BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//New Orleans Museum of Art - ECPv6.15.15//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://nomastaging.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for New Orleans Museum of Art REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20220313T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20221106T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20230312T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20231105T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20240310T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20241103T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20250309T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20251102T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20260308T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20261101T070000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251113T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251113T130000 DTSTAMP:20260430T031930 CREATED:20250314T200039Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250314T200039Z UID:88749-1763035200-1763038800@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Book Club: How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America DESCRIPTION:NOMA’s book club meets monthly to discuss fiction and non-fiction books related to art in the museum’s collection and exhibitions. \nIt is an informal group open to anyone on a month-to-month basis. You do not have to attend every meeting or read every book to participate. In addition to monthly book discussions\, the book club meets periodically for curatorial programs related to the book selections.  \nBooks are selected in advance and planned according to the museum’s exhibition schedule. Participants are expected to procure their own copy of the titles. Selections are also available at the NOMA Museum Shop\, where museum members receive a 10% discount. \nRegister Now \nMeetings are held in person or via Zoom. All meetings begin at 12 pm. For more information or questions\, please email programs@noma.org. \n\nAbout the Book\nHow the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America\nby Clint Smith\n\n\nBeginning in his hometown of New Orleans\, Clint Smith leads the reader on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks—those that are honest about the past and those that are not—that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nation’s collective history\, and ourselves. \nIt is the story of the Monticello Plantation in Virginia\, the estate where Thomas Jefferson wrote letters espousing the urgent need for liberty while enslaving more than four hundred people. It is the story of the Whitney Plantation\, one of the only former plantations devoted to preserving the experience of the enslaved people whose lives and work sustained it. It is the story of Angola\, a former plantation-turned-maximum-security prison in Louisiana that is filled with Black men who work across the 18\,000-acre land for virtually no pay. And it is the story of Blandford Cemetery\, the final resting place of tens of thousands of Confederate soldiers. \nA deeply researched and transporting exploration of the legacy of slavery and its imprint on centuries of American history\, How the Word Is Passed illustrates how some of our country’s most essential stories are hidden in plain view—whether in places we might drive by on our way to work\, holidays such as Juneteenth\, or entire neighborhoods like downtown Manhattan\, where the brutal history of the trade in enslaved men\, women\, and children has been deeply imprinted. \nInformed by scholarship and brought to life by the story of people living today\, Smith’s debut work of nonfiction is a landmark of reflection and insight that offers a new understanding of the hopeful role that memory and history can play in making sense of our country and how it has come to be. URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/book-club-how-the-word-is-passed/ LOCATION:New Orleans Museum of Art\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70119 CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Screenshot-2025-03-14-at-2.59.53-PM.png GEO:29.9864897;-90.0938943 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=New Orleans Museum of Art 1 Collins Diboll Circle New Orleans LA 70119;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1 Collins Diboll Circle:geo:-90.0938943,29.9864897 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251016T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251016T130000 DTSTAMP:20260430T031930 CREATED:20250314T194913Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250314T194913Z UID:88743-1760616000-1760619600@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Book Club: The Other Side: A Story of Women in Art and the Spirit World DESCRIPTION:NOMA’s book club meets monthly to discuss fiction and non-fiction books related to art in the museum’s collection and exhibitions. \nIt is an informal group open to anyone on a month-to-month basis. You do not have to attend every meeting or read every book to participate. In addition to monthly book discussions\, the book club meets periodically for curatorial programs related to the book selections.  \nBooks are selected in advance and planned according to the museum’s exhibition schedule. Participants are expected to procure their own copy of the titles. Selections are also available at the NOMA Museum Shop\, where museum members receive a 10% discount. \nRegister Now \nMeetings are held in person or via Zoom. All meetings begin at 12 pm. For more information or questions\, please email programs@noma.org. \n\nAbout the Book\nThe Other Side: A Story of Women in Art and the Spirit World\nby Jennifer Higgie\n\n\nIt’s not so long ago that a woman’s expressed interest in other realms would have ruined her reputation\, or even killed her. And yet spiritualism\, in various incarnations\, has influenced numerous men—including lauded modernist artists such as Wassily Kandinsky\, Piet Mondrian\, Kazimir Malevich and Paul Klee—without repercussion. The fact that so many radical female artists of their generation—and earlier—also drank deeply from the same spiritual well has been sorely neglected for too long. \nIn The Other Side\, we explore the lives and work of a group of extraordinary women\, from the twelfth-century mystic\, composer\, and artist Hildegard of Bingen to the nineteenth-century English spiritualist Georgiana Houghton\, whose paintings swirl like a cosmic Jackson Pollock; the early twentieth-century Swedish artist\, Hilma af Klint\, who painted with the help of her spirit guides and whose recent exhibition at New York’s Guggenheim broke all attendance records to the ‘Desert Transcendentalist’\, Agnes Pelton\, who painted her visions beneath the vast skies of California. We also learn about the Swiss healer\, Emma Kunz\, who used geometric drawings to treat her patients and the British surrealist and occultist\, Ithell Colquhoun\, whose estate of more than 5\,000 works recently entered the Tate gallery collection. While the individual work of these artists is unique\, the women loosely shared the same goal: to communicate with\, and learn from\, other dimensions. \nWeaving in and out of these myriad lives while sharing her own memories of otherworldly experiences\, Jennifer Higgie discusses the solace of ritual\, the gender exclusions of art history\, the contemporary relevance of myth\, the boom in alternative ways of understanding the world and the impact of spiritualism on feminism and contemporary art. A radical reappraisal of a marginalized group of artists\, The Other Side is an intoxicating blend of memoir\, biography\, and art history. URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/book-club-the-other-side/ LOCATION:New Orleans Museum of Art\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70119 CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/81WAc1a8NIL.jpg GEO:29.9864897;-90.0938943 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=New Orleans Museum of Art 1 Collins Diboll Circle New Orleans LA 70119;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1 Collins Diboll Circle:geo:-90.0938943,29.9864897 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250918T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250918T130000 DTSTAMP:20260430T031930 CREATED:20250314T185813Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250314T185813Z UID:88740-1758196800-1758200400@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Book Club: The Underground Railroad DESCRIPTION:NOMA’s book club meets monthly to discuss fiction and non-fiction books related to art in the museum’s collection and exhibitions. \nIt is an informal group open to anyone on a month-to-month basis. You do not have to attend every meeting or read every book to participate. In addition to monthly book discussions\, the book club meets periodically for curatorial programs related to the book selections.  \nBooks are selected in advance and planned according to the museum’s exhibition schedule. Participants are expected to procure their own copy of the titles. Selections are also available at the NOMA Museum Shop\, where museum members receive a 10% discount. \nRegister Now \nMeetings are held in person or via Zoom. All meetings begin at 12 pm. For more information or questions\, please email programs@noma.org. \n\nAbout the Book\nThe Underground Railroad\nby Colson Whitehead\n\n\nCora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves\, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans\, she is coming into womanhood—where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar\, a recent arrival from Virginia\, tells her about the Underground Railroad\, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as planned—Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her. Though they manage to find a station and head north\, they are being hunted. \nIn Whitehead’s ingenious conception\, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor—engineers and conductors operate a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora and Caesar’s first stop is South Carolina\, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But the city’s placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. And even worse: Ridgeway\, the relentless slave catcher\, is close on their heels. Forced to flee again\, Cora embarks on a harrowing flight\, state by state\, seeking true freedom. \nLike the protagonist of Gulliver’s Travels\, Cora encounters different worlds at each stage of her journey—hers is an odyssey through time as well as space. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the unique terrors for black people in the pre–Civil War era\, his narrative seamlessly weaves the saga of America from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is at once a kinetic adventure tale of one woman’s ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shattering\, powerful meditation on the history we all share. URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/book-club-the-underground-railroad/ LOCATION:New Orleans Museum of Art\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70119 CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/91ikNi3cYUL.jpg GEO:29.9864897;-90.0938943 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=New Orleans Museum of Art 1 Collins Diboll Circle New Orleans LA 70119;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1 Collins Diboll Circle:geo:-90.0938943,29.9864897 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250814T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250814T130000 DTSTAMP:20260430T031930 CREATED:20250314T175911Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250314T175911Z UID:88737-1755172800-1755176400@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Book Club: Rolland Golden: Life\, Love\, and Art in the French Quarter DESCRIPTION:NOMA’s book club meets monthly to discuss fiction and non-fiction books related to art in the museum’s collection and exhibitions. \nIt is an informal group open to anyone on a month-to-month basis. You do not have to attend every meeting or read every book to participate. In addition to monthly book discussions\, the book club meets periodically for curatorial programs related to the book selections.  \nBooks are selected in advance and planned according to the museum’s exhibition schedule. Participants are expected to procure their own copy of the titles. Selections are also available at the NOMA Museum Shop\, where museum members receive a 10% discount. \nRegister Now \nMeetings are held in person or via Zoom. All meetings begin at 12 pm. For more information or questions\, please email programs@noma.org. \n\nAbout the Book\nRolland Golden: Life\, Love\, and Art in the French Quarter\nby Rolland Golden\n\n\nIn the early twentieth century\, the French Quarter had become home to a vibrant community of working artists attracted to the atmosphere\, architecture\, and colorful individuals who populated the scene (and who also became some of its first preservationists). Louisiana native Rolland Golden was one of these artists to live\, work\, and raise a family in this most storied corner of New Orleans. With 94 black-and-white and 54 color photographs and illustrations\, his memoir of that life focuses on the period of 1955 to 1976. Golden\, a painter\, discusses the particular challenges of making a living from art\, and his story becomes a family affair involving his daughters and his beloved wife\, Stella. \nGolden’s studio sat in a patio on Royal Street\, around the corner from Preservation Hall where old-time musicians played Dixieland Jazz. Golden sketched and painted many of them in a visual style that encompassed realism and gradually developed into abstract realism. Golden recalls work that he did in historic preservation\, sketching architecture for publications such as the Vieux Carré Courier\, and he discusses his studies with renowned regionalist painter John McCrady. The artist frankly discusses his experiences with the display\, representation\, and sale of his work\, presenting a little-explored and yet crucial part of a working artist’s life. The memoir concludes with Golden and his wife traveling to the premiere of his exhibition in Moscow\, having been selected by a Russian envoy as the only American artist to have a one-man touring exhibition in the former Soviet Union. Among the nearly 150 black-and-white and color illustrations are never-before-seen photos and sketches by the artist. URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/book-club-rolland-golden/ LOCATION:New Orleans Museum of Art\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70119 CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/81ZLvjx34uL._AC_UF10001000_QL80_.jpg GEO:29.9864897;-90.0938943 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=New Orleans Museum of Art 1 Collins Diboll Circle New Orleans LA 70119;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1 Collins Diboll Circle:geo:-90.0938943,29.9864897 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250710T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250710T130000 DTSTAMP:20260430T031930 CREATED:20250314T174925Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250314T175215Z UID:88734-1752148800-1752152400@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Book Club: Luncheon of the Boating Party DESCRIPTION:NOMA’s book club meets monthly to discuss fiction and non-fiction books related to art in the museum’s collection and exhibitions. \nIt is an informal group open to anyone on a month-to-month basis. You do not have to attend every meeting or read every book to participate. In addition to monthly book discussions\, the book club meets periodically for curatorial programs related to the book selections.  \nBooks are selected in advance and planned according to the museum’s exhibition schedule. Participants are expected to procure their own copy of the titles. Selections are also available at the NOMA Museum Shop\, where museum members receive a 10% discount. \nRegister Now \nMeetings are held in person or via Zoom. All meetings begin at 12 pm. For more information or questions\, please email programs@noma.org. \n\nAbout the Book\nLuncheon of the Boating Party\nby Susan Vreeland\n\n\nLuncheon of the Boating Party\, the novel and the painting\, depicts the summer of 1880\, an exuberant postwar time when social constraints were loosening\, Paris was healing\, and Parisians were bursting with a desire for pleasure. The fourteen people on the terrace overlooking the Seine enjoying this moment of la vie moderne are Renoir’s very real friends\, my characters\, whose lives unfold and connect during the course of the making of the painting. URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/book-club-luncheon-of-the-boating-party/ LOCATION:New Orleans Museum of Art\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70119 CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/91bv-DelsvL._AC_UF10001000_QL80_.jpg GEO:29.9864897;-90.0938943 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=New Orleans Museum of Art 1 Collins Diboll Circle New Orleans LA 70119;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1 Collins Diboll Circle:geo:-90.0938943,29.9864897 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250612T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250612T130000 DTSTAMP:20260430T031930 CREATED:20250314T174214Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250314T174214Z UID:88731-1749729600-1749733200@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Book Club: Strapless: John Singer Sargent and the Fall of Madame X DESCRIPTION:NOMA’s book club meets monthly to discuss fiction and non-fiction books related to art in the museum’s collection and exhibitions. \nIt is an informal group open to anyone on a month-to-month basis. You do not have to attend every meeting or read every book to participate. In addition to monthly book discussions\, the book club meets periodically for curatorial programs related to the book selections.  \nBooks are selected in advance and planned according to the museum’s exhibition schedule. Participants are expected to procure their own copy of the titles. Selections are also available at the NOMA Museum Shop\, where museum members receive a 10% discount. \nRegister Now \nMeetings are held in person or via Zoom. All meetings begin at 12 pm. For more information or questions\, please email programs@noma.org. \n\nAbout the Book\nStrapless: John Singer Sargent and the Fall of Madame X\nby Deborah Davis\n\n\nThe subject of John Singer Sargent’s most famous painting was twenty-three-year-old New Orleans Creole Virginie Gautreau\, who moved to Paris and quickly became the “it girl” of her day. A relative unknown at the time\, Sargent won the commission to paint her; the two must have recognized in each other a like-minded hunger for fame. \nUnveiled at the 1884 Paris Salon\, Gautreau’s portrait generated the attention she craved-but it led to infamy rather than stardom. Sargent had painted one strap of Gautreau’s dress dangling from her shoulder\, suggesting either the prelude to or the aftermath of sex. Her reputation irreparably damaged\, Gautreau retired from public life\, destroying all the mirrors in her home. \nDrawing on documents from private collections and other previously unexamined materials\, and featuring a cast of characters including Oscar Wilde and Richard Wagner\, Strapless is a tale of art and celebrity\, obsession and betrayal. URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/book-club-strapless/ LOCATION:New Orleans Museum of Art\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70119 CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/9781585423361.jpeg GEO:29.9864897;-90.0938943 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=New Orleans Museum of Art 1 Collins Diboll Circle New Orleans LA 70119;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1 Collins Diboll Circle:geo:-90.0938943,29.9864897 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250515T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250515T130000 DTSTAMP:20260430T031930 CREATED:20250314T170026Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250314T170026Z UID:88725-1747310400-1747314000@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Book Club: New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations DESCRIPTION:NOMA’s book club meets monthly to discuss fiction and non-fiction books related to art in the museum’s collection and exhibitions. \nIt is an informal group open to anyone on a month-to-month basis. You do not have to attend every meeting or read every book to participate. In addition to monthly book discussions\, the book club meets periodically for curatorial programs related to the book selections.  \nBooks are selected in advance and planned according to the museum’s exhibition schedule. Participants are expected to procure their own copy of the titles. Selections are also available at the NOMA Museum Shop\, where museum members receive a 10% discount. \nRegister Now \nMeetings are held in person or via Zoom. All meetings begin at 12 pm. For more information or questions\, please email programs@noma.org. \n\nAbout the Book\nNew African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations\nEdited by Amanda M. Maples\, Jordan A. Fenton\, and Lisa Homann\nAn exploration of contemporary African masquerade that reveals its cultural contexts\, artistic innovations\, and intersection with museum collection practices \nBy placing masquerade at the forefront of contemporary African art\, this volume shows how masquerade is a dynamic and urban phenomenon shaped by shifting global concerns. Essays examine the lack of institutional recognition offered to present-day masquerade artists and the methods used to curate masquerade art at the museum level. An international group of scholars and artists explore the motivations and creative decisions of masquerade artists\, highlighting their stories and providing a nuanced understanding of masquerade as a contemporary expression of human experience. \nThis lavishly illustrated study includes more than 150 images\, artist’s biographies\, in-depth analyses of masquerade ensembles in relation to themes of collaboration\, economics\, and meaning\, and a discussion of the methodologies for ethically commissioning and acquiring masquerade art. URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/book-club-new-african-masquerades/ LOCATION:New Orleans Museum of Art\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70119 CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/avif:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/9780300279955.avif GEO:29.9864897;-90.0938943 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=New Orleans Museum of Art 1 Collins Diboll Circle New Orleans LA 70119;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1 Collins Diboll Circle:geo:-90.0938943,29.9864897 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250410T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20250410T130000 DTSTAMP:20260430T031930 CREATED:20250314T165542Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250314T165542Z UID:88720-1744286400-1744290000@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Book Club: The Art Thief: A True Story of Love\, Crime\, and a Dangerous Obsession DESCRIPTION:NOMA’s book club meets monthly to discuss fiction and non-fiction books related to art in the museum’s collection and exhibitions. \nIt is an informal group open to anyone on a month-to-month basis. You do not have to attend every meeting or read every book to participate. In addition to monthly book discussions\, the book club meets periodically for curatorial programs related to the book selections.  \nBooks are selected in advance and planned according to the museum’s exhibition schedule. Participants are expected to procure their own copy of the titles. Selections are also available at the NOMA Museum Shop\, where museum members receive a 10% discount. \nRegister Now \nMeetings are held in person or via Zoom. All meetings begin at 12 pm. For more information or questions\, please email programs@noma.org. \n\nAbout the Book\nThe Art Thief: A True Story of Love\, Crime\, and a Dangerous Obsession\nby Michael Finkel\nStéphane Bréitwieser is the most prolific art thief of all time. \nHe pulled off more than 200 heists\, often in crowded museums in broad daylight. \nHis girlfriend served as his accomplice. \nHis collection was worth an estimated $2 billion. \nHe never sold a piece\, displaying his stolen art in his attic bedroom. \nHe felt like a king. \nUntil everything came to a shocking end. \nIn this spellbinding portrait of obsession and flawed genius\, Michael Finkel gives us one of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of our times\, a riveting story of art\, theft\, love\, and an insatiable hunger to possess beauty at any cost. URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/book-club-art-thief/ LOCATION:New Orleans Museum of Art\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70119 CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/9781984898456.jpeg GEO:29.9864897;-90.0938943 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=New Orleans Museum of Art 1 Collins Diboll Circle New Orleans LA 70119;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1 Collins Diboll Circle:geo:-90.0938943,29.9864897 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241114T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241114T130000 DTSTAMP:20260430T031930 CREATED:20240102T213901Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240102T214033Z UID:83487-1731585600-1731589200@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Book Club Discussion | The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History DESCRIPTION:The NOMA Book Club meets monthly to discuss fiction and non-fiction books related to art in NOMA’s collection and exhibitions. It is an informal group open to anyone on a month-to-month basis. In addition to monthly book discussions\, the book club meets periodically for curatorial programs related to the book selections. You do not have to attend every meeting or read every book to join. \nBook selections are inspired by the museum’s exhibition schedule. Participants are expected to procure their own copies. Selections are also available at the NOMA Museum Shop\, where museum members receive a 10% discount. \nMeetings are held in person or via Zoom. All meetings begin at 12 pm. \nFor information or questions about the NOMA Book Club\, please email kmccurdy@noma.org. \nRegister Now \n\nNovember 2024\nBook Club Discussion | Thursday\, November 14\, 12 pm\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History by Ned Blackhawk \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe most enduring feature of U.S. history is the presence of Native Americans\, yet most histories focus on Europeans and their descendants. This long practice of ignoring Indigenous history is changing\, however\, as a new generation of scholars insists that any full American history address the struggle\, survival\, and resurgence of American Indian nations. Indigenous history is essential to understanding the evolution of modern America. \nNed Blackhawk interweaves five centuries of Native and non‑Native histories\, from Spanish colonial exploration to the rise of Native American self-determination in the late twentieth century. In this transformative synthesis\, he shows that \n• European colonization in the 1600s was never a predetermined success; \n• Native nations helped shape England’s crisis of empire; \n• the first shots of the American Revolution were prompted by Indian affairs in the interior; \n• California Indians targeted by federally funded militias were among the first casualties of the Civil War; \n• the Union victory forever recalibrated Native communities across the West; \n• twentieth-century reservation activists refashioned American law and policy. \nBlackhawk’s retelling of U.S. history acknowledges the enduring power\, agency\, and survival of Indigenous peoples\, yielding a truer account of the United States and revealing anew the varied meanings of America. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n                                               \nEducation and outreach initiatives at NOMA are supported in part by the Zemurray Foundation; the Lois and Lloyd Hawkins Jr. Foundation; The Helis Foundation; The Gayle and Tom Benson Foundation; The City of New Orleans; IBERIABANK; The Wagner Foundation; Janice Parmelee and Bill Hammack; the Diversifying Art Museum Leadership Initiative\, funded by the Walton Family Foundation and the Ford Foundation; Sara and David Kelso; Patrick F. Taylor Foundation;  Dr. Scott S. Cowen; The RosaMary Foundation; The Azby Fund; the Louisiana Division of the Arts\, Office of Cultural Development\, Department of Culture\, Recreation & Tourism\, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts\, a Federal agency; The Collins C. Diboll Private Foundation; Burkenroad Foundation; Marian Dreux Van Horn Education Endowment; The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation;  Ruby K. Worner Trust through the PNC Charitable Trusts Grant Review Committee; The Harry T. Howard III Foundation; New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation\, Inc.; Harvey and Marie Orth; The Bruce J. Heim Foundation; and Mrs. Bennett A. Molter\, Jr. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.  URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/book-club-november-2024/ LOCATION:New Orleans Museum of Art\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70119 CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Rediscovery-of-America.jpg GEO:29.9864897;-90.0938943 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=New Orleans Museum of Art 1 Collins Diboll Circle New Orleans LA 70119;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1 Collins Diboll Circle:geo:-90.0938943,29.9864897 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241017T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241017T130000 DTSTAMP:20260430T031930 CREATED:20240102T212754Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240103T232337Z UID:83483-1729166400-1729170000@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Book Club Discussion | Sand\, Ash\, Heat: Glass at the New Orleans Museum of Art Exhibition Catalogue DESCRIPTION:The NOMA Book Club meets monthly to discuss fiction and non-fiction books related to art in NOMA’s collection and exhibitions. It is an informal group open to anyone on a month-to-month basis. In addition to monthly book discussions\, the book club meets periodically for curatorial programs related to the book selections. You do not have to attend every meeting or read every book to join. \nBook selections are inspired by the museum’s exhibition schedule. Participants are expected to procure their own copies. Selections are also available at the NOMA Museum Shop\, where museum members receive a 10% discount. \nMeetings are held in person or via Zoom. All meetings begin at 12 pm. \nFor information or questions about the NOMA Book Club\, please email kmccurdy@noma.org. \nRegister Now \n\nOctober 2024\nBook Club Discussion | Thursday\, October 17\, 12 pm\n\n\n\n\n\nSand\, Ash\, Heat: Glass at the New Orleans Museum of Art edited by Mel Buchanan \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSand\, Ash\, Heat: Glass at the New Orleans Museum of Art explores how this material has inspired innovation in the arts and science from ancient civilizations to today. Featuring an expansive range of work drawn from NOMA’s exceptional glass collection\, the exhibition will connect works throughout the museum and Besthoff Sculpture Garden\, showcasing the many forms and artistry of glass work from Egyptian pieces to contemporary works\, including a new major acquisition by Fred Wilson and commissions from Sharif Bey. The exhibition presents a variety of perspectives on how glass is connected to histories of scientific discovery\, foodways\, and artistic innovation\, and the accompanying catalogue highlights the perspectives of a glass artist\, a laboratory scientist\, a member of New Orleans’ tradition of Black Masking Indians\, and a sculpture conservator\, alongside those of historians and curators. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n                                               \nEducation and outreach initiatives at NOMA are supported in part by the Zemurray Foundation; the Lois and Lloyd Hawkins Jr. Foundation; The Helis Foundation; The Gayle and Tom Benson Foundation; The City of New Orleans; IBERIABANK; The Wagner Foundation; Janice Parmelee and Bill Hammack; the Diversifying Art Museum Leadership Initiative\, funded by the Walton Family Foundation and the Ford Foundation; Sara and David Kelso; Patrick F. Taylor Foundation;  Dr. Scott S. Cowen; The RosaMary Foundation; The Azby Fund; the Louisiana Division of the Arts\, Office of Cultural Development\, Department of Culture\, Recreation & Tourism\, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts\, a Federal agency; The Collins C. Diboll Private Foundation; Burkenroad Foundation; Marian Dreux Van Horn Education Endowment; The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation;  Ruby K. Worner Trust through the PNC Charitable Trusts Grant Review Committee; The Harry T. Howard III Foundation; New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation\, Inc.; Harvey and Marie Orth; The Bruce J. Heim Foundation; and Mrs. Bennett A. Molter\, Jr. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.  URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/book-club-october-2024/ LOCATION:New Orleans Museum of Art\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70119 CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Sand-Ash-Heat-cover-draft-1.png GEO:29.9864897;-90.0938943 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=New Orleans Museum of Art 1 Collins Diboll Circle New Orleans LA 70119;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1 Collins Diboll Circle:geo:-90.0938943,29.9864897 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240919T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240919T130000 DTSTAMP:20260430T031930 CREATED:20240102T212155Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240105T205559Z UID:83480-1726747200-1726750800@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Book Club Discussion | Letting in Air and Light DESCRIPTION:The NOMA Book Club meets monthly to discuss fiction and non-fiction books related to art in NOMA’s collection and exhibitions. It is an informal group open to anyone on a month-to-month basis. In addition to monthly book discussions\, the book club meets periodically for curatorial programs related to the book selections. You do not have to attend every meeting or read every book to join. \nBook selections are inspired by the museum’s exhibition schedule. Participants are expected to procure their own copies. Selections are also available at the NOMA Museum Shop\, where museum members receive a 10% discount. \nMeetings are held in person or via Zoom. All meetings begin at 12 pm. \nFor information or questions about the NOMA Book Club\, please email kmccurdy@noma.org. \nRegister Now \n\nSeptember 2024\nBook Club Discussion | Thursday\, September 19\, 12 pm\n\n\n\n\n\nLetting in Air and Light by Teresa Tumminello Brader \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrom a double shotgun house in New Orleans comes a true story larger than life. Teresa Tumminello Brader\, niece of the convicted art forger William Toye\, retells her family’s experience as she discovers her uncle’s misdeeds after decades of secrecy. Personal reflections and newspaper records alternate with a fictionalized reimagining of Toye’s complicated life. On both sides of the story\, what emerges is an attempt to honor Louisiana artist Clementine Hunter’s legacy without flinching from the painful realities that come from reckoning with family bonds. Empathetic and honest\, Letting in Air and Light will inspire you to look more closely at your own history and wonder what else you might have missed. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n                                               \nEducation and outreach initiatives at NOMA are supported in part by the Zemurray Foundation; the Lois and Lloyd Hawkins Jr. Foundation; The Helis Foundation; The Gayle and Tom Benson Foundation; The City of New Orleans; IBERIABANK; The Wagner Foundation; Janice Parmelee and Bill Hammack; the Diversifying Art Museum Leadership Initiative\, funded by the Walton Family Foundation and the Ford Foundation; Sara and David Kelso; Patrick F. Taylor Foundation;  Dr. Scott S. Cowen; The RosaMary Foundation; The Azby Fund; the Louisiana Division of the Arts\, Office of Cultural Development\, Department of Culture\, Recreation & Tourism\, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts\, a Federal agency; The Collins C. Diboll Private Foundation; Burkenroad Foundation; Marian Dreux Van Horn Education Endowment; The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation;  Ruby K. Worner Trust through the PNC Charitable Trusts Grant Review Committee; The Harry T. Howard III Foundation; New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation\, Inc.; Harvey and Marie Orth; The Bruce J. Heim Foundation; and Mrs. Bennett A. Molter\, Jr. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.  URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/book-club-september-2024/ LOCATION:New Orleans Museum of Art\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70119 CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Letting-in-Air-and-Light.jpg GEO:29.9864897;-90.0938943 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=New Orleans Museum of Art 1 Collins Diboll Circle New Orleans LA 70119;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1 Collins Diboll Circle:geo:-90.0938943,29.9864897 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240815T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240815T130000 DTSTAMP:20260430T031930 CREATED:20240102T211125Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240102T211125Z UID:83477-1723723200-1723726800@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Book Club Discussion | Loot: A Novel DESCRIPTION:The NOMA Book Club meets monthly to discuss fiction and non-fiction books related to art in NOMA’s collection and exhibitions. It is an informal group open to anyone on a month-to-month basis. In addition to monthly book discussions\, the book club meets periodically for curatorial programs related to the book selections. You do not have to attend every meeting or read every book to join. \nBook selections are inspired by the museum’s exhibition schedule. Participants are expected to procure their own copies. Selections are also available at the NOMA Museum Shop\, where museum members receive a 10% discount. \nMeetings are held in person or via Zoom. All meetings begin at 12 pm. \nFor information or questions about the NOMA Book Club\, please email kmccurdy@noma.org. \nRegister Now \n\nAugust 2024\nBook Club Discussion | Thursday\, August 15\, 12 pm\n\n\n\n\n\nLoot: A Novel by Tania James \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbbas is just seventeen years old when his gifts as a woodcarver come to the attention of Tipu Sultan\, and he is drawn into service at the palace in order to build a giant tiger automaton for Tipu’s sons\, a gift to commemorate their return from British captivity. His fate—and the fate of the wooden tiger he helps create—will mirror the vicissitudes of nations and dynasties ravaged by war across India and Europe. \nWorking alongside the legendary French clockmaker Lucien du Leze\, Abbas hones his craft\, learns French\, and meets Jehanne\, the daughter of a French expatriate. When Du Leze is finally permitted to return home to Rouen\, he invites Abbas to come along as his apprentice. But by the time Abbas travels to Europe\, Tipu’s palace has been looted by British forces\, and the tiger automaton has disappeared. To prove himself\, Abbas must retrieve the tiger from an estate in the English countryside\, where it is displayed in a collection of plundered art. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n                                               \nEducation and outreach initiatives at NOMA are supported in part by the Zemurray Foundation; the Lois and Lloyd Hawkins Jr. Foundation; The Helis Foundation; The Gayle and Tom Benson Foundation; The City of New Orleans; IBERIABANK; The Wagner Foundation; Janice Parmelee and Bill Hammack; the Diversifying Art Museum Leadership Initiative\, funded by the Walton Family Foundation and the Ford Foundation; Sara and David Kelso; Patrick F. Taylor Foundation;  Dr. Scott S. Cowen; The RosaMary Foundation; The Azby Fund; the Louisiana Division of the Arts\, Office of Cultural Development\, Department of Culture\, Recreation & Tourism\, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts\, a Federal agency; The Collins C. Diboll Private Foundation; Burkenroad Foundation; Marian Dreux Van Horn Education Endowment; The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation;  Ruby K. Worner Trust through the PNC Charitable Trusts Grant Review Committee; The Harry T. Howard III Foundation; New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation\, Inc.; Harvey and Marie Orth; The Bruce J. Heim Foundation; and Mrs. Bennett A. Molter\, Jr. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.  URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/book-club-august-2024/ LOCATION:New Orleans Museum of Art\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70119 CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Loot.jpg GEO:29.9864897;-90.0938943 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=New Orleans Museum of Art 1 Collins Diboll Circle New Orleans LA 70119;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1 Collins Diboll Circle:geo:-90.0938943,29.9864897 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240718T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240718T130000 DTSTAMP:20260430T031930 CREATED:20240102T210600Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240102T210718Z UID:83474-1721304000-1721307600@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Book Club Discussion | Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South DESCRIPTION:The NOMA Book Club meets monthly to discuss fiction and non-fiction books related to art in NOMA’s collection and exhibitions. It is an informal group open to anyone on a month-to-month basis. In addition to monthly book discussions\, the book club meets periodically for curatorial programs related to the book selections. You do not have to attend every meeting or read every book to join. \nBook selections are inspired by the museum’s exhibition schedule. Participants are expected to procure their own copies. Selections are also available at the NOMA Museum Shop\, where museum members receive a 10% discount. \nMeetings are held in person or via Zoom. All meetings begin at 12 pm. \nFor information or questions about the NOMA Book Club\, please email kmccurdy@noma.org. \nRegister Now \n\nJuly 2024\nBook Club Discussion | Thursday\, July 18\, 12 pm\n\n\n\n\n\nChasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Winfred Rembert \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWinfred Rembert grew up in a family of Georgia field laborers and joined the Civil Rights Movement as a teenager. He was arrested after fleeing a demonstration\, survived a near-lynching at the hands of law enforcement\, and spent seven years on chain gangs. During that time he met the undaunted Patsy\, who would become his wife. Years later\, at the age of fifty-one and with Patsy’s encouragement\, he started drawing and painting scenes from his youth using leather tooling skills he learned in prison. \nChasing Me to My Grave presents Rembert’s breathtaking body of work alongside his story\, as told to Tufts philosopher Erin I. Kelly. Rembert calls forth vibrant scenes of Black life on Cuthbert\, Georgia’s Hamilton Avenue\, where he first glimpsed the possibility of a life outside the cotton field. As he pays tribute\, exuberant and heartfelt\, to Cuthbert’s Black community and the people\, including Patsy\, who helped him to find the courage to revisit a traumatic past\, Rembert brings to life the promise and the danger of Civil Rights protest\, the brutalities of incarceration\, his search for his mother’s love\, and the epic bond he found with Patsy. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n                                               \nEducation and outreach initiatives at NOMA are supported in part by the Zemurray Foundation; the Lois and Lloyd Hawkins Jr. Foundation; The Helis Foundation; The Gayle and Tom Benson Foundation; The City of New Orleans; IBERIABANK; The Wagner Foundation; Janice Parmelee and Bill Hammack; the Diversifying Art Museum Leadership Initiative\, funded by the Walton Family Foundation and the Ford Foundation; Sara and David Kelso; Patrick F. Taylor Foundation;  Dr. Scott S. Cowen; The RosaMary Foundation; The Azby Fund; the Louisiana Division of the Arts\, Office of Cultural Development\, Department of Culture\, Recreation & Tourism\, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts\, a Federal agency; The Collins C. Diboll Private Foundation; Burkenroad Foundation; Marian Dreux Van Horn Education Endowment; The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation;  Ruby K. Worner Trust through the PNC Charitable Trusts Grant Review Committee; The Harry T. Howard III Foundation; New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation\, Inc.; Harvey and Marie Orth; The Bruce J. Heim Foundation; and Mrs. Bennett A. Molter\, Jr. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.  URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/book-club-july-2024/ LOCATION:New Orleans Museum of Art\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70119 CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/ChasingMeToMyGrave1.jpg GEO:29.9864897;-90.0938943 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=New Orleans Museum of Art 1 Collins Diboll Circle New Orleans LA 70119;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1 Collins Diboll Circle:geo:-90.0938943,29.9864897 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240620T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240620T130000 DTSTAMP:20260430T031930 CREATED:20240102T205910Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240102T205910Z UID:83471-1718884800-1718888400@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Book Club Discussion | Calling for a Blanket Dance DESCRIPTION:The NOMA Book Club meets monthly to discuss fiction and non-fiction books related to art in NOMA’s collection and exhibitions. It is an informal group open to anyone on a month-to-month basis. In addition to monthly book discussions\, the book club meets periodically for curatorial programs related to the book selections. You do not have to attend every meeting or read every book to join. \nBook selections are inspired by the museum’s exhibition schedule. Participants are expected to procure their own copies. Selections are also available at the NOMA Museum Shop\, where museum members receive a 10% discount. \nMeetings are held in person or via Zoom. All meetings begin at 12 pm. \nFor information or questions about the NOMA Book Club\, please email kmccurdy@noma.org. \nRegister Now \n\nJune 2024\nBook Club Discussion | Thursday\, June 20\, 12 pm\n\n\n\n\n\nCalling for a Blanket Dance by Oscar Hokeah \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTold in a series of voices\, Calling for a Blanket Dance takes us into the life of Ever Geimausaddle through the multigenerational perspectives of his family as they soldier through a myriad of difficulties: his father’s sudden kidney failure and subsequent disability\, his mother’s struggle to hold on to her job and care for her husband\, the constant resettlement of the family\, and Ever’s own bottled-up rage at the instability all around him. Meanwhile\, all of Ever’s relatives have ideas about who he is and who he should be. His Cherokee grandmother urges the family to move across the state to find security; his dying grandfather hopes to reunite him with his heritage through traditional gourd dances; his Kiowa cousin reminds him that he’s connected to an ancestral past. And once an adult\, Ever must take the strength given to him by his relatives to save not only himself\, but also the next generation of family. \nHow will this young man visualize a place for himself when the world hasn’t given him a place to start with? Honest\, heartbreaking\, and ultimately uplifting\, Calling for a Blanket Dance is the story of how Ever Geimausaddle found his way to home. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n                                               \nEducation and outreach initiatives at NOMA are supported in part by the Zemurray Foundation; the Lois and Lloyd Hawkins Jr. Foundation; The Helis Foundation; The Gayle and Tom Benson Foundation; The City of New Orleans; IBERIABANK; The Wagner Foundation; Janice Parmelee and Bill Hammack; the Diversifying Art Museum Leadership Initiative\, funded by the Walton Family Foundation and the Ford Foundation; Sara and David Kelso; Patrick F. Taylor Foundation;  Dr. Scott S. Cowen; The RosaMary Foundation; The Azby Fund; the Louisiana Division of the Arts\, Office of Cultural Development\, Department of Culture\, Recreation & Tourism\, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts\, a Federal agency; The Collins C. Diboll Private Foundation; Burkenroad Foundation; Marian Dreux Van Horn Education Endowment; The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation;  Ruby K. Worner Trust through the PNC Charitable Trusts Grant Review Committee; The Harry T. Howard III Foundation; New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation\, Inc.; Harvey and Marie Orth; The Bruce J. Heim Foundation; and Mrs. Bennett A. Molter\, Jr. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.  URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/book-club-june-2024/ LOCATION:New Orleans Museum of Art\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70119 CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Calling-for-a-blanket.jpeg GEO:29.9864897;-90.0938943 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=New Orleans Museum of Art 1 Collins Diboll Circle New Orleans LA 70119;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1 Collins Diboll Circle:geo:-90.0938943,29.9864897 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240516T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240516T130000 DTSTAMP:20260430T031930 CREATED:20240102T205243Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240102T205243Z UID:83468-1715860800-1715864400@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Book Club Discussion | Picasso's War: How Modern Art Came to America DESCRIPTION:The NOMA Book Club meets monthly to discuss fiction and non-fiction books related to art in NOMA’s collection and exhibitions. It is an informal group open to anyone on a month-to-month basis. In addition to monthly book discussions\, the book club meets periodically for curatorial programs related to the book selections. You do not have to attend every meeting or read every book to join. \nBook selections are inspired by the museum’s exhibition schedule. Participants are expected to procure their own copies. Selections are also available at the NOMA Museum Shop\, where museum members receive a 10% discount. \nMeetings are held in person or via Zoom. All meetings begin at 12 pm. \nFor information or questions about the NOMA Book Club\, please email kmccurdy@noma.org. \nRegister Now \n\nMay 2024\nBook Club Discussion | Thursday\, May 16\, 12 pm\n\n\n\n\n\nPicasso’s War: How Modern Art Came to America by Hugh Eakin \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn January 1939\, Pablo Picasso was renowned in Europe but disdained by many in the United States. One year later\, Americans across the country were clamoring to see his art. How did the controversial leader of the Paris avant-garde break through to the heart of American culture? \nThe answer begins a generation earlier\, when a renegade Irish American lawyer named John Quinn set out to build the greatest collection of Picassos in existence. His dream of a museum to house them died with him\, until it was rediscovered by Alfred H. Barr\, Jr.\, a cultural visionary who\, at the age of twenty-seven\, became the director of New York’s new Museum of Modern Art. \nPicasso’s War is the never-before-told story about how a single exhibition\, a decade in the making\, irrevocably changed American taste\, and in doing so saved dozens of the twentieth century’s most enduring artworks from the Nazis. Through a deft combination of new scholarship and vivid storytelling\, Hugh Eakin shows how two men and their obsession with Picasso changed the art world forever. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n                                               \nEducation and outreach initiatives at NOMA are supported in part by the Zemurray Foundation; the Lois and Lloyd Hawkins Jr. Foundation; The Helis Foundation; The Gayle and Tom Benson Foundation; The City of New Orleans; IBERIABANK; The Wagner Foundation; Janice Parmelee and Bill Hammack; the Diversifying Art Museum Leadership Initiative\, funded by the Walton Family Foundation and the Ford Foundation; Sara and David Kelso; Patrick F. Taylor Foundation;  Dr. Scott S. Cowen; The RosaMary Foundation; The Azby Fund; the Louisiana Division of the Arts\, Office of Cultural Development\, Department of Culture\, Recreation & Tourism\, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts\, a Federal agency; The Collins C. Diboll Private Foundation; Burkenroad Foundation; Marian Dreux Van Horn Education Endowment; The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation;  Ruby K. Worner Trust through the PNC Charitable Trusts Grant Review Committee; The Harry T. Howard III Foundation; New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation\, Inc.; Harvey and Marie Orth; The Bruce J. Heim Foundation; and Mrs. Bennett A. Molter\, Jr. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.  URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/book-club-may-2024/ LOCATION:New Orleans Museum of Art\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70119 CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/PicassosWar.jpg GEO:29.9864897;-90.0938943 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=New Orleans Museum of Art 1 Collins Diboll Circle New Orleans LA 70119;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1 Collins Diboll Circle:geo:-90.0938943,29.9864897 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240418T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240418T130000 DTSTAMP:20260430T031930 CREATED:20240102T204321Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240102T204321Z UID:83465-1713441600-1713445200@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Book Club Discussion | Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition DESCRIPTION:The NOMA Book Club meets monthly to discuss fiction and non-fiction books related to art in NOMA’s collection and exhibitions. It is an informal group open to anyone on a month-to-month basis. In addition to monthly book discussions\, the book club meets periodically for curatorial programs related to the book selections. You do not have to attend every meeting or read every book to join. \nBook selections are inspired by the museum’s exhibition schedule. Participants are expected to procure their own copies. Selections are also available at the NOMA Museum Shop\, where museum members receive a 10% discount. \nMeetings are held in person or via Zoom. All meetings begin at 12 pm. \nFor information or questions about the NOMA Book Club\, please email kmccurdy@noma.org. \nRegister Now \n\nApril 2024\nBook Club Discussion | Thursday\, April 18\, 12 pm\n\n\n\n\n\nLast Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition by Daniel Okrent \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA brilliant\, authoritative\, and fascinating history of America’s most puzzling era\, the years 1920 to 1933\, when the US Constitution was amended to restrict one of America’s favorite pastimes: drinking alcoholic beverages. \nFrom its start\, America has been awash in drink. The sailing vessel that brought John Winthrop to the shores of the New World in 1630 carried more beer than water. By the 1820s\, liquor flowed so plentifully it was cheaper than tea. That Americans would ever agree to relinquish their booze was as improbable as it was astonishing. \nYet we did\, and Last Call is Daniel Okrent’s dazzling explanation of why we did it\, what life under Prohibition was like\, and how such an unprecedented degree of government interference in the private lives of Americans changed the country forever. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n                                               \nEducation and outreach initiatives at NOMA are supported in part by the Zemurray Foundation; the Lois and Lloyd Hawkins Jr. Foundation; The Helis Foundation; The Gayle and Tom Benson Foundation; The City of New Orleans; IBERIABANK; The Wagner Foundation; Janice Parmelee and Bill Hammack; the Diversifying Art Museum Leadership Initiative\, funded by the Walton Family Foundation and the Ford Foundation; Sara and David Kelso; Patrick F. Taylor Foundation;  Dr. Scott S. Cowen; The RosaMary Foundation; The Azby Fund; the Louisiana Division of the Arts\, Office of Cultural Development\, Department of Culture\, Recreation & Tourism\, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts\, a Federal agency; The Collins C. Diboll Private Foundation; Burkenroad Foundation; Marian Dreux Van Horn Education Endowment; The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation;  Ruby K. Worner Trust through the PNC Charitable Trusts Grant Review Committee; The Harry T. Howard III Foundation; New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation\, Inc.; Harvey and Marie Orth; The Bruce J. Heim Foundation; and Mrs. Bennett A. Molter\, Jr. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.  URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/book-club-april-2024/ LOCATION:New Orleans Museum of Art\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70119 CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/last-call.jpg GEO:29.9864897;-90.0938943 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=New Orleans Museum of Art 1 Collins Diboll Circle New Orleans LA 70119;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1 Collins Diboll Circle:geo:-90.0938943,29.9864897 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240321T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240321T130000 DTSTAMP:20260430T031930 CREATED:20240102T203507Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240102T203507Z UID:83462-1711022400-1711026000@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Book Club Discussion | Identity Unknown: Rediscovering Seven American Women Artists DESCRIPTION:The NOMA Book Club meets monthly to discuss fiction and non-fiction books related to art in NOMA’s collection and exhibitions. It is an informal group open to anyone on a month-to-month basis. In addition to monthly book discussions\, the book club meets periodically for curatorial programs related to the book selections. You do not have to attend every meeting or read every book to join. \nBook selections are inspired by the museum’s exhibition schedule. Participants are expected to procure their own copies. Selections are also available at the NOMA Museum Shop\, where museum members receive a 10% discount. \nMeetings are held in person or via Zoom. All meetings begin at 12 pm. \nFor information or questions about the NOMA Book Club\, please email kmccurdy@noma.org. \nRegister Now \n\nMarch 2024\nBook Club Discussion | Thursday\, March 21\, 12 pm\n\n\n\n\n\nIdentity Unknown: Rediscovering Seven American Women Artists by Donna Seaman \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWho hasn’t wondered where-aside from Georgia O’Keeffe and Frida Kahlo-all the women artists are? In many art books\, they’ve been marginalized with cold efficiency\, summarily dismissed in the captions of group photographs with the phrase “identity unknown” while each male is named. \nDonna Seaman brings to dazzling life seven of these forgotten artists\, among the best of their day: Gertrude Abercrombie\, with her dark\, surreal paintings and friendships with Dizzy Gillespie and Sonny Rollins; Bay Area self-portraitist Joan Brown; Ree Morton\, with her witty\, oddly beautiful constructions; Loïs Mailou Jones of the Harlem Renaissance; Lenore Tawney\, who combined weaving and sculpture when art and craft were considered mutually exclusive; Christina Ramberg\, whose unsettling works drew on pop culture and advertising; and Louise Nevelson\, an art-world superstar in her heyday but omitted from recent surveys of her era. \nThese women fought to be treated the same as male artists\, to be judged by their work\, not their gender or appearance. In brilliant\, compassionate prose\, Seaman reveals what drove them\, how they worked\, and how they were perceived by others in a world where women were subjects-not makers-of art. Featuring stunning examples of the artists’ work\, Identity Unknown speaks to all women about their neglected place in history and the challenges they face to be taken as seriously as men no matter what their chosen field-and to all men interested in women’s lives. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n                                               \nEducation and outreach initiatives at NOMA are supported in part by the Zemurray Foundation; the Lois and Lloyd Hawkins Jr. Foundation; The Helis Foundation; The Gayle and Tom Benson Foundation; The City of New Orleans; IBERIABANK; The Wagner Foundation; Janice Parmelee and Bill Hammack; the Diversifying Art Museum Leadership Initiative\, funded by the Walton Family Foundation and the Ford Foundation; Sara and David Kelso; Patrick F. Taylor Foundation;  Dr. Scott S. Cowen; The RosaMary Foundation; The Azby Fund; the Louisiana Division of the Arts\, Office of Cultural Development\, Department of Culture\, Recreation & Tourism\, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts\, a Federal agency; The Collins C. Diboll Private Foundation; Burkenroad Foundation; Marian Dreux Van Horn Education Endowment; The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation;  Ruby K. Worner Trust through the PNC Charitable Trusts Grant Review Committee; The Harry T. Howard III Foundation; New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation\, Inc.; Harvey and Marie Orth; The Bruce J. Heim Foundation; and Mrs. Bennett A. Molter\, Jr. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.  URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/book-club-march-2024/ LOCATION:New Orleans Museum of Art\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70119 CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Identity-Unknown.jpg GEO:29.9864897;-90.0938943 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=New Orleans Museum of Art 1 Collins Diboll Circle New Orleans LA 70119;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1 Collins Diboll Circle:geo:-90.0938943,29.9864897 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240222T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240222T130000 DTSTAMP:20260430T031930 CREATED:20240102T202859Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240102T202859Z UID:83459-1708603200-1708606800@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Book Club Discussion | Dust DESCRIPTION:The NOMA Book Club meets monthly to discuss fiction and non-fiction books related to art in NOMA’s collection and exhibitions. It is an informal group open to anyone on a month-to-month basis. In addition to monthly book discussions\, the book club meets periodically for curatorial programs related to the book selections. You do not have to attend every meeting or read every book to join. \nBook selections are inspired by the museum’s exhibition schedule. Participants are expected to procure their own copies. Selections are also available at the NOMA Museum Shop\, where museum members receive a 10% discount. \nMeetings are held in person or via Zoom. All meetings begin at 12 pm. \nFor information or questions about the NOMA Book Club\, please email kmccurdy@noma.org. \nRegister Now \n\nFebruary 2024\nBook Club Discussion | Thursday\, February 22\, 12 pm\n\n\n\n\n\nDust by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor \nFrom a breathtaking new voice\, a novel about a splintered family in Kenya—a story of power and deceit\, unrequited love\, survival and sacrifice. \nOdidi Oganda\, running for his life\, is gunned down in the streets of Nairobi. His grief-stricken sister\, Ajany\, just returned from Brazil\, and their father bring his body back to their crumbling home in the Kenyan drylands\, seeking some comfort and peace. But the murder has stirred memories long left untouched and unleashed a series of unexpected Odidi and Ajany’s mercurial mother flees in a fit of rage; a young Englishman arrives at the Ogandas’ house\, seeking his missing father; a hardened policeman who has borne witness to unspeakable acts reopens a cold case; and an all-seeing Trader with a murky identity plots an overdue revenge. In scenes stretching from the violent upheaval of contemporary Kenya back through a shocking political assassination in 1969 and the Mau Mau uprisings against British colonial rule in the 1950s\, we come to learn the secrets held by this parched landscape\, buried deep within the shared past of the family and of a conflicted nation. \nHere is a spellbinding novel about a brother and sister who have lost their way; about how myths come to pass\, history is written\, and war stains us forever. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n                                               \nEducation and outreach initiatives at NOMA are supported in part by the Zemurray Foundation; the Lois and Lloyd Hawkins Jr. Foundation; The Helis Foundation; The Gayle and Tom Benson Foundation; The City of New Orleans; IBERIABANK; The Wagner Foundation; Janice Parmelee and Bill Hammack; the Diversifying Art Museum Leadership Initiative\, funded by the Walton Family Foundation and the Ford Foundation; Sara and David Kelso; Patrick F. Taylor Foundation;  Dr. Scott S. Cowen; The RosaMary Foundation; The Azby Fund; the Louisiana Division of the Arts\, Office of Cultural Development\, Department of Culture\, Recreation & Tourism\, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts\, a Federal agency; The Collins C. Diboll Private Foundation; Burkenroad Foundation; Marian Dreux Van Horn Education Endowment; The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation;  Ruby K. Worner Trust through the PNC Charitable Trusts Grant Review Committee; The Harry T. Howard III Foundation; New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation\, Inc.; Harvey and Marie Orth; The Bruce J. Heim Foundation; and Mrs. Bennett A. Molter\, Jr. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.  URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/book-club-february-2024/ LOCATION:New Orleans Museum of Art\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70119 CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Dust.jpeg GEO:29.9864897;-90.0938943 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=New Orleans Museum of Art 1 Collins Diboll Circle New Orleans LA 70119;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1 Collins Diboll Circle:geo:-90.0938943,29.9864897 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240118T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240118T130000 DTSTAMP:20260430T031930 CREATED:20240102T202242Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240102T214150Z UID:83455-1705579200-1705582800@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Book Club Discussion | All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me DESCRIPTION:The NOMA Book Club meets monthly to discuss fiction and non-fiction books related to art in NOMA’s collection and exhibitions. It is an informal group open to anyone on a month-to-month basis. In addition to monthly book discussions\, the book club meets periodically for curatorial programs related to the book selections. You do not have to attend every meeting or read every book to join. \nBook selections are inspired by the museum’s exhibition schedule. Participants are expected to procure their own copies. Selections are also available at the NOMA Museum Shop\, where museum members receive a 10% discount. \nMeetings are held in person or via Zoom. All meetings begin at 12 pm. \nFor information or questions about the NOMA Book Club\, please email kmccurdy@noma.org. \nRegister Now \n\nJanuary 2024\nBook Club Discussion | Thursday\, January 18\, 12 pm\n\n\n\n\n\nAll the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me by Patrick Bringley \nA fascinating\, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former New Yorker staffer who spent a decade as a museum guard. \nMillions of people climb the grand marble staircase to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art every year. But only a select few have unrestricted access to every nook and cranny. They’re the guards who roam unobtrusively in dark blue suits\, keeping a watchful eye on the two million square foot treasure house. Caught up in his glamorous fledgling career at The New Yorker\, Patrick Bringley never thought he’d be one of them. Then his older brother was diagnosed with fatal cancer and he found himself needing to escape the mundane clamor of daily life. So he quit The New Yorker and sought solace in the most beautiful place he knew. \nTo his surprise and the reader’s delight\, this temporary refuge becomes Bringley’s home away from home for a decade. We follow him as he guards delicate treasures from Egypt to Rome\, strolls the labyrinths beneath the galleries\, wears out nine pairs of company shoes\, and marvels at the beautiful works in his care. Bringley enters the museum as a ghost\, silent and almost invisible\, but soon finds his voice and his tribe: the artworks and their creators and the lively subculture of museum guards—a gorgeous mosaic of artists\, musicians\, blue-collar stalwarts\, immigrants\, cutups\, and dreamers. As his bonds with his colleagues and the art grow\, he comes to understand how fortunate he is to be walled off in this little world\, and how much it resembles the best aspects of the larger world to which he gradually\, gratefully returns. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n                                               \nEducation and outreach initiatives at NOMA are supported in part by the Zemurray Foundation; the Lois and Lloyd Hawkins Jr. Foundation; The Helis Foundation; The Gayle and Tom Benson Foundation; The City of New Orleans; IBERIABANK; The Wagner Foundation; Janice Parmelee and Bill Hammack; the Diversifying Art Museum Leadership Initiative\, funded by the Walton Family Foundation and the Ford Foundation; Sara and David Kelso; Patrick F. Taylor Foundation;  Dr. Scott S. Cowen; The RosaMary Foundation; The Azby Fund; the Louisiana Division of the Arts\, Office of Cultural Development\, Department of Culture\, Recreation & Tourism\, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts\, a Federal agency; The Collins C. Diboll Private Foundation; Burkenroad Foundation; Marian Dreux Van Horn Education Endowment; The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation;  Ruby K. Worner Trust through the PNC Charitable Trusts Grant Review Committee; The Harry T. Howard III Foundation; New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation\, Inc.; Harvey and Marie Orth; The Bruce J. Heim Foundation; and Mrs. Bennett A. Molter\, Jr. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.  URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/book-club-january-2024/ LOCATION:New Orleans Museum of Art\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70119 CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/AllTheBeautyInTheWorld.jpg GEO:29.9864897;-90.0938943 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=New Orleans Museum of Art 1 Collins Diboll Circle New Orleans LA 70119;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1 Collins Diboll Circle:geo:-90.0938943,29.9864897 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231128T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231128T130000 DTSTAMP:20260430T031930 CREATED:20230127T201707Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230911T204958Z UID:79053-1701172800-1701176400@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Book Club Discussion: Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age DESCRIPTION:The NOMA Book Club meets monthly to discuss fiction and non-fiction books related to art in NOMA’s collection and exhibitions. It is an informal group open to anyone on a month-to-month basis. In addition to monthly book discussions\, the book club meets periodically for curatorial programs related to the book selections. You do not have to attend every meeting or read every book to join. \nBook selections are inspired by the museum’s exhibition schedule. Participants are expected to procure their own copies\, and selections are also available at the NOMA Museum Shop\, where museum members receive a 10% discount. \nMeetings are held in person or via Zoom. All meetings begin at 12 pm. \nFor information or questions about the NOMA Book Club\, please email education@noma.org. \nRegister Now \n\nOctober 2023\nBook Club Discussion | Tuesday\, November 28\, 12 pm\n\n\n\n\n\nFour Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age by Annalee Newitz\nNorton\, 2022\, ISBN-13: 978-0393882452 \nIn Four Lost Cities\, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes readers on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world\, Newitz explores the rise and fall of four ancient cities\, each the center of a sophisticated civilization: the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Central Turkey\, the Roman vacation town of Pompeii on Italy’s southern coast\, the medieval megacity of Angkor in Cambodia\, and the indigenous metropolis Cahokia\, which stood beside the Mississippi River where East St. Louis is today. \nNewitz travels to all four sites and investigates the cutting-edge research in archaeology\, revealing the mix of environmental changes and political turmoil that doomed these ancient settlements. Tracing the early development of urban planning\, Newitz also introduces us to the often anonymous workers―slaves\, women\, immigrants\, and manual laborers― who built these cities and created monuments that lasted millennia. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n                                               \nEducation and outreach initiatives at NOMA are supported in part by the Zemurray Foundation; the Lois and Lloyd Hawkins Jr. Foundation; The Helis Foundation; The Gayle and Tom Benson Foundation; The City of New Orleans; IBERIABANK; The Wagner Foundation; Janice Parmelee and Bill Hammack; the Diversifying Art Museum Leadership Initiative\, funded by the Walton Family Foundation and the Ford Foundation; Sara and David Kelso; Patrick F. Taylor Foundation;  Dr. Scott S. Cowen; The RosaMary Foundation; The Azby Fund; the Louisiana Division of the Arts\, Office of Cultural Development\, Department of Culture\, Recreation & Tourism\, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts\, a Federal agency; The Collins C. Diboll Private Foundation; Burkenroad Foundation; Marian Dreux Van Horn Education Endowment; The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation;  Ruby K. Worner Trust through the PNC Charitable Trusts Grant Review Committee; The Harry T. Howard III Foundation; New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation\, Inc.; Harvey and Marie Orth; The Bruce J. Heim Foundation; and Mrs. Bennett A. Molter\, Jr. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.  URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/book-club-discussion-four-lost-cities/ LOCATION:New Orleans Museum of Art\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70119 CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Annalee_Sewitz_Four_Lost_Cities.jpg GEO:29.9864897;-90.0938943 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=New Orleans Museum of Art 1 Collins Diboll Circle New Orleans LA 70119;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1 Collins Diboll Circle:geo:-90.0938943,29.9864897 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231026T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231026T130000 DTSTAMP:20260430T031930 CREATED:20230127T201634Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230911T204917Z UID:79051-1698321600-1698325200@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Book Club Discussion: The Chiffon Trenches: A Memoir DESCRIPTION:The NOMA Book Club meets monthly to discuss fiction and non-fiction books related to art in NOMA’s collection and exhibitions. It is an informal group open to anyone on a month-to-month basis. In addition to monthly book discussions\, the book club meets periodically for curatorial programs related to the book selections. You do not have to attend every meeting or read every book to join. \nBook selections are inspired by the museum’s exhibition schedule. Participants are expected to procure their own copies\, and selections are also available at the NOMA Museum Shop\, where museum members receive a 10% discount. \nMeetings are held in person or via Zoom. All meetings begin at 12 pm. \nFor information or questions about the NOMA Book Club\, please email education@noma.org. \nRegister Now \n\nOctober 2023\nBook Club Discussion | Thursday\, October 26\, 12 pm\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Chiffon Trenches: A Memoir by André Leon Talley\nBallantine Books\, 2021\, ISBN-13: 978-0593129272 \nDuring André Leon Talley’s first magazine job\, alongside Andy Warhol at Interview\, a fateful meeting with Karl Lagerfeld began a decades-long friendship with the enigmatic\, often caustic designer. Propelled into the upper echelons by his knowledge and adoration of fashion\, André moved to Paris as bureau chief of John Fairchild’s Women’s Wear Daily\, befriending fashion’s most important designers (Halston\, Yves Saint Laurent\, Oscar de la Renta). But as André made friends\, he also made enemies. A racially tinged encounter with a member of the house of Yves Saint Laurent sent him back to New York and into the offices of Vogue under Grace Mirabella. \nThere\, he eventually became creative director\, developing an unlikely but intimate friendship with Anna Wintour. As she rose to the top of Vogue’s masthead\, André also ascended\, and soon became the most influential man in fashion. \n The Chiffon Trenches offers a candid look at the who’s who of the last fifty years of fashion. At once ruthless and empathetic\, this engaging memoir tells with raw honesty the story of how André not only survived the brutal style landscape but thrived—despite racism\, illicit rumors\, and all the other challenges of this notoriously cutthroat industry—to become one of the most renowned voices and faces in fashion. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n                                               \nEducation and outreach initiatives at NOMA are supported in part by the Zemurray Foundation; the Lois and Lloyd Hawkins Jr. Foundation; The Helis Foundation; The Gayle and Tom Benson Foundation; The City of New Orleans; IBERIABANK; The Wagner Foundation; Janice Parmelee and Bill Hammack; the Diversifying Art Museum Leadership Initiative\, funded by the Walton Family Foundation and the Ford Foundation; Sara and David Kelso; Patrick F. Taylor Foundation;  Dr. Scott S. Cowen; The RosaMary Foundation; The Azby Fund; the Louisiana Division of the Arts\, Office of Cultural Development\, Department of Culture\, Recreation & Tourism\, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts\, a Federal agency; The Collins C. Diboll Private Foundation; Burkenroad Foundation; Marian Dreux Van Horn Education Endowment; The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation;  Ruby K. Worner Trust through the PNC Charitable Trusts Grant Review Committee; The Harry T. Howard III Foundation; New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation\, Inc.; Harvey and Marie Orth; The Bruce J. Heim Foundation; and Mrs. Bennett A. Molter\, Jr. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.  URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/book-club-discussion-the-chiffon-trenches-a-memoir/ LOCATION:New Orleans Museum of Art\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70119 CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/André_Leon_Chiffon_Trenches.jpg GEO:29.9864897;-90.0938943 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=New Orleans Museum of Art 1 Collins Diboll Circle New Orleans LA 70119;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1 Collins Diboll Circle:geo:-90.0938943,29.9864897 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231012T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231012T130000 DTSTAMP:20260430T031930 CREATED:20230127T203636Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231010T193021Z UID:79093-1697112000-1697115600@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Book Club Curatorial Program with Curator Mel Buchanan DESCRIPTION:The NOMA Book Club meets monthly to discuss fiction and non-fiction books related to art in NOMA’s collection and exhibitions. It is an informal group open to anyone on a month-to-month basis. In addition to monthly book discussions\, the book club meets periodically for curatorial programs related to the book selections. You do not have to attend every meeting or read every book to join. \nBook selections are inspired by the museum’s exhibition schedule. Participants are expected to procure their own copies\, and selections are also available at the NOMA Museum Shop\, where museum members receive a 10% discount. \nDuring this curatorial program\, Curator Mel Buchanan will discuss the current exhibition Fashioning America: Grit to Glamour. Then\, join us on October 26 for the discussion of The Chiffon Trenches: A Memoir by André Leon Talley. \nMeetings are held in person or via Zoom. All meetings begin at 12 pm. \nFor information or questions about the NOMA Book Club\, please email education@noma.org. \nRegister Now \n\nOctober 2023\nCuratorial Program | Thursday\, October 12\, 12 pm\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Chiffon Trenches: A Memoir by André Leon Talley\nBallantine Books\, 2021\, ISBN-13: 978-0593129272 \nDuring André Leon Talley’s first magazine job\, alongside Andy Warhol at Interview\, a fateful meeting with Karl Lagerfeld began a decades-long friendship with the enigmatic\, often caustic designer. Propelled into the upper echelons by his knowledge and adoration of fashion\, André moved to Paris as bureau chief of John Fairchild’s Women’s Wear Daily\, befriending fashion’s most important designers (Halston\, Yves Saint Laurent\, Oscar de la Renta). But as André made friends\, he also made enemies. A racially tinged encounter with a member of the house of Yves Saint Laurent sent him back to New York and into the offices of Vogue under Grace Mirabella. \nThere\, he eventually became creative director\, developing an unlikely but intimate friendship with Anna Wintour. As she rose to the top of Vogue’s masthead\, André also ascended\, and soon became the most influential man in fashion. \n The Chiffon Trenches offers a candid look at the who’s who of the last fifty years of fashion. At once ruthless and empathetic\, this engaging memoir tells with raw honesty the story of how André not only survived the brutal style landscape but thrived—despite racism\, illicit rumors\, and all the other challenges of this notoriously cutthroat industry—to become one of the most renowned voices and faces in fashion. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n                                               \nEducation and outreach initiatives at NOMA are supported in part by the Zemurray Foundation; the Lois and Lloyd Hawkins Jr. Foundation; The Helis Foundation; The Gayle and Tom Benson Foundation; The City of New Orleans; IBERIABANK; The Wagner Foundation; Janice Parmelee and Bill Hammack; the Diversifying Art Museum Leadership Initiative\, funded by the Walton Family Foundation and the Ford Foundation; Sara and David Kelso; Patrick F. Taylor Foundation;  Dr. Scott S. Cowen; The RosaMary Foundation; The Azby Fund; the Louisiana Division of the Arts\, Office of Cultural Development\, Department of Culture\, Recreation & Tourism\, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts\, a Federal agency; The Collins C. Diboll Private Foundation; Burkenroad Foundation; Marian Dreux Van Horn Education Endowment; The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation;  Ruby K. Worner Trust through the PNC Charitable Trusts Grant Review Committee; The Harry T. Howard III Foundation; New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation\, Inc.; Harvey and Marie Orth; The Bruce J. Heim Foundation; and Mrs. Bennett A. Molter\, Jr. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.  URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/curatorial-program-talley/ LOCATION:New Orleans Museum of Art\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70119 CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/André_Leon_Chiffon_Trenches.jpg GEO:29.9864897;-90.0938943 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=New Orleans Museum of Art 1 Collins Diboll Circle New Orleans LA 70119;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1 Collins Diboll Circle:geo:-90.0938943,29.9864897 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230926T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230926T130000 DTSTAMP:20260430T031930 CREATED:20230127T201609Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230908T175331Z UID:79049-1695729600-1695733200@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Book Club Discussion: Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World DESCRIPTION:The NOMA Book Club meets monthly to discuss fiction and non-fiction books related to art in NOMA’s collection and exhibitions. It is an informal group open to anyone on a month-to-month basis. In addition to monthly book discussions\, the book club meets periodically for curatorial programs related to the book selections. You do not have to attend every meeting or read every book to join. \nBook selections are inspired by the museum’s exhibition schedule. Participants are expected to procure their own copies\, and selections are also available at the NOMA Museum Shop\, where museum members receive a 10% discount. \nMeetings are held in person or via Zoom. All meetings begin at 12 pm. \nFor information or questions about the NOMA Book Club\, please email education@noma.org. \nRegister Now \n\nSeptember 2023\nBook Club Discussion | Tuesday\, September 26\, 12 pm\n\n\n\n\n\nFABRIC: The Hidden History of the Material World by Victoria Finlay\nPenguin Books\, 2022\, ISBN-13: 978-1639361632 \nHow is a handmade fabric helping save an ancient forest? \nWhy is a famous fabric pattern from India best known by the name of a Scottish town? How is a Chinese dragon robe a diagram of the whole universe? What is the difference between how the Greek Fates and the Viking Norns used threads to tell our destiny? \nIn Fabric\, bestselling author Victoria Finlay spins us round the globe\, weaving stories of our relationship with cloth and asking how and why people through the ages have made it\, worn it\, invented it\, and made symbols out of it. And sometimes why they have fought for it. She beats the inner bark of trees into cloth in Papua New Guinea\, fails to handspin cotton in Guatemala\, visits tweed weavers at their homes in Harris\, and has lessons in patchwork-making in Gee’s Bend\, Alabama – where in the 1930s\, deprived of almost everything they owned\, a community of women turned quilting into an art form. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n                                               \nEducation and outreach initiatives at NOMA are supported in part by the Zemurray Foundation; the Lois and Lloyd Hawkins Jr. Foundation; The Helis Foundation; The Gayle and Tom Benson Foundation; The City of New Orleans; IBERIABANK; The Wagner Foundation; Janice Parmelee and Bill Hammack; the Diversifying Art Museum Leadership Initiative\, funded by the Walton Family Foundation and the Ford Foundation; Sara and David Kelso; Patrick F. Taylor Foundation;  Dr. Scott S. Cowen; The RosaMary Foundation; The Azby Fund; the Louisiana Division of the Arts\, Office of Cultural Development\, Department of Culture\, Recreation & Tourism\, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts\, a Federal agency; The Collins C. Diboll Private Foundation; Burkenroad Foundation; Marian Dreux Van Horn Education Endowment; The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation;  Ruby K. Worner Trust through the PNC Charitable Trusts Grant Review Committee; The Harry T. Howard III Foundation; New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation\, Inc.; Harvey and Marie Orth; The Bruce J. Heim Foundation; and Mrs. Bennett A. Molter\, Jr. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.  URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/book-club-discussion-fabric/ LOCATION:New Orleans Museum of Art\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70119 CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Victoria_Finlay_Fabric.jpg GEO:29.9864897;-90.0938943 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=New Orleans Museum of Art 1 Collins Diboll Circle New Orleans LA 70119;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1 Collins Diboll Circle:geo:-90.0938943,29.9864897 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230824T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230824T130000 DTSTAMP:20260430T031930 CREATED:20230127T201537Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230823T170818Z UID:79047-1692878400-1692882000@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Book Club Discussion: 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir DESCRIPTION:The NOMA Book Club meets monthly to discuss fiction and non-fiction books related to art in NOMA’s collection and exhibitions. It is an informal group open to anyone on a month-to-month basis. In addition to monthly book discussions\, the book club meets periodically for curatorial programs related to the book selections. You do not have to attend every meeting or read every book to join. \nBook selections are inspired by the museum’s exhibition schedule. Participants are expected to procure their own copies\, and selections are also available at the NOMA Museum Shop\, where museum members receive a 10% discount. \nMeetings are held in person or via Zoom. All meetings begin at 12 pm. \nFor more information on the NOMA Book Club\, please contact NOMA’s Curator of Education\, Tracy Kennan\, at tkennan@noma.org or 504.658.4113. \nRegister Now \n\nAugust 2023\nBook Club Discussion | Thursday\, August 24\, 12 pm\n\n\n\n\n\n1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir by Ai Weiwei\nCrown\, 2021\, ISBN-13: 978-0553419467 \nOnce a close associate of Mao Zedong and the nation’s most celebrated poet\, Ai Weiwei’s father\, Ai Qing\, was branded a rightist during the Cultural Revolution\, and he and his family were banished to a desolate place known as “Little Siberia\,” where Ai Qing was sentenced to hard labor cleaning public toilets. Ai Weiwei recounts his childhood in exile\, and his difficult decision to leave his family to study art in America\, where he befriended Allen Ginsberg and was inspired by Andy Warhol and the artworks of Marcel Duchamp. With candor and wit\, he details his return to China and his rise from artistic unknown to art world superstar and international human rights activist—and how his work has been shaped by living under a totalitarian regime. \nHere\, for the first time\, Ai Weiwei explores the origins of his exceptional creativity and passionate political beliefs through his life story and that of his father\, whose creativity was stifled. At once ambitious and intimate\, Ai Weiwei’s 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows offers a deep understanding of the myriad forces that have shaped modern China\, and serves as a timely reminder of the urgent need to protect freedom of expression \n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n                                               \nEducation and outreach initiatives at NOMA are supported in part by the Zemurray Foundation; the Lois and Lloyd Hawkins Jr. Foundation; The Helis Foundation; The Gayle and Tom Benson Foundation; The City of New Orleans; IBERIABANK; The Wagner Foundation; Janice Parmelee and Bill Hammack; the Diversifying Art Museum Leadership Initiative\, funded by the Walton Family Foundation and the Ford Foundation; Sara and David Kelso; Patrick F. Taylor Foundation;  Dr. Scott S. Cowen; The RosaMary Foundation; The Azby Fund; the Louisiana Division of the Arts\, Office of Cultural Development\, Department of Culture\, Recreation & Tourism\, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts\, a Federal agency; The Collins C. Diboll Private Foundation; Burkenroad Foundation; Marian Dreux Van Horn Education Endowment; The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation;  Ruby K. Worner Trust through the PNC Charitable Trusts Grant Review Committee; The Harry T. Howard III Foundation; New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation\, Inc.; Harvey and Marie Orth; The Bruce J. Heim Foundation; and Mrs. Bennett A. Molter\, Jr. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.  URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/book-club-discussion-1000-years-of-joys-and-sorrows/ LOCATION:New Orleans Museum of Art\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70119 CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/AiWeiWei_Years_of_Joys_and_Sorrows.jpg GEO:29.9864897;-90.0938943 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=New Orleans Museum of Art 1 Collins Diboll Circle New Orleans LA 70119;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1 Collins Diboll Circle:geo:-90.0938943,29.9864897 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230811T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230811T130000 DTSTAMP:20260430T031930 CREATED:20230127T203354Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230131T205612Z UID:79091-1691755200-1691758800@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Book Club Curatorial Program with Curator Lisa Rotondo-McCord DESCRIPTION:The NOMA Book Club meets monthly to discuss fiction and non-fiction books related to art in NOMA’s collection and exhibitions. It is an informal group open to anyone on a month-to-month basis. In addition to monthly book discussions\, the book club meets periodically for curatorial programs related to the book selections. You do not have to attend every meeting or read every book to join. \nBook selections are inspired by the museum’s exhibition schedule. Participants are expected to procure their own copies\, and selections are also available at the NOMA Museum Shop\, where museum members receive a 10% discount. \nMeetings are held in person or via Zoom. All meetings begin at 12 pm. \nFor more information on the NOMA Book Club\, please contact NOMA’s Curator of Education\, Tracy Kennan\, at tkennan@noma.org or 504.658.4113. \nRegister Now \n\nAugust 2023\nCuratorial Program | Friday\, August 11\, 12 pm\n\n\n\n\n\n1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir by Ai Weiwei\nCrown\, 2021\, ISBN-13: 978-0553419467 \nOnce a close associate of Mao Zedong and the nation’s most celebrated poet\, Ai Weiwei’s father\, Ai Qing\, was branded a rightist during the Cultural Revolution\, and he and his family were banished to a desolate place known as “Little Siberia\,” where Ai Qing was sentenced to hard labor cleaning public toilets. Ai Weiwei recounts his childhood in exile\, and his difficult decision to leave his family to study art in America\, where he befriended Allen Ginsberg and was inspired by Andy Warhol and the artworks of Marcel Duchamp. With candor and wit\, he details his return to China and his rise from artistic unknown to art world superstar and international human rights activist—and how his work has been shaped by living under a totalitarian regime. \nHere\, for the first time\, Ai Weiwei explores the origins of his exceptional creativity and passionate political beliefs through his life story and that of his father\, whose creativity was stifled. At once ambitious and intimate\, Ai Weiwei’s 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows offers a deep understanding of the myriad forces that have shaped modern China\, and serves as a timely reminder of the urgent need to protect freedom of expression \n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n                                               \nEducation and outreach initiatives at NOMA are supported in part by the Zemurray Foundation; the Lois and Lloyd Hawkins Jr. Foundation; The Helis Foundation; The Gayle and Tom Benson Foundation; The City of New Orleans; IBERIABANK; The Wagner Foundation; Janice Parmelee and Bill Hammack; the Diversifying Art Museum Leadership Initiative\, funded by the Walton Family Foundation and the Ford Foundation; Sara and David Kelso; Patrick F. Taylor Foundation;  Dr. Scott S. Cowen; The RosaMary Foundation; The Azby Fund; the Louisiana Division of the Arts\, Office of Cultural Development\, Department of Culture\, Recreation & Tourism\, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts\, a Federal agency; The Collins C. Diboll Private Foundation; Burkenroad Foundation; Marian Dreux Van Horn Education Endowment; The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation;  Ruby K. Worner Trust through the PNC Charitable Trusts Grant Review Committee; The Harry T. Howard III Foundation; New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation\, Inc.; Harvey and Marie Orth; The Bruce J. Heim Foundation; and Mrs. Bennett A. Molter\, Jr. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.  URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/curatorial-program-ai_weiwei/ LOCATION:New Orleans Museum of Art\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70119 CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/AiWeiWei_Years_of_Joys_and_Sorrows.jpg GEO:29.9864897;-90.0938943 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=New Orleans Museum of Art 1 Collins Diboll Circle New Orleans LA 70119;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1 Collins Diboll Circle:geo:-90.0938943,29.9864897 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230725T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230725T130000 DTSTAMP:20260430T031930 CREATED:20230127T201440Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230127T201440Z UID:79045-1690286400-1690290000@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Book Club Discussion: The Rescue Artist: a True Story of Art\, Thieves\, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece DESCRIPTION:The NOMA Book Club meets monthly to discuss fiction and non-fiction books related to art in NOMA’s collection and exhibitions. It is an informal group open to anyone on a month-to-month basis. In addition to monthly book discussions\, the book club meets periodically for curatorial programs related to the book selections. You do not have to attend every meeting or read every book to join. \nBook selections are inspired by the museum’s exhibition schedule. Participants are expected to procure their own copies\, and selections are also available at the NOMA Museum Shop\, where museum members receive a 10% discount. \nMeetings are held in person or via Zoom. All meetings begin at 12 pm. \nFor more information on the NOMA Book Club\, please contact NOMA’s Curator of Education\, Tracy Kennan\, at tkennan@noma.org or 504.658.4113. \nRegister Now \n\nJuly 2023\nBook Club Discussion | Tuesday\, July 25\, 12 pm\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Rescue Artist: a True Story of Art\, Thieves\,\nand the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece by Edward Dolnick\nHarperCollins\, 2018\, ISBN-13: 978-0060531188 \nIn the predawn hours of a gloomy February day in 1994\, two thieves entered the National Gallery in Oslo and made off with one of the world’s most famous paintings\, Edvard Munch’s Scream. It was a brazen crime committed while the whole world was watching the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. Baffled and humiliated\, the Norwegian police turned to the one man they believed could help: a half English\, half American undercover cop named Charley Hill\, the world’s greatest art detective. \nThe Rescue Artist is a rollicking narrative that carries readers deep inside the art underworld—and introduces them to a large and colorful cast of titled aristocrats\, intrepid investigators\, and thick-necked thugs. But most compelling of all is Charley Hill himself\, a complicated mix of brilliance\, foolhardiness\, and charm whose hunt for a purloined treasure would either cap an illustrious career or be the fiasco that would haunt him forever. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n                                               \nEducation and outreach initiatives at NOMA are supported in part by the Zemurray Foundation; the Lois and Lloyd Hawkins Jr. Foundation; The Helis Foundation; The Gayle and Tom Benson Foundation; The City of New Orleans; IBERIABANK; The Wagner Foundation; Janice Parmelee and Bill Hammack; the Diversifying Art Museum Leadership Initiative\, funded by the Walton Family Foundation and the Ford Foundation; Sara and David Kelso; Patrick F. Taylor Foundation;  Dr. Scott S. Cowen; The RosaMary Foundation; The Azby Fund; the Louisiana Division of the Arts\, Office of Cultural Development\, Department of Culture\, Recreation & Tourism\, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts\, a Federal agency; The Collins C. Diboll Private Foundation; Burkenroad Foundation; Marian Dreux Van Horn Education Endowment; The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation;  Ruby K. Worner Trust through the PNC Charitable Trusts Grant Review Committee; The Harry T. Howard III Foundation; New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation\, Inc.; Harvey and Marie Orth; The Bruce J. Heim Foundation; and Mrs. Bennett A. Molter\, Jr. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.  URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/book-club-discussion-the-rescue-artist/ LOCATION:New Orleans Museum of Art\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70119 CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Edward_Dolnick_The_Rescue_-Artist.jpg GEO:29.9864897;-90.0938943 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=New Orleans Museum of Art 1 Collins Diboll Circle New Orleans LA 70119;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1 Collins Diboll Circle:geo:-90.0938943,29.9864897 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230629T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230629T130000 DTSTAMP:20260430T031930 CREATED:20230127T201335Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230608T200459Z UID:79042-1688040000-1688043600@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Book Club Discussion: Magritte: A Life DESCRIPTION:The NOMA Book Club meets monthly to discuss fiction and non-fiction books related to art in NOMA’s collection and exhibitions. It is an informal group open to anyone on a month-to-month basis. In addition to monthly book discussions\, the book club meets periodically for curatorial programs related to the book selections. You do not have to attend every meeting or read every book to join. \nBook selections are inspired by the museum’s exhibition schedule. Participants are expected to procure their own copies\, and selections are also available at the NOMA Museum Shop\, where museum members receive a 10% discount. \nMeetings are held in person or via Zoom. All meetings begin at 12 pm. \nFor more information on the NOMA Book Club\, please contact NOMA’s Curator of Education\, Tracy Kennan\, at tkennan@noma.org or 504.658.4113. \nRegister Now \n\nJune 2023\nBook Club Discussion | Thursday\, June 29\, 12 pm\n\n\n\n\n\nMagritte: A Life by Alex Danchev\nPantheon\, 2021\, ISBN-13: 978-0307908193 \nIn this thought-provoking life of René Magritte (1898-1967)\, Alex Danchev makes a compelling case for Magritte as the single most significant purveyor of images to the modern world. Magritte’s surreal sensibility\, deadpan melodrama\, and fine-tuned outrageousness have become an inescapable part of our visual landscape\, through such legendary works as The Treachery of Images (Ceci n’est pas une pipe) and his celebrated iterations of Man in a Bowler Hat. \nDanchev explores the path of this highly unconventional artist from his middle-class Belgian beginnings to the years during which he led a small\, brilliant band of surrealists (and famously clashed with André Breton) to his first major retrospective\, which traveled to the United States in 1965 and gave rise to his international reputation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n                                               \nEducation and outreach initiatives at NOMA are supported in part by the Zemurray Foundation; the Lois and Lloyd Hawkins Jr. Foundation; The Helis Foundation; The Gayle and Tom Benson Foundation; The City of New Orleans; IBERIABANK; The Wagner Foundation; Janice Parmelee and Bill Hammack; the Diversifying Art Museum Leadership Initiative\, funded by the Walton Family Foundation and the Ford Foundation; Sara and David Kelso; Patrick F. Taylor Foundation;  Dr. Scott S. Cowen; The RosaMary Foundation; The Azby Fund; the Louisiana Division of the Arts\, Office of Cultural Development\, Department of Culture\, Recreation & Tourism\, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts\, a Federal agency; The Collins C. Diboll Private Foundation; Burkenroad Foundation; Marian Dreux Van Horn Education Endowment; The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation;  Ruby K. Worner Trust through the PNC Charitable Trusts Grant Review Committee; The Harry T. Howard III Foundation; New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation\, Inc.; Harvey and Marie Orth; The Bruce J. Heim Foundation; and Mrs. Bennett A. Molter\, Jr. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.  URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/book-club-discussion-magritte-a-life/ LOCATION:New Orleans Museum of Art\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70119 CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Alex_Danchev_Magritte.jpg GEO:29.9864897;-90.0938943 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=New Orleans Museum of Art 1 Collins Diboll Circle New Orleans LA 70119;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1 Collins Diboll Circle:geo:-90.0938943,29.9864897 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230530T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230530T130000 DTSTAMP:20260430T031930 CREATED:20230127T195104Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230414T144837Z UID:79040-1685448000-1685451600@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Book Club Curatorial Program with Curator Lisa Rotondo-McCord DESCRIPTION:The NOMA Book Club meets monthly to discuss fiction and non-fiction books related to art in NOMA’s collection and exhibitions. It is an informal group open to anyone on a month-to-month basis. In addition to monthly book discussions\, the book club meets periodically for curatorial programs related to the book selections. You do not have to attend every meeting or read every book to join. \nBook selections are inspired by the museum’s exhibition schedule. Participants are expected to procure their own copies\, and selections are also available at the NOMA Museum Shop\, where museum members receive a 10% discount. \nMeetings are held in person or via Zoom. All meetings begin at 12 pm. \nFor more information on the NOMA Book Club\, please contact NOMA’s Curator of Education\, Tracy Kennan\, at tkennan@noma.org or 504.658.4113. \nRegister Now \n\nMay 2023\nCuratorial Program | Tuesday\, May 30\, 12 pm\n\n\n\n\n\nMinistry of the Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy\nVintage\, 2018\, ISBN: 052543481X \nThe Ministry of Utmost Happiness takes us on an intimate journey across the Indian subcontinent—from the cramped neighborhoods of Old Delhi and the roads of the new city to the mountains and valleys of Kashmir and beyond\, where war is peace and peace is war. Braiding together the lives of a diverse cast of characters who have been broken by the world they live in and then rescued\, patched together by acts of love—and by hope\, here Arundhati Roy reinvents what a novel can do and can be. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n                                               \nEducation and outreach initiatives at NOMA are supported in part by the Zemurray Foundation; the Lois and Lloyd Hawkins Jr. Foundation; The Helis Foundation; The Gayle and Tom Benson Foundation; The City of New Orleans; IBERIABANK; The Wagner Foundation; Janice Parmelee and Bill Hammack; the Diversifying Art Museum Leadership Initiative\, funded by the Walton Family Foundation and the Ford Foundation; Sara and David Kelso; Patrick F. Taylor Foundation;  Dr. Scott S. Cowen; The RosaMary Foundation; The Azby Fund; the Louisiana Division of the Arts\, Office of Cultural Development\, Department of Culture\, Recreation & Tourism\, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts\, a Federal agency; The Collins C. Diboll Private Foundation; Burkenroad Foundation; Marian Dreux Van Horn Education Endowment; The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation;  Ruby K. Worner Trust through the PNC Charitable Trusts Grant Review Committee; The Harry T. Howard III Foundation; New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation\, Inc.; Harvey and Marie Orth; The Bruce J. Heim Foundation; and Mrs. Bennett A. Molter\, Jr. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.  URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/book-club-curatorial-program-ministry-of-utmost-happiness/ LOCATION:New Orleans Museum of Art\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70119 CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Book-Club-2023-May.jpg GEO:29.9864897;-90.0938943 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=New Orleans Museum of Art 1 Collins Diboll Circle New Orleans LA 70119;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1 Collins Diboll Circle:geo:-90.0938943,29.9864897 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230526T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230526T130000 DTSTAMP:20260430T031930 CREATED:20230126T222251Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230127T194939Z UID:79036-1685102400-1685106000@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Book Club Discussion: The Ministry of Utmost Happiness DESCRIPTION:The NOMA Book Club meets monthly to discuss fiction and non-fiction books related to art in NOMA’s collection and exhibitions. It is an informal group open to anyone on a month-to-month basis. In addition to monthly book discussions\, the book club meets periodically for curatorial programs related to the book selections. You do not have to attend every meeting or read every book to join. \nBook selections are inspired by the museum’s exhibition schedule. Participants are expected to procure their own copies\, and selections are also available at the NOMA Museum Shop\, where museum members receive a 10% discount. \nMeetings are held in person or via Zoom. All meetings begin at 12 pm. \nFor more information on the NOMA Book Club\, please contact NOMA’s Curator of Education\, Tracy Kennan\, at tkennan@noma.org or 504.658.4113. \nRegister Now \n\nMay 2023\nBook Club Discussion | Friday\, May 26\, 12 pm\n\n\n\n\n\nMinistry of the Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy\nVintage\, 2018\, ISBN: 052543481X\n \nThe Ministry of Utmost Happiness takes us on an intimate journey across the Indian subcontinent—from the cramped neighborhoods of Old Delhi and the roads of the new city to the mountains and valleys of Kashmir and beyond\, where war is peace and peace is war. Braiding together the lives of a diverse cast of characters who have been broken by the world they live in and then rescued\, patched together by acts of love—and by hope\, here Arundhati Roy reinvents what a novel can do and can be. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n                                               \nEducation and outreach initiatives at NOMA are supported in part by the Zemurray Foundation; the Lois and Lloyd Hawkins Jr. Foundation; The Helis Foundation; The Gayle and Tom Benson Foundation; The City of New Orleans; IBERIABANK; The Wagner Foundation; Janice Parmelee and Bill Hammack; the Diversifying Art Museum Leadership Initiative\, funded by the Walton Family Foundation and the Ford Foundation; Sara and David Kelso; Patrick F. Taylor Foundation;  Dr. Scott S. Cowen; The RosaMary Foundation; The Azby Fund; the Louisiana Division of the Arts\, Office of Cultural Development\, Department of Culture\, Recreation & Tourism\, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts\, a Federal agency; The Collins C. Diboll Private Foundation; Burkenroad Foundation; Marian Dreux Van Horn Education Endowment; The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation;  Ruby K. Worner Trust through the PNC Charitable Trusts Grant Review Committee; The Harry T. Howard III Foundation; New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation\, Inc.; Harvey and Marie Orth; The Bruce J. Heim Foundation; and Mrs. Bennett A. Molter\, Jr. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.  URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/book-club-discussion-the-ministry-of-upmost-happiness/ LOCATION:New Orleans Museum of Art\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70119 CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Book-Club-2023-May.jpg GEO:29.9864897;-90.0938943 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=New Orleans Museum of Art 1 Collins Diboll Circle New Orleans LA 70119;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1 Collins Diboll Circle:geo:-90.0938943,29.9864897 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230425T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230425T120000 DTSTAMP:20260430T031930 CREATED:20230119T192632Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230119T192632Z UID:78849-1682424000-1682424000@nomastaging.org SUMMARY:Book Club Discussion: Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth DESCRIPTION:The NOMA Book Club meets monthly to discuss fiction and non-fiction books related to art in NOMA’s collection and exhibitions. It is an informal group open to anyone on a month-to-month basis. In addition to monthly book discussions\, the book club meets periodically for curatorial programs related to the book selections. You do not have to attend every meeting or read every book to join. \nBook selections are inspired by the museum’s exhibition schedule. Participants are expected to procure their own copies\, and selections are also available at the NOMA Museum Shop\, where museum members receive a 10% discount. \nMeetings are held in person or via Zoom. All meetings begin at 12 pm. \nFor more information on the NOMA Book Club\, please contact NOMA’s Curator of Education\, Tracy Kennan\, at tkennan@noma.org or 504.658.4113. \nRegister Now \n\nApril 2023\nBook Club Discussion | Tuesday\, April 25\, 12 pm\n\n\n\n\n\nChronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth by Wole Soyinka\n2021\, ISBN-13: 978-0593320167\n \nIn an imaginary Nigeria\, a cunning entrepreneur is selling body parts stolen from Dr. Menka’s hospital for use in ritualistic practices. Dr. Menka shares the grisly news with his oldest college friend\, bon viveur\, star engineer\, and Yoruba royal\, Duyole Pitan-Payne. The life of every party\, Duyole is about to assume a prestigious post at the United Nations in New York\, but it now seems that someone is determined that he not make it there. And neither Dr. Menka nor Duyole knows why\, or how close the enemy is\, or how powerful. Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth is at once a literary hoot\, a crafty whodunit\, and a scathing indictment of political and social corruption. It is a stirring call to arms against the abuse of power from one of our fiercest political activists\, who also happens to be a global literary giant. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n                                               \nEducation and outreach initiatives at NOMA are supported in part by the Zemurray Foundation; the Lois and Lloyd Hawkins Jr. Foundation; The Helis Foundation; The Gayle and Tom Benson Foundation; The City of New Orleans; IBERIABANK; The Wagner Foundation; Janice Parmelee and Bill Hammack; the Diversifying Art Museum Leadership Initiative\, funded by the Walton Family Foundation and the Ford Foundation; Sara and David Kelso; Patrick F. Taylor Foundation;  Dr. Scott S. Cowen; The RosaMary Foundation; The Azby Fund; the Louisiana Division of the Arts\, Office of Cultural Development\, Department of Culture\, Recreation & Tourism\, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts\, a Federal agency; The Collins C. Diboll Private Foundation; Burkenroad Foundation; Marian Dreux Van Horn Education Endowment; The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation;  Ruby K. Worner Trust through the PNC Charitable Trusts Grant Review Committee; The Harry T. Howard III Foundation; New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation\, Inc.; Harvey and Marie Orth; The Bruce J. Heim Foundation; and Mrs. Bennett A. Molter\, Jr. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.  URL:https://nomastaging.org/event/book-club-discussion-soyinka/ LOCATION:New Orleans Museum of Art\, 1 Collins Diboll Circle\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70119 CATEGORIES:Book Club ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://nomastaging.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Wole-Soyinka_Chronicles.png GEO:29.9864897;-90.0938943 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=New Orleans Museum of Art 1 Collins Diboll Circle New Orleans LA 70119;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1 Collins Diboll Circle:geo:-90.0938943,29.9864897 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR