New Orleans Museum of Art

NOMA Book Club Discussion Group
2018-05-23 13:30 - 15:00 (America/Chicago)
Join NOMA staff and fellow book lovers as we read and discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art, artists, art museums, NOMA’s collections and exhibitions. Our full 2018 schedule and reading list has been announced.
Organized by NOMA’s Felix J. Dreyfous Library, the Book Club is an informal group. You do not have to attend every meeting and we understand if you have to leave a discussion or program early. The book club offers several types of programs: a book discussion group that meets once a month (no reading in December), curatorial programs, field trips, and Meet the Author receptions. Most book club programs start promptly at noon, but please arrive at 11:30 a.m. if you wish to bring a sack lunch or meet beforehand. NOMA will provide water and soft drinks.
RSVP for the meetings you wish to attend so we can prepare the meeting space.
Please contact Sheila A. Cork at 504.658.4117 or scork@noma.org for information about joining the NOMA Book Club.

May 2018 Selection
Shocking Paris: Soutine, Chagall and the Outsiders of Montparnasse by Stanley Meisler
St. Martin’s Press, 2015. ISBN: 978-1137278807
For a couple of decades before World War II, a group of immigrant painters and sculptors, including Amedeo Modigliani, Marc Chagall, Chaim Soutine, and Jules Pascin dominated the new art scene of Montparnasse in Paris. Art critics gave them the name “the School of Paris” to set them apart from the French-born (and less talented) young artists of the period. Soutine arrived in Paris while many painters were experimenting with cubism, but he had no time for trends and fashions; like his art, Soutine was intense, demonic, and fierce. After the defeat of France by Hitler’s Germany, the Eastern European Jewish immigrants who had made their way to France for sanctuary were no longer safe. In constant fear of the French police and the German Gestapo, plagued by poor health and bouts of depression, Soutine was the epitome of the tortured artist. Rich in period detail, Stanley Meisler’s Shocking Paris explores the short, dramatic life of one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. (Amazon.com)
Wednesday, May 23, 1:30 – 3 pm | Book Discussion Group

Small Talks: Self-Taught Artist Manierre Dawson
2018-05-23 15:00 - 15:30
Small Talks are 10–15 minute gallery talks focused on one object or a small group of objects. These brief informal sessions enrich the visitor experience and allow visitors to learn more about artworks in our permanent holdings as well as those on view in temporary exhibitions.
Join docent Harvey Orth as he discusses the work of self-taught artist Manierre Dawson (1887–1969), an American painter and sculptor who independently developed stylistic and material innovations that rivaled his most progressive contemporaries.

NOMA Book Club Discussion Group
2018-05-25 12:00 - 13:00
Join NOMA staff and fellow book lovers as we read and discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art, artists, art museums, NOMA’s collections and exhibitions. Our full 2018 schedule and reading list has been announced.
Organized by NOMA’s Felix J. Dreyfous Library, the Book Club is an informal group. You do not have to attend every meeting and we understand if you have to leave a discussion or program early. The book club offers several types of programs: a book discussion group that meets once a month (no reading in December), curatorial programs, field trips, and Meet the Author receptions. Most book club programs start promptly at noon, but please arrive at 11:30 a.m. if you wish to bring a sack lunch or meet beforehand. NOMA will provide water and soft drinks.
RSVP for the meetings you wish to attend so we can prepare the meeting space.
Please contact Sheila A. Cork at 504.658.4117 or scork@noma.org for information about joining the NOMA Book Club.

