Friday Nights at NOMA opens the museum’s doors for many interesting activities: live music, movies, children’s activities, and more.

• 5 to 8pm: Art On the Spot
• 5:30 to 8:30pm: Music: Calvin Johnson, Jr.
• 7pm: Film: Blow Up

About Blow Up

Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni’s first English-language production was also his only box office hit, widely considered one of the seminal films of the 1960s. Thomas (David Hemmings) is a nihilistic, wealthy fashion photographer in mod “Swinging London.” Filled with ennui, bored with his “fab” but oddly lifeless existence of casual sex and drug use, Thomas comes alive when he wanders through a park, stops to take pictures of a couple embracing, and upon developing the images, believes that he has photographed a murder. Pursued by Jane (Vanessa Redgrave), the woman who is in the photos, Thomas pretends to give her the pictures, but in reality, he passes off a different roll of film to her. Thomas returns to the park and discovers that there is, indeed, a dead body lying in the shrubbery: the gray-haired man who was embracing Jane. Has she murdered him, or does Thomas’ photo reveal a man with a gun hiding nearby? Antonioni’s thriller is a puzzling, existential, adroitly assembled masterpiece. (111 minutes)

About Calvin Johnson, Jr.

Calvin A. Johnson Jr (born November 21, 1985) is a saxophonist, composer, bandleader, and actor born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. A third-generation musician, Calvin has played the saxophone since age 7, and has studied under Edward “Kidd” Jordan, as well as Clyde Kerr Jr. and Kent Jordan at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA). Calvin graduated from NOCCA in 2003 and went on to receive an undergraduate degree in finance from the University of New Orleans. He has toured with Harry Connick Jr., Dirty Dozen Brass Band, the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, Big Sam’s Funky Nation, and Glen David Andrews, among others, and has appeared on many recordings, including releases from Mystikal, Cedric Burnside, and New Orleans’ own Corey Henry.

Calvin shifted focus in 2015 to his own projects, and presently is the leader of two bands – Chapter:SOUL (chaptersoul.com), a funk and soul band currently on tour throughout the U.S. and in the process of recording its debut album, and Native Son, a traditional and contemporary jazz group.