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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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Bronze
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
This Week: Gathering in the Grief Workshop with @hortonhumble 🩵
On Thursday, October 16, from 5 to 7 pm, join us in NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts for this workshop led by Creative Assembly resident and visual artist Horton Humble, moderator Robin Pharo, visual artist Veronica Caseras Lee, musician Ruben Watts, and licensed marriage and family therapist Khara Scott-Bey. Participants will collaboratively create a large-scale cereal box artwork using materials linked to the five stages of grief, illuminating how grief shapes creative expression and lived experience.
The mission of this workshop is to share experiences with loss and collectively memorialize our loved ones. Additional elements, including an altar of names and a grief activity map, will be available to all participants to bring these goals to life.
This program is free and open to all. No registration is required for this workshop.
🔗 Learn more at the link in our bio
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This Wednesday, October 15, from 6 to 9 pm, explore art, wine, and meditation all in one at Soul-Sip at NOMA 🍷🧘🎨
Hosted at @neworleansmuseumofart, this experience blends together art and wine appreciation with the ancient practice of meditation. Enjoy a three-wine flight and light bites from Café NOMA while diving deeper into wine-related works on view from NOMA`s permanent collection
🎟️ Soul-Sip at NOMA is $55 for museum members and $65 general admission. Your ticket includes the three-wine flight, light bites from Cafe NOMA, and a personal meditation toolkit.
🔗 A limited number of tickets available now at the link in our bio.
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Congratulations to Garrett Bradley (@garrettgarrettbradleybradley) and Tuan Andrew Nguyen (@tuan.andrew.nguyen), who have both been chosen as 2025 MacArthur Foundation Fellows.
Bradley’s film "America" (2019) was featured in the 2019 exhibition "Bodies of Knowledge" and was acquired by the museum the same year. A selection of Nguyen`s works were most recently on view at NOMA in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden as part of "Prospect.6: The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home." Nyugen is also a member of The Propeller Group, whose video installation "The Living Need Light, The Dead Need Music" (2014) was acquired by the museum in 2015.
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🎨: Garrett Bradley, "America" (2019). Multi-channel video installation, 35mm film transferred to video, black and white, sound. Image courtesy of the artist © Garrett Bradley
🎨: The Propeller Group, “The Living Need Light, The Dead Need Music” (2014). Single channel film, surround sound 3840 x 2160, 25fps, Color, 5.1. surround sound. Museum Purchase, Robert Gordy Fund, 2015.64
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GIVEAWAY CLOSED 10/10/2025, WINNER HAS BEEN CONTACTED VIA DIRECT MESSAGE ✨️🇯🇵🛍️
In celebration of Japan Fest this Saturday, we`re hosting a giveaway with the NOMA Museum Shop.
Snag a Mini Buddha Board, a NOMA baseball cap, and a NOMA exhibition catalog by following these 3 steps:
1️⃣ Make sure you follow us @neworleansmuseumofart on Instagram
2️⃣ Like this post
3️⃣ Tag a friend in the comments who you want to go to Japan Fest with
This giveaway closes this Friday, October 10, at 12 pm CST. You must follow the three steps listed above to qualify. The winner will be contacted via DM this Friday, October 10.
🔗 And don`t forget to join us on Saturday, October 11, from 10 am to 4 pm, for our annual Japan Fest! Tickets and a full schedule available now at the link in our bio.
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PRODUCER`S CHOICE FILM SERIES: ARTISTS ON FILM 🎨🎥💫
The Producer`s Choice Film Series is BACK at @neworleansmuseumofart this October and November! Join award-winning film producer @merylposter and special guests in NOMA`s Lapis Center for the Arts for this next installment in the series, "Artists on Film."
Check out the dates and titles for the next three Producer`s Choice screenings:
🎟️ Wednesday, 10/29 at 7 pm: "Frida" (2002), with director Julie Taymor (in person)
🎟️ Wednesday, 11/12 at 7 pm: "Pollock" (2000), with Meryl Poster and a special guest
🎟️ Friday, 11/14 at 7 pm: "Basquiat" (1996), with director Julian Schnabel (via Zoom)
🔗 Tickets are $10 for members and $15 for general admission. A member presale will go live TOMORROW, 10/7 at 12 pm. View all the events and access the member presale for each at the link in our bio.
📝 Member presale tickets are limited to 2 per person for each screening. All remaining tickets will be available to the general public at the link in our bio on Thursday, 10/9, at 12 pm.
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Papers and pens and poems, oh my! ✍️🌸🏛️
On Saturday, October 25, at 10:30 am and 12:30 pm, we invite young artists to the next Studio KIDS! workshop at @neworleansmuseumofart.
In this workshop, "Haiku and Origami," kids and teens will:
📄 Write their own original haiku (a traditional form of Japanese poetry)
🪭 Create origami envelopes to store their poems in as a keepsake
🖼️ Explore Japanese artworks in the third floor Gitter Gallery, as well as works on view across the museum, to gather inspiration for their own creations
The 10:30 am workshop is designed for artists ages 6-10, while the 12:30 pm workshop is designed for artists ages 11-14.
🔗 Register TODAY at the link in our bio. Registration is $25 for members and $30 for other participants. Advance registration is required and includes the price of all art-making materials.
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