May 2018 Selection
Shocking Paris: Soutine, Chagall and the Outsiders of Montparnasse by Stanley Meisler
St. Martin’s Press, 2015. ISBN: 978-1137278807
For a couple of decades before World War II, a group of immigrant painters and sculptors, including Amedeo Modigliani, Marc Chagall, Chaim Soutine, and Jules Pascin dominated the new art scene of Montparnasse in Paris. Art critics gave them the name “the School of Paris” to set them apart from the French-born (and less talented) young artists of the period. Soutine arrived in Paris while many painters were experimenting with cubism, but he had no time for trends and fashions; like his art, Soutine was intense, demonic, and fierce. After the defeat of France by Hitler’s Germany, the Eastern European Jewish immigrants who had made their way to France for sanctuary were no longer safe. In constant fear of the French police and the German Gestapo, plagued by poor health and bouts of depression, Soutine was the epitome of the tortured artist. Rich in period detail, Stanley Meisler’s Shocking Paris explores the short, dramatic life of one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. (Amazon.com)
Friday, May 25, 12 – 1 pm | Book Discussion Group

Friday Nights at NOMA: Music by Extended | Arts & Letters: Author Yuri Herrera in Conversation with Rosana Cruz
2018-05-25 17:00 - 21:00
Friday Nights at NOMA opens the museum’s doors for many interesting activities throughout the year: live music, movies, children’s activities, and more. Regular admission prices apply—NOMA members are FREE—but there is no extra charge for programs or films. All galleries and Café NOMA remain open till 9 pm.

5 – 8 pm: Art on the Spot family activity table
5:30 – 8:30 pm: Music by Extended
7 pm: Arts & Letters: Author Yuri Herrara in Conversation with Rosana Cruz

ABOUT EXTENDED
Extended—Oscar Rossignoli on piano, Matt Booth on bass, and Brad Webb on drums—have all the attributes of a clever New Orleans piano-bass-drums trio. The three have been part of the New Orleans scene for years in various configurations. Their debut LP from the spring of 2017, released on Breakfast 4 Dinner records, has received praise for its distinctive compositions and dynamic group interplay.
ABOUT YURI HERRERA AND ROSANA CRUZ
Born in Actopan, Mexico, in 1970, Yuri Herrera studied politics in Mexico, creative writing in El Paso and took his PhD in literature at Berkeley. His first novel to appear in English, Signs Preceding the End of the World, was published to great critical acclaim in 2015 and included in many Best-of-Year lists, including The Guardian‘s Best Fiction and NBC News’s Ten Great Latino Books, going on to win the 2016 Best Translated Book Award. He is currently teaching at Tulane University.
Rosana Cruz is a writer, parent, social justice movement leader and intersectional feminist. They (Cruz’s singular pronoun) have lived in New Orleans for over 20 years and in that time, worked closely with numerous organizations in the struggle for racial justice, LGBTQ liberation and immigrant rights. They currently serve as the Vice President of Movement and Capacity Building at Race Forward: The Center for Racial Justice Innovation. Born in the US to Cuban parents, Cruz identifies as a pre-natal exile, remaining close to the grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins who stayed behind in Cuba. They were raised by a single mother in a multi-racial community in North Miami in the 1970s and 80s. Cruz draws deeply from this experience, as well as their close ties to the Caribbean, in their writing. They hold an MA in Latin American Studies from the Stone Center at Tulane University. Essays by Cruz have been published in hipMama, Bridge the Gulf Project, Colorlines.com and the anthology Mamaphonic. Cruz is a 2018 VONA Voices Fellow. Their writing practice is now centered on speculative fiction and Afro-Futurist influenced magical realism.
This program, part of NOMA’s Arts and Letters Series, is free with museum admission thanks to support from the Patrick F. Taylor Foundation. Additional support is provided by the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival.

Baby ArtsPlay! at NOMA
2018-05-26 10:30 - 11:00
Instill a love of art at a young age through a guided, hands-on gallery experience. Young Audiences Wolf Trap teaching artists will present a series of 6 workshops for caregivers and children ages 0-3. Learn how to integrate music, movement, and drama into everyday playtime to foster children’s developmental growth.
Saturdays at 10:30 am
This free 6-part workshop series provides engaging arts based activities designed to instruct caregivers on how to use the arts at home to promote early learning.
May 26 | Workshop 2 – Baby Says…(language development)
Space is limited. Register today: www.yabap.eventbrite.com
Ideal for ages 0-3.
Contact education@noma.org or 504-658-4128 if you have any questions.
About Young Audiences
For over 50 years, Young Audiences of Louisiana has operated arts in education programs that promote academic excellence and social growth through the arts. Studies have shown that students enrolled in Young Audiences programs outperformed their peers on standardized tests, exhibited fewer disciplinary issues, and had increased school attendance.
About Wolf Trap Institute
Young Audiences / Louisiana Wolf Trap has been an affiliate of The Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts since 2010. The Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts, a program of the Wolf Trap Foundation, was established in 1981 under a grant from the Head Start Bureau of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services serving children birth through kindergarten. The goal of the Institute is to provide early childhood educators with professional development training in the use of performing arts techniques within educational curriculum goals and outcomes for young children. The infusion of arts-based techniques into daily routines provides powerful teaching strategies that can be used to enhance all areas of development, including emergent literacy, self-esteem and socialization, problem solving, receptive and expressive language, motor skills and self-regulation, science and math, conceptualization, and creativity, in order to provide a solid foundation for all future learning.

Small Talks: Alberto Giacometti
2018-05-26 15:00 - 15:30
Small Talks are 10–15 minute gallery talks focused on one object or a small group of objects. These brief informal sessions enrich the visitor experience and allow visitors to learn more about artworks in our permanent holdings as well as those on view in temporary exhibitions.
Join docent Cynthia Kolb as she discusses the work of Alberto Giacometti (1901–1966), a Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman, and printmaker.

NOMA open for Memorial Day
2018-05-28 12:00 - 17:00
The New Orleans Museum of Art and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden will be open on Memorial Day, May 28, from noon to 5 pm.

Noontime Talk: Lee Friedlander in Louisiana with Curatorial Fellow Brian Piper
2018-05-30 12:00 - 13:00
Noontime talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Wednesdays are FREE to Louisiana residents courtesy of The Helis Foundation.
Join Curatorial Fellow Brian Piper for a discussion about renowned photographer Lee Friedlander and his documentation of Louisiana in a retrospective exhibition.

Small Talks: Giovanni Martinelli’s Death Comes to the Banquet Table
2018-05-30 15:00 - 15:30
Small Talks are 10 to 15 minute gallery talks focused on one object or a small group of objects. These brief informal sessions enrich the visitor experience and allow visitors to learn more about artworks in our permanent holdings as well as those on view in temporary exhibitions. All Louisiana residents receive free admission on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation.
Join docent Dianne Chesson as she discusses the painting Death Comes to the Banquet Table by Giovanni Martinelli.

Museum Highlights Tour
2018-06-01 13:00 - 14:00
NOMA docents guide visitors on hour-long tours of either the permanent collection or special exhibitions. Tours are free with NOMA admission. Meet in the Great Hall to join in!
Special group tours can be arranged with two-weeks advance notice. Call Tracy Kennan, Curator of Education, at 504.658.4113.

Small Talks: Ganesh, the Elephant-Headed God
2018-06-01 15:00 - 15:30
Small Talks are 10 to 15 minute gallery talks focused on one object or a small group of objects. These brief informal sessions enrich the visitor experience and allow visitors to learn more about artworks in our permanent holdings as well as those on view in temporary exhibitions. All Louisiana residents receive free admission on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation.
Join Lisa Rotondo-McCord, Curator of Asian Art, as she discusses depictions of Ganesh, the Elephant-Headed Hindu God, in the third-floor Indian Art Gallery.

Friday Nights at NOMA: Music by the Dirty Rain Revelers | Artist Perspective with Cristina Molina and Jonathan Traviesa
2018-06-01 17:00 - 21:00
Friday Nights at NOMA opens the museum’s doors for many interesting activities throughout the year: live music, movies, children’s activities, and more. Regular admission prices apply—NOMA members are FREE—but there is no extra charge for programs or films. All galleries and Café NOMA remain open till 9 pm.

