New Orleans Museum of Art

Mindfulness Workshop
2019-09-21 11:30 - 13:00 (America/Chicago)
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.
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Museum Day
2019-09-21 10:00 - 17:00
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
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.
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Friday Nights at NOMA | Public Panel: Water in Two Physical States
2019-09-20 17:00 - 21:00
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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Friday Nights at NOMA: Opera Nouvelle presents a preview of Carmen
2019-09-06 17:00 - 21:00
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.

Besthoff Sculpture Garden Tour
2019-09-06 12:00 - 13:00
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 Talk: Ancestors in Stone with Curator Ndubuisi Ezeluomba
2019-09-04 12:00 - 13:00
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
NOMA and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden will be open on Labor Day for special holiday hours from noon to 5 pm.

Museum Highlights Tour
2019-09-01 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.

Gallery Talk about Wafaa Bilal's 168:01
2019-08-28 13:00 - 15:00, 2019-08-14 13:00 - 15:00
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.

Artist's Choice Film Series: Sidewalk Stories
2019-08-24 15:00 - 17:00
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 SIDEWALK STORIES
In this almost entirely silent film, a homeless artist (Charles Lane) is forced to play surrogate parent when the father of a young girl (Nicole Alysia) is murdered. Taking the child into the depths of the slums that he calls home, the artist keeps the little girl healthy and happy while doing his best to search for her living relatives. As the artist and the child venture through the streets together, they meet a strange assortment of characters while slowly developing an intimate friendship. Ultimately the artist winds up in a horse-drawn chase of the murderers. The film was inspired by Charlie Chaplin’s The Little Tramp, filmed in 1915. Watch the trailer.

Family Festival – "Play it Cool"
2019-08-24 10:00 - 15:00
Take a break from the summer heat and bring the whole family to NOMA for a special festival with indoor activities for all ages. Admission will be free from 10 am to 3 pm for all visitors and the day will be filled with family-oriented activities, including special tours, hands-on workshops, story time sessions, and music, along with a snoballs stand.
EVENTS
10 am – 3 pm |

Gallery Games Station in (2nd-floor Elevator Lobby)
Art Making Activity: Fans! (1st-floor Elevator Lobby near the Museum Shop)
Art About You, photo-booth activity (1st-floor Elevator Lobby)
Wheel of Time, an intergenerational art-making activity (Great Hall)
Breathing Wands: Mindful-making activity with Project Peaceful Warriors (2nd-floor Elevator Lobby)
Snoballs by Ice Cream 504 (NOMA entry drive circle)

10:30 am | Yoga with Project Peaceful Warriors, first session (Great Hall)
11 am | Family Tour (Meet in 2nd-floor Elevator Lobby)
11:30 am | Yoga with Project Peaceful Warriors, second session (Great Hall)
11:30 am | Story Time, first session (Contemporary Gallery)
12 pm | Public Tour (Sculpture Garden)
12 – 2 pm | Music by Carl LeBlanc (Great Hall)
1 pm | Public Tour (Meet in Great Hall)
1:30 pm | Story Time, second session (Contemporary Art Gallery)
2 pm | Family Tour (Meet in 2nd-floor Elevator Lobby)
3 pm | Festival and free admission end
* Times are tentative and may change. The schedule will be updated closer to the event date.

Friday Nights at NOMA: Safar musical performance with Mahmoud Chouki, Cyrille Aimee, and Ricardo Pascal | Artful Palate cooking demonstration
2019-08-23 17:00 - 21:00
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: Artful Palate cooking demonstration with Chef Jonah Nissenbaum
5:30-8:30 pm: Safar musical performance with Mahmoud Chouki, Cyrille Aimee, and Ricardo Pascal
6 pm: Gallery Talk with Curator Ndubuisi Ezeluomba on Ancestors in Stone
6:30 pm: Gallery Talk with Curatorial Associate Anne Roberts on An Ideal Unity: The Bauhaus & Beyond

ABOUT ARTFUL PALATE AND CHEF CHRIS NISSENBAUM
Café NOMA presents their eighth annual summertime Artful Palate series of cooking demonstrations at 6 pm with Jonah Nissenbaum, executive sous chef at the Red Fish Grill. He will prepare shrimp and corn bisque as part of a series inspired by culinary mentors, in tribute to the exhibition Bodies of Knowledge.
ABOUT SAFAR WITH MAHMOUD CHOUKI, CYRILLE AIMEE, AND RICARDO PASCAL
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 French vocalist Cyrille Aimee and jazz saxophonist Ricardo Pascal.
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:

September 11: Jesse Autumn
October 9: Martin Masakowski

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

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

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 Discussion Group
2019-08-22 12:00 - 13:00
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.
August 2019 Selection
The Brilliant History of Color in Art by Victoria Finlay
J. Paul Getty Museum, 2014, ISBN: 978-1606064290
The Brilliant History of Color in Art by Victoria Finlay covers the development of art and color through the ages. Packed with fascinating detail and beautiful illustrations, this book combines colorful imagery with smartly-written text. Most of the publication’s 166 color illustrations represent works from the J. Paul Getty Museum collections. They exemplify the power of pictures to convey meaning, and Finlay’s informative text blends seamlessly with these high-quality reproductions. The matte-finished pages show them to good advantage. —Foreword Review
Thursday, August 8, 12 – 1 p.m. | Curatorial Program
Thursday, August 22, 12 – 1 p.m. | Book Discussion Group

