NOMA Magazine Winter 2018

CREATING COMMUNITY

New Orleans Museum of Art

January — April 2018

DIRECTOR’S LETTE R

Susan M. Taylor

FRONT COVER

Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen, Shoes, Spring/ Summer 2011. Courtesy RKL consulting, Photo: Carmody Creative Photography

LEFT Carlos Rolón, Gild the Lily (Decadence Upon Decadence I), 2016, Oil, acrylic, satin varnish and artificial gold leaf on canvas, 96 x 72 in., Private Collection, Image courtesy of the Artist and Library Street Collective, Detroit, Photo: Nathan Keay

Happy New Year and welcome to this new edition of NOMA Magazine! Though it’s not customary for an art institution to make resolutions, I can say without hesitation that the New Orleans Museum of Art is resolved to continue its mission of creating community by presenting the broadest possible range of art to the widest possible audience. The year ahead will be among the most auspicious in NOMA’s history, with exhibitions timed to celebrate the tricentennial of New Orleans’ founding. Expansion of our beloved Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden and a renovation of the museum’s Stern Auditorium are in the works, and other changes are afoot as well — including this publication, which will now be delivered in print three times a year with exclusive, additional online content to be found in our new digital magazine at noma.org/magazine.

Throughout its history, New Orleans has long been noted for its discernible sense of style.

This is a city where dressing up and costuming remains an integral part of its identity. History tells us that when the Union blockade of New Orleans was lifted in 1862, among the first ships carrying provisions to the deprived city was one stocked with champagne and ball gowns! In that continuing spirit of revelry and flamboyant apparel, this February, in the week following Mardi Gras, NOMA will throw open the doors to our first-ever exhibition devoted to fashion. A Queen Within: Adorned Archetypes will include creations by such famous names as Steve McQueen, Iris van Herpen, Jean Paul Gaultier, Gucci, Prada, and Chanel, but the showcase of gowns, shoes, headpieces, and jewelry will transcend the runways found in high-end fashion houses. The exhibition will examine the competing, complimentary, and often contradictory roles within the ideals of contemporary womanhood. A Queen Within explores the complicated symbolism used by avant-garde designers and definitively demonstrates that fashion is art.

As Carnival season gets underway, view float and costume designs from a bygone era in Bror Anders Wikstrom: Bringing Fantasy to Carnival. Wikstrom arrived in New Orleans from Sweden in 1883 and is best remembered for his fantastical creations of old-line krewe parades that drew inspiration from literary and mythological themes.

In many ways, New Orleans shares more in common with the Creole-Latin world found south of its Gulf coastal boundaries than the traditional Deep South cultures that exist north of Lake Pontchartrain. NOMA has commissioned Puerto Rican artist Carlos Rolón to create installations unique to our galleries and the Great Hall that will reflect upon the city’s kindred ties to the Caribbean. Visit us this spring to behold Carlos Rolón: Outside/In, which will focus on such commonalities as wrought ironwork in the built environment, lush tropical landscapes, and communal outdoor spaces.

As 2018 progresses, NOMA will host exhibitions that present the work of renowned photographer Lee Friedlander and his documentation of Louisiana’s music community, a series of contemporary installations that look at many of the lesser-known stories in the city’s 300-year narrative, and a much-anticipated reunion of paintings from the royal collection of Philippe II, the Duke of Orléans, which were dispersed around the world in the centuries following the French Revolution. Read more about these exciting developments within the pages of this magazine. Our exhibitions are dependent upon generous donors, and opportunities to play a role in presenting these cultural offerings to our community await interested individuals and foundations. I welcome your participation.

Join us in toasting what promises to be a year full of surprises at NOMA.

Susan M. Taylor The Montine McDaniel Freeman Director

CREATING COMMUNITY Selected

highlights from January – April 2018.

R EAD NOMA Book Club

Isabella Blow: A Life in Fashion

BY LAUREN GOLDSTEIN CROWE In conjunction with the exhibition A Queen Within: Adorned Archetypes, NOMA’s Book Club will read the biography of British magazine editor Isabella Blow, the muse credited with discovering designers Philip Treacy and Alexander McQueen. See the book club’s selected titles through April 2018 on page 17.

Curatorial Program with Mel Buchanan, RosaMary Curator of Decorative Arts & Design Thursday, February 22, 12 – 1 p.m.

Paolo Caliari (called il Veronese), Supper at Emmaus, mid 1570s. Rotterdam, Boijmans-van Beuningen

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Veronese in Murano: Two Venetian Renaissance Masterpieces Restored

Book Discussion Group Tuesday, February 27, 12 – 1 p.m. and Wednesday, February 28, 1:30 – 3 p.m.

JOURNEY

APRIL 19 – SEPTEMBER 3 This focused exhibition of two recently conserved and rarely seen paintings by the celebrated artist Paolo Veronese (1528–1588) brings Saint Jerome in the Wilderness and Saint Peter Visiting Saint Agatha in Prison from a remote church in Murano, an island in the lagoon of Venice, to NOMA. Shown for the first time in the fall of 2017 at the Frick Collection, NOMA is currently the only other U.S. venue for this unique exhibition.

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Noontime Talk | Veronese Altarpieces with Vanessa Schmid Wednesday, April 25, 2018, 12 – 1 p.m.

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Naples and the Amalfi Coast Tour Plan ahead. NOMA’s Circle Members are invited to join a seven-day tour (October 7 - 13) of Naples, Pompeii, Capri, the Amalfi Coast, and Rome, with special guided tours of archaeological sites and museums, private villas and palazzos, wineries, and a mozzarella cheese factory. For more information about this deluxe travel package, visit noma.org/2018-italy-tour.

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Hamiltunes NOLA: An American Singalong

Contemporary Ceramics Catalogs

Be in the room where it happens as NOMA presents Hamiltunes NOLA: An American Singalong. Attendees will lift voices in celebration of Broadway’s smash hit, Hamilton: An American Musical. Before the singalong, join curator Katie Pfohl for a spotlight tour of NOMA’s iconic Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington, and learn why this portrait may be the most reproduced image in all of American history! Hint: It’s all about the money.

Friday Nights at NOMA, January 19, 5 - 9 p.m.

SEARCH NOMA Egg Hunt & Family Festival Thousands of eggs are spread among the grounds of the Besthoff Sculpture Garden at this annual springtime draw for families. The fun-filled day includes a petting zoo, face painting, spacewalks, painting, crafts, storytelling, and more!

Saturday, March 24, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.

WATCH Collect-O-Mania Film Series What inspires a collector and when do personal collections become something more? Join us on select Fridays and Saturdays in January and February for a series of documentaries that tell the stories of passionate collectors who have helped shape the twenty-firstcentury art museum landscape. Watch the trailers at noma.org/magazine.

January 6: Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict January 12: Adele’s Wish January 27: Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock?

C OLLECTIONS

4 New Approach to Modern Art EXHIBITIONS

5 Bror Anders Wikstrom: Bringing Fantasy to Carnival 10 Carlos Rolón: Outside/In 13 2018 Exhibition Lineup FEATURE

Two beautifully illustrated catalogues allow visitors to bring NOMA’s two contemporary ceramics exhibitions home. Purchase copies of Personalities in Clay: American Studio Ceramics from the E. John Bullard Collection and New Forms, New Voices: Japanese Ceramics from the Gitter-Yelen Collection for $19.95 each at the Museum Shop, or buy online at noma.org/shop.

6 A Queen Within: Adorned Archetypes LEARN

16 Professional Pathways for HBCU Students Teen Squad NOMA Book Club Classes with Curators

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INSPIRED BY NOMA

Art in Bloom

18 Paris Banks

Art in Bloom, in partnership with IBERIABANK, showcases spectacular floral designs created by more than one hundred exhibitors that remain on display for five days in mid-March. This year’s thirtieth-anniversary theme is “Queen of Arts.” Proceeds benefit education projects and exhibitions at NOMA and community projects of The Garden Study Club of New Orleans. See page 29 for additional information.

March 14 – 18

SUPPORT

19 Behind the Scenes: The Making of an Exhibition 20 Parties with a Purpose: LOVE in the Garden and Odyssey Ball 2017 22 Sydney Besthoff Turns 90 24 NOMA Donors 25 Remembering Dr. Russell Albright CALENDAR

26 Exhibitions 28 Highlights 30 Events Visit noma.org/magazine for exclusive online content.

February 16: Herb and Dorothy February 17: Iris

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COLLECTIONS

A NEW APPROACH TO DISPLAYING MODERN ART

The Viavant Gallery

NOMA’s permanent collection galleries now tell a more robust, inclusive story about the history of twentieth-century art, thanks to a major reinstallation of the museum’s collection that has unfolded across four galleries over the course of the past year. This reconsideration of the museum’s collection looks beyond the conventional narratives of art history to significantly broaden NOMA’s chronological, geographic, and cultural reach. Prior to this reinstallation, art displayed in the permanent collection galleries ended around the year 1960, but the space now includes works by contemporary artists. These updated galleries reflect a more complex and nuanced approach to art history that better represents the diverse communities the museum serves.

The Marjorie and Walter Davis Gallery offers an expansive international perspective on the rise of abstract art, highlighting the

unexpected affinities between artists working as far afield as Paris, Maine, the Middle East, and New Orleans. Bringing together works by both American and European artists, this gallery tells a global story while never losing sight of local connections, highlighting New Orleans’ influence on artists like Odilon Redon and Ralston Crawford, and showcasing the unexpected visual corollaries between works such as Wassily Kandinsky’s Sketch for “Several Circles” (1926) and former Newcomb College professor Will Henry Stephens’ Abstraction (1940).

The P. Roussel Norman and William D. Norman Gallery brings fresh perspective to iconic NOMA works such as Pablo Picasso’s Woman in an Armchair (Jacqueline Rose Picasso) (1960), by presenting them alongside little-known experimental works by self-taught artists like Federico Castellon and Manierre Dawson. Demonstrating

the unexpected connections between artists coming from dramatically different contexts and backgrounds, the gallery introduces new voices into the presentation of major artistic movements like cubism and surrealism.

The Viavant Gallery injects a vibrant pop-culture sensibility into the installation with Frank Stella’s jazzinspired Scramble: Ascending Yellow Values, Descending Spectrum (1978) and Andy Warhol’s Mick Jagger (1975).

The gallery also brings the voices of female artists like Joan Mitchell, Louise Bourgeois, and Alma Thomas into conversation, demonstrating a more complex and nuanced view of the field of abstraction alongside remarkable paintings by artists such as Joan Miró, Sam Francis, and Richard Diebenkorn.

Robert Rauschenberg’s monumental Melic Meeting (Spread) (1979) is the centerpiece of NOMA’s Entergy Gallery, which now extends all the way into the twentyfirst century. This gallery brings together a group of artists who all work with collage and assemblage, combining found images and objects to reflect on the complexities and contradictions of our current cultural moment. Works by Thornton Dial, Joseph Cornell, and Louise Nevelson speak directly to pressing issues in today’s culture, as well as emerging issues in contemporary art. Offering fresh perspective on art history, this reinstallation offers an opportunity for NOMA audiences to better understand their place within art history as well as the role that modern and contemporary art might play in their lives.

Katie Pfohl, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art

NOMA ON THE ROAD Reflect: A NOMA | Newman Collaboration will be on view at Isidore Newman School in Uptown New Orleans February 1 – 23.

The Slidell Cultural Center (2055 Second St.) will be the site of Legendary Louisiana, on display from April 14 – May 20.

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EXHIBITIONS

BROR ANDERS WIKSTROM: BRINGING FANTASY TO CARNIVAL

Bror Anders Wikstrom made a name for himself in New Orleans by engaging with the heart of the Crescent City’s creative culture: Mardi Gras. Just in time for the New Orleans tricentennialyear Carnival season, NOMA presents Bror Anders Wikstrom: Bringing Fantasy to Carnival, an exhibition that showcases Wikstrom’s float and costume designs from the turn of the twentieth century. This exhibition depicts the grand pageantry of parades from a bygone era, from the regalia of old-line krewes to the whimsical fairies and creatures that bring joy, and maybe some naughtiness, to Mardi Gras celebrations.

Wikstrom elevated the extravaganza of Carnival through his fantastical designs for Mardi Gras krewes in their first decades. He was the chief designer of the floats and hundreds of costumes for the Krewe of Rex from 1885 to 1910, and for the Krewe of Proteus from 1900 to 1910. The exhibition shows the concept for designs as early sketches through the final presentation plates, and as illustrated for the public in large newspaper parade bulletins.

Vintage street photography shows how these creations were realized in three dimensions, rolling through the crowds on Mardi Gras day.

A Swedish émigré to the United States, Bror Anders Wikstrom (1854–1909) went to sea in his youth, studied art at the Royal Academy of Stockholm and in Paris, and eventually found his way to New Orleans by 1883.

By the time of the Cotton Centennial of 1884, the artist was active in the New Orleans artistic community, first working as an assistant to fellow Swede Charles Briton, a well-known Mardi Gras designer. Until his death in 1909, Wikstrom’s talent found him success as a marine and landscape painter, portraitist, cartoonist, and organizer of the art community.

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Bror Anders Wikstrom, Design for “D – Dragon” float in “The Alphabet” parade, Krewe of Proteus, 1904, Carnival Collection, Louisiana Research Collection, Tulane University.

Wikstrom was one of the founders of the New Orleans Artists Association in 1885, one of the civic groups that sparked the organization of the Delgado Museum of Art (today’s NOMA) in 1910. The artist was so beloved by his contemporaries that his name was carved into the stone on the architectural frieze at NOMA alongside names of great artists like Audubon, Whistler, and Copley.

Look for Wikstrom’s name above the courtyard outside the Museum Shop.

Bringing Fantasy to Carnival shows Wikstrom’s seemingly endless imagination for costumed characters within evocative scenes, such as the wild characters from Rex’s 1910 “The Freaks of Fable” parade. These float drawings are on view in the only known bound set of float designs for the Krewe of Rex, on loan from a private collection, and are shown alongside individual “Freaks of Fable” costume designs loaned from Tulane University’s Carnival Collection.

The exhibition is anchored by a wall hung dramatically with a full set of parade float designs from the 1904 Krewe of Proteus parade themed “The Alphabet.” This group of twenty charming plates shimmer with metallic paint and brilliant creativity—from the fierce battle atop the “D for Dragon” float to the glorious rainbow arching the “U for Unicorn” design. In these turn-of-the-century drawings, we see the roots of the fantasy enacted during Carnival season today, when the New Orleans community, whether with a formal krewe or not, turns to their supply of wigs and costumes to adopt a dramatic alter ego.

Mel Buchanan, RosaMary Curator of Decorative Arts & Design Bror Anders Wikstrom: Brining Fantasy to Carnival will remain on view in the Stafford Focus Gallery through April 1.

Visit noma.org/magazine to read about Wikstrom’s talents as a wood carver and his elaborately decorated mahogany cabinet on view near the Carnival exhibition.

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A Queen Within ADORNED ARCHETYPES

Full of glamour, theatricality, escapism, wit, and innovation, NOMA’s first presentation of fashion design is an exhibition unlike any ever seen in New Orleans. A Queen Within: Adorned Archetypes, on view February 21–May 28, brings together a wild array of more than one hundred gowns, headpieces, shoes, and jewelry by the most daring fashion designers of the past ten years. The exhibition includes such household names as Alexander McQueen, Prada, Chanel, and Comme des Garçons, intermixed with other boundarypushing haute couture, including Chromat’s body-positive architectural looks and Iris van Herpen’s dresses that engage new technology. These spectacular designs will be displayed in an even more spectacular gallery presentation, with the whole exhibition stretching ideas about fashion’s possibility as a thoughtful art form.

Showcasing rare pieces from one of the world’s largest private collections of Alexander McQueen, A Queen Within explores different archetypes of a queen—or metaphorically, of a woman— and how the mythic queen character manifests through storytelling in fashion. McQueen (British, 1969–2010) masterfully built narratives through his collections and runway shows. Inspired by his sensitivity to historical and literary research, this exhibition uses both fashion and its bold presentation to explore seven archetypal queens: The Mother Earth, Sage, Magician, Enchantress, Explorer, Heroine, and Thespian. These representations, based upon Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Jung’s work, are derived from recurring motifs found across myths and fairy tales of world literature. The story and complexity of each feminine archetype—her powers, her weaknesses, her aesthetics—are articulated in A Queen Within through pioneering fashion, photography, video, and exhibition design.

Centered around a rainbow crystal-printed ensemble from McQueen’s 2009 Natural Dis-tinction, Un-natural Selection collection, A Queen Within opens with a rainbow-hued cluster of dresses dedicated to the Thespian Queen. The Thespian has a gift for entertainment and imagination, but the twin masks of comedy and tragedy are the true source of theater’s power. McQueen’s fashion was the ultimate in theatrical glamour, but was very often deepened with a complex, dark undercurrent. Thespian’s show-stopping group of nine McQueen gowns includes a 2008 sequined cocktail dress emblazoned with the face of the designer’s muse, the late English stylist/magazine editor Isabella Blow, who died tragically in 2007. McQueen’s red tartan and black lace dress Omar Victor Diop, Aminata, 2013, Series The Studio of Vanities.

Courtesy MAGNIN-A Gallery, Paris.

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EXHIBITIONS

Alexander McQueen, Ensemble, Natural Dis-tinction, Un-natural Selection Collection, Spring/Summer 2009. Courtesy RKL consulting, Photo Mattias Lindback.

Alexander McQueen, Dress, Heaven and Hell Collection, Autumn/Winter 2010. Courtesy RKL consulting, Photo Mattias Lindback.

is from one of his most iconic shows: the 2006 Widows of Culloden collection. This emotional fashion show celebrated the designer’s Scottish ancestry through romance and exquisite craftsmanship, but was ultimately a melancholy look at Scotland’s long history of brutal subjugation by their English neighbors.

The Mother Earth Queen celebrates the powerful life-giving, protective force of women. This is fashion that is inspired by flora and fauna but also a deep ethical concern for our fragile ecosystem—a concept materialized through the use of sustainable garments. Shown amid a stunning floral labyrinth display, Mother Earth includes exquisite gowns delicately embroidered with botanical motifs, an ethereal cloud cloak by Maison Martin Margiela from 2009, a towering bird headpiece by Charlie le Mindu, as well as conceptual designs about the future health of our planet. A 2016 Vivienne Westwood coat from the Mirror the World collection campaigns for a united effort to save Venice, and the rest of our planet, from the effects of climate change.

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With mannequins on mirrored plinths facing off to metaphorically battle with light strip “swords,” the section dedicated to the Heroine Queen imagines a brave warrior with a strong sense of morality and a willing readiness to fight. The Heroine Queen section brings together a powerful group of designs united by their use of metal, stone, and uniform details, including new, radical takes on traditional armor like Chan Luu’s Swarovski crystal chainmail and Serena Gili’s protective fiberglass skirt. A highlight of Heroine Queen is Dutch designer Iris van Herpen’s Snake Dress, a 2011 gown that wraps the body in serpentine forms made of black acrylic sheets. According to van Herpen, who occasionally clears her mind with the sport of freefall parachute jumping, Snake Dress references the strong “fight or flight” feelings just before making a leap from an airplane. Van Herpen explains that before a freefall, “all my energy is in my head and I feel as though my mind is snaking through thousands of bends.”

The woman of Explorer Queen is a strong individual—a seeker, adventurer, and rebel. The Explorer Queen’s clothing challenges the authority of our status quo, featuring thoughtful designs that question the norm of a “fashionable” body type as a young, tall, thin model. The A Queen Within exhibition curator Sofia Hedman-Martynova of MUSEEA is passionate about these widened views of beauty: “Minna Palmqvist’s mannequin busts capture the beauty of nonconforming bodies, showing how fashion’s

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Pam Hogg, Black Dress #4, Spring/Summer 2013.

Courtesy of Pam Hogg.

pioneers are moving away from the standard size zero dress form. Gypsy Sport’s gender-fluid work is the voice for a new generation that calls for a more global, inclusive world.” Through video, A Queen Within shows Gypsy Sport taking to the Paris streets to cast models for the label’s Spring/Summer 2018 runway show. This unorthodox casting process demonstrates the New York designer’s commitment to diversity, calling for “no racism, no sexism, no ableism, no ageism, no homophobia, and no xenophobia.”

The Sage Queen is educated and wise, using her analytical knowledge to think deeply about the world. A Queen Within interprets this theme with a showcase of technologically advanced garments and associated films, touching upon designers who engage with new materials and concepts about the changing function of clothing in the future. The Magician Queen is a visionary artist, one who would emphasize fashion’s potential for creativity and visual experimentation with less regard for practical use. This theme features designs by Anrealage, Hideki Seo, Raul de Nieves, and Antoine Peters that boldly make use of the space around the body in a way that makes the body itself almost superfluous. This is fashion as artistic sculpture.

Presented within a glowing translucent white cube, the fashion of the Enchantress Queen celebrates the femme fatale. The Enchantress has sexual appeal, passion, and a mesmerizing wit. Her ethereal designs obscure and reveal, and feature seductive attributes like loose hair, shiny lacquer, white teeth, and luscious lips. Within a bed of pampas grass, the Enchantress Queen is anchored by stunning fashions featuring

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Serena Gili, Cashmere beaded top with golden Fiberglas skirt, Discipline Collection, 2012.

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feathers, with an appealing gold fringed gown

by Gucci, and from McQueen a fuchsia evening gown, a white floating cloud of a dress, and a stunning mint green swing dress hemmed with ostrich feathers. Enchantress includes a tempting selection of sweet but vicious heels

by McQueen, Prada, and Fantich & Young.

Through the rubric of these seven multifaceted queens—from the seductiveness of an Enchantress to the benevolence of a Mother Earth to the power of a Heroine—A Queen Within: Adorned Archetypes shows how contemporary designers engage with the competing, complementary and often contradictory ideals we have about femininity. This remarkably thoughtful exhibition at NOMA reveals fashion’s importance as a conveyer of physical beauty as well as incisive cultural commentary on how artistic fashion engages with pain, humor, history, and the future.

Mel Buchanan, RosaMary Curator of Decorative Arts & Design A Queen Within: Adorned Archetypes, on view February 22 – May 28, is an exhibition developed by Barrett Barrera Projects and MUSEEA, and toured internationally by Flying Fish.

The New Orleans presentation is sponsored in part by Ashley Longshore and Millie Davis Kohn.

Read more about the inspirations behind A Queen Within and its featured fashion designers online at noma.org/magazine.

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EXHIBITIONS

Carlos Rolón, Untitled (Ying Yang Fence), 2014, smoked mirror and resin on wood panel, and Carlos Rolón, Untitled (Double Diamond Fence), 2014, bronze mirror, resin and crystalline on wood panel, Image Courtesy of the Artist and Salon 94, New York, Photography: Jeff Elstone

CA R LOS ROLÓN: OU TSIDE/IN OPENING MARCH 16, PUERTO RICAN ARTIST CARLOS ROLÓN EXPLORES THE RICH CONNECTIONS BETWEEN NEW ORLEANS, LATIN AMERICA, AND THE CARIBBEAN THROUGH ALLUSIONS TO EACH REGION’S NATURAL AND BUILT ENVIRONMENTS. THE ARTIST SPOKE WITH CURATORIAL FELLOW ALLISON YOUNG ABOUT COMMUNITY, PLACE, AND HERITAGE.

