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.

Gallery talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. 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.

Gallery talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Join Curatorial Associate Anne C.B Roberts for a discussion about the exhibition An Ideal Unity: The Bauhaus & Beyond.

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. Corral’s work draws attention to the widespread disappearances and murders of women and girls in Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico.