Art and nature in harmony
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Image: Elyn Zimmerman’s Mississippi Meanders bridge is illuminated at dusk.
The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden occupies approximately eleven acres in City Park adjacent to the museum. Atypical of most sculpture gardens, this garden is located within a mature existing landscape of pines, magnolias, and live oaks surrounding two lagoons. The garden design creates outdoor viewing spaces within this picturesque landscape. Originally conceived in 2003, the Sculpture Garden doubled in size in 2019 and has grown to include more than 90 sculptures. READ MORE
Sydney and Walda Besthoff are the namesake visionary founders behind a world-renowned sculpture garden for New Orleans.
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Architects, landscape architects, lighting designers, and arborists were among the contractors who made it all possible.
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See highlights of the Sculpture Garden in a virtual tour produced in partnership with the Google Arts & Culture Initiative.
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You can play a role in the historic expansion of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden by making a gift to support the project.
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Relive the excitement of the grand opening of the Besthoff Sculpture Garden expansion in May 2019.
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Pablo Casals’s Obelisk, a towering accumulation of welded bronze cellos, dominates the waters of a lagoon in the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden. Standing over twenty feet tall, the Obelisk, built in homage to the world-renowned Spanish-Puerto Rican cellist and human rights activist Pablo Casals, is an imposing example of monumental sculpture by French-born artist Arman.
The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden at the New Orleans Museum of Art offers detailed entries on 64 artworks in the original 2003 garden, as well as a bibliography and overview of the garden’s founding. 192 pages, hardcover. Edited by Miranda Lash. $49.95
CHANGE OF LOCATION: Tomorrow’s (2/22) Music in the Garden has been moved to NOMA’s Great Hall (inside the museum’s entrance) due to cold temperatures and high winds.
THIS SUNDAY: Music in the Garden 🎷💐🏛️ featuring @sir.chantzpowell and @wesandersonmusic
This Sunday, 2/22, don`t miss the first Music in the Garden performances of the year in @neworleansmuseumofart’s Great Hall.
Check out the schedule and lineup for Sunday`s performances:
🎶 2-3 pm: Sir Chantz Powell
🎶 3-4 pm: Wes Anderson IV Quartet
Both performances will take place in the Great Hall, located inside the museum’s entrance. This program is free for all attendees, with registration recommended.
🔗 Register now at the link in our bio
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The start of Pisces season is just one of this week`s many seasonal endings and beginnings ♓️🐠🌊
As the twelfth (and final) sign in the Western astrological calendar, it`s often said that Pisces represents old age, or the time when one reaches the pinnacle of their wisdom and experience.
With their seemingly-psychic intuition, Pisceans know how to tune into the emotional undercurrent of any situation and make meaning out of the chaos of daily life. Reflective, inventive, and compassionate, this mutable water sign likely feels most comfortable when offering sage advice or pursuing one of their million artistic pursuits.
This month, take your favorite Pisces on a dreamy walk through the Besthoff Sculpture Garden at @neworleansmuseumofart ✨️
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🎨: Tony Cragg, “Runner” (2017). Stainless steel, 68 1/2 x 43 1/8 x 22 5/8 in. (174 x 109.5 x 57.5 cm). Museum purchase with funds provided by Sydney and Walda Besthoff, 2017.201
🎨: Elyn Zimmerman, “Mississippi Meanders” (2019). Laminated tempered glass, steel and aluminum supports. 960 x 84 inches. Gift of Sydney and Walda Besthoff, 2019.7
🎨: Ossip Zadkine, “La Poetesse” (1953). Bronze, 31 x 64 x 24 in (78.74 x 162.56 x 60.96 cm). Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, 98.149
🎨: Leandro Erlich, “Window with Ladder – Too Late for Help” (2008). Metal ladder, steel underground structure, fiberglass, aluminium frames, 177 x 63 in (449.58 x 160.02 cm). Museum purchase, Frederick R. Weisman Company Fund and De-Accession Fund, 2009.21
🎨: Jeppe Hein, “Mirror Labyrinth, Besthoff Sculpture Garden” (2017). Steel and mirror, 104.25 x 346.5 x 338.5 in. Gift of Sydney and Walda Besthoff, Installation funded by Hancock Whitney, 2019.4
📸: @balleman.xo, @davidnola, @sara.landinez, @gregorygomez_333
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Valentine`s Day + Endymion Saturday + @neworleansmuseumofart = the perfect start to Mardi Gras weekend 💜💚💛
Even though the museum and Besthoff Sculpture Garden are closed today, you can still show your Valentine some 🩵 with these NOMA-inspired cards.
