New Orleans Museum of Art

Besthoff Sculpture Garden Tour
2019-10-04 12:00 - 13:00, 2019-09-06 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Chicago) | Louisiana
Join NOMA’s docents for a free guided tour of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden on Mondays, Fridays, and Saturdays, weather dependent, at noon. (Call 504.658.4153 to verify.) Sited on twelve acres adjacent to the museum, the garden contains more than ninety works by renowned sculptors placed among a picturesque mature grove of pine, magnolia, and moss-draped live oak trees bisected by a lagoon. Represented sculptors include Pierre Auguste Renoir, Rene Magritte, Henry Moore, Isamu Noguchi, George Rodrigue, and Robert Indiana, among others. Meet at the gates to the garden, which offers free admission year-round.

Gallery activation of Wafaa Bilal's 168:01
2019-10-02 13:00 - 15:00, 2019-09-25 13:00 - 15:00 | Louisiana
NOMA curators will be present to discuss artist Wafaa Bilal’s interactive installation 168:01 in the exhibition Bodies of Knowledge. The work is comprised of a large bookshelf filled with blank, white books which symbolizes the burning and looting of libraries in Baghdad during the 2003 American invasion of Iraq. Museum visitors are invited to transform the shelves from austere white to color by donating a book that will be shipped to the College of Fine Arts at the University of Baghdad at the close of the exhibition. In exchange for a new book (for sale in the Museum Shop) visitors may take home one of the white volumes, which are meant to serve as a reminder that across the globe many people are denied equal access to knowledge.
Writer, curator, and visual artist Kristina Kay Robinson will discuss the connectivity between Iraq and New Orleans and also read from an original piece of nonfiction about Iraq and events of 9-11.
Wednesday admission is free to all Louisiana residents courtesy of The Helis Foundation.
ABOUT KRISTINA KAY ROBINSON
Kristina Kay Robinson is a writer, curator, and visual artist born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. Robinson is the is the co-editor of Mixed Company, a collection of short fiction and visual narratives by women of color. Her writing in various genres has appeared in Guernica, The Baffler, The Nation, and Elle among other publications. She is a 2019 recipient of the Rabkin Prize for Visual Arts Journalism and the current editor of Room 220, an online multidisciplinary arts journal and program of Antenna Gallery in New Orleans.

Gallery Talk: The Quilts of Gee's Bend with Curator Mel Buchanan
2019-10-02 12:00 - 13:00 | Louisiana
Gallery 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 Mel Buchanan, RosaMary Curator of Decortive Arts and Design, for a discussion about the exhibition The Quilts of Gee’s Bend.

Museum Highlights Tour
2019-10-01 13:00 - 14:00, 2019-09-01 13:00 - 14:00 | Louisiana
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.

LOVE in the Garden 2019 presented by Hancock Whitney
2019-09-27 18:30 - 23:59 | Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans , LA, 70124
Friday, September 27, 2019
NOMA’s annual fall soiree in the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden will be held on Friday, September 27, 2019. Join us for a night of dining and dancing under the stars and oaks in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden!

Patron Party | 6:30 pm
Garden Party | 8 pm

Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden

2019 LOVE Co-Chairs
Julie & Ted George
Cammie & Charles Mayer
Aimée Farnet Siegel & Mike Siegel

NVC Chair | Jennifer Heebe

2019 LOVE Honorees
Sydney and Walda Besthoff

ENTERTAINMENT
NOCCA Trio

610 Stompers

Randi and the Nola Dukes band

Thank you to our sponsors!

Presenting Sponsor

Gold Sponsors

Silver Sponsors
Sydney and Walda Besthoff
The Booth-Bricker Fund
J. Edgar Monroe Foundation

Robert and Mary Lupo
Janice Parmelee and Bill Hammack
Rodney and Jane Steiner

Bronze Sponsors

Julie and Ted George
Cammie and Charles Mayer

Mimi and Claude Schlesinger
Aimée Farnet Siegel and Mike Siegel

Media Sponsors

Benefactors
Gail and Nick Asprodites
Bagert Law Firm, Ben Bagert
Cathy and Morris Bart
Bayou Tree Service
Valerie Besthoff
Elizabeth A. Boh
Hon. Steven R Bordner
Virginia Boulet and Alvin R. Albe Jr.
Louisette Brown and George Dunbar
Rick Caballero
James Carisella Family
Hugh and Sheila Collins
Crescent Sound & Light
Bernice and Don Daigle
Judy and Tom David
Domino’s – Stephanie Mueller
Margo and Clancy DuBos
Sally Duplantier
Catherine and David Edwards
Vivian Fonseca and Owen Grossman, MD/Chronos BHW
Joanna Giorlando
Becky and Warren Gottsegen
Juli Miller Hart
Adrea Heebe and Dominick Russo, Jr.
Jennifer and Fred Heebe
Claudio Hemb
IntheNola.com
Sharon Jacobs and Leonard A. Davis
Dr. Jarrett Johnson
Anne Kock
Linda and Gordon Kolb
Krewe of Goddesses and Krewe of Spank
Ray Lagasse
Ray J. Lousteau, MD
The Lupin Foundation
Kay McArdle
Laura and Chase Mullin
Palmisano, LLC
Ray Pecot
Pixie and Jimmy Reiss
Resource Bank
Sally E Richards
Donna and Ben Rosen
Julia and Bo Sanders
Lisa and David Schlakman
Schonekas, Evans, McGoey & McEachin, LLC
Susu and Andrew Stall
Pamela and Rob Steeg
Rian and Teri Tanenbaum
UBS Financial Services, Inc.
Janis van Meerveld and Charles Cerise
Kimberly and Keith Zibilich

