NCMA Expansion Project (20 images)

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Views of the finished West Building of the NCMA and the installations of new sculpture pieces during the construction process.
  • The anodized aluminum exterior of the new museum, interspersed with glass.

  • "Askew" by Roxy Paine

  • September 16, 2009. Raleigh, North Carolina..Artist Roxy Paine will was on site at the North Carolina Museum of Art to assemble and install Askew, a 43-foot-tall stainless steel tree-like sculpture as part of the ongoing renovations of the museum.. The model of the tree used to help assembly is carried by a construction worker as Paine, 2nd from left, directs his assistants in the welding of the sculpture.

  • March 9, 2010. Raleigh, North Carolina.. A 6-foot-5-inch tall cast of Auguste Rodin's The Thinker was installed outside the new entrance of the soon to be re-opened North Carolina Museum of Art.

  • March 9, 2010. Raleigh, North Carolina.. A 6-foot-5-inch tall cast of Auguste Rodin's The Thinker was installed outside the new entrance of the soon to be re-opened North Carolina Museum of Art.

  • March 9, 2010. Raleigh, North Carolina.. A 6-foot-5-inch tall cast of Auguste Rodin's The Thinker was installed outside the new entrance of the soon to be re-opened North Carolina Museum of Art.

  • The deceptively simple exterior of the West Building.

  • Exterior views of the North Carolina Museum of Art's new expansion to house their permanent collection, April 14, 2010. ..

  • Views of the new expansion of the North Carolina Museum of Art, opening April 24, 2010.

  • "Green Eye" by Stanislav Libensky and Jaroslava Brychtová (on load from Dudley and Lisa Anderson).

  • The main entrance of the NCMA. Views of the new expansion of the North Carolina Museum of Art, opening April 24, 2010.

  • Looking over the reflecting pool of the Rodin garden.

  • Exterior view of the facility with the new commission by Ursula van Rydingsvard, "Ogromna," in the background.

  • Natural light fills the interior of the new West Building, designed by New York-based architects Thomas Phifer and Partners.

  • "Blue Panel" by Ellsworth Kelly in the modern art section of the West Building.

  • "Out of the Box" by Patrick Dougherty, 2009, specially commissioned for the restaurant space in the new NCMA.

  • Workers transport one of Bartolome Estaban Murillo's earliest works, "The Blessed Jiles Before Pope Gregory The 9th," through a gallery of sculptures by Auguste Rodin, including "The Kiss," inside the new 127,000-square-foot expansion to the North Carolina Museum of Art, Tues., April 6, 2010. The $75 million expansion project brings a modern look to the museum along with more than 100 new acquisitions in addition to the 5,000 pieces already in the museum's permanent collection.

  • "Peter Heiman and Sibilla Kessel" by Barthel Bruyn the Elder.

  • "Tar Baby vs. St. Sebastian" by Michael Richards, who was killed in the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

  • "Congregation" by Ledelle Moe in the African art section of the West Building.