IM AG E C O U R T ESY O F T H E A R T IST A N D P E A RL L A M G A L L ERIES , H O N G KO N G

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How has your artistic practice been influenced by your upbringing?

As a child of first-generation Puerto Rican immigrants in the United States, culture is something that I personally have always been interested in. My installations are often rooted in personal memory, or inspired by music, colors, and exuberant domestic environments. I often channel ideas from my upbringing through tchotchkes, ornaments and mass-produced faux objets d’art—such as vases, light fixtures, wallpapers and textiles—which reflect a sense of “bluecollar baroque” and attainable luxury.

For example, as a child I bore witness to the ways in which immigrant households adapted to new American lifestyles through everyday items. Mirrors, in particular, adorned my family’s domiciles. As a material, mirror allows a makeshift home in Puerto Rico made from cinderblock and corrugated metal to seem larger than normal, and creates a grand aesthetic that embellishes the interiors. While triumphant, this aesthetic signals a process of adaptation and has become an integral component throughout the upcoming exhibition at NOMA.

Your art is in constant dialogue with architecture. How has this interest informed the works that will be on view at NOMA, and how might New Orleans architecture factor into the project?

My practice is informed by a postcolonial and Afro-Caribbean diasporic vantage point that is also evident throughout the cultural fabric of New Orleans. I want to bring aspects of these histories into the institution, and to help the public to feel welcomed and included. One example will be the installation Bochinche (2016), which incorporates custom marble benches surrounding a central sculpture of wrought iron fencework, ceramic, mirror, and porcelain pedestals, handmade shell macramés, and references to exotic floral vegetation. This piece harkens back to the day before smartphones and social media, and serves as a physical place for friends and acquaintances to gather, chat, and build community. This and other works respond to the wrought-iron fence work—or rejas in Spanish—seen throughout New Orleans and the Caribbean. While beautiful, these elements serve as security fences and designate boundaries between public and private. Each of these elements

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Carlos Rolón, Nomadic Habitat (Hustleman), 2016, Mixed media, Image courtesy of the Artist and Oakland University, Michigan and Arts + Public Life at University of Chicago, Salon 94, New York and PearlLam Galleries, Hong Kong, Photography: Nathan Keay

represents a sincere acknowledgement of the cultural identities and histories in New Orleans—Caribbean, French, African, and American.

Outside/In touches on Puerto Rico and New Orleans as specific points of reference to larger questions around race, class, colonialism, and the environment. What connections or relationships do you hope to suggest between these two locales?

One direct historical connection that will be conveyed is the Spanishcolonial discovery of gold in Puerto Rico and the Gulf of Mexico, which was facilitated by the removal of exotic tropical flora and vegetation.

Enough gold was mined until 1530 to establish over four million dollars in Spanish currency. Many of the works included in Outside/In, including a series of floral paintings inspired by the vegetation in both regions, make use of real 24-karat gold leaf, generating a sense of hope and beauty as well as melancholic notes from the past.

These works represent my reimagined replacement of the natural beauty that lived and breathed atop the minerals

that brought wealth and abundance to colonizing cultures, contrasting the ideas of nature and territory.

Many of the works in Outside/In meditate on the ideas of personal security and perimeters. In both Puerto Rico and New Orleans, one finds a tension between inclusion and exclusion, or private and public, as well as a desire to safeguard or protect local culture and history. This process can also create a sense of seclusion or isolation.

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In the course of planning your exhibition at NOMA, Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico. Has this disaster informed the direction of your practice in any way?

new community relationships, this

Natural disasters are devastating, non-calculated social experiences. Maria, which was the first Category 5 hurricane to hit the island in eight-five years, is now being compared to Katrina which devastated New Orleans in 2005. Both faced a familiar cycle—loss of jobs, a weakened economy, and new diasporas leading to a decrease in local population.

My goal is to convey a message for the community to embrace their past while still being present in the moment.

include displays by local artisans,

work in the digital edition of NOMA Magazine (noma.org/magazine) and view a selection of his works.

A featured component of the exhibition will be Rolón’s Nomadic Habitat (Hustleman), a cart inspired by the street vendors throughout New Orleans and the Caribbean.

In keeping with this exhibition’s investment in breaking down institutional barriers and building installation will be activated by local artists and community stake-holders during select intervals throughout the exhibition. Activations may language meet-ups and cross-cultural exchanges, and projects by artists and creative collectives in the city.

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EXHIBITIONS

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EXHIBITIONS

An Exciting Year Ahead As New Orleans launches a year of celebration to mark the three-hundredth anniversary of the city’s founding, NOMA has an exciting lineup of exhibitions and related programs to accent this commemorative year. Listed here are five forthcoming exhibitions, the range of which will highlight vintage and contemporary photography, multidisciplinary interpretations of the city’s complex history, and a French connection to the aristocratic namesake of La Nouvelle-Orléans.

OPPOSITE PAGE, FROM THE ORLÉANS COLLECTION

Nicolas Poussin (French, 1594-1665), Ecstasy of Saint Paul, 1643, Oil on panel, 16 3⁄8 x 11 7⁄8 in., The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, the State Art Museum of Florida, Florida State University, Sarasota, Museum purchase, 1956, SN690

LEFT, FROM LEE FRIEDLANDER IN LOUISIANA

Lee Friedlander, Untitled (Self-Portrait Reflected in Window, New Orleans), circa 1965, 7 x 10 3⁄4 in. Gelatin silver print on paper, Museum Purchase through the National Endowment for the Arts Grant, 75.83

Lee Friedlander: American Musicians MARCH 2 – JUNE 17

Changing Course: Reflections on New Orleans Histories

Lee Friedlander in Louisiana APRIL 27 – AUGUST 12

JUNE 21 – SEPTEMBER 16

Lee Friedlander is one of the most famous living American photographers. Although he has always been based in New York, the photographer has been visiting Louisiana since 1957 to document jazz musicians and New Orleans’ second-line parades, and to make artful street photographs. This exhibition will be the first to demonstrate that the state, and New Orleans in particular, have had a profound impact on the career of this notable artist and documentarian. Friedlander was born in 1934 and graduated from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena in 1956. That year he moved to New York City where he began photographing jazz musicians for Atlantic Records. He has been awarded three Guggenheim Fellowships a MacArthur Fellowship, and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. Throughout his career he has published over twenty books and has been the subject of major exhibitions at MoMA, The Whitney Museum of American Art, and at the Rencontre d’Arles Festival. The main exhibition will be accompanied by a presentation of Friedlander’s color photographs of musicians in NOMA’s Great Hall. www.noma.org

Changing Course: Reflections on New Orleans Histories marks New Orleans’ three-hundredth anniversary by bringing together a group of seven contemporary art projects that focus on forgotten or marginalized histories of the city.

Projects by artists Katrina Andry, Willie Birch, Lesley Dill, Skylar Fein, L. Kasimu Harris, The Everyday Projects, and The Propeller Group will shed light on the past while also looking towards the future, returning to defining moments in New Orleans’ history that continue to frame art and life in the city today. Thought-provoking, dynamic, and haunting, Changing Course: Reflections on New Orleans Histories views history through a forward lens, challenging the community to discussion and new perspective.

Changing Course will feature a stunning series of immersive and interactive installations across three of NOMA’s gallery spaces. During a year of celebration and introspection, this exhibition invites the city to consider how the act of commemoration can also be a form of forward thinking: a rejoinder to the present that might also change the course of things to come. (See pages 14-15 for more details.)

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FROM CHANGING COURSE: REFLECTIONS ON NEW ORLEANS HISTORIES Lesley Dill, Hell Hell Hell/Heaven Heaven Heaven: Encountering Sister Gertrude

CELEBRATING NEW ORLEANS’ TRICENTENNIAL • EXHIBITION LINEUP

Morgan & Revelation, 2010, New Orleans Museum of Art, Gift of the artist, 2014.45.1, Photography © Michael Smith

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Past, Present, & Future

The Orléans Collection

SEPTEMBER 7 – SPRING 2019

OCTOBER 26 – JANUARY 27, 2019

Past, Present, and Future will offer visitors a history of the museum’s relationship to photography in three distinct phases. First, the exhibition will showcase a number of pictorial works that were included in the first photography show at the original Isaac Delgado Museum in 1918, celebrating the centennial of that important exhibition. In its second part, the exhibition will highlight the museum’s recent and present activity by presenting outstanding new acquisitions in photography, including rare objects by nineteenth-century photographers, vintage prints by twentieth-century masters, and pristine examples of contemporary photography. Finally, the exhibition will point towards the museum’s future with a presentation of selected promised gifts to the collection.

At its founding in 1718, New Orleans was named for the French Regent, Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (1674–1723). A formidable personality, Philippe II’s legacy is his patronage of the arts: architecture, painting, furniture, music, dance, and theatre. In celebration of the tricentennial of the city that bears his regal title, NOMA will present an exhibition of selections from the Duke’s magnificent personal collection.

This international loan exhibition will bring together masterpieces by Veronese, Tintoretto, Poussin, Rubens and Rembrandt that formerly graced the walls of the Palais Royal in Paris.

Changing Course: Reflections on New Orleans Histories

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS

KATRINA ANDRY

WILLIE BIRCH

LESLEY DILL

Katrina Andry’s large-scale woodblock prints address questions of racial and economic disparity and uneven urban development in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Her new project for NOMA considers the impact that past infrastructure projects, such as the construction of I-10, had on historically African American neighborhoods in the city.

Recent work by New Orleans artist Willie Birch will serve as the beginning of a conversation about New Orleans histories and how these histories impact the many different communities in the city.

Lesley Dill’s Hell Hell Hell/Heaven Heaven Heaven: Encountering Sister Gertrude Morgan (2010) is inspired by the life of the late preacher, artist, musician and poet Sister Gertrude Morgan, known for her work as a painter and missionary. The installation pays tribute to Morgan’s legacy.

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FROM CHANGING COURSE: REFLECTIONS ON NEW ORLEANS HISTORIES Skylar Fein, Remember the Upstairs Lounge,

2008. mixed media installation, dimensions variable. Courtesy the Artist.

The quality of the Orléans Collection was universally praised during Philippe II’s lifetime and its stature is attested by the astounding 772 paintings inventoried at his death. Although originally bequeathed to the duke’s heirs, in the 1790s the family hastily sold the collection to raise money during the French Revolution. The subsequent sales became a watershed event in the history of collecting and museology. The exhibition and its accompanying scholarly catalogue will explore exceptional aspects of the collection through four guiding themes: the Palais Royal and its grand redecoration as a center for the arts and exchange in Paris; the diplomatic and personal display of the

collection in public and private spaces; the Duke of Orléans’ personal taste and psychology as a collector; and the fame and impact the collection had for contemporary visitors, artists, and collectors in Paris.

No exhibition of this fascinating subject has been undertaken and this project offers an exceptional opportunity for new scholarship, with a catalogue structured to maximize scholarly research and publish new research about Philippe II’s collection. The Orléans Collection will bring together, for the first time since its 1790s dispersal, a representative group of forty works that tell the story of its formation and character.

Read more about these exhibitions and others slated for 2018 in the online edition of NOMA Magazine at noma.org/magazine.