Contributors
Carla and Jay Adams
Natasha Alveshire – Fluer de Lis Event Designs
Wayne Amedee
American Aquatic Gardens
Anne and Luis Baños
Lisa Brooking and Bennett Davis
Jeremy Scott Brumbelow
Vivian and Richard Cahn
Joni and Tommy Diaz
Cherise and Bart Farris
Glendy and Larry Forster
René J.L. Fransen and Edward C. Bonin
Elizabeth and David Grimes
Karen and Mark Gundlach
Dana and Steve Hansel
Marshall Hevron
Jeffrey and Andrea Huseman
Barbara and Harris Hyman
Mikell K. Johnson
Kathleen and John Kazour
David and Sara Kelso
Dr. Don Kern and Dr. Lynne Neitzschman
Mr. and Mrs. E. James Kock III
Sally and Jay Lapeyre
Beth and Austin Lavin
Conor T. Lutkewitte
Mac-Gryder Gallery
Diana and Chip Mann
Sharon Marchand
Jonathan C. McCall
Carol and Al Merlin
Dr. Tyra Ceasar-Mitchell, Tyler and Nathan Mitchell
Kathleen Mix
Brenda and Michael Moffitt
Elizabeth and Willy Monaghan
Kenneth E. Newburger
Robin O’Bannon and Richard Bertram
Rise Delmar Ochsner, MD
Terry and John T. Olivier
Gary and Linda Raphael
Anne and Edmund Redd
Emillie Rhys
River Parish Disposal
Jacki and Brian Schneider
Robyn and Andrew Schwarz
Carol Short
Frank and Paulette Stewart
Jackie Sullivan
Melanee and Steve Usdin
Diane and Hughes Walmsley
Lynda and Irving Warshauer
Vanessa Whipple
Ann and David Williams
Lele and Brent Wood
Carlos and Elizabeth Zervigon

CUISINE AND LIBATIONS
Sixth Annual LOVE Cocktail Challenge
featuring New Orleans’ top bartenders
presented by

Challengers
Jessie Carr | La Petite Grocery
Henry Chamberlain | Company Burger
Anna Giordano | Longway Tavern
Chris Hannah | Jewel of the South
Konrad Kantor | Manolito
Chris McMillian | Revel
Shae Minnillo | Justine
Sarah Town | Twelve Mile Limit
Steve Yamada | Latitude 29
Luis Zepeda | The Domino

Judges Panel
John Cruse, GM | WGNO
T. Cole Newton | Twelve Mile Limit / The Domino
Daniel Victory | Victory

LOVE Cocktail Challenge Chair
Bryant York

Patron Party Cuisine
in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden Expansion presented by

with support from

Patron and Garden Party Cuisine
Acme Oyster House
Ancora Pizzeria
Angelo Brocato’s Italian Ice Cream & Pastry
Antoine’s Restaurant
Apolline
Atchafalaya
Aunt Sally’s Pralines
The Blue Crab Restaurant & Oyster Bar
Blue Oak BBQ
Bon Ton Café
Boucherie
Boulevard American Bistro
Café Degas
Café NOMA
Canal Street Bistro
Couvant
Crescent City Brewhouse
Crescent City Steak House
Dickie Brennan & Co. Catering
Felix’s Restaurant and Oyster Bar
Flamingo A- Go-Go
Fogo de Chao
Galatoire’s Restaurant
Highly Seasoned Catering, LLC
Ice Cream 504
Jewel of the South
Joel Catering
Legacy Kitchen
Lula Restaurant Distillery
Mandina’s
Martin Wine Cellar Deli & Catering
Mona’s Cafe
Nothing Bundt Cakes
Oak Oven
Otra Vez
Patti Constantin, Designs in Catering Inc.
P.F. Chang’s China Bistro
Porter and Luke’s Restaurant
Ruby Slipper Cafe
Santa Fe
Sarita’s Grill Latin Fusion
Satsuma
Silk Road
Southern Candymakers
Southern Hospitality Catering
The Station Coffee Shop and Bakery
Superior Seafood & Oyster Bar
Swiss Confectionery
Three B’s
Venezia
Vessel
The Vintage
Wayfare
Zea Rotisserie and Bar