5 – 8 pm: Art on the Spot family activity table
5:30 – 8:30 pm: Music by the Dirty Rain Revelers
6:30 pm: Artist Perspective with Cristina Molina and Jonathan Traviesa in conjunction with the exhibition Carlos Rolón: Outside/In

ABOUT DIRTY RAIN REVELERS
Based in New Orleans, the Dirty Rain Revelers are the unified, musical expression of husband-and-wife team, Matthew and Melissa DeOrazio. Their music is a blend of Roots-Rock, Americana, and Blues. To date, they’ve recorded three albums, performed at regional festivals, toured annually from the Southwest to the East Coast to the Midwest, built a home recording studio, established their own music publishing company, and performed 3 times on CBS’s NCIS: New Orleans.
Melissa and Matthew are regular volunteers and members at the local community-based/supported radio station, WWOZ, believing in being a part of the grassroots process of supporting music that they and their peers make in Louisiana. They also have their own radio show on local community-based/supported radio station WHIV, (We Honor Independent Voices). Their show, Surya Revelers Medicine Music, airs Wednesday nights, 10pm-midnight.
ABOUT CRISTINA MOLINA AND JONATHAN TRAVIESA
Cristina Molina is a visual artist who creates video installations that include still imagery and sculptural forms. Molina’s nonlinear, hypnotic works centralize female protagonists within historical, mythical, and autobiographical narratives. Her work has won national awards for its immersive quality and inventive use of technology including the National Association for Latino Arts and Culture project grant funded in part by the Ford Foundation and Surdna Foundation. She is employed as an assistant professor of new media and animation at Southeastern Louisiana University.
Jonathan Traviesa is a photographer and artist who has been living in New Orleans since the late 1990s. He has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in New Orleans, Chicago, New York, Madrid, and Tokyo. Traviesa is a founding member of The Front gallery and released his first book, Portraits, with a concurrent exhibition at The Front during October and November of 2009. Traviesa received the New Orleans Photo Alliance’s inaugural Michael P. Smith Grant Award, and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art exhibited a selection of his portraits from the book.

2018-06-02 10:30 - 11:00
Instill a love of art at a young age through a guided, hands-on gallery experience. Young Audiences Wolf Trap teaching artists will present a series of 6 workshops for caregivers and children ages 0-3. Learn how to integrate music, movement, and drama into everyday playtime to foster children’s developmental growth.
Saturdays at 10:30 am
This free 6-part workshop series provides engaging arts based activities designed to instruct caregivers on how to use the arts at home to promote early learning.
June 2 | Workshop 3 – My Body (learning body parts)
Space is limited. Register today: www.yabap.eventbrite.com
Ideal for ages 0-3.
Contact education@noma.org or 504-658-4128 if you have any questions.
About Young Audiences
For over 50 years, Young Audiences of Louisiana has operated arts in education programs that promote academic excellence and social growth through the arts. Studies have shown that students enrolled in Young Audiences programs outperformed their peers on standardized tests, exhibited fewer disciplinary issues, and had increased school attendance.
About Wolf Trap Institute
Young Audiences / Louisiana Wolf Trap has been an affiliate of The Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts since 2010. The Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts, a program of the Wolf Trap Foundation, was established in 1981 under a grant from the Head Start Bureau of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services serving children birth through kindergarten. The goal of the Institute is to provide early childhood educators with professional development training in the use of performing arts techniques within educational curriculum goals and outcomes for young children. The infusion of arts-based techniques into daily routines provides powerful teaching strategies that can be used to enhance all areas of development, including emergent literacy, self-esteem and socialization, problem solving, receptive and expressive language, motor skills and self-regulation, science and math, conceptualization, and creativity, in order to provide a solid foundation for all future learning.

Small Talks: Georgia O'Keeffe's My Backyard
2018-06-06 11:00 - 11:30
Small Talks are ten to fifteen-minute gallery talks focused on one object or a small group of objects. These brief informal sessions enrich the visitor experience and allow visitors to learn more about artworks in our permanent holdings as well as those on view in temporary exhibitions.
Join Curator of Education Tracy Kennan as she discusses My Backyard (1937) by Georgia O’Keeffe, an oil painting of the desert scenery surrounding the artist’s home and studio in Abiquiu, New Mexico.
Wednesdays are FREE to Louisiana residents courtesy of The Helis Foundation.