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THE EVERYDAY PROJECTS

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Skylar Fein’s installation Remember the Upstairs Lounge (2008) meditates on the 1973 arson at the Upstairs Lounge, a popular gay bar in the French Quarter, a crime whose unsolved nature still reverberates across LGBTQ communities in the city.

Large color photographs by L. Kasimu Harris pose questions about the content of historical curriculum and young people’s access to education in New Orleans. Harris’ dynamic photographs position students as the driving force in their education.

The Everyday Projects is a social media and educational outreach program aimed at challenging stereotypes, bridging communities, and building visual literacy. Local participants will use photography to share their unique perspectives.

A video installation titled The Living Need Light, The Dead Need Music offers a meditation on the cyclical nature of time and history.

The video presents a dialogue with funerary traditions from Vietnam and the diaspora of its people across the American South.

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PROFE S SIONA L PATH WAYS IN TER NSHIPS FOR HBCU ST U DEN TS NOMA will be among the first museums in the country to participate in a new initiative aimed at providing internship opportunities for students enrolled at historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Professional Pathways Internships are supported by a matching grant from the Ford Foundation and the Walton Family Foundation as part of their nationwide Diversifying Art Museum Leadership initiative.

Recent research by the Andrew H. Mellon Foundation reveals that art museum employees do not reflect the changing demographics in America. According to the Art Museum Staff Demographic Survey published in 2015, only sixteen percent of museum staff in professional positions such as directors, curators, and managers identify themselves as Asian, Black, Hispanic, or multiracial, compared with 38 percent of the general population of Americans. The Ford and Walton Family Foundations are attempting to assist museums in changing this direction through the Diversifying Art Museum Leadership initiative.

Their vision states, “By 2025, thirty percent of mid- and senior-level curatorial and management positions at US art museums will be filled by talented leaders from historically under-represented and diverse backgrounds.”

New Orleans is home to three HBCUs: Xavier University, Dillard University, and Southern University of New Orleans.

Students selected for NOMA’s Professional Pathways Internships will earn a stipend as they work with and learn from museum professionals and scholars. The museum offers students a wide variety of placements in museum education, collections care, curatorial research, interpretation, exhibition development, and community outreach.

Professional Pathways Internship projects will be designed to complement students’ academic studies and professional interests. Internships will include mentoring sessions with supervisors, offering students individual instruction in career planning and preparation. Additionally, interns will also have access to training in art history, as well as professional networking opportunities.

The application process for Professional Pathways Internships is competitive. Three interns will be selected each semester and work fifteen hours per week for twelve weeks. Entering the museum field can be a challenging endeavor, and NOMA hopes this new initiative will offer the support needed to enable students to gain valuable work experience in the field.

Visit noma.org/about/employment/professional-pathways-hbcuinternships/ to learn more.

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Mini Masters is a collaborative arts integration program for pre-kindergarten students featuring works of art from NOMA. Mini Masters encourages students to develop higher order thinking skills, make observations, and engage in conversations through museum visits and classroom activities. Seventyfive participants engaged in sessions at Kingsley House in early November.

Kingsley House has served more than half a million people since it was founded in 1896. Watch a video about Mini Masters at noma.org/magazine.

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Every first and third Tuesday, teens from across metro New Orleans meet at the New Orleans Museum of Art. This diverse group of young artists and art enthusiasts meet with curators and museum staff, learn about art, and plan events for local teens.

Why do these high school students choose to spend time at NOMA? Here’s what they have to say about their experience in the Teen Squad.

“As an artist myself, I joined the NOMA Teen Squad to get better insight into the museum, meet new people, and to get involved in a group with a bunch of other high Stacked students who wanted to advocate for the same school thing: to get students involved in the art community.”

—Victoria A. “I joined the Teen Squad because, at first, I really didn’t like going to the museum and I thought joining will spark some interest—which it most definitely did. I also joined to meet other teens who enjoy creating and looking at art. My favorite part of Teen Squad is walking into an exhibition and listening to curators speak about the artwork and why they chose those particular pieces.”

—Eriel T. “I joined because I already loved NOMA, but when I heard about the new Teen Squad I thought the purpose was a really good initiative. I also love that we get special opportunities such as private tours of exhibitions by the curators.”

—Tamara S. Do you know a teen who would be interested in joining the Teen Squad?

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NOMA BOOK CLUB 2018 TITLES Join museum staff and fellow book lover as we read and discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art, artist, art museums, and NOMA’s collections and exhibitions. This informal group meets in NOMA’s Felix J. Dreyfous Library.

JANUARY Fabulous New Orleans by Lyle Saxon (Pelican, 1988). Lyle Saxon’s timeless impressions of colorful New Orleans, first recorded more than half a century ago, reveal the city’s inherent mystery and frivolity.

Field trip to Antoine’s Restaurant and the Louisiana State Museum’s Mardi Gras Collection at the Presbytere on Wednesday, January 10, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Book Discussion Group: Wednesday, January 24, 1:30 – 3 p.m. and Thursday, January 25, 12 – 1 p.m.

FEBRUARY

Isabella Blow: A Life in Fashion by Lauren Goldstein Crowe (Thomas Dunne Books, 2010). Lauren Goldstein Crowe has crafted an entertaining narrative and portrayal of a woman whose thirst for the fantastical became irreconcilable with life in the real world.

Curatorial Program with Mel Buchanan, RosaMary Curator of Decorative Arts & Design Thursday, February 22, 12 – 1 p.m.

Book Discussion Group Tuesday, February 27, 12 – 1 p.m. and Wednesday, February 28, 1:30 – 3 p.m.

MARCH Art as Therapy by Alain de Botton and John Armstrong (Phaidon Press, 2013). Bestselling philosopher Alain de Botton and art historian John Armstrong propose a new, therapeutic way of looking at familiar masterpieces.

Meet the Author: Pamela Arcenaux from the Historic New Orleans Collection will discuss and sign her book, Guidebooks to Sin: The Blue Books of Storyville, New Orleans | Tuesday, March 6, 12 – 1 p.m.

Book Discussion Group Tuesday, March 27, 12 – 1 p.m. and Wednesday, March 28, 1:30 – 3 p.m.

APRIL Vermeer’s Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World by Timothy Brook (Bloomsbury Press; Reprint edition, 2009). Timothy Brook uses works by Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer and other contemporary images to trace the rapidly growing web of global trade and the changes it wrought in the 1700s when globalization began.

Curatorial Program with Vanessa Schmid, Senior Research Curator for European Art Tuesday, April 10, 12 – 1 p.m.

Book Discussion Group Wednesday, April 25, 1:30 – 3 p.m. and Thursday, April 26, 12 – 1 p.m.

Please contact Sheila A. Cork at 504.658.4117 or scork@noma.org for information about joining the NOMA Book Club. To view selections and Book Club meeting dates for the remainder of 2018, visit noma.org/magazine

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CL A S SE S W ITH CU R ATOR S SER IE S BEGINS W ITH A N IN-DEPTH EX A MINATION OF PHOTOGR A PH Y Interested in taking a closer look at NOMA’s collections?

Want to take a deep dive into our special exhibitions? Join NOMA curators as they explore a variety of topics and take you behind the scenes in our new Classes with Curators series. Designed for small groups of no more than twenty students, classes are organized into three parts and are taught by one or more members of our professional staff.

This new program will launch on Tuesdays in March from 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. with “Looking Again: Histories of Photography,” led by Russell Lord, Freeman Family Curator of Photographs, Prints, and Drawings. Each of the three class sessions will focus on a moment in the history of photography that is well represented in NOMA’s collections.

MARCH 6 | ORIGINS AND EXPANSION This session explores the origins of photography, the various media invented in the nineteenth century, and how photography quickly made its way around the world.

MARCH 13 | THE CASE FOR ART PHOTOGRAPHY This session looks at the various figures that argued for photography as an art form from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century.

MARCH 20 | MODERNISM AND PHOTOGRAPHY The final session examines one of the richest areas of NOMA’s permanent collection: Modernist photographs made between the two world wars.

Registration is required. The cost is $125 per series; $100 for members. Please contact egreenwald@noma.org or 504.658.4140 to register or for more information.

Additional Classes with Curators will be offered throughout 2018.

Looking Again: Photography at the New Orleans Museum of Art

by Russell Lord, Freeman Family Curator of Photographs, Prints, and Drawings

Looking Again is designed to provide the reader with a glimpse both into the collection at the New Orleans Museum of Art and into photography’s complexity. Through 131 objects and essays, this new volume addresses long-held beliefs and offers new ways of thinking about, and looking at, photographs. Begun in the early 1970s, the New Orleans Museum of Art’s photography collection is today one of the finest in the country, numbering over twelve thousand works and spanning the history of photography from the early 1840s to the present. This book is published on the centennial of the first photography exhibition presented at the New Orleans Museum of Art in 1918.

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INSPIR ED BY NOM A : PA R IS B A N K S Tell me about the internship program. How did you join the program?

What would you tell other young people who may not necessarily see a museum as a popular hangout?

The first year of my internship, our group learned about the different types of work behind the scenes here at NOMA. Everything, from putting the art on the wall and how they have to pick specific things to plan out an exhibition to the education programs and maintenance of the building. I returned for a second year in a job placement program where we were actually helping out at the front desk or the gift shop, or pulling and doing surveys.

I would just ask them what would you expect at a museum? And then see their perspective. The typical response would be, “Oh, it’s boring.” Maybe they might feel that it’s not a place for them. But here there’s something for everyone, and you can find something to be passionate about. I always ask my friends to come, and I make them come.

When they come for the first time, they’re often surprised by the work that’s here, they’re surprised that it’s not a place where you have to be quiet. Sometimes I work during Friday Nights at NOMA. But sometimes when I don’t, I still stay after to enjoy the live music. Teens can come and just enjoy the music. I think it’s cool.

What did you like about the work?

Creative Careers interns Rayion Wilson, Corayanna Harris, Patrianne Stevenson, Paris Banks, and Cymone Richardson.

Paris Banks interned at NOMA the summer between her junior and senior years of high school. She returned after graduation for a second-year internship and ultimately was hired to work as a visitor services associate. She spoke about the impact of the internship and her first professional job.

When did you first become familiar with NOMA? I was a kid, riding my bike around City Park, near the museum, and I thought that big building must be something like a courthouse. I never entered the art museum until I started my first internship the summer of my eleventh-grade year. My school, KIPP Renaissance High, selected me for the program. I loved it. I love art. This was an opportunity I had to seize before somebody else took it!

I like talking to people. The people here are really amazing. It feels like a family at NOMA. That’s why I decided to apply for the job opening after I graduated from high school.

Elise Solomon, the supervisor that led us during the internship, my second year, she pulled me aside and said, “There’s this job, you should apply!” She helped me with my application and now here I am, behind the admission desk.

It’s a learning process, this job, learning how to deal with all sorts of people.

A typical person wouldn’t know about all the people working below the galleries, all the people it takes to keep the museum running. Visitors just come in and look at the art, not realizing all the work it takes to share this art with the public.

Have you thought about pursuing museum work as a profession?

Like I said, the people here are nice.

It was a no-brainer to me to apply, and once I did get the job, I just love NOMA even more because I’m passionate about being here. I’m definitely open to the possibilities of museum work, but I’m keeping my options open.

I graduated last May, and I will start the General Studies program in January at Delgado Community College. I’m trying to really figure out what I want to do and what I like, because right now I like everything.

What is your favorite part of the museum?

Artwise, right now it would be the Prospect.4 installations. I like how modern it is. I like modern art and I like abstract art. I’m not into the renaissance-y stuff, but that’s what’s great about NOMA— there’s something for everyone.