Late Night Cuisine
Diva Dawg
Oh La Vache
Petite Rouge Cafe Camionette
Tanjariné Kitchen

Special Thanks
Café Amelie
Café Du Monde
Doris Metropolitan
La Cocinita
Le Meridien
Maple Street Pilates
Two Tony’s

LOVE Event Committee
Carla Adams
Natasha Alveshire
John Cable and Andrea Andersson
Margaret Archila
Buddy Boe
Lisa Brooking and Bennett Davis
Sally Brower
Olivia Carisella
Judy David
Eleanor Davis
Joni and Tommy Diaz
Ann Duffy and John Skinner
Gian Durand
Catherine and David F. Edwards
Pia and Malcolm Ehrhardt
Sarah Forman and Ron Rona
Glendy Forster
Ellie George
Joanna Giorlando
Chad Graci
Elizabeth Grimes
Garlyn Gryder
Karen Gundlach
Dana and Stephen Hansel
Juli Miller Hart
Caroline Hayes
Elizabeth and Henry Hefler
Mary Hoffman
Andrea and Jeffrey Huseman
Barbara and Harris Hyman
Margaret Jones
Anne Kock
Kelsie Korn and Andrew Marcus
Beth and Austin Lavin
Christine LeBlanc
Elizabeth LeBlanc
Mary and Robert Lupo
Kay McArdle
MaryCole McCants
Tyra Mitchell
Kathleen Mix
Brenda Moffitt
Kriss and Kenny Morrison
Laura and Chase Mullin
Janice Parmelee and Bill Hammack
Mary Peters
Kristin Petry
Doug Plymale
Jennifer Rareshide
Anne Redd
Justine Retnam
Jennifer Rowland
Elise and Matt Ryan
Elizabeth Ryan
Shelby Sanderford
Mimi Schlesinger
Robyn and Andrew Schwarz
Carol Short
Teri and Rian Tanenbaum
Miriam Taylor
Margaret and Pierre Villere
Diane Walmsley
Lynda Warshauer
Jennie Cannon West and Jason Richards
Elizabeth Weston and Will George
Grant Melius Worrell
Bryant York
Kimberly Zibilich

SPONSORSHIP LEVELS AND BENEFITS
GOLD SPONSORSHIP $10,000

Recognition as Gold Sponsor of the event
Reserved tables with thirty (30) tickets to the Patron Party and Garden Party
Single use of NOMA Woldenberg Foundation Board Room for a private event within one year
Invitations to VIP museum member openings during 2019/2020 season
Sponsor recognition on 6,000 invitations; NOMA.org with over 65,000 monthly hits; e-blasts to over 31,000+ NOMA subscribers; social media feeds including 31,000 Instagram followers, and a monthly reach of 400,000 on Facebook
Sponsor recognition and logo placement at the event entrance
Sponsor recognition on NOMA website with link to corporate site
Sponsor mention in all post-event communications with attendees

SILVER SPONSORSHIP $5,000

Recognition as Silver Sponsor of the event
Reserved tables with twenty (20) tickets to the Patron Party and Garden Party
Invitations to VIP museum member openings during 2019/2020
Sponsor recognition on 6,000 invitations; NOMA.org with over 65,000 monthly hits; e-blasts to over 31,000+ NOMA subscribers; social media feeds including 31,000 Instagram followers, and a monthly reach of 400,000 on Facebook
Sponsor recognition and logo placement at the event entrance
Sponsor recognition on NOMA website with link to corporate site

BRONZE SPONSORSHIP $2,500

Recognition as Bronze Sponsor of the event
Reserved tables with twelve (12) tickets to the Patron Party and Garden Party
Sponsor recognition on 6,000 invitations; NOMA.org with over 65,000 monthly hits; e-blasts to over 31,000+ NOMA subscribers; social media feeds including 31,000 Instagram followers, and a monthly reach of 400,000 on Facebook
Sponsor recognition and logo placement at the event entrance
Sponsor recognition on NOMA website with link to corporate site
Sponsor mention in all post-event communications with attendees

BENEFACTOR – Table Sponsor $1,000

Recognition as Benefactor of the event
Reserved table with six (6) tickets to the Patron Party and Garden Party
Sponsor recognition on table signage, printed invitation and on NOMA website

CONTRIBUTOR – Reserved Seating $175 | One Seat $350 | Two Seats

Recognition as Contributor of the event
Reserved seating with one (1) or two (2) tickets to the Patron Party and Garden Party

Sponsor recognition on NOMA website with link to corporate site

Sponsor mention in all post-event communications with attendees

TICKETS
Patron Party | 6:30 pm
Members $125
Non-Members $150
Garden Party | 8 pm
Members $75
Non-Members $100

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LOVE is a NOMA fundraiser. Should a ticket holder be unable to attend, your purchase should be considered a donation. There is also no refund due to weather and other unforeseen conditions. LOVE is a rain or shine event.
Current as of 10/1/19

Gallery Talk: African Art with Curator Ndubuisi Ezeluomba
2019-09-25 15:00 - 16:00 | Louisiana
Gallery 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 Ndubuisi Ezeluomba, the Francoise Billion Richardson Curator of African Art, for a discussion about NOMA’s African Art Collection.

