popular culture from the Renaissance to contemporary times. As the title of the show implies, Morimura's chameleon-like personas from Leonardo da Vinci to the prostitute in Manet's Olympia, subsume the artist, and blur the boundaries of…

This large retrospective of Giacometti's presents over 200 works on loan from the Giacometti Foundation, Paris, which holds an exceptional spectrum of pieces spanning the Swiss artist's entire career. Greatly influenced by World War II, Giacometti made work that spoke to the anguish and despair evident during mid-20th century Europe. The retrospective includes sculptures, paintings, drawings, archival photographs and ephemera.