With funding from the Walton Family Foundation, NOMA launched its Creative Careers Internship program with ten students from KIPP Renaissance High School over the course of the past two summers. The program is designed to encourage teens from diverse backgrounds to explore the museum field as a career option. Students receive mentoring in professional skills as well as job shadowing opportunities in every museum department. Interns shadowed museum staff to learn about the wide variety of professional careers within the museum setting, such as Visitor Services, Curatorial Affairs, Graphic Design, Public Programs, Education, Accounting, Public Relations, Security, Administration, Development, Human Resources, and the Museum Shop.

Students accompanied staff behind the scenes at the museum for an up-close look at how objects are stored, catalogued, and displayed.

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BEHIND THE SCENES: THE MAKING OF AN EXHIBITION When visitors enter NOMA’s special exhibition galleries they are awed by the array of art on display. In 2018, the museum will host an unprecedented scope of exhibitions ranging from haute couture designed by the biggest fashion houses of the twenty-first century to a reunion of Old Master paintings from the collection of the Duke of Orléans that were dispersed across the globe by his heirs in the 1790s. Years of preparation go into mounting these thoughtful and often groundbreaking exhibitions, much of it done quietly, behind the scenes, leading up to the fanfare of a grand opening.

NOMA’s curators travel to meet with fellow museum professionals, a means of inspiring collaborative exhibitions and assembling loans of works of art from multiple institutions and private collections.

Once a curator secures works from private and public sources to constitute an exhibition, NOMA’s registrars obtain the required insurance and organize safe transportation of art across the nation and the world through an intricate network of customs clearance, fine-art shipping, and security monitoring. The museum must commission custom shipping crates for masterpieces that rarely leave their home institutions.

Curators also spend months conducting research about the works to produce a catalogue. These books, in addition to becoming cherished mementoes of a museum visit, serve as definitive references for future generations of art historians.

The installation of an exhibition requires the labor of a highly-skilled team of preparators. The team removes, rebuilds, and paints gallery walls according to new floor plans and color

schemes and constructs plexiglass display cases. Preparators customize lighting sensitive to the works on view.

Some exhibitions also require the installation of video projection. Finally, the team affixes interpretive labels and text panels to the gallery walls. This process must be carefully executed in a matter of weeks to safeguard the works of art that will find a home in the gallery. For example, art handlers must allow time for paint to dry and off-gas before installing any art in a gallery.

In the months leading up to an exhibition, the Interpretation and Audience Engagement team plans programming and docent training to enhance the visitor experience. Our curator of programs brings experts in the field to NOMA for public lectures and gallery talks. The curator of education develops lessons for school field trips along with interpretive experiences for museumgoers of all ages.

Donors also play a critical role in the making of an exhibition by providing the philanthropic support that makes the work of NOMA’s talented staff possible.

INDIVIDUAL DONORS TO 2018 EXHIBITIONS A Queen Within Ashley Longshore Millie Davis Kohn Carlos Rolón: Outside/In Cari and Michael J. Sacks Eric and Cheryl McKissack John and Amy Phelan Nancy C. and Richard R. Rogers Peter Rogers Fran and Leroy Harvey Jacki and Brian Schneider Charles L. Whited, Jr. Changing Course Pia and Malcolm Ehrhardt Stewart and Renee Peck Cathy and Morris Bart David Workman The Orléans Collection Mr. and Mrs. John Bertuzzi Catherine Burns Tremaine Susie and Michael McLoughlin Sally E. Richards Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Williams Dr. Edward Levy Jr. E. Alexandra Stafford and Raymond M. Rathle, Jr. Wayne Amedee Hon. Steven R. Bordner Nell Nolan and Robert E. Young Charles L. Whited, Jr.

If you are interested in supporting an exhibition at NOMA, contact Jenni Daniel at jdaniel@noma.org or 504.658.4107 to learn how you can enhance the art museum experience for the more than 260,000 visitors who enter our doors every year. You can support exhibitions with a gift of any size at noma.org/donate.

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PA RTIE S W ITH A PU R POSE Over the course of two autumn nights, NOMA hosted two parties with a purpose—fundraising events that raise crucial dollars for exhibition and education programming throughout the year. Approximately 14 percent of NOMA’s operating funds are derived from fundraisers.

On the balmy evening of September 22, more than 1,500 ticket buyers gathered in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden for LOVE in the Garden presented by Whitney Bank. Overseeing the festive evening were chairwomen

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Olivia Carisella, Eleanor Davis, Glendy Forster, Joanna Giorlando, Kathleen Mix and Carol Short.

Honored guests included Anita Cooke, Simon Gunning, Karoline Schleh, and Bob Snead, who were introduced as artists who “represent the very best in our creative community” by Susan Taylor, NOMA’s Montine McDaniel Freeman Director, as part of an annual ceremony spotlighting local talent.

Entertainment by Kinfolk Brass Band, BRW, and DJ Brice Nice kept this outdoor soirée rolling till the midnight hour.

Eleven bartenders competed in the LOVE Cocktail Challenge. Winner Tyler Chauvin, of Treo created a BULLDOG Gin drink titled “She Keeps on Passion Me By.” On the night of November 4, formally attired patrons gathered at NOMA to kick off New Orleans’ Tricentennial year at the 51st annual Odyssey Ball, presented

by IBERIABANK. The selected theme was “A Celebration 300 Years in the Making.” Carmen and Kelly Duncan, Shaun and Foster Duncan, Sweet and Ben Dupuy, and Kitty and Stephen Sherrill served as the 2017 Chairs. The Louisiana

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Philharmonic Orchestra filled the Great Hall with classical music, followed by the Jep Epstein Trio and DJ/violinist Timothee Lovelock. For avid football fans, NOMA hosted an LSU vs. Alabama tailgate party.

New this year to the online auction was the opportunity to purchase sponsorhip of exhibitions, education programs, or other direct benefits to NOMA. Cammie and Charles Mayer will underwrite a month’s worth of maintenance in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden, and Lynne Burkart will fund NOMA’s Mini Masters program with art supplies and books.

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3. Valerie Besthoff, Mike Siegel, and Aimée Francis

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4. Whitney Bank representatives Hollie and Kevin Ericksen, Suzanne Thomas, Gary Lorio, 5. Bill Hammack and Janice Parmalee

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Sydney Besthoff, longtime philanthropist, generous trustee, and benefactor of NOMA, was appropriately fêted with a ninetieth birthday party in the sculpture garden that bears his name on October 18, 2017. Friends, family, civic leaders, and NOMA staff lauded the honoree with praise for his devoted service to the museum, beginning in 1992 when the former chairman and CEO of the K&B drug store chain was appointed to the board of trustees.

The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden opened in 2003.

During the party, NOMA Director Susan Taylor announced the establishment of The Sydney Besthoff Legacy Award (“The Sydney”) to be given once every five years to honor individuals who have demonstrated outstanding commitment to the visual arts. The inaugural award is a star-shaped maquette by sculptor Frank Stella, who is creating a full-scale version that will be exhibited in the upcoming expansion of the sculpture garden.

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THE M USEU M SHOP As NOMA turns its curatorial attention to the museum’s first-ever exhibition of haute couture, the Museum Shop encourages visitors to become their own trendsetters. The Shop stocks exclusive jewelry—some crafted by Louisiana hands—along with other sure-to-be-noticed accessories, and a wide selection of books related to the fashion industry.

ANNIE LEIBOVITZ PORTRAITS 2005 – 2016 The famed photographer captures celebrity culture with an uncanny ability to personalize even the most recognizable faces.

$125 MARIETTE CLUTCH PURSE Chain fringe adds extra flair to this purse by designer Inge Christopher.

$215 SILVER CLUTCH PURSE A brushed-metal clasp uniquely defines this Simone Box clutch purse.

$248 BRASS CUFF BRACELET New Orleans’ Sarah Killen Ellman designed this all-brass “Wonder Woman” cuff.

$295 PETAL BIB NECKLACE Shimmering labradorite beads and faceted crystals accent this piece by Alexis Bittar.

$255 10-KT GOLD EARRINGS Alexis Bittar revived the art of costume jewelry in the 1990s. These 10-karat gold earrings evoke his distinctive style.

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Find additional merchandise at noma.org/shop

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NOMA members receive a 10-percent discount (some restrictions apply).

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DONORS The New Orleans Museum of Art gratefully acknowledges our donors, who make our exhibitions, programming, and daily operations possible.

We appreciate your continued support of NOMA and its mission. Thank you!

Foundation and Government Support

Corporate and Individual Support

$500,000 and above

$500,000 and above

Donna and Benjamin M. Rosen

Collins C. Diboll Private Foundation

Sydney and Walda Besthoff

Tina Rathborne and Phillip De Normandie

The Frank B. Stewart, Jr. Foundation

Virginia Besthoff

Michele Reynoir and Kevin Clifford

Patrick F. Taylor Foundation

Donna and Benjamin M. Rosen

Sheila and H. Britton Sanderford

The Benjamin M. Rosen Family Foundation

Estate of Margaret B. Soniat

Aimee and Mike Siegel

The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Foundation

Frank B. Stewart Jr.

Kitty and Stephen Sherrill

Zemurray Foundation

Phyllis M. Taylor

Liz and Poco Sloss

$200,000 – $499,999

$100,000 – $499,999

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Jeffrey J. Feil

The Azby Fund

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The Elise M. Besthoff Charitable Foundation Charitable Lead Annuity Trust Under the Will of Louis Feil City of New Orleans The Helis Foundation

$100,000 – $199,999 Goldring Family Foundation Institute of Museum and Library Services Lois and Lloyd Hawkins Jr. Foundation

Susu and Andrew Stall

$50,000 – $99,999

Catherine Burns Tremaine

$10,000 – $19,999 Louisette Brown Audrey and Daniel Buckman

Gail and John Bertuzzi

Lucy Burnett and Gregory Holt

The New Orleans Convention & Visitors Bureau

Caroline and Murray Calhoun

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

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Marjorie and Scott Cowen

Stephen W. Clayton

Janice Parmelee and Bill Hammack

Pia and Malcolm Ehrhardt

Robert and Pamela Steeg

Entergy New Orleans, Inc.

Whitney Bank

Tim L. Fields, Esq. Sandra and Russ Herman

The Walton Family Foundation

$20,000 – $49,999

$50,000 – $99,999

Arthur Roger Gallery

Ashley Longshore

Cathy and Morris Bart

Michael and Susie McLoughlin

Gayle and Tom Benson

Elizabeth and Willy Monaghan

Joseph and Sue Ellen Canizaro

Howard and Joy Osofsky

Mrs. Marla Garvey

Stewart and Renee Peck

Julie and Ted George

Janet and David Rice

Sara and David Kelso

Tia and Jimmy Roddy

Jeri Nims

Cari and Michael J. Sacks

Roger Ogden

Jane and Rodney Steiner

$20,000 – $49,999

The Pain Intervention Center

Suzanne and Robert Thomas

The Gayle and Tom Benson Charitable Foundation

Nancy and Cocie Rathborne

Melanee and Steve Usdin

Sally E. Richards

Robert and Norris Williams

National Endowment for the Arts The Bertuzzi Family Foundation The Ford Foundation The RosaMary Foundation The Selley Foundation The Harry T. Howard III Foundation The Marcus Foundation

Tina and Robert Hinckley

Eugenie and Joseph Jones Family Foundation Louisiana Division of the Arts The Lupin Foundation Milton H. Latter Educational & Charitable Foundation Nell Pape W. Waring and William W. Waring Fund

$10,000 – $19,999 The Booth-Bricker Fund Evelyn L. Burkenroad Foundation The Garden Study Club of New Orleans, Inc. Greater New Orleans Foundation The Holt Family Foundation Ida & Hugh Kohlmeyer Foundation J. Edgar Monroe Foundation New Orleans Theatre Association The Ruby K. Worner Charitable Trust

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Boh Bros. Construction Company, LLC

Hyatt Regency New Orleans

Crescent Capital Consulting, LLC

International-Matex Tank Terminals

Dupuy Storage & Forwarding, LLC

Jones Walker

Ernst & Young

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Laitram, LLC

The New Orleans Convention & Visitors Bureau

Library Street Collective

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Neal Auction Company Regions Bank

Christie’s Fine Art Auctioneers

Salon 94

Gulf Coast Bank and Trust

Valentino Hospitality

Hotel Monteleone This list includes donors who made gifts between December 1, 2016 and December 1, 2017.

