Talks & Films
Noontime Talk: Vanessa Schmid on “A Life of Seduction: Venice in the 1700s”
New Orleans Museum of Art 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LAJoin Vanessa Schmid, Senior Research Curator for European Art, as she gives a Noontime Talk on the exhibition, A Life of Seduction: Venice in the 1700s. Noontime Talks are brief, casual discussions on exhibitions or works of art in the galleries given by NOMA curators and special guests. A Life of Seduction: Venice in the 1700s is...
Friday Nights at NOMA: Maya Symposium; Music by the Arpa Quartet
Friday Nights at NOMA opens the museum’s doors for many interesting activities throughout the year: live music, movies, children’s activities, and more. 5 to 8 pm: Art on the Spot 5:30 - 8:30 p.m.: Music by the Arpa Quartet 6 pm: "Monumental Landscapes: How the Maya Shaped Their World," a lecture by Dr. Arlen Chase As...
Friday Nights at NOMA: “I Made Myself Up: An Intimate View,” a lecture by McArthur Binion
Contemporary artist McArthur Binion speaks about his career on the opening night of New at NOMA: Recent Acquisitions in Modern and Contemporary Art.
Friday Nights at NOMA: Shakespeare and Mardi Gras lecture | Music by Sarah Quintana
Friday Nights at NOMA opens the museum’s doors for many interesting activities: live music, movies, children’s activities, and more. 5 – 8 p.m. Art on the Spot 5:30 – 8:30 p.m. Music by Sarah Quintana 6:30 p.m. "Shakespeare and Mardi Gras," a lecture by Jennifer Vaught ABOUT SARAH QUINTANA Sarah Quintana is a singer-songwriter from New Orleans with...
Friday Nights at NOMA: Masks and Identity in Casanova’s Venice, a lecture about masking | Film screening of The Wings of the Dove
Friday Nights at NOMA opens the museum’s doors for many interesting activities: live music, movies, children’s activities, and more. 5 – 8 p.m. Art on the Spot 5:30 – 8:30 p.m. Music by the BellaDonnas Jazz Band 6 p.m. “Masks and Identity in Casanova's Venice,” a lecture by James H. Johnson 7:30 p.m. Italian film series...
Friday Nights at NOMA: “Art, Music, and Theater: Venice in the 1700s,” a lecture by Peter Björn Kerber
Peter Björn Kerber of the J. Paul Getty Museum will discuss the performing and creative arts in 18th-century Venice.
“Jim Steg: Innovator and Existentialist,” a lecture by Donald Kuspit
Esteemed art critic and historian Donald Kuspit will examine the life's work of New Orleans-based printmaker Jim Steg.
Friday Nights at NOMA: Great Houses of Havana Lecture | Music by Margie Perez & Cosa Cubana
Architect, preservationist and author Hermes Mallea will discuss his book, Great Houses of Havana, as part of Friday Nights at NOMA. Margie Perez and her Cosa Cubana band will add to the evening's Caribbean flair.
Friday Nights at NOMA: Music by Kettle Black | Screening of Against The Odds: Artists of the Harlem Renaissance
Friday Nights at NOMA will include a screening of the 2006 PBS documentary Against the Odds: Artists of the Harlem Renaissance, a film that includes rare footage of the thriving African American neighborhood in the Roaring Twenties. The Kettle Black band will play Afro-Cuban rhythms, and both the galleries and Café NOMA will be open till 9 p.m.
Noontime Talk: Regina Scully | Japanese Landscapes: Inner Journeys, with Artist Regina Scully and Curator Lisa Rotondo-McCord
Join artist Regina Scully and Curator Lisa Rotondo-McCord for a discussion of how Scully's modern, abstract works came to be exhibited among Japanese Edo-period paintings.
Friday Nights at NOMA: Death in Venice movie screening | Mitchell Gaudet Artist Perspective
Friday Nights at NOMA includes music by Greg Schatz and the Friggin' Geniuses, the Art on the Spot family activity table, an Artist Perspective with glass artist Mitchell Gaudet, and two movies.
Movies in the Garden: Moulin Rouge!
Movies in the Garden continues its spring film series with a theme of costuming. Time travel to Belle Epoque Paris in the lavishly filmed 2001 musical Moulin Rouge! Audience members are encouraged to join a can-can dance demonstration prior to the screening.