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Thursday, December 31, 2020
MHFA Monthly: Prepare for the New Year --January 2021
Wednesday, December 30, 2020
End the year, start the year at NOMA
Torkwase Dyson's abstract paintings examine the legacy of plantation economies and their relationship to current environmental and infrastructural issues. Her solo exhibition closes Sunday, January 10.
END THE YEAR, START THE YEAR AT NOMA
The Museum and Sculpture Garden will be open on New Year's Eve, and New Year's Day from 10 am to 3 pm. Standard hours apply to all other days of operation (the museum and Sculpture Garden are closed on Mondays and Tuesdays). Admission is free to all Louisiana residents on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation.
Please note that beginning the week of January 4 through March 3, 2021, the museum will be closed Monday through Wednesday. NOMA will be open to visitors Thursday through Sunday, 10 am to 5 pm. The Besthoff Sculpture Garden will remain open on Wednesdays from 9:30 am to 5 pm. During this interim, Louisiana residents will receive free Museum admission on Thursdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation.
Prepaid, contactless ticketing is encouraged for museum visits.
EXHIBITION
The long-term exhibition Orientalism: Taking and Making addresses shades of oppression, racism, and superficial cultural understanding layered in 19th-century Orientalist works of art.
VIRTUAL VISIT
Paige Valente, an art teacher at Edna Karr High School, introduced her students to NOMA's collection through a Virtual Visit—free and open to all educators as a learning resource.
COMMUNITY PARTNERS
Kaleigh Bourque's first exposure to stagecraft was at a NOMA summer camp. She recently volunteered to direct a play in the garden amphitheater for neurodiverse teens and young adults.
VIRTUAL CONCERTS
Helen Gillet has performed two of three concerts inspired by Mending the Sky. Watch the recorded performances and tune in for a final livestream on January 31 at 6 pm.
OBJECT LESSON
The model for Antoine Bourdelle's sculpture Hercules the Archer (1907), on view in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden, was a French athlete who was later killed in World War I.
FOCUS ON PHOTOGRAPHY
In 1933, on assignment for Pommery Champagne, Ilse Bing photographed rows of the commercial product with the same creativity and avant-garde approach found in her personal work.
MUSICIANS FROM HOME
NOMA presents a series of virtual concerts by music’s best and brightest performing from their homes. Catch a video of the Swamp Buds playing a traditional south Louisiana repertoire.
ART-MAKING ACTIVITIES
Wrap up your holiday break with a series of hands-on, at-home, step-by-step art-making projects for all ages and interests presented by NOMA's Learning and Engagement department.
EVENT RENTALS
Looking ahead to a special occasion in 2021 and beyond? The Museum and Besthoff Sculpture Garden are available to host your event, within capacity limits and safety guidelines.
AGENDA FOR CHANGE
NOMA recognizes the legitimate issues in front of us and embraces the responsibility to address them. Read about our progress in our Agenda for Change.
GIVING
Support NOMA while shopping on Amazon through the Amazon Smile program. Select the New Orleans Museum of Art as your charity of choice and .5% of all eligible purchases will be donated.
NOMA SHOP
From purses to jewelry, children's items to cameras, the NOMA Shop is filled with surprising discoveries. More than 30 new items have been added online in recent weeks.
MAKE AN END-OF-YEAR GIFT
Time is running out to make a 2020 tax-deductible contribution to bring arts and culture programs to our community! With your gift, we can continue to impact our community in a lasting way. Please join us by making your gift online by December 31. Make a donation online.
You may also make a gift by mailing a check addressed to the "New Orleans Museum of Art" to P.O. Box 19123, New Orleans, LA 70179. To ensure credit for 2020, envelopes must be postmarked by December 31.
We welcome your feedback. Please contact us at info@noma.org or by calling 504-658-4220.
Torkwase Dyson (American, b. 1970), Way Over There Inside Me (Ocean as a Super Throughway #1–4), 2020, Graphite, acrylic, charcoal, and ink on canvas, each 40 × 30 in., From the series Black Compositional Thought: 15 Paintings for the Plantationocene
Alexandre-Marie Colin (French, 1798–1875, Othello and Desdemona, 1829, Oil on canvas, Museum purchase, The Bert Piso Fund, 2001.329
Hank Willis Thomas (American, b. 1976), History of the Conquest, 2017, Bronze, Gift of Sydney and Walda Besthoff, Installation funded by Brian and Jacki Schneider, 2018.30
Portrait of Kaleigh Bourque holding an autographed script from the cast of a Camp Able production of an adaptation of A Christmas Carol.
Screenshot from a video of Helen Gillet's livestream concert in a gallery featuring Beili Liu's After All / Mending The Sky, 2018-ongoing, dimensions variable, © Beili Liu Studio
Antoine Bourdelle (French, 1861–1929), Hercules the Archer, 1907, Bronze, 98 x 94 3/4 in., Museum purchase, 49.17
Ilse Bing (German, 1899–1998), Pommery Champagne Bottles, Reims, 1933, Gelatin silver print, Museum purchase, Zemurray Foundation Fund. 76.290
Portrait of Swamp Buds band members Marie-Isabelle Evangeline and Scott Scobbe
Example of a shape-collage art-making activity
Wedding reception in the Great Hall at the New Orleans Museum of Art
The Canal Link Bridge in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden
Kyra zip pouch
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