CREATING COMMUNITY
New Orleans Museum of Art
May – August 2018
DIRECTOR’S LETTE R
Susan M. Taylor
FRONT COVER
From the exhibition Lee Friedlander: American Musicians Lee Friedlander, American, born 1934, Aretha Franklin, 1968, Iris print on rag paper Courtesy of the artist and Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
LEFT From the exhibition Veronese in Murano: Two Venetian Renaissance Masterpieces Restored Paolo Veronese, St. Jerome in the Wilderness, 1566-1567, Detail, Oil on canvas, San Pietro Martire, Murano, Italy, Photo: Matteo De Fina
Along with being discriminating food connoisseurs, festivalgoers, and music devotees, New Orleanians embody another distinctive trait—that of being among the world’s great storytellers. The city has produced some of America’s most admired novelists and playwrights, and virtually every social gathering is filled with firsthand tales that, as we commonly say, “you just can’t make up!” This summer at the New Orleans Museum of Art, we have charged ourselves with telling stories from New Orleans’ storied past in Changing Course: Reflections on New Orleans Histories. This exhibition features works by five artists, emerging and well established, local and not, along with an arts collective and a broad cross section of the city in our Everyday New Orleans Project. The artists address historical moments that continue to resonate into the present, from the construction of the Interstate 10 expressway through Treme, and the tragic UpStairs Lounge arson of 1973 that consumed thirty-two lives, to the spiritual awakening of street preacher/self-taught artist Sister Gertrude Morgan, and the commonalities of traditional jazz funerals and the funerary rituals within the city’s enclaves of Vietnamese-Americans. The Everyday New Orleans Project invites New Orleanians from all walks of life, but particularly public high school students, to document their surroundings in digital snapshots that will be presented as a photography installation. While we are examining the changing course of New Orleans’ many narratives, NOMA is staying the course by reinforcing our commitment to showcase regional talent and strengthen the common bonds within our community through art. We are also charting a new course with exciting, ongoing developments. In March, our new and adaptable NOMA+ “pop-up museum” became a reality. This portable “museum without walls” visited various school campuses, libraries, and community centers as part of the Everyday New Orleans Project. Our goal is to bring the collective energy of NOMA to the streets of New Orleans, a city filled with so much creativity that every neighborhood contains a richness of images, perspectives, and narratives—enough to fill any museum gallery. Forming a figurative bridge between our institution and the diverse constituencies we serve is the goal of this mobile gallery that will be used for multiple purposes in the months and years to come. We owe much of its success to Allison Reid, Deputy Director for Interpretation and Audience Engagement, a valued senior staff member who for the last seven years has led the department in the establishment of new signature initiatives for NOMA. She will be pursuing a new career path— preparing for the Episcopal priesthood, an opportunity that allows her to engage even more people with her vision for a just and equitable society. She will be missed, but we are thrilled with new hires, some of whom you will meet within the pages of this magazine. Visitors to City Park will immediately notice that a major project is underway adjacent to the museum. We are making steady progress on realizing an expansion of our beloved Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden. By its completion in early 2019, this outdoor art space will include native Louisiana landscaping, a gallery pavilion, a performing arts amphitheater, and, most importantly, room for sculptures by twenty-first century artists and a landscape created in response to them. I invite you to consider supporting this new landmark with your financial support, along with all other endeavors at NOMA. As New Orleans marks its tricentennial, NOMA has set a goal of breaking the benchmark visitation of “300,000 for 300.” With 291,000 visitors last year, we are certainly within striking distance in 2018. We want to see you in that number.
Susan M. Taylor The Montine McDaniel Freeman Director
CREATING COMMUNITY Selected highlights from May – August 2018
C ELEBRATE Bastille Day Fête FRIDAY, JULY 13, 5 – 9 P.M. Named among the top three Bastille Day celebrations in the world by Reuters.com, Bastille Day Fête celebrates the connection between Louisiana and France at the New Orleans Museum of Art. Now in its seventh year, the celebration will be bring a Gallic joie de vivre to the people of New Orleans.
LEARN Guest Speaker Anna DesOrmeaux at NOMA Book Club FRIDAY, JULY 13, 12 – 1 P.M.
Lee Friedlander, American, b. 1934, John Coltrane, 1960, Iris print on rag paper, Courtesy of the artist and Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
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Lee Friedlander: American Musicians
Lisette’s List: A Novel by Susan Vreeland is the July selection for the NOMA Book Club. This work of historical fiction, set during World War II, centers upon a French villager who hides treasured works by Camille Pissaro and Paul Cézanne, keeping the paintings out of the reach of invading German troops. Book Club members will hear Anna DesOrmeaux of the National World War II Museum discuss Nazi art theft and reparations.
THROUGH JUNE 17 The walls of the Great Hall contain a pictorial Hall of Fame for some of America’s greatest musical talents of the late twentieth century. From the mid-1950s through the 1970s, photographer Lee Friedlander was hired by a number of major recording labels to shoot album covers and publicity shots for a pantheon of top-bill performers. NOMA’s curators have selected songs from each of the musicians in a Spotify playlist that can be heard at a kiosk within the exhibition or online at noma.org/spotify. 2
Generals Patton, Bradley, and Eisenhower examine looted art hidden in a German salt mine, 1945.
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CONTENTS
AMUSE
A CQUISITIONS
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The NOLA Project presents The Three Musketeers The NOLA Project returns to NOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture Garden with another exciting and hilarious adaptation by award-winning playwright Pete McElligott. The company takes on Alexandre Dumas’ classic tale in a production that is part Monty Python foolishness and part swashbuckling adventure tale. Bring-Your-Own Seating! There will be a front section for blankets and an area in the rear for chairs. This entire production will take place in one location in the back of the garden. BESTHOFF SCULPTURE GARDEN May 9, 10, 11, 13, 16, 17, 18, 20, 23, 24, 25, and 27 Food truck service begins at 5 p.m. Seating begins at 6 p.m. | Show starts at 7 p.m. $25 for adults ($30 for Friday performances) $18 for NOMA members TICKETS: www.nolaproject.com | 504.302.9117
5 Indian Art Gallery Features Classical and Folk Objects EXHIBITIONS
PLAY Baby ArtsPlay! SATURDAYS, JULY 7 – AUGUST 11, 10:30 A.M. Instill a love of art at a young age through a guided, hands-on gallery experience. Young Audiences Wolf Trap teaching artists will present a series of six workshops for caregivers and children, from newborns to age 3. Learn how to integrate music, movement, and drama into everyday playtime to foster children’s developmental growth. Register now at www.yabap.eventbrite.com.
ATTEND Artist Perspective: Metalworker Darryl Reeves in conversation with Jonn Ethan Hankins FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 6 P.M.
DANCE Bounce-N-Line Dance Classes TUESDAYS AT 6 P.M., JULY 3, 10, 17, 24 Presented in conjunction with Changing Course: Reflections on New Orleans Histories, this weekly class presented by Dancing Grounds combines two uniquely New Orleans dance forms—bounce and second-line. Classes will be open to teens and adults. Register online in advance at noma.org for discounted pricing. Drop-in participants also welcome.
Darryl Reeves is a third-generation metalworker and owner of Andrew’s Welding and Blacksmith Shop in New Orleans’ Seventh Ward. He is a master trainer for the New Orleans Master Crafts Guild, training apprentices in advanced ironwork, including welding and blacksmithing. He will join Jonn Ethan Hankins, founding director of the Guild, for a discussion about decorative ironwork as it relates to the exhibition Carlos Rolón: Outside/In.
6 Veronese in Murano: Two Venetian Renaissance Masterpieces Restored 8 Carlos Rolón’s Hustleman 10 Lee Friedlander in Louisiana 11 Attributed to: Photographs by E.J. Bellocq FEATURE
12 Changing Course: Reflections on New Orleans Histories LEARN
18 NOMA+ Brings a Pop-Up Museum to the Community SUPPORT
20 Inspired by NOMA: Harvey Orth 21 Frank Stewart Honored with Isaac Delgado Memorial Award 22 Recent Events 23 NOMA Donors 24 Remembering Elizabeth Stafford SHOP
25 The Museum Shop celebrates current exhibitions CALENDAR
26 Events by date 28 Film Series 29 Arts & Letters 30 Highlights
$10 online sales prior to the class, online only at noma.org $12 at the door ($8 for NOMA and Dancing Grounds members, discounted price only available at the door)
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MASTER CRAFTSMAN DARRYL REEVES
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ACQUISITIONS
OL A FUR ELIASSON: THE HINGED VIEW As one moves around The Hinged View, a sculpture by Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson, six colorful glass spheres interact with light and shadow to capture the entire visible color spectrum, from brilliant blue to bright red. Remaining stationary permits the viewer to see only a fraction of these widely varied hues. The full range of colors is only wholly perceivable by moving entirely around the form. The Hinged View shows us how our knowledge about the world is often proscribed by our limited point of view, and suggests that approaching the world from a broader perspective might result in a richer, more expansive set of visual experiences. Eliasson works at the intersection of aesthetics, science, and politics to create art that speaks to our current political moment, but his work also transcends specific issues and concerns.
Frequently working with elemental materials such as water, wind, and light, his work often calls attention to the complexity and diversity of the natural world. His art reframes our natural environment not as a resource to be exploited or protected, but rather as a thing with its own sentience that has much to teach us about how we relate to the surrounding world. He frequently creates works such as The Hinged View that rely on viewers to “co-produce” their aesthetic experience by interacting with natural elements—in this case light and color. Encouraging people to become more attune to variability and diversity in the natural environment, his art seeks to cultivate new forms of attention, engagement, and recognition that might help us negotiate the complexities of contemporary cultural life.