Gallery Talk: Portrait Miniatures with Decorative Arts Curator Mel Buchanan
2019-09-25 12:00 - 13:00 | Louisiana
Gallery 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 Mel Buchanan, RosaMary Curator of Decorative Arts and Design, for a discussion about the newly installed collection of European portrait miniatures from the Latter-Schlesinger Collection.
Image: Nicholas Hilliard (English, 1547–1619), Portrait of an Elizabethan Court Lady, c. 1590, Watercolor on parchment, Gift of Shirley Latter Kaufmann in memory of Harry and Anna Latter, 74.337

Book Club Discussion Group
2019-09-24 12:00 - 13:00 | Louisiana
Join 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 2019 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 NOMA’s Education Department at 504.658.4128 or education@noma.org for information about joining the NOMA Book Club.
September 2019 Selection
de Kooning: An American Master by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan
Alfred A. Knopf, 2006, ISBN: 978-0375711169
Willem de Kooning is one of the most important artists of the twentieth century, a true “painter’s painter” whose protean work continues to inspire many artists. In the thirties and forties, along with Arshile Gorky and Jackson Pollock, he became a key figure in the revolutionary American movement of abstract expressionism. Of all the painters in that group, he worked the longest and was the most prolific, creating powerful, startling images well into the 1980s.
Friday, September 13, 12 – 1 p.m. | Curatorial Program with Allison Young, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow for Modern and Contemporary Art
Tuesday, September 24, 12 – 1 p.m. | Book Discussion Group

Mindfulness Workshop
2019-09-21 11:30 - 13:00 | Louisiana
Join a Mindfulness course under the instruction of Dr. Jayashree Rao. Four individual sessions are scheduled for Fall 2019 from 11:30 am to 1 pm on the following Saturdays: September 21, October 19, November 23, and December 14. Mindfulness is defined as a method of experiencing the present moment with open curiosity, without judgment, and with a willingness to be with what is. This course in intended as a refresher course for past participants of the Mindfulness eight-week sessions.
About the instructor
Dr. Rao is a retired pediatric endocrinologist, who spent thirty years teaching, researching, and practicing medicine at LSU Health Sciences Center and Children’s Hospital. For the past several years, Dr. Rao has practiced and led others in practicing mindfulness, employing techniques learned in the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) course offered by Dr. Dave Potter.
All sessions are $10 each. Advance registration is required.
ENROLL NOW

Museum Day
2019-09-21 10:00 - 17:00 | Louisiana
NOMA will open its doors free of charge to all Museum Day ticket holders on Saturday September 21, 2019 as part of Smithsonian magazine’s 15th annual Museum Day, a national celebration of boundless curiosity in which participating museums emulate the free admission policy at the Smithsonian Institution’s Washington D.C.-based museums.
Claim and download your ticket at Smithsonian.com/museumday. Visitors who present a Museum Day ticket will gain free entrance for two on September 21, 2019. One ticket is permitted per email address.
Where will your curiosity lead you this Museum Day?
Let us know @MuseumDay #MuseumDay #SmithsonianMusic

Studio KIDS! Text Base workshop
2019-09-21 10:00 - 12:00 | Louisiana
Get Creative with Studio KIDS!
This fall, Studio KIDS presents “Text and Textures” art classes for kids on select Saturday mornings from 10 am to noon. Perfect for students ages 5-10 who want to get creative and learn art-making techniques. Studio KIDS explore art in NOMA’s galleries or the Besthoff Sculpture Garden as inspiration for an art project they complete in each session.
Each class features different media and techniques. Register for one class or the entire series. Please register in advance to ensure your spot.
Call 504-658-4128 or email education@noma.org for more information.
Cost per class: $25 members | $30 nonmembers
September 21 |Text Base: Recycle pages from a book as a base for ink drawings of wrought iron designs that explore line and shape.
ENROLL NOW

Friday Nights at NOMA | Public Panel: Water in Two Physical States
2019-09-20 17:00 - 21:00 | Louisiana
Friday Nights at NOMA features an exciting lineup of programs in 2019: 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 drop-in activity table
6 pm: Public Panel: Water in Two Physical States, in conjunction with the exhibition Tina Freeman: Lamentations