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🎨: Willem Ormea and Adam Willaerts, "Fish Heaped on the Beach" (detail), 1658. Oil on canvas. Gift of Lambertus Piso, 71.38.
🎨: Lynn Chadwick, "Two Sitting Figures" (1979-1980). 66 x 33 x 56 in (167.64 x 83.82 x 142.24 cm). Gift of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Foundation, 98.131
🎨: George Rodrigue, "Stand Up Straight and Tall" (2001). Acrylic on canvas, 40 x 40 in (101.6 x 101.6 cm). Gift of Pat and Henry Shane, 2007.109
🎨: Coosje van Bruggen and Claes Oldenburg, "Corridor Pin, Blue," 1999. Stainless steel and aluminum with blue acrylic polyurethane enamel. Museum purchase, Sydney and Walda Besthoff Foundation Fund, 2004.118.
🎨: Otto Marseus van Schrieck, "Serpents and Insects" (1647). Oil on canvas, 45 1/4 x 35 1/2 in (114.935 x 90.17 cm), framed. Gift of John J. Cunningham, 56.30
🎨: William-Adolphe Bouguereau, "Whisperings of Love" (detail), 1889. Oil on canvas. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Chapman H. Hyams, 15.6.
🎨: Unidentified artist (Veracruz Culture), "Palma Depicting a Ball Player and Flying Bats" (detail), c. 200–900. Volcanic stone. On loan from the collection of Hugh Allison Smith.
🎨: Ugo Rondinone, "The Sun" (2018). Bronze, stainless steel, with gold leaf. Gift of Sydney and Walda Besthoff, 2019.59
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Okay, but who is getting me these shoes at Muses tonight 🤔💭👠
The surrealist artist, curator, and gallery owner George Febres is best known for works that combine pointed social commentary with humor and play.
The subtitle of this Febres shoe design, found in @neworleansmuseumofart’s permanent collection, playfully namechecks popular shoe retailer Thom McAn while spotlighting Louisiana`s most iconic reptilian inhabitants.
With the opening of the Marigny-based Galerie Jules Laforgues in 1981, Febres showcased the works of artists including Douglas Bourgeois, Jacqueline Bishop, and Anne Hornback, who became known collectively as the Visionary Imagists.
Febres`s artistry and curatorial eye helped revitalize New Orleans`s image as a hub for regional art in the second half of the 20th century.
See if you can catch any winks and nods to Febres`s work tonight on the parade route 🐊✨️
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🎨: George Febres, "Alligator Shoes (Thom McCann Eat Your Heart Out)," 1975. Alligator skin, leather, mixed materials. Gift of Professor Stephen E. Ambrose, 76.196.
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"Hayward Oubre: Structural Integrity" Highlighted in @nolanews 🎉🏛️
Did you catch this? "Structural Integrity," the latest exhibition on view at @neworleansmuseumofart, was featured in yesterday`s issue of The Times-Picayune with a review by Doug MacCash!
🔗 You can read the full article now at the link in our bio
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REGISTER NOW: Summer Art Camp at @neworleansmuseumofart ☀️🎨⛺️
Already making your summer plans? Add NOMA`s Summer Art Camp to your calendar! Designed for artists ages 5-12, campers will:
✅️ Explore 5,000 years of art through NOMA`s permanent collection, special exhibitions, and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden?
✅️ Engage in a variety of artistic mediums and activities, including drawing, painting, movement, sculpture, and more
✅️ Celebrate and show off their work with each other at the end of each weeklong camp session
4 sessions of Summer Art Camp will take place between June and July:
🗓️ Monday, 6/15 – Thursday, 6/18 (no camp on Friday, 6/19)
🗓️ Monday, 6/22 – Friday, 6/26
🗓️ Monday, 7/6 – Friday, 7/10
🗓️ Monday, 7/13 – Friday, 7/17
🔗 Register and learn more at the link in our bio
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