Gallery Talk: An Ideal Unity: The Bauhaus and Beyond with Curatorial Associate Anne Roberts
2019-08-21 12:00 - 13:00
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 Roberts for a discussion about the exhibition An Ideal Unity: The Bauhaus and 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

Artist's Choice Film Series: La Jetée
2019-08-17 14:00 - 15:00
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 LA JETÉE
La Jetée is a 1962 French Left Bank, black-and-white science-fiction featurette by Chris Marker. Constructed almost entirely from still photos, it tells the story of a post-nuclear war experiment in time travel.
A man (Davos Hanich) is a prisoner in the aftermath of World War III in post-apocalyptic Paris, where survivors live underground in the Palais de Chaillot galleries. Scientists research time travel hoping to send test subjects to different time periods “to call past and future to the rescue of the present”. They have difficulty finding subjects who can mentally withstand the shock of time travel. The scientists eventually settle upon the prisoner; his key to the past is a vague but obsessive memory from his pre-war childhood of a woman he had seen on the observation platform (“the jetty”) at Orly Airport shortly before witnessing a startling incident there. He did not understand exactly what happened, but knew he had seen a man die.
After several attempts, he reaches the pre-war period. He meets the woman from his memory, and they develop a romantic relationship. After his successful passages to the past, the experimenters attempt to send him into the far future. In a brief meeting with the technologically advanced people of the future, he is given a power unit sufficient to regenerate his own destroyed society, but the movie takes an unexpected turn that prevents this rebuilding of the future.

Friday Nights at NOMA: Screening of Shirin Neshat's Women Without Men | Music by Lucho | Artful Palate cooking demonstration
2019-08-16 17:00 - 21:00
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: Music by Lucho
6 pm: Artful Palate cooking demonstration with Chef Chris Vazquez
6:30 pm: Screening of Women Without Men

ABOUT ARTFUL PALATE AND CHEF CHRIS VAZQUEZ
Café NOMA presents their eighth annual summertime Artful Palate series of cooking demonstrations at 6 pm with Chris Vazquez of Ralph Brennan Catering and Events. He will prepare beef goulash. Chefs from other restaurants in the Ralph Brennan Group will continue the cooking classes on Friday nights through August 23 with dishes inspired by their culinary mentors, in tribute to the exhibition Bodies of Knowledge.
ABOUT WOMEN WITHOUT MEN
In conjunction with the exhibition Bodies of Knowledge, NOMA will screen movies by Iranian filmmaker Shirin Neshat as part of Friday Nights at NOMA programming. Women Without Men profiles the lives of four women living in Tehran in 1953, during the American-backed coup that returned the Shah of Iran to power. The film was called “visually transfixing” by a New York Times reviewer. Two of the film’s recurrent images are of a long dirt road extending to the horizon on which the characters walk, and a river that suggests, “a deep current of feminine resilience below an impassive exterior.” Women Without Men is set in the streets of Iranian capital, which are teeming with protesters objecting to the overthrow of the prime minister, but four disparate women have more immediate concerns. Farrokhlagha’s (Arita Shahrzad) husband thinks he’s entitled to be married to multiple women. Munis (Shabnam Toloui) is a virtual slave to her brother. Faezeh (Pegah Ferydoni) has physical and emotional troubles. And Zarin (Orsolya Tóth) is an unwilling prostitute. Boldly, the women pursue solutions to the problems foisted upon them. (2009 | Not rated | 1 hour, 39 minutes | Watch the trailer)
ABOUT LUCHO
Louisiana-born songwriter/producer/multi-instrumentalist Lucho is trying to redefine the role of a producer. Hailing from New Orleans, Lucho began writing songs at an early age. Spending a majority of his teen years playing, experimenting, and refining his songwriting/production in various bands, he focused his energy into creating unique sounds for other artists. In the summer of 2010 together with his siblings and guitarist Adrian Frye, he independently released The Bit Parts EP with the indie-pop outfit Youth Sounds. The band achieved some success off the strength of its lead single “What is it like?” following it up with the Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow EP. In 2012 he connected with DRC rapper Alec Lomami, producing three out of four songs on his debut Mélancolie Joyeuse EP. This established a unique artistic relationship with Lomami, it also lead to Lucho becoming the creative director of Lomami’s and rapper Well$ independent label Immaculate Taste. His latest project, a mix of Andean folkloric and electronic dance music, has challenged him to dig into his South American roots and explore lush sonic territories, allowing him the freedom to redefine his cultural and artistic self-expression.
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.

Safar musical performance with Mahmoud Chouki and Helen Gillet
2019-08-14 15:00 - 16:00
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 Belgian cellist, composer, and singer Helen Gillet.
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:

September 11: Jesse Autumn
October 9: Martin Masakowski

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

July 26: Oscar Rossignoli
August 23: Cyrille Aimee and Ricardo Pascal
September 13: Georgi Petrov and Sam Dickie
October 13: Final Ensemble Concert