Noontime Talk: Veronese in Murano with Curatorial Fellow Kelsey Brosnan
2018-06-06 12:00 - 13:00
Noontime talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Wednesdays are FREE to Louisiana residents courtesy of The Helis Foundation.
Join Curatorial Fellow Kelsey Brosnan as she discusses the two 16th-century altarpieces by Paolo Veronese in the exhibition Veronese in Murano: Two Venetian Masterpieces Restored.

Small Talks: Will Ryman's America
2018-06-08 11:00 - 11:30
Small Talks are ten to fifteen-minute gallery talks focused on one object or a small group of objects. These brief informal sessions enrich the visitor experience and allow visitors to learn more about artworks in our permanent holdings as well as those on view in temporary exhibitions.
Join docent Regina Shujaa as she discusses the life-sized, gold-painted replica of Abraham Lincoln’s birthplace cabin that forms artist Will Ryman’s America.

Friday Nights at NOMA: Music by Carmela Rappazzo | Artist Perspective: Metalworker Darryl Reeves in Conversation with Jonn Hankins | Film: Always for Pleasure
2018-06-08 17:00 - 21:00
Friday Nights at NOMA opens the museum’s doors for many interesting activities throughout the year: live music, movies, children’s activities, and more. Regular admission prices apply—NOMA members are FREE—but there is no extra charge for programs or films. All galleries and Café NOMA remain open till 9 pm.

5 – 8 pm: Art on the Spot family activity table
5:30 – 8:30 pm: Music by Carmela Rappozzo
6 pm: Artist Perspective: Master Metalworker Darryl Reeves in Conversation with Jonn Hankins in conjunction with Carlos Rolón: Outside/In
7:30 pm: Screening of Always for Pleasure

ABOUT CARMELA RAPPAZZO
Carmela Rappazzo grew up in upstate New York with a love for the Great American Songbooks at an early age. In New York City she attended ‘Theatrium’ and became involved in off-off Broadway Theater and appeared in a few independent films, later training with Eric Morris. Rappazzo moved to Los Angeles in 1992, working with such notable film directors as Rob Reiner, Wolfgang Petersen, Jonathan Lynn and Ken Kwapis. She performed in the Los. Angeles jazz scene with the Jon Mayer trio and recorded “Black and White”, a straight ahead standards record with them. After appearing in many of the local clubs she recorded her second album with Paul Smith, Jim DeJulio and Joe LaBarbera. This project, “Regarding Frank,” was a tribute record to Sinatra and his Capitol years of the 1950s.
ABOUT DARRYL REEVES AND JONN HANKINS
Darryl Reeves is a third generation metalworker and owner of Andrew’s Welding and Blacksmith Shop in New Orleans’ Seventh Ward. He is a master trainer for the New Orleans Master Crafts Guild, training apprentices in advanced ironwork, including welding and blacksmithing. Reeves, who apprenticed under noted master blacksmith and furrier William “Buddy” Leonard, is well known for his creative contemporary steel and brass staircase railings and furniture, and is revered for his restorations of antique ironwork at historic sites. His public commissions include the restoration of the ornate fence at the Presbytère in Jackson Square, fabrication of a new identical fence for its sister building, the Cabildo, and the disassembly and reconstruction of the massive gate at the Chalmette National Cemetery, which dates to 1872.
Jonn Ethan Hankins is the founding director of the New Orleans Master Crafts Guild. He previously served as Executive Director of the New Orleans African American Museum, Development Director of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival Foundation, and Principal Development Officer for Corporate and Community Affairs at the New Orleans Museum of Art. At NOMA, he directed, “Raised to the Trade: Creole Building Arts of New Orleans,” an award-winning exhibition and oral history research project that documented two centuries of families of master craftsmen who built and still maintain New Orleans’ unique architecture.
ABOUT ALWAYS FOR PLEASURE
Always for Pleasure is a 1978 documentary film by Les Blank about social traditions in New Orleans. The film has footage of musical events, Mardi Gras Indians, a jazz funeral, various second line parades, cooking and eating red beans and rice and a crawfish boil. Mardi Gras and St. Patrick’s Day 1977 are captured, and local musicians perform and are interviewed, including Kid Thomas Valentine, Allen Toussaint, Danny Barker, Blue Lu Barker, Irma Thomas, the Neville Brothers and Professor Longhair. (Not rated | 1978 | 58 minutes)
Watch the trailer:

