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Friday Nights at NOMA: Fagaly fete and music by Bamboula 2000
Fri, November 18th, 2016 at 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Friday Nights at NOMA opens the museum’s doors for many interesting activities: live music, movies, children’s activities, and more. Tonight we celebrate William A. Fagaly, the Françoise Billion Richardson Curator of African Art, who has retired from the New Orleans Museum of Art after fifty years of service. Come help us toast Bill and send him off in style!
- 5 to 8 pm: Art On the Spot
- 5:30 to 8:30 pm: Music: Bamboula 2000
- 6 pm to 8 pm: John R. Kemp book signing
- 7 pm: Film: ART 21: Boundaries
About Bamboula 2000
Bamboula 2000 is deeply rooted in the soul of Congo Square in New Orleans. This exciting music and dance experience formed 22 years ago in 1994 has become beloved in New Orleans and beyond. Bamboula 2000’s music is influenced by New Orleans, the Caribbean and Africa. The group has won the prestigious Big Easy Award for Best World Music group three times and has been nominated 8 times. In addition, Bamboula 2000 reaches thousands of children annually through their Imagination Tour dance and drum workshops.
World music percussionist, Luther Gray, leads the group. He has performed all over the world with Bamboula 2000 and The Guardians of the Flame Mardi Gras Indians.
Bamboula 2000 spans three hundred years of Congo Square history and culture yet continues to innovate in the 21st century.
About ART 21: Boundaries
Who and what limits our freedom of expression? In what ways do cultural differences affect our understanding of art and other forms of communication? How do an artist’s process and choice of medium affect our perception of his or her work? This episode features artists who synthesize disparate aesthetic traditions, present taboo subject matter, discover innovative uses of media, and explore the shape-shifting potential of the human figure.
David Altmejd’s sculptures, suffused with ornament, blur distinctions between interior and exterior, surface and structure, representation and abstraction. The collective assume vivid astro focus fuses sculpture, video, drawing, and performance into carnivalesque installations in which gender, politics, and cultural codes float freely. Sculptor Lynda Benglis‘s radical and pioneering invention of new forms with unorthodox techniques contains within it a reverence for cultural references that trace back to antiquity. Tabaimo‘s drawings and video installations probe unsettling themes of isolation, contagion, and instability that seem to lurk beneath daily existence in contemporary Japan.
About John R. Kemp
In the Museum Shop, author John R. Kemp will sign his new book “Expressions of Place: The Contemporary Louisiana Landscape.” Kemp embarks on a journey across the rural and urban landscapes of Louisiana via the talents of thirty-seven artists. Kemp writes about Southern artists for numerous regional, national, and international magazines and covers the New Orleans art scene for the New Orleans public television show Steppin’ Out. The New Orleans native and former deputy director of the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities has written and contributed to more than a dozen books about Louisiana artists and history.
