OPENING THIS WEEK
On view at NOMA beginning this Friday, September 9, Louise Bourgeois: Paintings is the first comprehensive exhibition of the celebrated artist’s paintings. With these early works, created in the decade spanning World War II, Bourgeois established a core group of visual motifs that she continued to explore and develop throughout her career.
LOVE IN THE GARDEN
New Orleans’s best outdoor celebration is back! Join us on Friday, September 23, for LOVE in the Garden Presented by Hancock Whitney, held in honor of Sydney J. Besthoff III.
REARRANGING THE PLANETS
Steve Lands’s out-of-this-world performance returns to NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts on September 9 and 10. Lands debuted the work at the museum during a sold-out run earlier this year.
HISPANIC HERITAGE CELEBRATION
On Friday, September 16, Ecos Latinos and NOMA present a Hispanic Heritage Month celebration featuring a line-up of music and dance from local and international performers.
ON VIEW SOON
Opening September 16, Called to the Camera: Black American Studio Photographers highlights
AT THE LIBRARY
Join us on Monday, September 19, at the Norman Mayer Library. This free art and early literacy program is designed specifically for children ages 2–5 and their caregivers.
GALLERY TALK
On Wednesday, September 14, curator Mel Buchanan discusses how Katherine Choy’s artwork shows larger shifts within the craft world in the United States in the 1950s.
FROM THE COLLECTION
Surrealist artist Lee Miller used photography to transform ordinary moments into something mysterious and unsettling. Curator Russell Lord shares a 1931 work by Miller.
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IMAGES, FROM TOP:
Unknown artist, Louise Bourgeois in the studio of her apartment at 142 East 18th Street in NYC (detail), ca. 1946. Collection Louise Bourgeois Archive, The Easton Foundation. © The Easton Foundation/Licensed by VAGA, NY.
LOVE in the Garden.
Steve Lands's Rearranging the Planets. Photo by Camille Lenain.
Mexico Y Sus Raíces dance group.
Hooks Brothers Studio, Untitled [Hooks’ School of Photography Students Reviewing Photographs], c. 1950. Gelatin silver print. Collection of Andrea and Rodney Herenton. (The Hooks Brothers Photograph Collection, consisting of original photographs, negatives, equipment, and ephemera was acquired by the RWS Company, LLC in 2018.)
Mini Masters at the Library.
Katherine Choy, Group of Two Vases and a Pitcher, ca. 1952–57. Glazed stoneware.Collection of the Clay Art Center, Port Chester, New York.
Lee Miller, Untitled (Woman with Hand in Hair), 1931. Gelatin silver print. Museum purchase, Mr. and Mrs. H. Blumenthal Fund, 77.396.
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