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On view in the exhibition Ear to the Ground: Olafur Eliasson,The Hinged View, 2017, Steel, glass and paint, Museum purchase with funds provided by Sydney and Walda Besthoff, Courtesy of the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
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Friday Nights at NOMA welcomes Balkan band Blato Zlato, a panel discussion about women in the arts, and two exhibition openings
Friday Nights at NOMA for October 19 will include a panel discussion led by NOMA Executive Director Susan Taylor and sponsored by NOLA 4 Women. Philanthropists Phyllis Taylor, Walda Besthoff, and Bethany Bultman (speaking about her late aunt, Muriel Bultman Francis) will discuss "Extraordinary Women and the Founding of a Modern Museum." Blato Zlato will perform their blend of Balkan and Louisiana music in the Great Hall, and curators will lead visitors through new exhibitions. Arrive early and stay late for the full lineup of programming:
5 - 8 pm | Art on the Spot family activity table
6:30 pm | NOLA 4 Women present Extraordinary Women and the Founding of a Modern Museum panel discussion
Cafe NOMA, the Museum Shop, galleries and exhibitions are open until 9 pm.
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SPECIAL OFFER for new members: Join now and receive three extra months
Beginning now and continuing through January 27, 2019, new NOMA members who purchase either an Individual or Dual/Family membership receive 15 months for the price of 12. Click here and apply code ORLEANS3 at checkout. Please call the membership department at 504.658.4130 if you have questions.
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Purchase tickets or sponsorships now for ODYSSEY BALL 2018
Saturday, November 10, 7 pm - midnight
The 2018 Odyssey Ball, in partnership with IBERIABANK, offers an enchanting night of dining and dancing, along with a silent auction, that celebrates and enhances the New Orleans Museum of Art. Odyssey raises the funds necessary to support NOMA's nationally-recognized exhibitions and educational programs. Purchase tickets now along with raffle tickets for an 18-karat rose and white gold bracelet with over six and one-half carats of diamonds, donated by Valobra Master Jewelers.
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Anna Atkins, Ceylon, between 1852 and 1854, Cyanotype, Museum purchase, 81.385
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Enroll now for Create Late workshop in November
Exclusively for adults, kick off your weekend with a glass of wine and a hands-on art lesson during Friday Nights at NOMA. Enroll now in Create Latesessions from 6:30 - 8 pm on Friday, November 2 to learn printmaking. NOMA members, $25 | Nonmembers, $30 | Email education@noma.org
Learn to make a cyanotype print
Under the direction of photographer Robert A. Schaefer, participants in
Seeing Blue: A Cyanotype Workshop on Saturday, November 3, from 10:30 am to 3:30 pm will learn about the cyanotype process and create a camera-less blueprint. Registration includes a boxed lunch.
Classes with Curators examines art in 18th-century Paris
In conjunction with The Orléans Collection, Curator Vanessa Schmid and Curatorial Fellow Kelsey Brosnan will lead Classes with Curators: Looking at Art in Eighteenth-Century Paris on Tuesdays, November 27 and December 4 and 11, from 6 - 8 pm.
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Unidentified artist, Portrait of Ingen (detail), 1611-1684, Ink and color on silk, Gift of Kurt A. Gitter, MD, and Millie H. Gitter in memory of N. V. Hammer
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Join us for Small Talks, Noontime Talks, and daily tours
Small Talks are 10- to 15-minute discussions focus on a single object or small range of objects within the permanent collection or special exhibitions. This week join us for topics ranging from the museum's collection of Buddhist art in the Asian galleries to Giovanni Boldoni's Portrait of a Woman in Profile. View the full list of dates, times, and themes.
Docent-guided tours of the permanent collection and special exhibitions are offered daily at 1 pm. Tours of the Besthoff Sculpture Garden are offered on Saturdays and Mondays at noon through November 26, with the exception of October 20 due to City Park hosting the Susan G. Komen Run for the Cure.
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NOMA Book Club to discuss Michelangelo and his creation of the Sistine Chapel ceiling mural
Join NOMA staff and fellow book lovers as we read and discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art, artists, art museums, NOMA's collections and exhibitions.
The selection for October is Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling by Ross King. The book chronicles the four years it took Michelangelo to create the vast Biblical mural on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and the politics swirling around Rome and the Vatican in the early sixteenth century.
Book Club members may join in a group discussion about the book on either Tuesday, October 23, from 12 - 1 pm, or Wednesday, October 24 from 1:30 - 3 pm.
Please contact NOMA Librarian Sheila Cork to reserve space for future sessions of the NOMA Book Club at scork@noma.org or 504.658.4117.
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Wellness Classes Among the Artworks
NOMA, in collaboration with East Jefferson Wellness Center, offers wellness classes every Saturday morning and Monday evening.
Yoga in the Garden will not be held on Saturday, October 20, as City Park hosts the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure
Tai Chi/Chi Kung in the Galleries: Monday, October 15, 6 - 7 pm
Classes are $5; FREE for NOMA members and East Jefferson Wellness Center members. To register, call East Jefferson Healthfinder at 504.456.5000.
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Plan ahead: Saturday fun for kids and families: Studio KIDS! workshop and StoryQuest storytelling session in November
This fall Studio KIDS! presents "Express Yourself" workshops for children ages 5-10 who want to get creative and learn art making techniques. On Saturday, November 10, from 10 am to noon students will create a colorful painting inspired by Abstract Expressionism. Register in advance | $25 NOMA members, $30 nonmembers.
Families bond around the act of reading children's literature at StoryQuest. A professional storyteller will read a book about music on Saturday, November 3, at 11 am. Ideal for children ages 2-7, no registration is required and the activity is free with museum admission.
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NOMA members offered discounted tickets for the New Orleans Opera Association production of Pygmalion
From November 8-11 at Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carré, the New Orleans Opera will stage Pygmalion, Jean-Philippe Rameau's operatic adaptation of the Greek myth, along with additional selections of French Baroque opera from the 18th century. NOMA's presentation of The Orléans Collection will play a role, in that the scenery will include paintings on view in this blockbuster exhibition, as well as works from the museum's permanent collection. NOMA members may receive a discount of 10% by entering the code NOMA10 when purchasing tickets to this opera.
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Among the works from The Orléans Collection: Giorgio Vasari (Italian, 1511-1574), Six Tuscan Poets, 1544, Oil on panel, Minneapolis Institute of Art
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The Orléans Collection, NOMA's grand exhibition in honor of the New Orleans Tricentennial, opens Friday, October 26
NOMA celebrates the close of New Orleans' Tricentennial year by reuniting European masterworks from the collection of the city's regal namesake, Philippe II, the Duke of Orléans. The Orléans Collection includes paintings by Rembrandt, Veronese, Valentin, and Rubens, among others -- many never before exhibited in the US -- that formerly hung in Philippe II's Parisian residence, the Palais-Royal, before being dispersed at auction in the 1790s.
Programming for this exhibition will include lectures by curators and special guest scholars along with a French Connection Film Series on select Saturdays in November and December and an evening of Baroque music on Wednesday, November 7, 7 pm. Another ticketed event, An Edible Feast on December 9, 7 pm, will include a private tour of the exhibition followed by a champagne reception with pastry selections from New Orleans finest chefs. Susan Pinkard, author of A Revolution in Taste: The Rise of French Cuisine, 1650-1800, will deliver a lecture during the reception. Purchase tickets.
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NOMA is committed to preserving, interpreting, and enriching its collections and renowned sculpture garden; offering innovative experiences for learning and interpretation; and uniting, inspiring, and engaging diverse communities and cultures.
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