If you have any questions, or would like information about supporting NOMA, contact NOMA’s Department for Development by calling (504) 658-4127.

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NOMA CIRCLES Mr. and Mrs. Robert Shelton

President’s Circle

Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Siegel

Mr. and Mrs. John D. Bertuzzi

Mr. Michael Smith

Mr. and Mrs. Ralph O. Brennan

Mr. and Mrs. Lynes R. Sloss

Mr. and Mrs. David F. Edwards

Mr. and Mrs. Bruce L. Soltis

Mrs. Lawrence D. Garvey

Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Steeg

Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Mayer

Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Thomas

Mrs. Robert Nims

Ms. Susan Zackin

Director’s Circle

Patron’s Circle

Mrs. Robert Boh

Dr. Siddharth K. Bhansali

Ms. Lucy Burnett and Mr. Gregory Holt

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Canizaro Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Cates

Mr. and Mrs. Daryl G. Byrd

Dr. and Mrs. Scott S. Cowen

Mr. and Mrs. Murray Calhoun

Mr. and Mrs. James J. Frischhertz

Mrs. Isidore Cohn, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gardiner

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Coleman

Mr. and Mrs. G. Anthony Gelderman

Ms. Adrea D. Heebe and Mr. Dominick A. Russo, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Heebe Ms. Sharon Jacobs and Mr. Leonard A. Davis

Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Heymann Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hinckley

Dr. Edward D. Levy, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. David B. Kelso

Mr. and Mrs. J. Thomas Lewis

Mr. and Mrs. Dennis P. Lauscha

Mrs. Louise H. Moffett

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Lemann

Drs. Joy D. and Howard Osofsky

Mr. and Mrs. William Monaghan

Mr. and Mrs. Gray S. Parker

Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Patrick

Mr. and Mrs. James C. Roddy

Dr. and Mrs. James F. Pierce

Mr. and Mrs. Brian A. Schneider3

Dr. Elisabeth H. Rareshide and Dr. Ronald G. Amedee

Mr. David P. Schulingkamp Mr. Stephen F. Stumpf, Jr.

Mrs. Charles S. Reily, Jr.

Ms. Catherine Burns Tremaine

Mr. and Mrs. James J. Reiss, Jr.

Ms. Celia Weatherhead

Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin M. Rosen

Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Brent Wood

Mr. and Mrs. Edward Shearer

ISA AC DELGADO SOCIETY Wayne Amedee

Lee Ledbetter and Douglas Meffert

Larry W. Anderson

Thomas B. Lemann

Honorable Steven R. Bordner

Dr. Edward D. Levy, Jr.

E. John Bullard

John and Tania Messina

Joseph and Sue Ellen Canizaro

Anne and King Milling

Mrs. Carmel Cohen

James A. Mounger

Mrs. Isidore Cohn, Jr

Jeri Nims

Folwell Dunbar

Drs. Joy and Howard Osofsky

Prescott N. Dunbar

Judith Young Oudt

Lin Emery

Mrs. Charles S. Reily, Jr.

William A. Fagaly

Pixie and Jimmy Reiss

Randy Fertel

Polly and Edward Renwick

Lyn and John Fischbach

Donna and Benjamin M. Rosen

Tim and Ashley Francis

Brian Sands

Sandra D. Freeman

Margie and Milton Scheuermann

Sarah and Richard Freeman

Jolie and Robert Shelton

Tina Freeman and Philip Woollam

Margaret and Bruce Soltis

Lee Gubala

Mrs. Frederick M. Stafford

Dana and Steve Hansel

Nancy Stern

Susan and William Hess

Mrs. John N. Weinstock

Abba J. Kastin, M.D.

Mercedes Whitecloud

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NOMA TRUSTEE DR. RUSSELL ALBRIGHT (1934–2017) NOMA honors the memory of longtime Fellow, Trustee, and generous donor Dr. Russell Albright, who died at age 83 on October 29, 2017. A memorial service was held at the museum on November 12.

Dr. Albright was born in 1934 in Little Rock, Arkansas, and graduated from the University of the Ozarks and the University of Arkansas Medical School. After a stint in the Navy Medical Corps, he settled in New Orleans, where he completed his residency at Ochsner Foundation Hospital. In 1968, he joined Dr. Abner Landry in his radiology practice, which became the Landry-Albright Radiology Group, Inc., at Mercy Hospital. Dr. Albright retired in 1992.

Dr. Albright was a member of the American Medical Association and the Louisiana State Medical Society. He was a respected preservationist who purchased the landmark Lalaurie Mansion in the French Quarter in 1969 and restored it into a single home after it had been subdivided into twenty apartments.

Dr. Albright became an important patron at the New Orleans Museum of Art where he filled many roles. In addition to his longtime status as a Fellow and Trustee, he also served for a time as a Board Member and made substantial gifts of art to various departments, including photography, modern and contemporary art, decorative art, and African art. Dr. Albright donated nearly four hundred works to the museum, but his dedication to collecting had the most significant impact on the photography collection, to which he gave more than three hundred fifty important works. Between 1988, the year of his first gift, and 2017, Dr. Albright established an important contemporary fine-art photography collection, with works by artists such as Cindy Sherman, Lorna Simpson, Nan Goldin, and Thomas Ruff.

He also contributed masterworks by earlier twentieth-century artists such as Man Ray, Brassaï, Doris Ulmann, and many others.

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CALENDAR

PERSONALITIES IN CLAY: AMERICAN STUDIO CERAMICS FROM THE E. JOHN BULLARD COLLECTION

On view through May 13 FRIDAY, JANUARY 5 6 P.M. Gallery Talk with Curator Mel Buchanan WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10 12 P.M. Noontime Talk with collector E. John Bullard FRIDAY, JANUARY 12 6 P.M. Gallery Talk with collector E. John Bullard FRIDAY, JANUARY 26 6 P.M. Artist Perspective with ceramicist Kevin O’Keefe of Gulfport, Mississippi

BROR ANDERS WIKSTROM: BRINGING FANTASY TO CARNIVAL

On view through April 1 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17 12 P.M. Noontime Talk with Curator Mel Buchanan WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7 12 P.M. Noontime Talk with Curator Mel Buchanan

PROSPECT.4: THE LOTUS IN SPITE OF THE SWAMP

On view through February 25 FRIDAY, JANUARY 26 7 P.M. Lecture The Indivisible and the Invincible with Prospect.4 artist Odili Donald Odita

A QUEEN WITHIN: ADORNED ARCHETYPES

Opens February 22, on view through May 28 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21 12 P.M. Noontime Talk with Curators Sofia Hedman and Serge Martynov Satoshi Kino, Fall Wind 16-32, 2016, © Satoshi Kino

NEW FORMS, NEW VOICES: JAPANESE CERAMICS FROM THE GITTER-YELEN COLLECTION

On view through May 13 FRIDAY, JANUARY 19 6 P.M. Gallery Talk with Curator Lisa Rotondo-McCord WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24 12 P.M. Noontime Talk with Curator Lisa Rotondo-McCord FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2 6 P.M. A Passion For Collecting A conversation with Dr. Kurt Gitter and Alice Yelen-Gitter moderated by Curator Lisa Rotondo-McCord

FRIDAY, MARCH 23 7 P.M. Bring Your Own and NOMA present An Evening of Storytelling: A Queen Within in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23 6 P.M. A Conversation with Exhibition Curators Sofia Hedman and Serge Martynov WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7 12 P.M. Noontime Talk with Curator Mel Buchanan FRIDAY, MARCH 16 6 P.M. Gallery Talk with Curator Mel Buchanan SUNDAY, MARCH 18 3 P.M. NOMA and New Orleans Fashion Week present NOFW Founder Tracee Dundas in conversation with Local Designers Tabitha Bethune and Brik Allen.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21 12 P.M. Noontime Talk with Curator Mel Buchanan

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4 12 P.M. Noontime Talk on Women, Fashion, and Power with Kelsey Brosnan, Curatorial Fellow for European Art FRIDAY, APRIL 6 6 – 8 P.M. NOMA-Tulane Design Symposium: Photography and Fashion

CARLOS ROLÓN: OUTSIDE/IN

Opens March 16, on view through August 26 FRIDAY, MARCH 16 7 P.M. Tour with Curator Katie Pfohl and Artist Carlos Rolón WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11 12 P.M. Noontime Talk with Curator Katie Pfohl FRIDAY, APRIL 20 6 P.M. Gallery Talk with Curator Katie Pfohl 7 P.M. Taco Truck Theater (see page 31.)

SUNDAY, APRIL 22 2 P.M. Taco Truck Theater (see page 31) 3:30 P.M. Gallery Talk with Curator Katie Pfohl

LEE FRIEDLANDER IN LOUISIANA

Opens April 27, on view through August 12.

FRIDAY, APRIL 27 6:30 – 7:30 P.M. Gallery Talk with Curator Russell Lord PICTURED ABOVE

Iris van Herpen, Snake Dress, Capriole Haute Couture, 2011. Courtesy M. Zoeter x Iris van Herpen. © Iris van Herpen. RKL consulting, Photo Carmody Creative Photography.

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FAMILY

ENTERTAINMENT

ART ON THE SPOT

BRING YOUR OWN: AN EVENING OF STORYTELLING

5:30 – 8 P.M. Children and adults alike can join an artist-teacher in creating an original work of art to take home.

January 5, 12, 19, 26 February 2, 16, 23 March 2, 9, 16, 23 April 6, 13, 20, 27 (in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden on April 13, until 7:30 p.m.)

FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 7 – 8:30 P.M. Bring Your Own is a live storytelling pop-up series hosted by Laine KaplanLevenson of WWNO 89.9, New Orleans’ NPR affiliate. Bring a blanket or lawn chair for an evening of storytelling under the stars in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden—live, unscripted and true to the teller. Seven storytellers have seven minutes to reflect upon the theme A Queen Within: Stories That Reimagine Gender, Conformity, Royalty, and Power (Yas Queen, Killer Queen, Drag Queen, Beauty Queen).

MUSIC JANUARY 5, 5:30 – 8:30 Shawn Williams

STUDIO KIDS! Students ages 5 to 10 explore art made by diverse cultures as inspiration for art projects. From beading to painting, each class features different media. Register in advance: $25/$30 per class for NOMA member/nonmember. Call 504.658.4128 or email education@ noma.org to register.

Select Saturdays, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m., January 13, 27, February 3, 24, Z March 3, 10, April 7, 21

JANUARY 12, 5:30 – 8:30 Kettle Black Trio JANUARY 19, 7 – 8:30 P.M. Hamiltunes: An American Singalong, preceded by a lecture, “Right Hand Man, George Washington and the Politics of Portraiture,” with Curator Katie Pfohl JANUARY 26, 5:30 – 8:30 P.M. Mia Borders FEBRUARY 2, 5:30 – 8:30 P.M. Lynn Drury

STORYQUEST Spark imagination, creativity, and a love of reading. Professional authors, actors, and artists bring the world of children’s literature to NOMA in this family program. Family activities are offered after each StoryQuest to encourage museum exploration.