Created against the backdrop of the 2016 presidential elections in the United States, The Hinged View seeks to heighten perceptual awareness as a way to counteract the often polarizing nature of current political discourse. As Eliasson said, “At a time when oversimplification is everywhere, I believe art can play an important role in creating aesthetic experiences that are both open and complex. Today, in politics, we are bombarded with…simplistic, populist ideas. The arts and culture, on the other hand, provide spaces in which people can disagree yet still be together. At its best, art trains our critical capacities for perceiving and interpreting the world. Yet art does not tell us what to do or how to feel, but rather empowers us to find out for ourselves.” Katie A. Pfohl, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art
Olafur Eliasson (Icelandic, b. 1967), The Hinged View, 2017, Powder-coated stainless steel and painted glass spheres, Museum purchase with funds provided by Sydney and Walda Besthoff
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INDIA N A RT GA LLERY FEATUR ES CL ASSICA L A ND FOLK OBJECTS Beginning in mid-June, new acquisitions in Indian art will be highlighted in the Indian gallery on NOMA’s third floor. Touching upon the various strengths of our collections, these new acquisitions and selected loans highlight facets of artistic production from the Indian classical tradition as well as village, or folk, production. The bronze sculpture Seated Mahavira, dating from the thirteenth century (right) depicts the historical founder of Jainism. Less well known than Hinduism or Buddhism, Jainism is one of the oldest continually practiced faiths on the Indian subcontinent. The historical founder of the faith, Mahavira is represented here, identified by the lion at the base of his throne. A slightly older contemporary of the Buddha, Mahavira is the last of the twenty-four Jinas (or “Conquerers”) of this present cycle of time. Enlightened beings who have achieved perfection, Jinas serve as spiritual guides for others and form a focal point of worship at temples, or as is likely in this case, domestic shrines. NOMA’s display of the vernacular arts of India has been augmented by new additions and loans. An array of lively embellished textiles, known as kanthas, reveal a remarkable diversity of motifs embroidered by women in what is now West Bengal and the country of Bangladesh. Made from humble, everyday materials, these textiles commemorate life events, such as weddings and births. Displayed nearby are two additions to the collection, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century copper alloy masks from Maharashtra. Representing manifestations of the Hindu God Shiva, as well as local deities, masks of this type were central to devotional practice.
A new selection of Jain paintings, manuscripts and rare nineteenth-century photographs are also on view, including a remarkable paper negative taken by John Murray (1809–1898), who created many of the earliest and most striking images of rural and urban nineteenthcentury India while serving in the Bengal Medical Service, beginning in 1833. Lisa Rotondo-McCord, Curator of Asian Art
Seated Mahavira, Rajasthan, 13th century, Bronze, Gift of Dr. Siddharth K. Bhansali, 2017.235
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EXHIBITIONS
V ERONESE IN MUR A NO: TWO V ENETIA N M ASTER PIECES R ESTOR ED
St. Agatha Visited in Prison by St. Peter, 1566-1567, Oil on canvas, San Pietro Martire, Murano, Italy, Photo: Matteo De Fina.
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Regarded as one of the greatest artists of the Italian Renaissance, the work of Paolo Veronese (15281588), named after his hometown of Verona, is admired for its splendid colorito, lively brushwork, and theatricality. Two recently restored paintings exemplifying the glory of Veronese’s art are on view in the second-floor Frederick M. Stafford Gallery through September 3. The paintings were fully restored by Venetian Heritage, thanks to the sponsorship of Bulgari, the Italian jewelry and luxury goods brand. NOMA is only the second US museum to display these works, following an exhibition that originated in October 2017 at the Frick Collection in New York. Painted in 1566–67 for a side chapel of the church of Santa Maria degli Angeli on the Venetian island of Murano, the two paintings are mid-career masterpieces. In November 1566, the priest Francesco degli Arbori sought to build a private a chapel adjacent to the church where he served as chaplain. The chapel was to be dedicated to Saint Jerome, one of the four doctors of the Western Church. The nuns of Santa Maria degli Angeli decided to move the paintings from the chapel to the main church by 1667, and they were later transferred to their present location San Pietro Martire after the Napoleonic invasion closed the monastery. For the main altar of the chapel, Saint Jerome in the Wilderness (see inside front cover) is heroically presented to the viewer, kneeling in prayer before the crucifix. Light, streaming from above and beyond the frame at upper right, highlights the old man’s face and chest, the hand holding the stone of his selfflagellation catches the light out of shadow. The bold light, textures, and emotional expression showcase Veronese’s dramatic approach. The lion at left refers to the story that Jerome helped the ailing beast by removing a needle from its paw, ensuring its loyalty and companionship. The brilliant blues and oranges of the sky and the rose silk tunic of Jerome exemplify the high-keyed tones of Veronese’s greatest works, while the intensity of Jerome’s feeling—in facial expression, tensed muscles, revelatory gaze, tears streaming—are arresting. A learned Roman of the fourth century, hermit St. Jerome translated the Bible into Latin, later known as
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the Vulgate. After his arrival in Palestine, he endured trials in the desert of Syria. This period of his life is referenced in Veronese’s scene. Likely facing the Saint Jerome, the second picture from the altarpiece depicts the early Christian sixth-century martyr Saint Agatha Visited in Prison by St. Peter. She has been imprisoned by the Roman Consul Quintinian, who wanted to seduce her despite her avowal of chastity. Agatha is shown in her prison cell in the moments after her torture, when she had a vision of Saint Peter, entering at right, led by a torchbearing angel and holding his attribute, the keys of the gates to heaven. Her wounds were miraculously healed by the vision and her steadfast faith. Under torture, Agatha’s breasts were cut off, and here the mutilation is shown, somewhat decorously, with blood streaking her cloak. Agatha was from Sicily and is cherished in the Sicilian cities of Catania and Palermo, which both claim her birthplace, and she remains the patron saint of breast disease. Both pictures will be displayed in magnificent late Baroque frames. These later frames were added after the paintings were moved to the main church. Recently cleaned, the technical virtuosity of the carving and elegant acanthusleaf motifs vividly demonstrate the height of woodworking traditions in the city. While the paintings are known to scholars, their remote location in a church in Murano, an island in the lagoon of Venice, has made them difficult to study. St. Jerome in the Wilderness has been exhibited outside the church only once—in 1939, in the Paolo Veronese exhibition at Ca’ Giustinian, in Venice—while St. Agatha Visited in Prison by St. Peter has not left since being installed there in the early nineteenth century. Veronese in Murano: Two Venetian Renaissance Masterpieces Restored was organized by the Frick’s Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator Xavier F. Salomon, an eminent Veronese scholar (who wrote the accompanying catalogue), and Venetian Heritage. Vanessa Schmid, Senior Research Curator for European Art
Two additional Veronese paintings will be on view at NOMA this fall, as part of The Orléans Collection exhibition. (See page 32 for more information.)
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IN TER ACTING W ITH CA R LOS ROLÓN’S H USTLEM A N
Carlos Rolón, American, b. 1970, Nomadic Habitat (Hustleman), 2015, Mixed media, Collection of the artist
Street vendors are a ubiquitous sight in global urban settings, from pushcarts in the cobblestone alleyways of San Juan’s colonial quarter to trucks in the skyscraper canyons of Chicago and sidewalk tables on Canal Street in New Orleans. Puerto Rican artist Carlos Rolón, inspired by this age-old, portable form of trade, has transformed the concept of the “street hustle” into an installation that goes beyond commercial utility to create a multifunctional gathering point for exchange between artists and their audiences. Rolón’s Hustleman (Nomadic Habitat) cart, a centerpiece of his solo exhibition, Carlos Rolón: Outside/In, will be “activated” by various arts organizations and individuals throughout the run of the show, which closes on August 26. Rolón, born in Chicago to Puerto Rican parents in 1970, has cultivated an artistic vision that addresses the aesthetics and aspirations of immigrants and other working-class communities. He created Hustleman for the 2015 Chicago Architecture Biennial after getting to know Garland Gantt, a street vendor who catered to the needs of customers entering and exiting an El train station on the city’s South Side. Rolón built a three-wheeled wooden cart with ample shelves and fold-out awnings based upon building plans for a postwar public housing project in 8
Morocco, Habitat Morocain in Casablanca, by Swiss architects André Studer and Jean Hentsch. He then handed this interactive sculpture over to Gantt to furnish and operate in a gallery. “When you go see that work, you look at the vending cart, understand that I didn’t embellish it, not one bit,” Rolón says. “Garland was actually my co-creator on this piece…he became the work. He became the artist, as well.” By inviting people to spend time with Gantt, Rolón hoped to foster an increased sense of place in a neighborhood plagued by many issues found in America’s inner cities. “This project taught me a lot about social practice, and how vital a vendor like Garland is to his community,” he says. “I want the cart to serve as an oasis, a place of connection in a community.” Gantt, who is known in Chicago as “Hustleman,” stocked the cart with sunglasses, salsa and hip-hop CDs, memorial portraits of Prince, customizable ID cards, and an array of other goods desired by residents in an area largely devoid of major retailers. NOMA’s scheduled “activations” of the cart will bring an entirely different form of trade, one where money is not exchanged, but a framework no less aimed at creating a bond between seller and buyer, as well as creator and viewer. New Orleans Museum of Art | NOMA Magazine
P H OTO BY M A R TA RO D RI G U E Z M A L EC K
Good Children Gallery member Scott Andresen and Hustleman supporter Charles L. Whited, Jr.
In early April Good Children Gallery allowed NOMA visitors to write notes of remorse and leave with letters of regret in a “Take an Apology/Leave a Apology” exchange (pictured above). In the weeks ahead guests can participate in the following: Consumer Multiples, Good Children Gallery Local artists will create satirical versions of common household products. THROUGH MAY 10
Art Swap, The Front Visitors will be allowed to take away a small work of art in exchange for making one of their own. MAY 29 – JULY 1
Katrina Andry In coordination with NOMA’s Teen Squad, the artist and student volunteers will craft a paper flower display. MAY 12 – MAY 27
Puentes New Orleans Local teenagers from Latino immigrant backgrounds will create an installation addressing the meaning of home. JULY 3 – JULY 29
Tarot Card Reading Valeria Ruelas will read tarot cards for visitors at NOMA’s Hot Couture Late Night. (See page 27 for additional details.) FRIDAY, MAY 18 | 6 – 11 p.m.
Material Life Shop with Carla Williams A local shop owner envisions an installation influenced by her sale of pan-African items. JULY 30 – AUGUST 26
For more insight into Hustleman, visit noma.org/magazine for an extended interview with artist Carlos Rolón.