ABOUT THE PANELISTS IN WATER IN TWO PHYSICAL STATES
In conjunction with Tina Freeman: Lamentations, Curator Russell Lord will moderate a discussion about the impact of climate change with the artist and two environmental experts who have contributed to the exhibition catalog.
Lamentations features pairings of photographs from the Louisiana wetlands and glacial landscapes in the Arctic and Antarctica by Tina Freeman. She will be joined by David Muth, director of the Gulf Restoration Program of the National Wildlife Federation, and Brent Goehring, assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Tulane University.
ABOUT TINA FREEMAN
Tina Freeman is a photographer of architecture, portraits, and interiors. Her photographs have appeared in national and international magazines including House & Garden, Connoisseur, Southern Accents, Art & Antiques and The New York Times Magazine. Her fine art photographs have been exhibited in one-person and group shows at Octavia Gallery, New Orleans Academy of Art Gallery, Newcomb College Art Gallery, all in New Orleans, the National Arts Club in New York, the Los Angeles Art Association Gallery, the Photographers Gallery in London, the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans and the New Orleans Museum of Art. She was also curator of Photography at the New Orleans Museum of Art from 1977 to 1983. Since 1982 Freeman has been the president of The Decatur Studio, Inc., in New Orleans, LA, where she resides.
ABOUT BRENT GOEHRING
Brent Goehring is an assistant professor at Tulane University in New Orleans. His research interests include cosmogenic nulcides and surface exposure dating, glacial geology and geomorphology, paleoclimatology, and neotectonics. Goehring is a lead Principal Investigator on the GHC project. By sampling bedrock beneath the ice sheet, he and his team will identify if and when the Thwaites Glacier retreated in the past, how it recovered, and how it is currently responding to environmental conditions.
ABOUT DAVID MUTH
David Muth is a New Orleans native who has spent a lifetime in the Mississippi River delta and on the Louisiana coast, studying its geology, ecology, plants, wildlife, history and culture. He took his degree in history at University of New Orleans and became professionally interested in the connection between culture and environment in the context of the delta. He worked for 30 years with the National Park Service at Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve in south Louisiana, eventually managing its natural and cultural resource programs. At the beginning of 2011, he joined the Louisiana Coastal Campaign as the Louisiana State Director of the National Wildlife Federation.
Friday Nights at NOMA is supported in part by grant funds from the Azby Fund; Ruby K. Worner Charitable Trust; New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation; and the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council.

The Helis Foundation Artist Talk: Adriana Corral with Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba
2019-09-18 18:00 - 19:00 | Louisiana
Adriana Corral, among the eleven artists represented in Bodies of Knowledge, will join Héctor Domínguez-Ruvalcaba, associate professor at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Texas Austin, in conversation about Corral’s work. Admission is free courtesy of The Helis Foundation’s Art for All free day.
Adriana Corral’s work draws attention to the widespread disappearances and murders of women and girls in Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico. Through her site-specific installation at NOMA, Memento, Corral transfers the women’s names onto the museum’s wall. Honoring the women killed in these acts of violence, Corral reduces to ashes the transferred name documents, creating an ash burial plot sifted onto the museum floor. Given the instability and fragility of her material, the names become illegible, yet the process of inscribing them honors the lost histories of these unknown victims. Memento memorializes the victims of human rights violations while also speaking to the politics of silence, disappearance, and absence that mark contemporary geopolitics.

Gallery Talk: An Ideal Unity: The Bauhaus & Beyond with Curatorial Associate Anne Roberts
2019-09-18 15:30 - 16:30 | Louisiana
Gallery 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 Associate Anne C.B Roberts for a discussion about the exhibition An Ideal Unity: The Bauhaus & Beyond.
Image: Gertrud Arndt (German, 1903–2000), Self Portrait, 1931, Gelatin silver print, 7 3/4 x 5 11/16 in. (image); 12 15/16 x 9 13/16 in. (mount), Museum purchase, General Acquisitions Fund, 81.154

Activation of Brève braises with artist Manon Bellet and Justin Peake
2019-09-18 15:00 - 16:00 | Louisiana
In the installation Brève braises, artist Manon Bellet affixes the charred remains of burned paper on the walls of the gallery in the exhibition Bodies of Knowledge. From these tattered remains, she creates a script or musical score that runs across an entire length of a long white wall. Created in collaboration with musicians that Bellet invites to compose an accompanying musical score, these burned fragments of paper have a graphic dynamism and rhythm that resembles that of improvisational music or impromptu speech. Over the course of her installation, she allows these papers gradually drop to the floor, encouraged by movement of air generated by the improvisational energy of bodies and instruments as the move through and activate the installation.
Musician Justin Peake will participate in this activation.
Justin Peake is an New Orleans-based drummer, composer, technologist, visual artist and researcher. His music features acoustic and electronic elements including his own interactive software instruments. He produces music for dance as well as audio-visual installations. He is a graduate of NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, where he focused on building new software for variably structured improvisation in performance. He has released music on the Moodgadget, Ghostly International, Ears & Eyes, and Articulated Works labels.