Select Saturdays, 11 – 11:30 a.m., January 13, 27, February 3, 24, March 3, 10, April 7, 21

NOMA EGG HUNT AND FAMILY FESTIVAL SATURDAY, MARCH 24 10 A.M. – 1 P.M. For tickets or more information, call (504) 568-4121 or visit noma.org.

POETS FOR ART SATURDAY, APRIL 7 10 A.M. – 4 P.M. FREE poetry workshop for students in grades 6 to 12. For information, e-mail scork@noma.org, or call (504) 658-4117. www.noma.org

FEBRUARY 16, 5:30 – 8:30 P.M. The Huval-Fuselier Cajun Trio FEBRUARY 23, 5:30 – 8:30 P.M. Bon Bon Vivant MARCH 2, 7 – 8 P.M. Opéra Nouvelle presents Champion: An Opera in Jazz by Terence Blanchard (See sidebar.)

MARCH 16, 5:30 – 8:30 P.M. Margie Perez and Her Cosa Latina APRIL 27, 5:30 – 8:30 P.M. Sasha Masakowski

Opéra Nouvelle presents Champion: An Opera in Jazz

by Terence Blanchard

March 2, 7 – 8 p.m.

In advance of its New Orleans premiere by the New Orleans Opera, NOMA will host a sneak preview of Champion: An Opera in Jazz by local jazz trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard, a five-time Grammy award winner. Champion is the complex story of world-champion welterweight boxer Emile Griffith, whose character asks: “What makes a man a man?” Audiences travel through Griffith’s broken memories as he retraces his steps to success and failure in love, life, and sport, as both a boxing champion and a gay man in the 1960s. Bass opera singer Arthur Woodley portrays the lead character.

Salsa Tuesdays!

PRESENTED BY NOMA AND LIQUID RHYTHM, INC.

Tuesdays, April 10 – 24 6 – 7 p.m.

In conjunction with Carlos Rolón: Outside/In, join instructors from Latin dance company Liquid Rhythm, Inc. for a three-part salsa class. Classes are open to adults and teens. No prior dance experience is necessary. $30 for the series; $12 for advance-registration single classes; or $15 drop in. NOMA members receive a $2 discount on single-class registrations.

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Fashion on Film The Legacy of Alexander McQueen

Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict 2015 | 1 HOUR, 36 MINUTES

A portrait of a patron of the arts who transformed a modest fortune and impeccable taste into one of the premiere collections of twentieth-century art.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 6 | 2 P.M.

2015 | 52 MINUTES

Explores designer Alexander McQueen’s artistic inspirations through the lens of the last four collections before his death.

FRIDAY, MARCH 2 | 6:30 P.M.

Adele’s Wish 2008 | 55 MINUTES

An in-depth account of Maria Altman’s attempts to recover Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I from the Republic of Austria.

Bangaologia: The Science of Style 2016 | 1 HOUR, 25 MINUTES

FRIDAY, JANUARY 12 | 7:30 P.M.

Explores the flamboyant world of banga— a word translated as “swagger”—as expressed by residents in Angola.

Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock?

SATURDAY, MARCH 3 | 2 P.M.

2006 | RATED PG-13 | 1 HOUR, 14 MINUTES

Trucker Teri Horton’s $5 thrift store purchase leads her through the art world as she attempts to sell a work she believes was created by Jackson Pollock.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 27 | 2 P.M.

Manolo: The Boy Who Made Shoes for Lizards 2017 | 1 HOUR, 29 MINUTES

Herb and Dorothy

A portrait of Manolo Blahnik, the man regarded as the best shoe maker of our time.

2008 | 1 HOUR, 27 MINUTES

SATURDAY, APRIL 7 | 2 P.M.

Herb and Dorothy Vogel wanted to be artists.

Instead they carried out their lives as a postal clerk (Herb) and a librarian (Dorothy), who amassed one of the most important collections of American contemporary art.

The First Monday in May 2016 | RATED PG-13 | 1 HOUR, 30 MINUTES

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16 | 7 P.M.

Follows the creation of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s fashion exhibition, China: Through the Looking Glass.

Iris

FRIDAY, APRIL 20 | 7 P.M.

2014 | RATED PG-13 | 1 HOUR, 19 MINUTES

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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17 | 2 P.M.

FRIDAY, MAY 18 | 9:30 P.M.

SPECIAL SCREENING

Peggy Guggenheim

Iris pairs the late documentarian Albert Maysles, then 87, with Iris Apfel, the quickwitted, flamboyantly dressed 93-year-old style maven who has had an outsized presence on the New York fashion scene for decades.

2009 | RATED PG-13 | 1 HOUR, 30 MINUTES

Chronicles Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour’s preparation for the annual fall season’s most important fashion issue.

The Square

2017 | RATED R | 2 HOURS, 22 MINUTES

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25 | 2 P.M. Disaster strikes when a curator hires a public relations team to build some buzz for his renowned Swedish museum.

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The Besthoff Sculpture Garden becomes a horticulturalist’s paradise during the blooming season of native and hybrid Louisiana irises. Visitors will have the opportunity to purchase Louisiana irises, attend lectures, and ask on-site iris experts any gardeningrelated question. This year’s festival will coincide with conventions for the American Iris Society and the Society for Louisiana Irises.

MINDFULNESS CLASSES SATURDAY, APRIL 21 | 10 A.M. – 12 P.M NOMA will launch a series of mindfulness classes with an information session and a special screening of the documentary Walk with Me (2017), narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch. This is a free public program—museum admission waived for attendees in Stern Auditorium.

This seven-part series will be held on Saturdays from 10 – 11:30 a.m. beginning May 12. $70 nonmembers; $50 NOMA members. Maximum class size is 30. Participants sign up for the series, not per class.

THE INDIVISIBLE AND THE INVINCIBLE with Prospect.4 artist Odili Donald Odita FRIDAY, JANUARY 26 | 7 – 8:30 P.M. NOMA will host Odili Donald Odita, an African American abstract painter who lives in Philadelphia, for a lecture about his work displayed across New Orleans as part of the Prospect.4 arts triennial. Odita’s The Indivisible and Invincible: Monument to Black Liberation and Celebration in the City of New Orleans features a series of custom flags hung at sixteen sites throughout the city of importance in African American history.

CALENDAR HIGHLIGHTS • JANUARY — APRIL, 2018

LOUISIANA RAINBOW IRIS FESTIVAL SUNDAY, APRIL 15 | 10 A.M. – 4 P.M.

Q U E E N O F A RTS : C E L E B R AT I N G 3 0 Y E A R S O F A RT I N B LO O M I N PA RT N E R S H I P W I T H

MARCH 14 – 18, 2018 One of the most anticipated springtime events in New Orleans, Art in Bloom showcases spectacular floral designs created by over 100 exhibitors that remain on display at NOMA for four days, from March 14 – 18. This year’s theme, Queen of Arts: Celebrating 30 Years of Art in Bloom, will bring together exhibitors from New Orleans and beyond to pair floral displays with NOMA’s art and sculpture. Proceeds from Art in Bloom benefit education projects and exhibitions at NOMA and community projects of The Garden Study Club of New Orleans.

MARCH 14 | Patron Party 6 P.M. | Preview Party 7 – 10 P.M. MARCH 15 | Lectures and Luncheon 9:30 a.m.

CHARLES MASSON, famed restaurateur of New York’s La Grenouille and Marjorelle

10:45 a.m.

LELA ROSE, an American fashion designer

12:30 p.m.

LUNCHEON AND FASHION SHOW in the Pavilion of the Two Sisters, New Orleans Botanical Garden

FOR TICKETS OR INFORMATION: 504.658.4121 | aib@noma.org

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SATURDAY, JANUARY 6

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28

8 a.m. YOGA in the Sculpture Garden

12 p.m. NOONTIME TALK New Forms, New Voices with Curator Lisa Rotondo-McCord

NOMA closed for Endymion Parade Saturday

1:30 – 3 p.m. NOMA BOOK CLUB DISCUSSION GROUP Isabella Blow: A Life in Fashion

12 p.m. NOONTIME TALK East of the Mississippi with Curator Russell Lord 2 p.m. COLLECT-O-MANIA FILM FEST Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict

MONDAY, JANUARY 8 6 p.m. TAI CHI

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. NOMA BOOK CLUB Field Trip to Antoine’s Restaurant and the Presbytere 12 p.m. NOONTIME TALK Personalities in Clay with collector E. John Bullard

1:30 – 3 p.m. BOOK CLUB DISCUSSION GROUP Fabulous New Orleans by Lyle Saxon

THURSDAY, JANUARY 25 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. BOOK CLUB DISCUSSION GROUP Fabulous New Orleans by Lyle Saxon

FRIDAY, JANUARY 26 Friday Nights at NOMA 5 – 8 p.m. ART ON THE SPOT 5:30 – 8:30 p.m. MUSIC Mia Borders

FRIDAY, JANUARY 12 Friday Nights at NOMA 5 – 8 p.m. ART ON THE SPOT 5:30 – 8:30 p.m. MUSIC Kettle Black Trio

6 p.m. ARTIST PERSPECTIVE Personalities in Clay with artist Kevin O’Keefe 7 p.m. LECTURE The Indivisible and the Invincible with Prospect.4 artist Odili Donald Odita

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13 NOMA closed for Mardi Gras FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16 Friday Nights at NOMA 5 – 8 p.m. ART ON THE SPOT 5:30 – 8:30 p.m MUSIC by HuvalFuselier Cajun Trio

7 p.m. COLLECT-O-MANIA FILM FEST Herb and Dorothy

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17 8 a.m. YOGA in the Sculpture Garden 2 p.m. COLLECT-O-MANIA FILM FEST Iris

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19

SATURDAY, JANUARY 27

6 p.m. TAI CHI

7:30 p.m. COLLECT-O-MANIA FILM FEST Adele’s Wish

8 a.m. YOGA in the Sculpture Garden

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21

SATURDAY, JANUARY 13

11 a.m. STORYQUEST

8 a.m. YOGA in the Sculpture Garden

2 p.m. COLLECT-O-MANIA FILM FEST Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock?

10 a.m. STUDIO KIDS! 11 a.m. STORYQUEST

MONDAY, JANUARY 15 6 p.m. TAI CHI

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17 12 p.m. NOONTIME TALK Bror Anders Wikstrom: Bringing Fantasy to Carnival with Curator Mel Buchanan

MONDAY, JANUARY 29 6 p.m. TAI CHI

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2 5 – 8 p.m. ART ON THE SPOT 5:30 – 8:30 p.m. MUSIC Lynn Drury

12 p.m. NOONTIME TALK A Queen Within with Curators Sofia Hedman and Serge Martynov

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. NOMA BOOK CLUB Curatorial Program with Mel Buchanan

6 p.m. GALLERY TALK New Forms, New Voices with Curator Lisa Rotundo-McCord

8 a.m. YOGA in the Sculpture Garden

10 a.m. STUDIO KIDS!

10 a.m. STUDIO KIDS!