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Carlos Rolón, Gild the Lily (Decadence upon Decadence III), 2016, Detail, Oil paint and 24kt gold leaf on canvas, 72 x 54 in., Private collection, Image courtesy of the artist and David Castillo Gallery (Photography: Nathan Keay)
Carlos Rolón: Outside/In, organized by the New Orleans Museum of Art, is sponsored by Cari and Michael J. Sacks, Robert Chase/Hexton Gallery, The Kabacoff Family Foundation, Library Street Collective, Salon 94, Eric and Cheryl McKissack, John and Amy Phelan, Nancy C. and Richard R. Rogers, and Peter Rogers. Additional support provided by Glenn and Amanda Fuhrman, Pan-American Life Insurance Group, Fran and Leroy Harvey, Julie and Kenneth Sacks, Jacki and Brian Schneider, and Charles L. Whited, Jr. This exhibition is a continuation of a project that began at the Museo de Arte de Ponce in Puerto Rico in 2016, and is produced in partnership with the Joan Mitchell Center and other community partners, including The Front, Good Children Gallery, Material Life Shop, Nuestra Voz, and Puentes New Orleans.
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EXHIBITIONS
Lee Friedlander, Mahalia Jackson, 1970, Gelatin silver print, Courtesy of the artist and Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
LEE FR IEDL A N DER IN LOU ISI A NA Since 1957, Lee Friedlander, one of this country’s most famous living photographers, has regularly visited Louisiana. He has always resided in New York, but Friedlander’s special connection to New Orleans, its people, music, and architecture, Lee Friedlander, New Orleans, 1968, Gelatin silver print, Museum Purchase through the National has made the city his Endowment for the Arts Grant, 75.83. artistic home. Lee Friedlander in Louisiana is the first major exhibition in any institution to examine the full scope and influence of Friedlander’s work in the state. All of his photographs are defined, generally, by an interest in two things: the persons and objects in the photograph and the unique visual phenomena of photography. Friedlander’s signature style manages to be both artful and documentary, often providing information through layers of visual confusion and creating visual puzzles that, when solved, can provide 10
a punch that appeals to our intellect, our emotion, or our sense of humor. This approach has made him a chronicler, critic, promoter, and interpreter of American life and culture. While he has carried out this work in countless small towns and big cities across the country, this exhibition argues that New Orleans—with its visually complex makeup, its active street life, and its rich music community—consistently offered Friedlander little slices of the world that were perfectly suited to his unique approach to photography. In other words, it was here, in a city of wrought-iron fence work, cluttered power lines, clapboard houses, reflective storefronts, second line parades, and impromptu street performances that Friedlander’s unique approach to photography met its true muse. Friedlander graduated from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, in 1956. That year he moved to New York City where he began photographing jazz musicians for Atlantic Records. His employment with Atlantic would bring him to New Orleans for the first time in 1957, but he would frequently visit of his own volition in the subsequent years. Some of his earliest portraits would find their way onto covers of New Orleans Museum of Art | NOMA Magazine
ATTRIBUTED TO: PHOTOGRAPHS BY E.J. BELLOCQ Portraits of women working as prostitutes in
gowns to nothing at all. Speculation persists
Storyville, long attributed to Ernest Jean Bellocq,
about Bellocq’s purpose in making the portraits,
have become some the most indelible images
as well as to the relative agency of the women
of New Orleans, making Bellocq (1873-1949)
who sat for his camera in the context of sex work
one of the most recognized photographers in
in Storyville, New Orleans’ legal vice district
the history of the city. Yet, we know remarkably
that operated from 1897 to 1917. Furthermore,
little about the photographer, long the subject of
it remains uncertain if Bellocq ever made
local legend and popular caricature. Attributed
prints from any of these Storyville negatives.
To: Photographs by E.J. Bellocq will parse some truths from the myths surrounding
Friedlander used period techniques to
his work and life, while considering how his
approximate how those photographs might
photographs fit into the visual culture of New
have looked had Bellocq printed them.
Orleans in the early twentieth century.
Friedlander described Bellocq as an “ultraclean realist,” with admiration for the earlier
During his lifetime, Bellocq worked as a
photographer’s ability to crisply represent
commercial photographer and occasionally for
the truth of a moment, space, and person.
the Archdiocese of New Orleans. He achieved
Attributed To will feature the most striking
posthumous notoriety after photographer Lee
Bellocq photographs printed by Friedlander in
Friedlander purchased a cache of glass-plate
NOMA’s permanent collection, with attention to
negatives found among Bellocq’s belongings
their decidedly mixed authorship. The exhibition
and exhibited them at the Museum of Modern
will also include architectural photographs
Art in 1970 (and subsequently at NOMA). The
printed by Bellocq, encouraging visitors to
negatives, likely produced between 1911 and
consider how they differ from the Storyville
1913, show women in the rooms where they lived
portraits and determine for themselves
and worked, wearing a range of expressions,
whether it is possible to identify where the
and in states of dress that ranged from evening
real Bellocq ends and the legend begins.
Ernest James Bellocq, Lee Friedlander, [Untitled], 1 of 10 Photographs of Storyville Subjects, c. 1911-1913, Gelatin silver print, Gift of Lee Friedlander, 86.111.3
Brian Piper, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow for Photography
Attributed To: Photographs by E.J. Bellocq will be on view in the A. Charlotte Mann and Joshua Mann Pailet Gallery through August 12.
jazz albums. Through these now iconic images, Friedlander helped promote jazz internationally, while his portraits of lesser-known artists in their homes or out on the street have preserved a local history of the genre. One of the photographs in this exhibit, Mahalia Jackson, is a wonderful combination of both. The photograph depicts a famous moment from the first New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival in 1970. Mahalia Jackson, scheduled to perform later that night, was enjoying the fair during the day and joined in an impromptu second line parade with the Eureka Brass Band. During the 1960s, Friedlander honed his visual wit in playful street photographs that range from
serious explorations of the limits, or possibilities, of photography to humorous observations of the American social landscape. One famous example of the former is his iconic New Orleans, from 1968, which shows Friedlander photographing a reflective shop window. This is a picture made possible only by photography, which, unlike human vision, makes no distinctions between different depths and instead renders them all as part of a single flat picture plane. In this image the phenomenological experience of photography is pushed to its extremes, creating a double portrait of the photographer: he appears both as a dark shadow, reflected in
the shop window, and, superimposed on that, as a reflection in a mirror at the back of the store. The photograph therefore collapses several distinct planes—the streetscape behind the photographer, the surface of the window, and the shop interior—into a single, visually disruptive one. The exhibition includes new prints of New Orleans streetscapes that have never been exhibited before. As an artist whose images hover on the border of art and document, Lee Friedlander has been uniquely positioned to preserve the social and visual phenomena of New Orleans, and continues to create a varied body of work that is as humanistic as it is artful.
Russell Lord, Freeman Family Curator of Photographs, Prints, and Drawings. The author is grateful to Louis Edwards for sharing his story about Friedlander’s picture of Mahalia Jackson at the first New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. Lee Friedlander in Louisiana, on view through August 12, is presented by the Charles W. and Elizabeth D. Goodyear Foundation and Stephen and Kitty Sherrill. Additional support is provided by George and Milly Denegre, Basin St. Station, Andrew and Robyn Schwarz, and the A. Charlotte Mann and Joshua Mann Pailet Endowment.
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Changing Course REFLECTIONS ON NEW ORLEANS HISTORIES Changing Course: Reflections on New Orleans Histories marks the 2018 New Orleans Tricentennial 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 each 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. These installations will be on view in various galleries throughout the museum from June 29 through August 12. Reflecting on how these histories have shaped our responses to present-day issues and concerns, the included projects also consider how returning to the past can help spur evolution and change and make a lasting, positive impact on the city. During a year of celebration and remembrance, Changing Course 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. Visit noma.org/changingcourse to read more about the history behind these installations, including accounts of the 1973 Upstairs Lounge fire, a timeline of New Orleans’ public education system, the story of Vietnamese refugees’ resettlement in South Louisiana, Sister Gertrude Morgan’s spiritual awakening, the consequential construction of the Interstate 10 expressway in Treme, and artist Willie Birch’s inspirations. Changing Course is organized by the New Orleans Museum of Art and is supported by Pia and Malcolm Ehrhardt, Stewart and Renee Peck, Cathy and Morris Bart, Dathel and Tommy Coleman, and David Workman.
LESLEY DILL New York based artist Lesley Dill’s work explores the relationship between image and text. Changing Course marks the NOMA debut of her installation Hell Hell Hell/ Heaven Heaven Heaven: Encountering Sister Gertrude Morgan (2010), which Dill gifted to NOMA in honor of the New Orleans collector Arthur Roger in 2014. Inspired by the life of the late New Orleans preacher, artist and poet Sister Gertrude Morgan, Dill’s installation reflects on the often under-recognized power of women’s voices and writing. Known for her work as a painter, preacher and missionary, Sister Gertrude Morgan’s visionary art reflects New Orleans’ long-standing embrace of mysticism, magic and alternative forms of religious expression, from Haitian voodoo to Southern Baptist traditions. Dill’s project combines images and text culled from Morgan’s art to create a layered multi-media installation that speaks to Morgan’s vital artistic legacy as well as the power of prophecy and revelation, both a form of truth-telling about the present and a way of reimagining the future. This installation is sponsored by Stewart and Renee Peck.
Lesley Dill, Hell Hell Hell/Heaven Heaven Heaven: Encountering Sister Gertrude Morgan & Revelation, 2010, New Orleans Museum of Art, Gift of the artist, 2014.45.1, Photography © Michael Smith
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Changing Course: Reflections on New Orleans Histories
Kasimu Harris, War on the Benighted #1, 2015, Digital photography, 33 x 45 in., Image courtesy of the artist
DURING A YEAR OF CELEBRATION AND REMEMBRANCE, CHANGING COURSE 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.