Baby ArtsPlay! at NOMA
2018-06-09 10:30 - 11:00
Instill a love of art at a young age through a guided, hands-on gallery experience. Young Audiences Wolf Trap teaching artists will present a series of 6 workshops for caregivers and children ages 0-3. Learn how to integrate music, movement, and drama into everyday playtime to foster children’s developmental growth.
Saturdays at 10:30 am
This free 6-part workshop series provides engaging arts based activities designed to instruct caregivers on how to use the arts at home to promote early learning.
June 9 | Workshop 4 – Let’s Move! (movement)
Space is limited. Register today: www.yabap.eventbrite.com
Ideal for ages 0-3.
Contact education@noma.org or 504-658-4128 if you have any questions.
About Young Audiences
For over 50 years, Young Audiences of Louisiana has operated arts in education programs that promote academic excellence and social growth through the arts. Studies have shown that students enrolled in Young Audiences programs outperformed their peers on standardized tests, exhibited fewer disciplinary issues, and had increased school attendance.
About Wolf Trap Institute
Young Audiences / Louisiana Wolf Trap has been an affiliate of The Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts since 2010. The Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts, a program of the Wolf Trap Foundation, was established in 1981 under a grant from the Head Start Bureau of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services serving children birth through kindergarten. The goal of the Institute is to provide early childhood educators with professional development training in the use of performing arts techniques within educational curriculum goals and outcomes for young children. The infusion of arts-based techniques into daily routines provides powerful teaching strategies that can be used to enhance all areas of development, including emergent literacy, self-esteem and socialization, problem solving, receptive and expressive language, motor skills and self-regulation, science and math, conceptualization, and creativity, in order to provide a solid foundation for all future learning.

Small Talk: Andy Warhol's Diamond Dust Shoes
2018-06-09 15:00 - 16:00
Small Talks are ten to fifteen-minute gallery talks focused on one object or a small group of objects. These brief informal sessions enrich the visitor experience and allow visitors to learn more about artworks in our permanent holdings as well as those on view in temporary exhibitions.
Join docent Gary Gusick as he discusses Diamond Dust Shoes by Andy Warhol.

Lee Friedlander and the Musicians of Preservation Hall: A Conversation with Curator Russell Lord and Preservation Hall's Ben Jaffe
2018-06-10 15:00 - 16:00
Join Russell Lord, NOMA’s Freeman Family Curator of Photographs, Prints, and Drawings, for a conversation with Ben Jaffe about musicians from the era of the founding of Preservation Hall. Founded in 1961 by Jaffe’s parents, Allan and Sandra, Preservation Hall was intended to preserve the music of New Orleans’ earliest generation of jazz musicians. Many of these legendary performers are pictured in the exhibition Lee Friedlander in Louisiana.
ABOUT BEN JAFFE AND RUSSELL LORD
Born in 1971, Ben Jaffe has lived his whole life with the rhythm of the French Quarter pulsing through his veins. Raised in the company of New Orleans’ greatest musicians, he returned from his education at Oberlin College in Ohio to play with the group and assume his father’s duties as director of Preservation Hall. Today he serves as creative director for both the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and the Hall itself, where he has spearheaded such programs as the New Orleans Musicians Hurricane Relief Fund.
Russell Lord is the Freeman Family Curator of Photographs at the New Orleans Museum of Art. He previously held positions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Yale University Art Gallery. His deepest area of expertise is the origins of photography, but he has written and lectured widely on almost every moment in the history of photography. Lord’s recent publications include Gordon Parks: The Making of an Argument (2013), and contributions to Photorealism: Beginnings to Today (2014) and East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography (2017).