Gallery Talk: Tina Freeman: Lamentations with Curator Russell Lord
2019-09-18 12:00 - 13:00 | Louisiana
Gallery 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 Russell Lord, Freeman Family Curator of Photography, for a discussion about the exhibition Tina Freeman: Lamentations, a seven-year photo-documentation of Louisiana’s wetlands and the glacial landscapes of the Arctic and Antarctic by Tina Freeman.
Image: 20180402_Svalbard_103 Sea ice breaking up in late winter | 20170404_Wetland_Aerials_002 Louisiana wetlands southeast of New Orleans on the east side of the river, south of the Caernarvon diversion

Artist's Choice Film Series: Whatever Lola Wants
2019-09-14 14:00 - 16:00 | Louisiana
Bodies of Knowledge brings together ten international contemporary artists to reflect on the role that language plays in archiving and asserting our cultural identities. In conjunction with this exhibition, NOMA will be screening movies selected by these artists that reflect their inspirations, interests, and ideals.
Artist’s Choice Film Series

Saturday, June 29, 2 pm | Adriana Corral selects The Constant Gardener (2005 | Rated R | 2 hours, 8 minutes)
Saturday, August 17, 2 pm | Manon Bellet selects La Jetée (1962 | Not rated | 28 minutes)
Saturday, August 24, 3 pm | Garrett Bradley selects Sidewalk Stories (1989 | Rated R | 1 hour, 37 minutes)
Saturday, September 14, 2 pm | Mahmoud Chouki selects Whatever Lola Wants (2007 | Not rated | 1 hour, 55 minutes)
Saturday, October 5, 5 pm | Edward Spots selects Fame (1980 | Rated R | 2 hours, 14 minutes)

ABOUT WHATEVER LOLA WANTS
Whatever Lola Wants is a 2007 French-Canadian romantic drama directed by Nabil Avouch. The film stars Laura Ramnsey as Lola, an American postal worker who travels to Egypt to seek out a legendary belly dancer. Lola dreams of becoming a belly dancer. After a friend encourages her to perform at a local Moroccan restaurant, Lola captures the attentions of the handsome Zack. Lola follows after him, but is crushed to find that Zack is to marry someone of his family’s choosing. Lola decides to turn all of her energy into making her dreams a reality and tracks down Ismahan, a reclusive dancing star that retired due to a scandal involving a mysterious lover. Although reluctant, Ismahan is persuaded into giving Lola lessons and a friendship blossoms as a result.

Friday Nights at NOMA: Safar musical performance with Mahmoud Chouki, Georgie Petrov, and Sam Dickie
2019-09-13 17:00 - 21:00 | Louisiana
Friday Nights at NOMA features an exciting lineup of programs in 2019: 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 drop-in activity table
5:30 – 8:30 pm: Safar musical performance with Mahmoud Chouki, Georgie Petrov, and Sam Dickie
6 pm: Gallery Talk with Curator Katie Pfohl on Bodies of Knowledge (Ella West Freeman Gallery)
7 pm: Gallery Talk with Curator Mel Buchanan on The Quilts of Gee’s Bend (Decorative Arts Gallery)
7:30 pm: Screening of short film While I Yet Live featuring Gee’s Bend quilters (Stern Auditorium)

ABOUT SAFAR WITH MAHMOUD CHOUKI, GEORGIE PETROV, AND SAM DICKIE
Throughout the run of Bodies of Knowledge, Mahmoud Chouki will create a new musical composition and series of site-specific performances for the exhibition, collectively titled Safar, that explore how music can speak across cultural divides to envision new forms of dialogue between East and West. Chouki will be joined by guitarists Georgie Petrov and Sam Dickie.
Mahmoud Chouki is a master guitarist and multi-instrumentalist and composer living and working in New Orleans. His art draws together music from many different international contexts to consider how music can speak across cultural divides. His own compositions incorporate musical influences from across the globe, ranging from European classical, Andalusian from Southern Spain, Levantine music from the Middle East, Maghrebian music from North Africa, Latin American music, and jazz from the Southern United States. Integrating sounds and rhythms from many different cultures, Chouki combines classical guitar with instruments such as the loutar, a traditional instrument of the Middle Atlas region of Morocco; the sintir, a Sub-Saharan instrument from the Sahel region (Mali); the oud, an oriental lute; the Algerian mandole, a steel-string fretted instrument resembling an elongated mandolin; the Bağlama saz, a Turkish long necked bowl-lute; the banjo, and a variety of percussion instruments. As artistic director of Rencontre Orient-Occident at Chateau Mercier in Sierre, Switzerland, Chouki has brought together a wide range of international musicians to envision new forms of dialogue between East and West, with music often the only common language between performers.
Mahmoud Chouki will conclude the Safar series with an ensemble concert during Friday Nights at NOMA on October 13 from 5:30 – 8:30 pm.
ABOUT BODIES OF KNOWLEDGE
Bodies of Knowledge brings together eleven international contemporary artists to reflect on the role that language plays in archiving and asserting our cultural identities. Working with materials that range from books and silent film to ink, ashes, and musical scores, these artists counter more staid and static ways of representing our collective pasts.
ABOUT THE QUILTS OF GEE’S BEND
Born of resourcefulness and enlivened by improvisation, quilts made by African American women of Gee’s Bend, Alabama, are recognized as masterful works of textile art. Five quilts are on view in the Decorative Arts Gallery.
ABOUT WHILE I YET LIVE
This short 14-minute documentary explores the captivating work of five acclaimed African American quilters from Gee’s Bend, Alabama, a rural community that played a pivotal role during the Civil Rights Movement.