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L. KASIMU HARRIS Presented in NOMA’s Great Hall, L. Kasimu Harris’s project consists of large color photographs from his ongoing series titled War on the Benighted. Produced in collaboration with a number of New Orleans students and their families, Harris’s photographs portray a revolution in and around the classroom. Within the narrative Harris imagines, students make entry into a shuttered school building at night, wherein they discover histories that have somehow become clandestine, and empower one another through lessons derived from Black history. Taken together, the photographs position young people as the driving force in their own education while raising questions about how we construct our history and where we tell those stories. New photographs in the series, exhibited for the first time here at NOMA, will underline connections between education and social justice, as well as the history of New Orleans’ schools. This installation is sponsored by Pia and Malcom Ehrhardt.
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THE EVERYDAY PROJECTS As part of Changing Course, NOMA, the New Orleans Photo Alliance and The Everyday Projects will partner to offer workshops to local schools, aid organizations, and community centers in which students and participants will learn to use photography to share their unique perspectives on life in their neighborhoods. The Everyday Projects is a social media and educational outreach program aimed at challenging stereotypes, bridging communities, and building visual literacy through photography. It began in 2012 as Everyday Africa, an Instagram account that uses photographs of everyday life to transcend media-driven stereotypes of Africa as a place overrun by disease, poverty, and war. It has since expanded into cities across the country, including Atlanta, Washington D.C., and the Bronx. At NOMA, this project will culminate in a display of selected photographs and texts that will dialogue with the artistic projects on view in Changing Course.
Students at Grace King High School in Metairie, Louisiana participate in a critique of their photographs as part of the Everyday Projects. Edna Lanieri, education chair of the New Orleans Photo Alliance, pictured lower right, led the discussion as a community curator.
THE PROPELLER GROUP The Propeller Group was established in 2006 by Phunam, Matt Lucero, and Tuan Andrew Nguyen as a cross-disciplinary structure for creating art projects that span video art, film, visual art, and installation. The Living Need Light, The Dead Need Music, which premiered during Prospect.3 in 2014, showcases the cultural connections between Vietnam and New Orleans, particularly among the Vietnamese diaspora currently living in the U.S. South. Offering a striking meditation on the cyclical nature of time and history, the film merges documentary footage of actual funeral processions with stunning re-enactments that bring the film into the realm of the abstract, poetic, and metaphorical—a rumination on celebration and mourning, and the shared human experiences that bring people together across cultures and geographies.
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The Propeller Group, The Living Need Light, The Dead Need Music, 2014, Single Channel Film, 3840 x 2160, 25fps, Color, 5.1 surround sound, ca. 20 minutes, Museum purchase, Robert Gordy Fund, 2015.64
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Changing Course: Reflections on New Orleans Histories
WILLIE BIRCH Willie Birch is a New Orleans-based artist who draws inspiration from the city and the complexity of its diverse traditions and histories. Working in charcoal on canvas, he renders second lines, street musicians, and the architecture of New Orleans with a nuanced eye towards intimate details—power lines and chain-link fences, discarded sneakers and wood-paneled shot-gun houses that bear traces of their histories. Birch’s recent work questions the role that history plays in determining our present and future. His installation for Changing Course will present new works that focus on roots and bones, the largely invisible structures that both sustain and support what we see above and around them. At the same time, his work will refer museum visitors to associated artwork and performances staged offsite at a community-driven arts space that Birch is creating in New Orleans’ Seventh Ward.
LEFT Willie Birch, Waiting for a Serious Conversation About the History of New Orleans, 2017. Acrylic and Charcoal on Paper, Image courtesy of the Artist and Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans.
KATRINA ANDRY Changing Course marks the first major museum installation for New Orleans-based artist Katrina Andry, a printmaker whose large-scale woodblock prints offer incisive commentary on contemporary social issues surrounding race, class, and social justice. For this exhibition, NOMA has commissioned Andry to create a site-specific installation that addresses the uneven urban development in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Her project will connect the city’s rapid and sometimes controversial recent evolution to more historical examples of redevelopment, combining imagery and text drawn from documentary materials such as maps and development plans with her own imagery and designs. Focusing particularly on the impact of construction and infrastructure development projects such as the construction of the elevated Interstate 10 expressway, which leveled a prominent middle-class African American neighborhood in the city, her installation sheds light on the lingering ramifications of such projects on African American communities across New Orleans. Katrina Andry, Congratulations You Made It!: Working Your Way Up the American Caste System, 2009, Woodblock print, 50 x 44 in., Image courtesy of the artist
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SKYLAR FEIN Skylar Fein’s immersive installation Remember the Upstairs Lounge commemorates the 1973 arson at the Upstairs Lounge, a popular gay bar in the French Quarter. Fein, whose work has long explored New Orleans’ many diverse subcultures and informal communities, recreates this space to offer a haunting memorial to the event and those impacted by the tragedy. Comprising both real and fictional memorabilia of the era as well as crime scene photos and charred objects, Fein’s installation examines notions of history, memory, truth, and the slippages between them. Though a disgruntled customer was suspected, no one was ever convicted for the crime, which resulted in 32 casualties and countless injuries. Restaging this project almost exactly 10 years after its original presentation in Prospect.1, NOMA’s installation considers the continued reverberation of this unsolved crime for LGBT communities across New Orleans.
Skylar Fein, Remember the Upstairs Lounge, 2008. mixed media installation, dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist
CLASSES WITH CURATORS: REFRAMING HISTORY IN CONTEMPORARY ART Join NOMA curators as they explore a variety of topics and take you behind the scenes. These classes will take the exhibition Changing Course: Reflections on New Orleans Histories as a starting point to explore contemporary art. Classes are designed for groups of no more than twenty students. Classes will be led by Russell Lord, Freeman Family Curator of Photographs, Prints, and Drawings; Katie A. Pfohl, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art; Brian Piper, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow for Photography; and Allison Young, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow for Modern and Contemporary Art.
JULY 17 | 6 – 8 p.m.
JULY 24 | 6 – 8 p.m.
JULY 31 | 6 – 8 p.m.
HISTORY AND MEMORY
ART AND THE ARCHIVE
ENVISIONING COMMUNITY
The first session provides a framework for approaching contemporary art through the lens of the past, with an emphasis on major themes and techniques.
Session two focuses on how artists use historical objects and artifacts in their work and considers the power of contemporary art to expand our historical understanding.
The final session looks at artists collaborating with their own communities with a particular focus on artists who engage with contemporary social and political issues.
$150 per series; $125 for members | Registration is required. | Contact egreenwald@noma.org or call 504.658.4140 to register.
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The 2018 Chevy Tahoe that tows NOMA+ is decorated with designs from Wassily Kandinsky’s Sketch for Seven Circles (1926). Grant funds from the Selley Foundation and Mossy of Picayune allowed for purchase of the vehicle.
NOMA+ BRINGS A POP-UP MUSEUM TO THE COMMUNITY
NOMA Community Outreach Coordinator Nicolas Aziz (far left) greets visitors to NOMA+.
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The “pop-up” has become a catchphrase phenomenon among daring entrepreneurs in recent years. From a pop-up cinema on the top deck of a parking garage, to roving pop-up restaurants that inhabit nightclubs, to pop-up art galleries that mount works in warehouses, these impermanent businesses bring vitality to surprising settings. In spring 2018, NOMA embarked upon its own pop-up, a museum housed in a customized fold-out trailer that goes by the name NOMA+ (Plus). This bold new project, years in the making, brought many creative forces together to build and activate a “museum without walls,” one that will literally pop up in sites across metro New Orleans. Mobile off-site museum experiences are emerging throughout the country, offering an encounter with works of art in unexpected locations, and energizing public perception of the role of art museums in the community. Building on the success of NOMA’s much beloved “Van Go” program, a van-based mobile classroom active from 1987 to 2005, NOMA+ represents the next generation of community outreach initiatives at the museum. “NOMA+ offers us the opportunity to expand the pop-up museum concept and adapt it for New Orleans. With its flexible design, NOMA+ is capable of
delivering creative experiences at a variety of locations and events, impacting thousands of visitors each year,” said Susan Taylor, NOMA Director. Conceived by Taylor as an opportunity to reach every neighborhood in the metro area, NOMA+ was designed with New Orleans’ diverse communities in mind. The Tulane Small Center for Collaborative Design facilitated a series of community conversations, inviting key stakeholders and community partners to participate in the planning from the very beginning. From these collaborative sessions emerged the concept for NOMA+. “New Orleans is such a creative community, enriched with artists, culture bearers, and generations of master craftsmen,” said Allison Reid, NOMA’s Deputy Director for Interpretation and Audience Engagement. “With NOMA+, the museum will have the ability to join in those creative conversations in the neighborhoods where they happen, outside the museum walls.” The vehicle was constructed by Manufab, a company based in Kenner. For owner Andy Ryan, the project took on a personal connection. His mother serves on the board of the New Orleans Arts Council. “I’m not artistic, but based on my mother’s example, I was taught to support the arts. This project was more fulfilling in the sense that it fills a community need rather than a business request.”
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NOMA+ unfolds from a boxed trailer to become an outdoor learning environment with shaded platforms and an entry ramp.
David Thompson, a machinist who has been tinkering in metalworking shops since the age of 7, was tasked with transforming a 17 by 8 foot trailer into an engaging community art space. “The museum staff came to me with a picture of what they wanted this to look like,” he said. “We started by ripping out a steel storage container and adding all the extra parts with aluminium since it’s much lighter. The wings and ramp are raised and lowered with a cable-winch system.” A 2018 white Chevy Tahoe with heavy towing capacity was purchased with grant funds from the Selley Foundation and Mossy of Picayune. The four-wheel drive vehicle has become a decorative art car. NOMA designer Mary Degnan used colorful circles from Wassily Kandinsky’s Sketch for Seven Circles, from NOMA’s permanent collection, to wrap the exterior. Adjacent to NOMA’s logo on the side doors is an amusing credit line: “Powered by Honey and Pops.” “I know a lot of people will be curious about what exactly that means,” said Scott Cowen, known as “Pops” to his grandchildren. His wife, Marjorie, also known as “Honey” to the same youngsters, adds, “ We love all children, but we love our grandchildren even more, and we knew they would get a kick out of this. I certainly think this pop-up museum will benefit them along with many other grandchildren of people across the city.”