11 a.m. STORYQUEST

6 p.m. LECTURE A Queen Within with Exhibition Curators Sofia Hedman and Serge Martynov

8 a.m. YOGA in the Sculpture Garden

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25

MONDAY, JANUARY 22

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9

6 p.m. TAI CHI

No Friday Nights at NOMA

2 p.m. FASHION ON FILM Bangaologia: The Science of Style

MONDAY, MARCH 5

TUESDAY, MARCH 6 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. NOMA BOOK CLUB Meet the Author, Pamela Arceneaux 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. CLASSES WITH CURATORS Looking Again: Histories of Photography with Curator Russell Lord

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7

5 – 8 p.m. ART ON THE SPOT 6 p.m. 15TH ANNUAL TULANE MAYA SYMPOSIUM The Bold and the Bellicose: Maya Warfare in the Conquest Era, a keynote address

by Dr. Matthew Restall

SATURDAY, MARCH 10 8 a.m. YOGA in the Sculpture Garden 10 a.m. STUDIO KIDS!

11 a.m. STORYQUEST

8 a.m. YOGA in the Sculpture Garden

11 a.m. STORYQUEST

Friday Nights at NOMA

5:30 – 8:30 p.m. MUSIC Bon Bon Vivant

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24

12 p.m. NOONTIME TALK Bror Anders Wikstrom: Bringing Fantasy to Carnival with Curator Mel Buchanan

10 a.m. STUDIO KIDS!

FRIDAY, MARCH 9

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2

SATURDAY, JANUARY 20

8 a.m. YOGA in the Sculpture Garden

5 – 8 p.m. ART ON THE SPOT

5 – 8 p.m. ART ON THE SPOT

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7

SATURDAY, MARCH 3

Friday Nights at NOMA

7:30 p.m. DOCENT-GUIDED TOUR

7 p.m. HAMILTUNES NOLA: An American Singalong

7 p.m. OPÉRA NOUVELLE Champion: An Opera in Jazz

by Terence Blanchard

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23

Friday Nights at NOMA

6 p.m. TAI CHI

6:30 p.m. FASHION ON FILM The Legacy of Alexander McQueen

12 p.m. NOONTIME TALK A Queen Within with Curator Mel Buchanan

FRIDAY, JANUARY 19

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5

5 – 8 p.m. ART ON THE SPOT

6 p.m. TAI CHI

6 p.m. A PASSION FOR COLLECTING A Conversation with Dr. Kurt Gitter and Alice Yelen-Gitter, moderated by Curator Lisa Rotondo-McCord for New Forms, New Voices

6:45 p.m. SPOTLIGHT TOUR Right Hand Man: George Washington and the Politics of Portraiture in Early America with Curator Katie Pfohl

Friday Nights at NOMA

6 p.m DOCENT-GUIDED TOUR

6 p.m. GALLERY TALK Personalities in Clay with collector E. John Bullard

10 a.m. STUDIO KIDS!

FRIDAY, MARCH 2

2 – 4:30 p.m. FILM The Square

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26 6 – 7 p.m. TAI CHI

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. NOMA BOOK CLUB DISCUSSION GROUP Isabella Blow: A Life in Fashion

by Lauren Goldstein Crowe

11 a.m. STORYQUEST

MONDAY, MARCH 12 6 p.m. TAI CHI

TUESDAY, MARCH 13 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. CLASSES WITH CURATORS Looking Again: Histories of Photography with Curator Russell Lord

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14 ART IN BLOOM 2018

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THURSDAY, MARCH 15

TUESDAY, APRIL 3

ART IN BLOOM 2018

6:30 – 8:30 p.m. ADULT ART STUDIO

FRIDAY, MARCH 16

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4

ART IN BLOOM 2018

12 p.m. NOONTIME TALK Women, Fashion, and Power with Kelsey Brosnan, Curatorial Fellow for European Art

Friday Nights at NOMA 5 – 8 p.m. ART ON THE SPOT

FRIDAY, APRIL 6

5:30 – 8:30 p.m. MUSIC Margie Perez and Her Cosa Latina

Friday Nights at NOMA

6 p.m. GALLERY TALK A Queen Within with Curator Mel Buchanan 7 p.m. CURATOR- AND ARTIST-LED TOUR Carlos Rolón: Outside/In

5 – 8 p.m. ART ON THE SPOT 6 p.m. NOMA-TULANE DESIGN SYMPOSIUM Photography and Fashion

SATURDAY, APRIL 7 SATURDAY, MARCH 17

8 a.m. YOGA in the Sculpture Garden

8 a.m. YOGA in the Sculpture Garden

10 a.m. STUDIO KIDS!

ART IN BLOOM 2018

10 a.m. – 4 p.m. POETS FOR ART

SUNDAY, MARCH 18

11 a.m. STORYQUEST

ART IN BLOOM 2018

Manolo: The Boy Who Made Shoes for Lizards

3 - 4 p.m. IN CONVERSATION New Orleans Fashion Week Founder Tracee Dundas with Local Designers Tabitha Bethune and Brik Allen

MONDAY, MARCH 19 6 p.m. TAI CHI

TUESDAY, MARCH 20

2 p.m. FASHION ON FILM

TACO TRUCK THEATER FRIDAY, APRIL 20 | 7 PM • SUNDAY, APRIL 22 | 2 PM Performance artist José Torres-Tamas and the ArteFuturo Ensemble have transformed a taco truck into a theater-on-wheels, inspired by Luis Valdez’s Teatro Campesino performances on flatbed trucks in the 1970s. Admission is $12 for NOMA members, $18 general admission.

MONDAY, APRIL 9

SATURDAY, APRIL 21

6 p.m. TAI CHI

8 a.m. YOGA in the Sculpture Garden

TUESDAY, APRIL 10 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. NOMA BOOK CLUB Curatorial Program with Vanessa Schmid, Senior Research Curator for European Art

10 a.m. STUDIO KIDS! 10 a.m. – MINDFULNESS CLASSES INFO SESSION and special screening of Walk With Me 11 a.m. STORYQUEST

6:30 – 8:30 p.m. CLASSES WITH CURATORS Looking Again: Histories of Photography with Curator Russell Lord

6:30 – 8:30 p.m. ADULT ART STUDIO

SUNDAY, APRIL 22

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11

2 p.m. TACO TRUCK THEATER

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21

12 p.m. NOONTIME TALK Carlos Rolón: Outside/In with Curator Katie Pfohl

12 p.m. NOONTIME TALK A Queen Within with Curator Mel Buchanan

FRIDAY, APRIL 13

FRIDAY, MARCH 23

Friday Nights at NOMA

Friday Nights at NOMA 5 – 7 p.m. ART ON THE SPOT

5 – 7:30 p.m. ART ON THE SPOT 7:30 p.m. MOVIES IN THE GARDEN Marie Antoinette

3:30 p.m. GALLERY TALK Carlos Rolón: Outside/In with Curator Katie Pfohl

MONDAY, APRIL 23 6 p.m. TAI CHI

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25 12 p.m. NOONTIME TALK Veronese Altarpieces with Curator Vanessa Schmid

7 p.m. BRING YOUR OWN: AN EVENING OF STORYTELLING Besthoff Sculpture Garden

SATURDAY, APRIL 14

SATURDAY, MARCH 24

8 a.m. YOGA in the Sculpture Garden

1:30 – 3 p.m. NOMA BOOK CLUB DISCUSSION GROUP Vermeer’s Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World by Timothy Brook

8 a.m. YOGA in the Sculpture Garden

8 a.m. – 5 p.m. LOUISIANA RAINBOW IRIS FESTIVAL in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden

THURSDAY, APRIL 26

10 a.m. – 1 p.m. NOMA EGG HUNT AND FAMILY FESTIVAL

MONDAY, MARCH 26

6:30 p.m. TAI CHI

11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. NOMA BOOK CLUB DISCUSSION GROUP Vermeer’s Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World by Timothy Brook

6 p.m. TAI CHI

TUESDAY, APRIL 17

FRIDAY, APRIL 27

TUESDAY, MARCH 27

6:30 – 8:30 p.m. ADULT ART STUDIO

Friday Nights at NOMA

11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. NOMA BOOK CLUB DISCUSSION GROUP Art as Therapy by Alain de Botton and John Armstrong

FRIDAY, APRIL 20

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28

5 – 8 p.m. ART ON THE SPOT

12 – 1 p.m. NOONTIME TALK Curator Katie Pfohl discusses artist Robert Rauschenberg 1:30 – 3 p.m. NOMA BOOK CLUB DISCUSSION GROUP Art as Therapy by Alain de Botton and John Armstrong

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MONDAY, APRIL 16

Friday Nights at NOMA

6 p.m. GALLERY TALK Carlos Rolón: Outside/In with Curator Katie Pfohl 7 p.m. FASHION ON FILM The First Monday in May 7 p.m. TACO TRUCK THEATER

5 – 8 p.m. ART ON THE SPOT 5:30 – 8:30 p.m. MUSIC Sasha Masakowski 6:30 p.m. GALLERY TALK Lee Friedlander in Louisiana with Curator Russell Lord

SATURDAY, APRIL 28 8 a.m. YOGA in the Sculpture Garden

MONDAY, APRIL 30 6 p.m. TAI CHI

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2018 BOARD OF TRUSTEES

ACCREDITATION

Michael J. Siegel, President

James J. (Jimmy) Reiss, Jr.

Janice Parmelee, First Vice-President

Jolie Shelton

Stephanie Feoli, Vice-President

Susu Stall

Michael Smith, Vice-President

Frank B. Stewart, Jr.

Elizabeth Monaghan, Secretary

Catherine Burns Tremaine

Lynes R. (Poco) Sloss, Treasurer

Melanee Gaudin Usdin

Rob Steeg, At-Large

Brent Wood

Julie Livaudais George, Immediate Past President Sydney J. Besthoff III Suzanne Thomas

MEMBERS Herschel L. Abbott, Jr. Jay Batt Gayle M. Benson Elizabeth Boone Caroline Calhoun Henry Coaxum Scott Cowen Margo DuBos Tim L. Fields Penny Francis Tony Gelderman Dathel Coleman Georges Adrea D. Heebe Russ Herman Marshall Hevron Hunter Hill Robert Hinckley Joe Jaeger David Kelso Kenya LeNoir Messer Louis J. Lupin Robert Lupo Cammie Mayer Juli Miller Hart Brenda Moffitt Howard Osofsky J. Stephen Perry Thomas F. Reese

The New Orleans Museum of Art is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums.

The Honorable Mayor, Mitchell J. Landrieu Susan G. Guidry, New Orleans City Council Member Anne Redd, NVC Chairman

NATIONAL TRUSTEES Joseph Baillio

New Orleans Museum of Art EDITOR

David Johnson ART DIRECTOR

Mrs. Carmel (Babette) Cohen

Mary Degnan

Mrs. Mason (Kim) Granger

STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERS

Herbert Kaufman, M.D.

Roman Alohkin Sesthasak Boonchai

Mrs. James (Cherye) Pierce

EDITORIAL INTERN

Jerry Heymann

Mrs. Billie Milam Weisman

HONOR ARY LIFE MEMBERS Mrs. Edgar L. (Leah) Chase, Jr. Prescott N. Dunbar S. Stewart Farnet Sandra Draughn Freeman Kurt A. Gitter, M.D.

Katelyn Fecteau

NOMA Magazine (ISSN 0740-9214) is published by the New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA 70124 © 2018, New Orleans Museum of Art. All rights reserved. No part of this magazine may be reproduced or reprinted without permission of the publisher.

Every effort has been made to acknowledge correct copyright of images where applicable. Any errors or omissions are unintentional and should be notified to NOMA’s Publications Department, who will arrange for corrections to appear in any reprints or online editions.

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New Orleans Museum of Art | NOMA Magazine

Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden Expansion Opening in late 2018 as part of New Orleans’ Tricentennial Celebration

Read more about the expansion in the next edition of NOMA Magazine, debuting in late April.

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