Friday Nights at NOMA is supported in part by grant funds from the Azby Fund; Ruby K. Worner Charitable Trust; New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation; and the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council.

Book Club Meet the Author Program
2019-09-13 12:00 - 13:00 | Louisiana
Join 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 2019 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 NOMA’s Education Department at 504.658.4128 or education@noma.org for information about joining the NOMA Book Club.
September 2019 Selection
de Kooning: An American Master by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan
Alfred A. Knopf, 2006, ISBN: 978-0375711169
Willem de Kooning is one of the most important artists of the twentieth century, a true “painter’s painter” whose protean work continues to inspire many artists. In the thirties and forties, along with Arshile Gorky and Jackson Pollock, he became a key figure in the revolutionary American movement of abstract expressionism. Of all the painters in that group, he worked the longest and was the most prolific, creating powerful, startling images well into the 1980s.
Friday, September 13, 12 – 1 p.m. | Meet the Author: New Orleans writer C. F. Hampton will read from his short story, Paris: City of Culture, December 1982, and answer questions from the group.
Tuesday, September 24, 12 – 1 p.m. | Book Discussion Group

Safar musical performance with Mahmoud Chouki and Jesse Autumn
2019-09-11 15:00 - 16:00 | Louisiana
Throughout the run of Bodies of Knowledge, Mahmoud Chouki will create a new musical composition and series of site-specific performances for the exhibition, collectively titled Safar, that explore how music can speak across cultural divides to envision new forms of dialogue between East and West. Chouki will be joined by New Orleans-based surrealist chamber folk singer/songwriter and harpist Jesse Autumn.
Admission is free for all Louisiana residents on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation.
ABOUT MAHMOUD CHOUKI
Mahmoud Chouki is a master guitarist, multi-instrumentalist and composer living and working in New Orleans. His art draws together music from many different international contexts to consider how music can speak across cultural divides. His own compositions incorporate musical influences from across the globe, ranging from European classical, Andalusian from Southern Spain, Levantine music from the Middle East, Maghrebian music from North Africa, Latin American music, and jazz from the Southern United States. Integrating sounds and rhythms from many different cultures, Chouki combines classical guitar with instruments such as the loutar, a traditional instrument of the Middle Atlas region of Morocco; the sintir, a Sub-Saharan instrument from the Sahel region (Mali); the oud, an oriental lute; the Algerian mandole, a steel-string fretted instrument resembling an elongated mandolin; the Bağlama saz, a Turkish long necked bowl-lute; the banjo, and a variety of percussion instruments. As artistic director of Rencontre Orient-Occident at Chateau Mercier in Sierre, Switzerland, Chouki has brought together a wide range of international musicians to envision new forms of dialogue between East and West, with music often the only common language between performers.
Future performances on Wednesdays at 3 pm by Chouki and guest musicians include:

October 9: Dan Oestreicher

Friday Nights at NOMA performances (5:30 – 8:30 pm):

September 13: Georgi Petrov and Sam Dickie
October 13: Final Ensemble Concert

Activation of Wafaa Bilal's 168:01 with guest speaker Kristina Kay Robinson
2019-09-11 13:00 - 15:00 | Louisiana
NOMA curators will be present to discuss artist Wafaa Bilal’s interactive installation 168:01 in the exhibition Bodies of Knowledge. The work is comprised of a large bookshelf filled with blank, white books which symbolizes the burning and looting of libraries in Baghdad during the 2003 American invasion of Iraq. Museum visitors are invited to transform the shelves from austere white to color by donating a book that will be shipped to the College of Fine Arts at the University of Baghdad at the close of the exhibition. In exchange for a new book (for sale in the Museum Shop) visitors may take home one of the white volumes, which are meant to serve as a reminder that across the globe many people are denied equal access to knowledge.
Writer, curator, and visual artist Kristina Kay Robinson will discuss the connectivity between Iraq and New Orleans and also read from an original piece of nonfiction about Iraq and events of 9-11.
Wednesday admission is free to all Louisiana residents courtesy of The Helis Foundation.
ABOUT KRISTINA KAY ROBINSON
Kristina Kay Robinson is a writer, curator, and visual artist born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. Robinson is the is the co-editor of Mixed Company, a collection of short fiction and visual narratives by women of color. Her writing in various genres has appeared in Guernica,The Baffler, The Nation, and Elle among other outlets. She is a 2019 recipient of the Rabkin Prize for Visual Arts Journalism and the current editor of Room 220, an online multidisciplinary arts journal and program of Antenna Gallery in New Orleans.