The Cowens have long been associated with education in the city. Dr. Cowen served as the president of Tulane University from 1998 to 2014. “NOMA is one of the greatest assets in New Orleans,” said Dr. Cowen, “This is really about access, bringing NOMA to the community and especially young people.” Nicolas Aziz was hired by NOMA as community outreach coordinator to introduce NOMA+ to the metro area. Aziz, a native New Orleanian, has initiated many of his own community-based creative projects in the past, including WriteBrained, a program that engages teenagers in creative writing, along with curating shows at galleries in New Orleans and creating his own performance-art productions. A graduate of Morehouse College, a historically black college in Atlanta, and the University of Manchester in England, Aziz says both experiences taught him how to bridge worlds that are often divided by class and race. “This position offers me an opportunity to engage my passions for community, education, and art,” he said. “For the short time I’ve been involved in the contemporary art world, it has felt like an exclusionary space, and a lot of times people who look like me are not in the mix as much. NOMA+ offers a way for me to further my goals and interests in this world personally, but also expand that to others.”
ABOUT NOMA+ The pop-up museum is completely solar-powered with foldout tables and retractable awnings, allowing for maximum use of outdoor space. The museum can be unfolded and set up by one staff member. NOMA+ will appear at community centers, libraries, NORD centers, marketplaces, churches, schools, and festivals, among other community institutions and events with the aim of reaching intergenerational audiences and demystifying the museum experience. Community curators from within New Orleans broader creative community will be invited to lead activations in coordination with NOMA’s educators. Nicolas Aziz is writing a blog about the launch of NOMA+. Visit noma. org/magazine to read more.
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INSPIR ED BY NOMA: HARVEY ORTH
Harvey Orth is one of nearly ninety docents who volunteer to lead tours and perform other vital services at NOMA. His professional background in science led him to develop tours specific to the growing emphasis on science, technology, engineering, and math, or STEM, in school curriculums. What led you to become a docent? My wife and I joined the NOMA Book Club, and at one of the discussion sessions we were encouraged to become volunteer docents. We both signed up and it was something that became meaningful to us. Before retiring, I had worked in a lot of capacities, mostly in geophysics and seismology, so my background is in the physical sciences. I worked with a lot of engineers, mathematicians, computer programmers, et cetera, over the years. So I have a lot of exposure to the sciences. How did you come to develop tours specific to STEM? Well, nobody prodded me in that direction. Once I became familiar with the docent group and guiding visitors through the museum, I noticed people were bringing into the docent role things that they had done in a previous life. So you have somebody who’s an artist, they’re going to bring
that perspective to the tour. We have a lot of former teachers, so they’re going to bring the teaching aspect to it. So I thought it was natural that with my background, I maybe take a look at the collection here through my own eyes, which was more scientific engineering. I wasn’t sure it was going to work, but taking more of a scientific and engineering perspective to some of the art objects seemed to make a lot of sense, and once I determined that I was going to do that, every time I came into the museum, it was an experience through those eyes. But I was careful not to get too technical. We’re not looking at physics or mathematics at NOMA, but there is the possibility that art will open a door in the mind, and you can pivot around that and go different directions. Which works of art do you include in your STEM tours, and how do you apply scientific principles to them? There are a lot of them. I started in the Great Hall with Ernest Trova’s nickel-plated Falling Man. Nickel is one of the elements — it’s not rare, but some came to Earth via large meteors from the solar asteroid belt billions of years ago, a material that may be mined where the meteorites struck our planet. This is an amazing cosmic thing, and it made me very excited to see this nickelplated man staring down at the crowd. And then, you’ve got the design of the Great Hall, where architect Samuel Marx used the tenets of neo-classical design, which were based on Vitruvius, the Roman engineer two thousand years ago. He became really famous when Leonardo da Vinci drew the Vitruvian Man, forming the perfect square in the circle. Marx based proportions architecturally on the column size, the spacing. Things you see in the human body, ratio-wise, became guidelines for constructing classical architecture.
Then there’s Alexander Calder’s mobile. The artist was a mechanical engineer, and he balances gravitational forces in his kinetic works—you can see that. It’s like a see-saw. He balances the objects by making the wires longer or shorter, applying the forces concept from physics. There are four British porcelain objects in the Orientalism exhibition that represent the four continents that were recognized in the era they were made. The British claimed that the sun never set on their empire. I will ask the kids, “ At what speed would you have to travel easterly to keep up with the sun where the sun never sets on you as a human across four continents?” The circumference is 24,000 miles around the Earth, and the Earth circulates the sun every 24 hours, so the kids generally spit it out: 1,000 miles an hour. We can also educate on elements that are represented in NOMA’s many objects. In David Smith’s Amusement Park you can witness steel’s reaction to varying degrees of welding temperatures. Artists and scientists are sensitive to metal properties. The possibilities are endless when it comes to combining art and science. Many artists were scientists. Do you share stories of their lives? Yes. Albert Einstein advertised that he never thought in words. He thought in images, which is kind of unusual. You think maybe he’s thinking, “Well E = mc2,” stuff like that, but as a young boy, he was watching a train go down the tracks, and he thought, “I wonder if it would work…if I could ride a beam of light going next to the train, how fast that beam of light would move compared to the train…” Here was a guy who found creativity from the right side of the brain knocking on the left side. We should all do more of that.
If you are a teacher interested in bringing your students to NOMA for a docent-guided tour, contact Tracy Kennan, Curator of Education, at 504.658.4113 or grouptours@noma.org. For more information, visit noma.org/learn/group-visits.
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FR A N K STEWA RT HONOR ED W ITH IS A AC DELGA DO MEMOR I A L AWA R D
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In 2017, more than 200 Fellows and Circles Members provided the New Orleans Museum of Art with more than $660,000 in unrestricted operating funds, which provided critical support to NOMA’s exhibitions, public programs, and educational activities. . Since 1975, the Isaac Delgado Memorial Award has been given each year at the annual Fellows Dinner. This honor is given to a distinguished individual or organization whose long-term service, support and dedication to NOMA set precedents for the museum. This year’s recipient is Frank B. Stewart, currently a member of the NOMA Board of Trustees and a philanthropist whose love of New Orleans and support for its many cultural institutions is felt across the city. Institutions of higher education such as Xavier, Loyola, and Tulane, as well as other important anchor institutions in the city of New Orleans, have benefited from his generosity.
At NOMA, Stewart recently provided an important lead gift for the expansion of the Syndey and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, advancing the museum’s profile as a world-class garden and showcase for sculpture. Stewart serves as former chairman of the board of Stewart Capital and Stewart Enterprises, Inc., and is an active member and past chairman of the A. B. Freeman Business School Council of Tulane University. He presently serves on the Tulane University Board of Administrators, and he is an honorary member and served on the board of governors for the Tulane Medical Center. Additionally, Stewart has memberships in and presently serves on the boards and committees of a number of notable organizations including the Salvation Army, the Boy Scouts of America, New Orleans Business Council, the National World War II Museum, and the World Trade Center.
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1. Curator Mel Buchanan with exhibition curators Serge Martynov and Sofia Hedman at the opening of A Queen Within: Adorned Archetypes
4. Susan Taylor, Katie Pfohl, Carlos Rolรณn, and Allison Young at the opening of Carlos Rolรณn: Outside/In
2. Susu Stall, Ashley Longshore, Andrew Stall at the opening of A Queen Within: Adorned Archetypes
5. Heidi Kiesling, Paul Engeriser, Paola Corrada, and Alex Engeriser from Pan-American Life Insurance Group at the opening of Carlos Rolรณn: Outside/In
3. Freeman Family Curator of Photography, Prints, and Drawings Russell Lord signs copies of his new book, Looking Again: Photography at the New Orleans Museum of Art
6. Art in Bloom Chairs Courtney Le Clercq and husband Ted, Leslie Parr Gottsegen and husband Brad Gottsegen 7. NOMA Egg Hunt and Family Festival Chairs Lauren Carrere and Mary Wyatt Milano
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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!
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REMEMBERING ELIZABETH STAFFORD (1928–2018) NOMA honors the memory of Elizabeth “Mimi” Stafford (1928–2018), an honorary life trustee and and one of the greatest benefactors to the museum. Her steadfast support and devotion to collecting benefited the institution for more than five decades. Mrs. Stafford was born in New Orleans on September 11, 1928. She graduated from Newcomb College in 1949. During her transatlantic voyage to work for the State Department in postwar Germany, she met businessman Frederick Stafford. They married in Paris in 1952 and settled in New York City. They began collecting modern, African, and nineteenth-century European art. Relocating to France in 1961, Mrs. Stafford became a member of the Junior Guild of the American Cathedral in Paris, a board member of the U.S.O. and a member of France-Amérique. Her collecting focus changed to eighteenth-century French fine and decorative art. The Staffords enjoyed opening their home for international museums and cultural groups touring Paris. In 1965, she and her husband lent their art collection to NOMA for an exhibition called “Odyssey of an Art Collector,” which also inspired the first Odyssey Ball. Over the past forty years, the Staffords made major gifts to NOMA’s art collection, including Asian, African, pre-Columbian, and European masterworks. The Staffords returned to the United States in 1976. Their art was loaned to museums and exhibitions around the world. Mimi was a Circles Member at NOMA, the Frick Museum, the Metropolitan Museum, the Morgan Library, and the Metropolitan Opera. She also volunteered for the Sloan Kettering Volunteer Nurse program for ten years. In 1990, she was inducted in the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. Throughout her life, she found solace in both Christian and Eastern teachings, traveling throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. The family has requested donations in Mimi’s memory to the New Orleans Museum of Art (noma.org/staffordmemorial) or 504.658.4127.
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THE M USEU M SHOP NOMA’s galleries are gleaming this season with exhibitions reflecting the vibrant colors of Latin America—along with the flair of fashion designers. These items reflect those artistic themes. SCARF NECKLACE BY MIGNONNE GAVIGAN
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This bejeweled neck drape, a signature accessory by the New York designer, comes in a variety of styles and colors.
A floral-patterned print brightens the cover of this booklet with detachable sheets.
Based in Guatemala, Meso Products is dedicated to the design and production of ethical handmade products.
$425 MADELINE EARRINGS BY MIGNONNE GAVIGAN These wing-shaped earrings are made of raffia, glass seed beads, and rhodium-plated brass hardware.
