• 5-8 p.m.: Art on the Spot
• 5:30-6:30 p.m.: Music by Cole n Keef
• 7:30 p.m.: Arts & Letters: Thomas Beller, author and professor at Tulane University, in conversation with Russell Lord, Freeman Family Curator of Photographs, Prints and Drawings.
• 6:30-7:30 p.m.: Artful Palate with Chef Chris Montero, Café NOMA and Napoleon House

About Arts & Letters
NOMA’s exhibition Ten Years Gone is designed to give visitors the opportunity to reflect on the city’s history as well as their own personal histories which is inspiring a series of literary programs related to the passage of time in New Orleans in the ten years following Hurricane Katrina. This fall, NOMA will be launching the “Arts & Letters” series, bringing in authors who will discuss a variety of topics.

Tonight, Thomas Beller, author and professor at Tulane University, will be in conversation with Russell Lord, Freeman Family Curator of Photographs, Prints and Drawings.

About Thomas Beller:

Thomas Beller is an associate professor in the English Department at  Tulane University. His most recent book is “J.D. Salinger: The Escape Artist,” which won the New York City Book Award for biography/memoir from The New York Society Library. His other books are a collection of stories, “Seduction Theory,” a collection of essays,” How To Be a Man,” and a novel, “The Sleep-Over Artist,” which was a New York Times Notable Book and an LA Times Best Book of 2000. He co-founded and edited the literary magazine and press, Open City, from 1990 to 2010, and has worked as a staff writer at The New Yorker and the Cambodia Daily. His work appears regularly in The New Yorker’s Culture Desk Blog and in The New York Times and is taught in high schools and colleges around the country.

About Artful Palate

Café NOMA’s Artful Palate summer cooking series returns in 2015 with seven art-inspired cooking demonstrations led by Ralph Brennan Restaurant Group chefs. NOMA’s exhibition A Louisiana Parlor: Antebellum Taste & Context celebrates the acquisition of a superb rococo revival parlor from the Butler-Greenwood Plantation in St. Francisville, Louisiana. In honor of the exhibition, the Artful Palate demonstrations will feature Creole-inspired dishes and traditions. Chefs from Café NOMA, Ralph’s on the Park, Red Fish Grill, Brennan’s, Heritage Grill, Napoleon House and café b will lead the demonstrations, along with local guest chefs and purveyors. Artful Palate is free of charge and open on a first come, first served basis.