Small Talk: Attributed To: Photographs by E. J. Bellocq
2018-06-13 11:00 - 11:30, 2018-06-20 11:00 - 11:30
Small Talks are ten-to-fifteen-minute gallery talks focused on one object or a small group of objects. These brief informal sessions enrich the visitor experience and allow visitors to learn more about works of art in NOMA’s permanent holdings as well as those on view in temporary exhibitions.
Join Curatorial Fellow Brian Piper as he discusses photographs on view in Attributed To: Photographs by E. J. Bellocq, a focus exhibition that examines the famous portraits of Storyville prostitutes attributed to the early 20th-century New Orleans photographer.
Admission is free to all Louisiana residents on Wednesdays, courtesy of The Helis Foundation.

Noontime Talk: Carlos Rolón: Outside/In with Curatorial Fellow Allison Young
2018-06-13 12:00 - 13:00
Noontime talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Louisiana residents receive free admission to NOMA on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation.
Join Curatorial Fellow Allison Young for a discussion about Carlos Rolón: Outside/In, a solo exhibition by the artist that examines the cultural connections between New Orleans, the Caribbean, and Latin America, along with themes of immigration and finding home in a new land.

Small Talk: Stuart Davis's Rocks, Gloucester
2018-06-15 15:00 - 15:30
Small Talks are 10–15 minute gallery talks focused on one object or a small group of objects. These brief informal sessions enrich the visitor experience and allow visitors to learn more about works of art in our permanent holdings as well as those on view in temporary exhibitions.
Join Curatorial Assistant Anne Roberts as she discusses Rocks, Gloucester by Stuart Davis.

Friday Nights at NOMA: Music by Mykia Jovan | Artist Perspective with Carlos Rolón
2018-06-15 18:00 - 21:00
Friday Nights at NOMA opens the museum’s doors for many interesting activities throughout the year: live music, movies, children’s activities, and more. Regular admission prices apply—NOMA members are FREE—but there is no extra charge for programs or films. All galleries, the Museum Shop, and Café NOMA remain open till 9 pm.

5 – 8 pm: Art on the Spot family activity table
5:30 – 8:30 pm: Music by Mykia Jovan
6 pm: Gallery tour of Carlos Rolón: Outside/In with Curator Katie Pfohl
6:30 pm: Create Late (Advance registration required)
7 pm: Dreaming About America and Color TVs: A Lecture by Artist Carlos Rolón

ABOUT MYKIA JOVAN
Mykia Jovan is a vocalist and songwriter from New Orleans, Louisiana. Her unique voice has drawn natural comparisons to the great Billie Holiday and Erykah Badu, while her original compositions and live performances have established her as a singular voice in the modern progressive soul scene. Mykia was recently nominated for Best Emerging Artist in 2017 by Offbeat Magazine while her debut album, Elliyahu, was named a Top 50 Album of the Year by the publication. The lead single 16 Shots quickly received over 100,000 streams on Spotify and was included on one of the platform’s official playlists alongside artists Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah and Kamasi Washington among others.
ABOUT CARLOS ROLóN
Artist Carlos Rolón (b. 1970), previously known as Dzine, is the American-born son of Puerto Rican immigrants. His works question the concept of luxury and craft while exploring questions of identity, integration, and aspiration. NOMA is hosting his solo exhibition, Carlos Rolón: Outside/In through August 26, 2018. He attended Columbia College, Chicago, with a concentration in painting and drawing. Rolón has been recognized for his elaborately crafted paintings, ornate sculptures and works that come out of American, Latino, and uniquely based subcultures. The work often addresses his biography by melding memory and the imaginary with carefully crafted, hybrid works that are playfully situated between the contradictory worlds of conspicuous consumption and urban artifact. Rolón illuminates how the masculine can become delicate and the how the baroque can be minimal. The artist often channels this approach with site-specific installation work, vivid large-scale paintings and ornate sculptures in various materials expanding on ideas of self-reflection and imagined luxury. The works ultimately produce a hybrid language of social practice, painting and sculpture inviting the viewer to engage in discourse and discussion.