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$245 PERSIMMON AND COPAL CANDLE BY VOLUSPA A three-wick candle in a decorative tin jar is scented with Japanese persimmon, lychee flower, and red copal.
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NOMA members receive a 10-percent discount (some restrictions apply).
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MAY — AUGUST, 2018 • EVENTS AT NOMA BY DATE
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YOGA IN THE GARDEN
TAI CHI
Every Saturday at 8 a.m. in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden
Every Monday at 6 p.m. in NOMA’s Great Hall
BESTHOFF SCULPTURE GARDEN May 9, 10, 11, 13, 16, 17, 18, 20, 23, 24, 25, and 27 $25 for adults ($30 for Friday performances) $18 for NOMA members www.nolaproject.com | 504.302.9117
WEDNESDAY, MAY 2
SATURDAY, MAY 12
THURSDAY, MAY 24
SATURDAY, JUNE 9
11 a.m. SMALL TALK Carlos Rolón: Outside/In
10 a.m. – 4 p.m. TAYLOR SCHOLARS FAMILY DAY
7 p.m. THE NOLA PROJECT presents The Three Musketeers
10 a.m. MINDFULNESS CLASS with Jayashree Rao
12 p.m. NOONTIME TALK on Lee Friedlander in Louisiana with Curator Russell Lord
10 a.m. STUDIO KIDS!
6:30 p.m. ALL THAT JAZZ: A CONVERSATION WITH ALEX RAWLS, GWEN THOMPKINS, AND DR. MICHAEL WHITE
11 a.m. STORYQUEST
11:30 a.m. NOMA BOOK CLUB Shocking Paris by Stanley Meisler
11:30 a.m. SMALL TALK Cameroonian Palace House Posts
FRIDAY NIGHTS AT NOMA
1:30 p.m. SMALL TALK Wassily Kandinsky’s Sketch for Several Circles
5:30 p.m. MUSIC Extended
Underwritten by a Keep it 300! grant from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities with funding from Union Pacific.
THURSDAY, MAY 3 11:30 a.m. SMALL TALK Photographing American Musicians
FRIDAY, MAY 4 3 p.m. SMALL TALK Edgar Degas’s Portrait of Estelle Musson Degas
FRIDAY NIGHTS AT NOMA 5 p.m. ART ON THE SPOT in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden
MINDFULNESS CLASS with Jayashree Rao
SUNDAY, MAY 13 7 p.m. THE NOLA PROJECT presents The Three Musketeers
WEDNESDAY, MAY 16 12 p.m. NOONTIME TALK on Women, Fashion, and Power in 18th-Century European Painting with Curatorial Fellow Kelsey Brosnan 3 p.m. SMALL TALK John Singer Sargent’s Portrait of Mrs. Asher B. Wertheimer
6 p.m. MUSIC Shawn Williams
7 p.m. THE NOLA PROJECT presents The Three Musketeers
7:30 p.m. MOVIES IN THE GARDEN Walt Disney’s Alice in Wonderland (1951)
THURSDAY, MAY 17
WEDNESDAY, MAY 9
7 p.m. THE NOLA PROJECT presents The Three Musketeers
12 p.m. NOONTIME TALK with collectors Dr. Kurt Gitter and Alice Yelen-Gitter of New Forms, New Voices: Japanese Ceramics in the Gitter-Yelen Collection 7 p.m. THE NOLA PROJECT presents The Three Musketeers
FRIDAY, MAY 18 5 P.M. – MIDNIGHT
Hot Couture Late Night
FRIDAY, MAY 25
5 p.m. ART ON THE SPOT 7 p.m. ARTS & LETTERS SERIES Author Yuri Herrera-Gutierrez in Conversation with activist Rosana Cruz THE NOLA PROJECT presents The Three Musketeers
SATURDAY, MAY 26 10 a.m. MINDFULNESS CLASS with Jayashree Rao 10:30 a.m. BABY ARTSPLAY!
7 p.m. THE NOLA PROJECT presents The Three Musketeers
WEDNESDAY, MAY 30 12 p.m. NOONTIME TALK on Lee Friedlander in Louisiana with Curatorial Fellow Brian Piper 3 p.m. SMALL TALK Giovanni Martinelli’s Death Comes to the Banquet Table
FRIDAY, JUNE 1
5:30 p.m. MUSIC Dirty Rain Revelers
7 p.m. THE NOLA PROJECT presents The Three Musketeers
10 a.m. MINDFULNESS CLASS with Jayashree Rao
3 p.m. SMALL TALK Newcomb Pottery
FRIDAY NIGHTS AT NOMA 5 p.m. ART ON THE SPOT 6 p.m. GALLERY TALK on Lee Friedlander in Louisiana with Curatorial Fellow Brian Piper 6:30 p.m. CREATE LATE Pencil Selfie 7 p.m. LECTURE Fashion Unbound by Francesca Granata THE NOLA PROJECT presents The Three Musketeers
10:30 a.m. BABY ARTSPLAY!
12 p.m. NOONTIME TALK on Carlos Rolón: Outside/In with Curatorial Fellow Allison Young
FRIDAY, JUNE 15 FRIDAY NIGHTS AT NOMA 5 p.m. ART ON THE SPOT 5:30 p.m. MUSIC Mykia Jovan
6:30 p.m. CREATE LATE Finding Balance
SATURDAY, MAY 19
FRIDAY, MAY 11
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13
SUNDAY, MAY 27
11:30 a.m. NOMA BOOK CLUB Curatorial Program
STUDIO KIDS!
3 p.m. LECTURE Lee Friedlander and the Musicians of Preservation Hall with Curator Russell Lord and Preservation Hall’s Ben Jaffe
6 p.m. GUIDED TOUR of Carlos Rolón: Outside/In with Curator Katie Pfhol
FRIDAY NIGHTS AT NOMA
SUNDAY, JUNE 10
3 p.m. SMALL TALK Alberto Giacometti
7 p.m. THE NOLA PROJECT presents The Three Musketeers
THURSDAY, MAY 10
10:30 a.m. BABY ARTSPLAY!
5 p.m. ART ON THE SPOT 6:30 p.m. ARTIST PERSPECTIVE with Cristina Molina and Jonathan Traviesa (Carlos Rolón: Outside/In)
SATURDAY, JUNE 2
7 p.m. LECTURE Dreaming about America and Color TV by Carlos Rolón
SATURDAY, JUNE 16 10 a.m. MINDFULNESS CLASS with Jayashree Rao 10:30 a.m. BABY ARTSPLAY!
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20 12 p.m. NOONTIME TALK on Lee Friedlander in Louisiana with Curator Russell Lord 1:30 p.m. NOMA BOOK CLUB The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman
FRIDAY, JUNE 22 11:30 a.m. NOMA BOOK CLUB The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman
FRIDAY NIGHTS AT NOMA
11 a.m. STORYQUEST
10 a.m. MINDFULNESS CLASS with Jayashree Rao
SUNDAY, MAY 20
10:30 a.m. BABY ARTSPLAY!
7 p.m. THE NOLA PROJECT presents The Three Musketeers
5:30 p.m. MUSIC Jayna Morgan and the Sazerac Sunrise Jazz Band
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6
WEDNESDAY, MAY 23
12 p.m. NOONTIME TALK Veronese Altarpieces with Curator Vanessa Schmid
6 p.m. GALLERY TALK with John Klingman on Reflections of Plaza Tower in Lee Friedlander in Louisiana
12 p.m. NOONTIME TALK A Queen Within with Curator Mel Buchanan
FRIDAY, JUNE 8
7 p.m. FILM Till the Butcher Cuts Him Down (1971) with an introduction by Brian Piper
1:30 p.m. NOMA BOOK CLUB Shocking Paris by Stanley Meisler
FRIDAY NIGHTS AT NOMA
SATURDAY, JUNE 23
3 p.m. SMALL TALK Self-Taught Artist Manierre Dawson
5:30 p.m. MUSIC Carmela Rappazzo
7 p.m. THE NOLA PROJECT presents The Three Musketeers
5 p.m. ART ON THE SPOT
5 p.m. ART ON THE SPOT 6 p.m. ARTIST PERSPECTIVE Metalworker Darryl Reeves in conversation with Jonn Hankins
10 a.m. MINDFULNESS CLASS with Jayashree Rao 10:30 a.m. BABY ARTSPLAY!
7:30 p.m. FILM Always for Pleasure (1978)
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DOCENT-GUIDED TOURS
SCULPTURE GARDEN TOURS
Join us for guided tours of the collection daily at 1 p.m.
Saturdays at noon through June 23 and Mondays in May at 1 p.m.
TRAVEL TO ITALY WITH NOMA CIRCLE MEMBERS 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, visit noma.org/2018-italy-tour.
FRIDAY, JUNE 29
SATURDAY, JULY 14
FRIDAY, JULY 27
SATURDAY, AUGUST 11
5 p.m. ART ON THE SPOT
10:30 a.m. BABY ARTSPLAY!
10:30 a.m. BABY ARTSPLAY!
5:30 p.m. Changing Course Opening
2 p.m. MUJERES DE CINE FILM SERIES Dancing Beethoven (2016)
11:30 a.m. NOMA BOOK CLUB Introduction to new books and pot luck
TUESDAY, JULY 3 TUESDAY, JULY 17
6 p.m. BOUNCE-N-LINE DANCE CLASSES Presented by Dancing Grounds
11:30 a.m. NOMA BOOK CLUB Lisette’s List: A Novel by Susan Vreeland 6 p.m. BOUNCE-N-LINE DANCE CLASSES Presented by Dancing Grounds
FRIDAY, JULY 6 FRIDAY NIGHTS AT NOMA
6 p.m. CLASSES WITH CURATORS Reframing History in Contemporary Art
5 p.m. ART ON THE SPOT 5:30 p.m. MUSIC Baron Ahmon
WEDNESDAY, JULY 18
6 p.m. GALLERY TALK on Lee Friedlander in Louisiana with Curatorial Fellow Brian Piper
1:30 p.m. NOMA BOOK CLUB Lisette’s List: A Novel by Susan Vreeland
7 p.m. PICTURING US FILM SERIES Tchoupitoulas (2012)
FRIDAY, JULY 20
SATURDAY, JULY 7
FRIDAY NIGHTS AT NOMA
10:30 a.m. BABY ARTSPLAY!
5 p.m. ART ON THE SPOT 5:30 p.m. MUSIC Abita Stumps
TUESDAY, JULY 10
7 p.m. PICTURING US FILM SERIES The Sons of Tennessee Williams (2011)
6 p.m. BOUNCE-N-LINE DANCE CLASSES Presented by Dancing Grounds
SATURDAY, JULY 21 10:30 a.m. BABY ARTSPLAY!
FRIDAY, JULY 13
TUESDAY, JULY 24
11:30 a.m. NOMA BOOK CLUB Guest Speaker Anna DesOrmeaux on Nazi Art Theft and Reparations
6 p.m. BOUNCE-N-LINE DANCE CLASSES Presented by Dancing Grounds
FRIDAY NIGHTS AT NOMA 5 p.m. – 9 p.m.
6 p.m. CLASSES WITH CURATORS Reframing History in Contemporary Art
Bastille Day Fête
FRIDAY NIGHTS AT NOMA 5 p.m. ART ON THE SPOT 7 p.m. PICTURING US FILM SERIES Mr. Cao Goes to Washington (2012)
SATURDAY, JULY 28
2 p.m. MUJERES DE CINE FILM SERIES Júlia Ist
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15 1:30 p.m. NOMA BOOK CLUB The Artist’s Sketch by Carolyn J. Brown
THURSDAY, AUGUST 16
10:30 a.m. BABY ARTSPLAY! 2 p.m. MUJERES DE CINE FILM SERIES The Most Beautiful Island (2017)
11:30 a.m. NOMA BOOK CLUB The Artist’s Sketch by Carolyn J. Brown
TUESDAY, JULY 31
FRIDAY, AUGUST 17
6 p.m. CLASSES WITH CURATORS Reframing History in Contemporary Art
FRIDAY NIGHTS AT NOMA 5 p.m. ART ON THE SPOT
FRIDAY, AUGUST 3
FRIDAY, AUGUST 24
FRIDAY NIGHTS AT NOMA
FRIDAY NIGHTS AT NOMA
5:30 p.m. MUSIC Garth Alper Quartet
5 p.m. ART ON THE SPOT
7 p.m. LECTURE Artist Lesley Dill of Changing Course
7 p.m. ARTS & LETTERS SERIES Sociologist Peter Marina in conversation with Laine Kaplan-Levenson
SATURDAY, AUGUST 4
SATURDAY, AUGUST 25
10:30 a.m. BABY ARTSPLAY!
FRIDAY, AUGUST 10
2 p.m. MUJERES DE CINE FILM SERIES Summer 1993 (2017)
FRIDAY NIGHTS AT NOMA
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29
5 p.m. ART ON THE SPOT 5:30 p.m. MUSIC Crossing Canal
12 p.m. NOONTIME TALK Veronese in Murano with Curator Vanessa Schmid
7 p.m. PICTURING US FILM SERIES Piano Players Rarely Ever Play Together (1982)
FRIDAY, AUGUST 31 FRIDAY NIGHTS AT NOMA 5 p.m. ART ON THE SPOT 7 p.m. PICTURING US FILM SERIES By Invitation Only (2006)
FRIDAY, MAY 18 | 5 P.M. – MIDNIGHT
IL LUST R AT I O N BY AS H L E Y B ROW N , VI C E V ERSA LIF EST Y L E
Hot Couture Late Night
www.noma.org
5 p.m.
ART ON THE SPOT
6 p.m.
MUSIC Joy Clark
TAROT READING with Valeria Ruelas
7 p.m.
TOUR of A Queen Within with Curator Mel Buchanan
8 p.m.
ARTS & LETTERS SERIES Vogue Creative Digital Director Sally J. Singer in conversation with writer Thomas Beller
MUSIC DJ Ann Glaviano from HEATWAVE Dance Party
FOOD TRUCKS Bonafried | Crêpes à la Cart | Diva Dawgs
MEDIA SPONSOR
9:30 p.m.
FASHION ON FILM The September Issue (2009) Sponsored by
10 p.m.
TOUR of A Queen Within with Curator Mel Buchanan
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MAY — AUGUST, 2018 • FILM
CALENDAR
SATURDAYS, JULY 14 – AUGUST 25 Created in 2010 with the purpose of boosting and spreading Spanish films and shorts made by women, Mujeres de Cine is made possible by SPAIN arts & culture. This summer, four films directed by Spanish women will be screened on Saturday afternoons in Stern Auditorium.
JULY 14 | 2 P.M.
AUGUST 11 | 2 P.M.
Dancing Beethoven
Júlia Ist
Directed by Arantxa Aguirre NR, 2016
Directed by Elena Martin NR, 2017
An look at the staging of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony by the Béjart Ballet of Lausanne, France.
Júlia, a student from Barcelona, decides to spend an study abroad year in Berlin. Alone in a cold, gray city, she must compare her expectations and self-perceptions with reality.
JULY 28 | 2 P.M.
AUGUST 25 | 2 P.M.
Most Beautiful Island
Summer 1993
Directed by Ana Asensio NR, 2017
Directed by Carla Simón NR, 2017
A chilling portrait of an undocumented young woman’s struggle for survival as she finds redemption from a tortured past in a dangerous game.
Six-year-old Frida looks on in silence as the last objects from her deceased mother’s apartment are placed in boxes. But as her aunt, uncle, and younger cousin welcome her with open arms, Frida begins to get used to her new home.
FRIDAYS, JULY 6 – AUGUST 17
PICTURING US DOCUSERIES
In conjunction with the exhibition Changing Course: Reflections on New Orleans Histories NOMA presents Picturing Us, a series of five documentary films exploring the people and places that make New Orleans home.
FRIDAY, JULY 6 | 7 P.M.
FRIDAY, JULY 27 | 7 P.M.
Tchoupitoulas
Mr. Cao Goes to Washington
Directed by Bill and Turner Ross R, 2012 Follows three young brothers as they journey through one night in New Orleans, encountering dancers, hustlers, and revelers parading through lamp-lit streets.
Explores the journey of Rep. Joseph Cao, the first Vietnamese-American elected to Congress.
FRIDAY, JULY 20 | 7 P.M.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 10 | 7 P.M.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 17 | 7 P.M.
The Sons of Tennessee Williams
Piano Players Rarely Ever Play Together
By Invitation Only
Directed by Tim Wolff NR, 2011 Tells the story of New Orleans gay Mardi Gras across five decades and explores the intersection of Carnival and the gay rights movement.
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Directed by by S. Leo Chiang NR, 2012
Directed by by Stevenson Palfi NR, 1982 A portrait of three great New Orleans pianists and how they influenced one another’s music.
Directed by Rebecca Snedeker NR, 2006 New Orleans filmmaker Rebecca Snedeker explores the insular world of elite white Carnival societies and debutante balls. A talk with Snedecker will follow the film.
New Orleans Museum of Art | NOMA Magazine
Arts & Letters SALLY SINGER
YURI HERRERA
PETER MARINA
ANNE BOYD RIOUX
THOMAS BELLER
ROSANA CRUZ
LAINE KAPLAN-LEVENSON
SUSAN LARSON
VOGUE CREATIVE DIGITAL DIRECTOR SALLY SINGER IN CONVERSATION WITH WRITER THOMAS BELLER
AUTHOR YURI HERRERA IN CONVERSATION WITH ACTIVIST ROSANA CRUZ
SOCIOLOGIST PETER MARINA IN CONVERSATION WITH RADIO PRODUCER LAINE KAPLAN-LEVENSON
AUTHOR ANNE BOYD RIOUX IN CONVERSATION WITH THE READING LIFE’S SUSAN LARSON
Friday, May 18 | 7 p.m.
Friday, May 25 | 7 p.m.
Friday, August 24 | 7 p.m.
Friday, September 14 | 7 p.m.
Sally Singer is the creative digital director of Vogue, where she oversees the magazine’s website, video program, and social channels. Previously, she was the editor in chief of T: The New York Times Style Magazine, the fashion news/features director of Vogue, and the fashion director of New York Magazine.
Yuri Herrera’s first novel to appear in English, Signs Preceding the End of the World, was published in 2015 to great critical acclaim and included in many Best-of-Year lists, including the Guardian’s Best Fiction and NBC News’s Ten Great Latino Books, going on to win the 2016 Best Translated Book Award. He currently teaches at Tulane University.
Peter Marina is a New Orleans native, PhD graduate of the New School for Social Research in Manhattan, and Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin - La Crosse. He is author of Down and Out in New Orleans: Transgressive Living in the Informal Economy (2017), among other books.
Anne Boyd Rioux is the author of Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters, the editor of the Penguin Deluxe Anniversary edition of Little Women, and a professor of English at the University of New Orleans.
Thomas Beller is a writer and associate professor of English at Tulane University. He is a longtime contributor to the New Yorker and also writes for the New York Times, Vogue, and Town and Country. A founder and editor of Open City Magazine (1990–2010), his books include The SleepOver Artist (2000), How to Be a Man: Scenes from a Protracted Boyhood (2005), and J.D. Salinger: The Escape Artist.
Rosana Cruz has been on the front lines of racial justice and human rights efforts for more than 20 years. Cruz has held senior leadership positions at New Orleans: Safe Streets/Strong Communities and Voice of the Ex-offender. She currently serves as Vice President of Movement and Capacity Building at Race Forward, the Center for Racial Justice Innovation.
Laine Kaplan-Levenson is the host and producer of WWNO’s history podcast TriPod: New Orleans at 300 and was formerly the station’s coastal producer. Laine also runs a live storytelling series called Bring Your Own and has had work featured on NPR, Marketplace, Latino USA, Here and Now, and more.
Susan Larson is the host of The Reading Life on WWNO, New Orleans NPR affiliate, and the author of The Booklover’s Guide to New Orleans.