The NOLA Project presents Measure for Measure
2019-09-10 19:30 - 21:30 | Louisiana
The NOLA Project presents its ninth collaborative play at the New Orleans Museum of Art with a new take on William Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure.
Standard admission $33 | NOMA members: $25 | Youth (under 21): $15
PURCHASE TICKETS FOR ALL DATES
ABOUT MEASURE FOR MEASURE BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
When depravity and debauchery threaten to corrode the whole of Vienna, a strong, willful, religious purist is handed the reigns of power in order to set things straight again. But is all as it seems? And will new power lead to moral purity, or to ultimate corruption? Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure is a brilliant play almost absurdly well-fashioned for our modern American age of divisive politics and legal retribution.
And even more exciting, The NOLA Project is proud to partner with PlayOn Shakespeare to present this production with a world-premiere new modern-verse translation by playwright AdidiBrennan Kapil with support from the Hitz Foundation.
As a part of PlayOn Shakespeare, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival commissioned 36 playwrights—more than half are women and more than half are playwrights of color, each paired with a dramaturg—to translate Shakespeare’s works into contemporary modern English to celebrate the enduring impact of the Bard’s plays. These commissions challenge the playwrights to bring the same level of dramatic pressure and rigor of language to their work as is present in the originals, deepening our understanding and engagement with Shakespeare. The NOLA Project is excited to present this classic story and fresh modern translation, directed by Mark Routhier, in NOMA’s opulent Great Hall.

Studio KIDS! Quilt Design workshop
2019-09-07 10:00 - 12:00 | Louisiana
Get Creative with Studio KIDS!
This fall, Studio KIDS presents “Text and Textures” art classes for kids on select Saturday mornings from 10 am to noon. Perfect for students ages 5-10 who want to get creative and learn art-making techniques. Studio KIDS explore art in NOMA’s galleries or the Besthoff Sculpture Garden as inspiration for an art project they complete in each session.
Each class features different media and techniques. Register for one class or the entire series. Please register in advance to ensure your spot.
Call 504-658-4128 or email education@noma.org for more information.
Cost per class: $25 members | $30 nonmembers
September 7 | Quilt Design: Explore The Quilts of Gee’s Bend exhibition and discover pattern while designing a “quilted” square in mixed media.
ENROLL NOW

Friday Nights at NOMA: Opera Nouvelle presents a preview of Carmen
2019-09-06 17:00 - 21:00 | Louisiana
Friday Nights at NOMA features an exciting lineup of programs in 2019: 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 drop-in activity table
6:30 – 8:30 pm: Opera Nouvelle presents selections from Carmen

ABOUT OPERA NOUVELLE AND CARMEN
In advance of a full-scale production of Carmen in October by the New Orleans Opera Association, singers from the company will visit NOMA to present selections from this famous opera by Georges Bizet. Carmen was first performed by the Opéra-Comique in Paris on March 3, 1875, where its breaking of conventions shocked and scandalized audiences. The opera is written in the genre of opéra comique with musical numbers separated by dialogue. It is set in southern Spain and tells the story of the downfall of Don José, a naïve soldier who is seduced by the wiles of the fiery gypsy Carmen.
Friday Nights at NOMA is supported in part by grant funds from the Azby Fund; Ruby K. Worner Charitable Trust; New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation; and the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council.

Gallery Talk: Ancestors in Stone with Curator Ndubuisi Ezeluomba
2019-09-04 12:00 - 13:00 | Louisiana
Gallery 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 Ndubuisi Ezeluomba for a discussion about the exhibition Ancestors in Stone.
Image: Akwanshi, c. 16th century, Stone, Ejagham artist, Nigeria, Museum purchase, Francoise Billion Richardson and Robert P. Gordy Funds, 2019.11

Labor Day – Special Holiday Hours
2019-09-02 12:00 - 17:00 | Louisiana
NOMA and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden will be open on Labor Day for special holiday hours from noon to 5 pm.

Gallery Talk about Wafaa Bilal's 168:01
2019-08-28 13:00 - 15:00 | Louisiana
NOMA curators will be present to discuss artist Wafaa Bilal’s interactive installation 168:01 in the exhibition Bodies of Knowledge. The work is comprised of a large bookshelf filled with blank, white books which symbolizes the burning and looting of libraries in Baghdad during the 2003 American invasion of Iraq. Museum visitors are invited to transform the shelves from austere white to color by donating a book that will be shipped to the College of Fine Arts at the University of Baghdad at the closing of the exhibition. In exchange for a new book (for sale in the Museum Shop) visitors may take home one of the white volumes, which are meant to serve as a reminder that across the globe many people are denied equal access to knowledge.
Wednesday admission is free to all Louisiana residents courtesy of The Helis Foundation.