Create Late
2018-06-15 18:30 - 20:00 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
Exclusively for adults, kick off your weekend with a glass of wine and a paint brush! Unwind with a teaching artist-led art project while enjoying Friday Nights at NOMA programming. Reserve your space now!
Friday, June 15
6:30 – 8 p.m.
Finding Balance | Look up to Alexander Calder as you find balance to create an original hanging mobile.
NOMA Members | $25
Nonmembers | $30
Price includes materials, wine, and access to Friday Nights at NOMA programming.
Contact education@noma.org or 504.658.4100 to reserve your space today! Reservations close at 4 pm the day of each workshop.

NOMA closed to the public, Sculpture Garden remains open
2018-06-16 10:00 - 17:00
NOMA will be closed to the public on Saturday, June 16, to host an event for the New Orleans Tricentennial. The Besthoff Sculpture Garden will remain open throughout the day from 10 am to 5 pm.
Please visit us on Sunday, June 17, when admission will be free to all visitors on Father’s Day.

Free admission for all visitors on Father's Day
2018-06-17 11:00 - 18:00
In honor of Father’s Day, NOMA is offering FREE ADMISSION to all visitors on Sunday, June 17, from 11 am to 6 pm. View the permanent collection and current special exhibitions, including the final day to Lee Friedlander in Louisiana, Carlos Rolón: Outside/In, and Veronese in Murano. Treat the special man in your life to brunch at Café NOMA, find a unique gift in the Shop at NOMA, and explore the Besthoff Sculpture Garden.
Photograph: Lee Friedlander, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1961, Gelatin silver print, courtesy of the artist and Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

Noontime Talk: Lee Friedlander in Louisiana with Curator Russell Lord
2018-06-20 12:00 - 13:00
Noontime talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Louisiana residents receive free admission to NOMA on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation.
Join Curator Russell Lord for a discussion about Lee Friedlander in Louisiana, a retrospective of images by the renowned photographer that solely depict his time spent in metro New Orleans over the course of the past six decades. From jazz musicians and second line parades, to architectural oddities and reflected urban scenes, the assembled photographs speak to Friedlander’s sense of playfulness and unique vision.

NOMA Book Club Discussion Group
2018-06-20 13:30 - 15:00
Join NOMA staff and fellow book lovers as we read and discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art, artists, art museums, NOMA’s collections and exhibitions. Our full 2018 schedule and reading list has been announced.
Organized by NOMA’s Felix J. Dreyfous Library, the Book Club is an informal group. You do not have to attend every meeting and we understand if you have to leave a discussion or program early. The book club offers several types of programs: a book discussion group that meets once a month (no reading in December), curatorial programs, field trips, and Meet the Author receptions. Most book club programs start promptly at noon, but please arrive at 11:30 a.m. if you wish to bring a sack lunch or meet beforehand. NOMA will provide water and soft drinks.
RSVP for the meetings you wish to attend so we can prepare the meeting space.
Please contact Sheila A. Cork at 504.658.4117 or scork@noma.org for information about joining the NOMA Book Club.

June 2018 Selection
The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman
Simon & Schuster, 2016. ISBN: 9781451693607
Alice Hoffman brings into focus the birth of impressionism and the forces that shaped Camille Pissarro’s artistic drive through the complicated, rich, adventure-filled life story of his fiery mother, fueled by her love for her family, her stubborn flaunting of society’s rules, and her deep loyalty to her friends. (Library Journal, June 1, 2015)
Wednesday, June 20, 1:30 – 3 pm | Book Discussion Group