Join the conversation! NOMA’s Arts & Letters series welcomes authors, poets, journalists, playwrights, and literary scholars to the museum for public conversations that reflect on literature at the intersection of arts and culture. This program is free with museum admission thanks to support from the Patrick F. Taylor Foundation. www.noma.org
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LITERARY CONVERSATIONS AT THE NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART
CALENDAR HIGHLIGHTS • MAY — AUGUST, 2018
CALENDAR
FAMILY
ENTERTAINMENT
ART ON THE SPOT
MOVIES IN THE GARDEN
LECTURES AND ARTISTS PERSPECTIVES
May 4, 11, 18, 25 | 5:30 – 8 P.M.
MAY 5 | 5 – 9 P.M. Walt Disney’s Alice in Wonderland (1951 | Rated G | 1 hour, 15 minutes) Bring lawn chairs and blankets. Food trucks and a bar will be available.
MAY 11 | 7 P.M. Fashion Unbound: A Lecture by Francesca Granata, Director of the MA in Fashion Studies Program at Parsons School of Design
June 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 | 5:30 – 8 P.M. July 6, 13, 20, 27 | 5:30 – 8 P.M. August 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 | 5:30 – 8 P.M. Children and adults alike can join an artist-teacher in creating a work of art.
STUDIO KIDS!
May 12, 19 | 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. Students ages 5 to 10 explore art made by diverse cultures as inspiration for art projects. 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.
STORYQUEST May 12, 19, June 9, 23, July 14, 28, August 11, 25 | 11 – 11:30 a.m., 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.
BABY ARTSPLAY! Saturdays at 10:30 a.m. May 19, 26, June 2, 9, 16, 23, August 4, 11 Instill a love of art at a young age through a guided, hands-on gallery experience. Young Audiences Wolf Trap teaching artists will present a series of six workshops for caregivers and children ages 0-3. Funded by The Helis Foundation.
TAYLOR SCHOLARS FAMILY DAY Saturday, May 12 Taylor Scholars Family Day celebrates the achievements shown by Taylor Scholars. All students who complete the school year with at least a 2.5 grade point average are eligible to receive a free one-year membership to NOMA. Parents or guardians may accompany students free of charge. 10:30 a.m. FILM Underwater Dreams NR, 2014, 1 h. 26 min. 11 a.m. DANCE PERFORMANCE by DG Uprising 12 p.m. DOCENT-GUIDED TOUR Besthoff Sculpture Garden 1 p.m. ART ON THE SPOT with Katrina Andry
MUSIC
FRIDAY NIGHTS AT NOMA brings regional musical acts to the Great Hall throughout the year. MAY 4 | 6 – 7:30 P.M. Shawn Williams (Besthoff Scupture Garden) MAY 18 | 5 P.M. – 12 A.M. 6 p.m. Joy Clark 10 p.m. DJ Ann Glaviano from HEATWAVE MAY 25 | 5:30 – 8:30 Extended JUNE 1 | 5:30 – 8:30 P.M. Dirty Rain Revelers JUNE 8 | 5:30 – 8:30 P.M. Carmela Rappazzo JUNE 15 | 5:30 – 8:30 P.M. Mykia Jovan
JUNE 1 | 6:30 P.M. Artist Perspective with Christina Molina and Jonathan Traviesa for Carlos Rolón: Outside/In JUNE 8 | 6 P.M. Metalworker Darryl Reeves in conversation with Jonn Hankins, director of New Orleans Master Crafts Guild for Carlos Rolón: Outside/In JUNE 10 | 3 P.M. Lee Friedlander and the Musicians of Preservation Hall with Curator Russell Lord and Preservation Hall’s Ben Jaffe JUNE 15 | 7 P.M. Dreaming About America and Color TV: A Lecture by Carlos Rolón JUNE 22 | 6 P.M. Artist Perspective with Tulane Architecture Professor John Klingman on Reflections of Plaza Tower in Lee Friedlander in Louisiana
JUNE 22 | 5:30 – 8:30 P.M. Jayna Morgan and the Sazerac Sunrise Jazz Band JULY 6 | 5:30 – 8:30 P.M. Baron Ahmon JULY 20 | 5:30 – 8:30 P.M. Abita Stumps AUGUST 3 | 5:30 – 8:30 P.M. Garth Alper Quart AUGUST 10 | 5:30 – 8:30 p.m. Crossing Canal
Lee Friedlander, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1982 Gelatin silver print, Courtesy of the artist and Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
AUGUST 3, 7 P.M. Artist Lesley Dill discusses her installation in Changing Course: Reflections on New Orleans Histories
DOCENT-GUIDED TOUR 2 p.m. FILM The Devil Wears Prada PG-13, 2006, 1h. 49 min.
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Wayne Higby, “Green Water Afternoon” Bowl, 1992, © Wayne Higby
Sarah Burton/Alexander McQueen, white floral platform heels, Spring/ Summer 2011. Courtesy of Barrett Barrera Projects & RKL consulting. Photo Sarah Carmody.
Carlos Rolón, Gild the Lily (Decadence Upon Decadence I), 2016, Oil, acrylic, satin varnish and artificial gold leaf on canvas, Private Collection
Personalities in Clay: American Studio Ceramics from the E. John Bullard Collection
A Queen Within: Adorned Archetypes
Carlos Rolón: Outside/In
THROUGH MAY 28
THROUGH AUGUST 26
THROUGH JULY 8
Paolo Veronese, St. Jerome in the Wilderness, 1566-1567, Oil on canvas, San Pietro Martire, Murano, Italy, Photo: Matteo De Fina.
Lee Friedlander, New Orleans, 1968, gelatin silver print, Museum Purchase through the National Endowment for the Arts Grant, 75.83.
Veronese in Murano: Two Venetian Renaissance Masterpieces Restored
Lee Friedlander in Louisiana THROUGH AUGUST 12
THROUGH SEPTEMBER 3
ALSO ON VIEW Lee Friedlander: American Musicians THROUGH JUNE 17
New Forms, New Voices: Japanese Ceramics from the Gitter-Yelen Collection THROUGH MAY 13
CALENDAR HIGHLIGHTS • MAY — AUGUST, 2018
NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART EXHIBITION CALENDAR
LEFT Lee Friedlander, Aretha Franklin, 1968, Iris print on rag paper, Courtesy of the artist and Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco RIGHT Machiko Ogawa, Lunar Fragment-1, 2014
LOVE IN THE GARDEN
ODYSSEY 2018: All That Glitters
PRESENTED BY HANCOCK WHITNEY
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH IBERIABANK
September 28, 2018
November 10, 2018
Chaired by Elizabeth Grimes, Christine LeBlanc, and Mimi Schlesinger, NOMA’s annual fall soiree takes place in the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden. Join us for a night of dining and dancing under the stars and oaks and among the works of art. The print deadline for the invitation is July 10.
Chaired by Robyn and Andrew Schwarz, Allison and Ben Tiller, Nancy and Franco Valobra, the 52nd annual gala event will celebrate NOMA and the tricentennial of New Orleans. The party raises funds for world-class exhibitions and museum programming. Art patrons gather for one of the year’s most elegant social occasions.
TO PURCHASE TICKETS OR TO BECOME A SPONSOR: 504.658.4121 | LOVE@NOMA.ORG
TO PURCHASE TICKETS OR TO BECOME A SPONSOR: 504.658.4121 | ODYSSEY@NOMA.ORG
noma.org/event/love-garden-2018 www.noma.org
noma.org/event/odyssey-2018
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2018 BOARD OF TRUSTEES
ACCREDITATION
Michael J. Siegel, President
Thomas F. Reese
Janice Parmelee, First Vice-President
Jolie Shelton
Stephanie Feoli, Vice-President
Susu Stall
Michael Smith, Vice-President
Frank Stewart
Elizabeth Monaghan, Secretary
Catherine Burns Tremaine
Lynes R. (Poco) Sloss, Treasurer
Melanee Gaudin Usdin
Robert Hinckley, At-Large
Brent Wood
James J. (Jimmy) Reiss, Jr. At-Large
The Honorable Mayor LaToya Cantrell
Rob Steeg, At-Large Julie Livaudais George, Immediate Past President
Joe Giarrusso, New Orleans City Council Member Anne Redd, NVC Chairman
Sydney J. Besthoff III Suzanne Thomas
MEMBERS
NATIONAL TRUSTEES Joseph Baillio
The New Orleans Museum of Art is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums.
New Orleans Museum of Art EDITOR
David Johnson ART DIRECTOR
Mrs. Carmel (Babette) Cohen
Mary Degnan
Herschel L. Abbott, Jr.
Mrs. Mason (Kim) Granger
Jay Batt
STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERS
Jerry Heymann
Gayle M. Benson
Herbert Kaufman, M.D.
Elizabeth Boone
Mrs. James (Cherye) Pierce
Caroline Calhoun
Roman Alohkin Sesthasak Boonchai
Mrs. Billie Milam Weisman
Henry Coaxum Scott Cowen Leonard A. Davis Margo DuBos Tim L. Fields Penny Francis Tony Gelderman Dathel Coleman Georges Adrea D. Heebe Marshall Hevron Hunter G. Hill Joseph Jaeger, Jr. David Kelso Kenya LeNoir Messer Louis J. Lupin Robert E. Smith Lupo Cammie Mayer Juli Miller Hart Brenda Moffitt Howard Osofsky J. Stephen Perry
HONOR ARY LIFE MEMBERS Mrs. Edgar L. (Leah) Chase, Jr. Prescott N. Dunbar S. Stewart Farnet Sandra Draughn Freeman Kurt A. Gitter, M.D.
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COMING THIS FALL… In celebration of the tricentennial of the city that bears his regal title, NOMA will present an exhibition of selections from the magnificent collection of French regent Philippe II, the Duke of Orléans. This international loan exhibition will bring together masterpieces by Veronese, Valentin, Poussin, Rubens, and Rembrandt that formerly graced the walls of the Palais Royal in Paris. The Orléans Collection opens October 26 and will remain on view through January 27, 2019. Discover more in the next edition of NOMA Magazine, debuting in early September.
RIGHT Antoine Coypel (French, ca. 1661 – 1722) Assembly of the Gods, 1702, Detail Oil sketch on canvas, 37 3⁄8 x 76 3⁄4 in. Musée des Beaux‑Arts d’Angers, Angers, France, 38 J. 1881 © RMN-Grand Palais/ Benoît Touchard/Mathieu Rabeau
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