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
It`s always a good time to get a @neworleansmuseumofart membership—so why not now? 📆🏛️🛍️
During the month of April, anyone who becomes a NOMA member or renews their current membership will receive a complementary NOMA canvas tote bag!
Tote bags can be picked up at the admissions desk in the Great Hall with proof of membership beginning in April 2026 or proof of your April 2026 membership renewal.
All NOMA memberships include:
🎟️Unlimited admission to the museum’s galleries, including special exhibitions
✉️Invitations to exclusive exhibition previews and member-only events throughout the year
💸Discounted tickets to events and programs including NOMA at Night, live performances, art-making workshops, festivals, and fundraisers like Salon Supper Club and Art in Bloom
🛍️A 10% discount in the NOMA Museum Shop online and in person.
Reduced prices for wellness classes in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden.
🔗 Learn more about membership at the link in our bio
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Spring and Summer Hours at the Besthoff Sculpture Garden 🌤️⏰️🌻
Today, April 1, marks the start of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden`s extended spring and summer hours. The sculpture garden will now be open from 10 AM - 6 PM every weekday through November, excluding holidays.
🎟️ View hours and visitor information for @neworleansmuseumofart and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden at the link in our bio
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📸: Angelo Joseph (@angelo._)
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PAT STEIR: 1938 - 2026
In Stier’s iconic “waterfall” paintings, the artist allowed gravity to inform the shape of the works by pouring or throwing paint on top of upright canvases, then allowing time to reveal naturalistic impressions of water falling from great heights to the ground below.
Her innovation and experimentation on such a large scale resulted in a renowned series of abstracted-yet-instantly-recognizable paintings, all without the use of a brush or other tools to manipulate the medium’s flow.
Steir’s “Persian Waterfalls” in @neworleansmuseumofart’s permanent collection was featured in the exhibition "Ear to the Ground: Earth and Element in Contemporary Art" from 2018-2021.
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🎨: Pat Steir, “Persian Waterfall,” 1990. Oil on canvas, 88 x 107 inches. Promised and partial gift of H. Russell Albright MD in memory of Michael P. Meyers, Photography by Roman Alokhin, ©Pat Steir
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Thank you to everyone who celebrated Art in Bloom Presented by First Horizon Bank: Marsh Madness with us last week!
Special thanks to our presenting sponsor First Horizon Bank (@first_horizon), the Garden Study Club of New Orleans (@gardenstudyofno), our silent auction sponsor New Orleans Auction (@neworleansauction), this year`s featured silent auction artist Pippin Frisbie-Calder (@pippinprint), our lecture series speaker T.J. McGrath (@t.j._mcgrath_design), our featured fashion show designer Edeline Lee (@edelinelee) and fashion show sponsor SOSUSU Boutique (@sosusuboutique), as well as the many designers, silent auction artists, supporters, and community partners who helped our museum marsh come to life 🐊🪴💐
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📸: Ashley Lorraine (@sheshoots_)
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TOMORROW, 3/28, 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM 🐰🥚🎉 EGG HUNT AND FAMILY FESTIVAL PRESENTED BY HANCOCK WHITNEY
Tomorrow morning, hop on over to the Sydney and Walkda Besthoff Sculpture Garden at @neworleansmuseumofart for the annual Egg Hunt and Family Festival Presented by @hancockwhitney
🕰️ Egg hunts for participants ages 4 and under and 5 and above both begin at 10:45 AM in the garden`s Oak Grove (back garden)
Your ticket price includes:
🪺Participation in the egg hunts
🎶 Music from Audio Jocks DJ Services
🪄Magic and juggling performances
🍿Snacks and refreshments (excluding alcoholic beverages) from @elmerchocolate, @orleanscoffee, @luckydogsnola, and @raisingcanes
📸 A photo station with @polosilk3
🎨 NOMA art-making activities
🖌️ Face painting, temporary tattoo, and hula hoop stations
🎟️ Tickets are available at the doors of the event for $25. Learn more at the link in our bio
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📸: Patrick Davis
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OPENING THURSDAY, 4/9: "Robert Gordy: Outside the Mainstream" at @neworleansmuseumofart
Louisiana-native Robert Gordy (1933–86) achieved national recognition for masterly compositions that revealed a sophisticated and disciplined interplay of space, line, and color. Although best known today for his prints and late monotypes, Gordy worked in a range of media throughout his career.
This exhibition, the first in-depth presentation of Gordy`s work at NOMA in over four decades, shares selections from his career from the 1950s until his premature death from AIDS in 1986. The works on view are drawn from NOMA’s permanent collection, the archive of the Robert Gordy estate, and generous loans from private collections.
"Robert Gordy: Outside the Mainstream" will be on view in NOMA`s Templemann Galleries from Thursday, 4/9, through Sunday, 10/11.
🔗 Learn more about the exhibition at the link in our bio
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