Dreams Come True: Art of the Classic Fairy Tales from the Walt Disney Studios!

The exhibit closes on March 14th, but not before we stay open for 30 hours straight beginning on March 13th!

March 13
10 am: Museum Opens
1 pm - 4 pm: Family Activities sponsored by Macy's
5 pm - 7 pm: Loyola Jazz Band*
8 pm - 10 pm: Shannon Powell Trio*
11 pm - 1 am: Mia Borders


March 14
2 am - 5 am: DJ Quintron
5 am - 11 am: Ralph Brennan's Courtyard Café serving Breakfast / Brunch
2 pm - 4pm: Ellis Marsalis* (in Auditorium)
5 pm: Museum Closes


*Music provided by Jazz at Lincoln Center brings the 1920s jazz era to life at NOMA as featured in Disney's Princess & The Frog. Jazz at Lincoln Center is dedicated to inspiring and growing audiences for jazz and produces thousands of events each season in its home in New York City and around the world.

There will be a cash bar on Saturday starting at 5 pm until music stops. Ralph Brennan's Courtyard Café will be open for the ENTIRE closing.

Through March 28, 2010
Luiz Cruz Azaceta: Swimming to Havana

This is a solo exhibition of new paintings by Cuban-born, New Orleans-based artist Luiz Cruz Azaceta. Swimming to Havana, organized by Miranda Lash, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, is Luiz Cruz Azaceta's first solo exhibition at the New Orleans Museum of Art.

NOMA READS

APRIL, 2010

This month sees the first year of a new program - NOMA READS, a series of events, book discussions, and programs related to an important NOMA exhibition. This year join friends and colleagues as we read the book Barthé : A Life in Sculpture by Margaret Rose Vendryes. University Press of Mississippi, 2008. ISBN 978-1604730920. and the exhibition is Beyond the Blues: Reflections of African America in the Fine Arts Collection of the Amistad Research Center which will be on view at NOMA from April 10 to July 11, 2010.

Please contact the Librarian at 504-658-4117 or scork@noma.org to register for NOMA READS and to be included on the contact list. "Richmond Barthé (1909-1989) was the first modern African American sculptor to achieve real critical success. His accessible naturalism led to unprecedented celebrity for an artist during the 1930s and 1940s." (Quotation available at http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/1122). Please contact the museum shop at 504-658-4133 or museumshop@noma.org to reserve a copy.

Margaret Rose Vendryes received her AB in fine arts from Amherst College, MA in art history from Tulane University, and a second MA and Ph.D. in art history from Princeton University. She taught at Princeton University and Amherst College before entering the faculty at York College and the Graduate Center of City University of New York in 2000 as Associate Professor of Art History. She has been awarded prestigious grants and fellowships and is a world traveler for both scholarly and personal research. University Press of Mississippi published Vendryes's book Barthé, A Life in Sculpture, the first monograph on the late African American sculptor Richmond Barthé, in 2008. She currently lives in the Boston area.

In April, NOMA will present an exhibition curated by Vendryes and jointly organized by NOMA and the Amistad Research Center. The exhibition is Beyond the Blues: Reflections of African America in the Fine Arts Collection of the Amistad Research Center, and it is the first large-scale exhibition of this seminal collection of work by African American artists and about the African American experience. The exhibition features works from the late 19th century to the first decade of the 21st century that are "Drawn from the extraordinary but little known fine arts collection of the Amistad Research Center in New Orleans, LA, the 100 + paintings, works on paper and sculpture in the exhibition will be complemented by pertinent selections from the personal papers of the artists also in the collection of the Amistad Research Center." (Available at noma.org)


Two pieces of Barthé's are included in the exhibition - Shoe Shine Boy (above, left) and Head of a Man (above, right). Richmond Barthé (a sculptor with New Orleans and Mississippi connections) is one of the artists whose work will be exhibited.

Please watch your email for updates about special events, programs, library displays and bibliographies related to the exhibition and to NOMA Book Club programs.

It is very important to contact the Librarian at 504-658-4117 or scork@noma.org to reserve space at the meetings, especially the field trips.

Thursday April 8th., 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Special Event
Margaret Vendryes will discuss and sign copies of her book in the Felix J. Dreyfous Library.

Thursday April 15th , 9:15 - 2:00 p.m. (approx.)
Special Event
"Richmond Barthé in Mississippi" - Field trip to Hancock County Library System in Bay St. Louis, Mississppi.

Richmond Barthé was born in Bay St. Louis and maintained close relationships with family and friends there all his life. The Hancock County Library System in Bay St. Louis is the home of several of Barthé's sculptures, including some from his time in Jamaica. The library also has a significant archive of Barthé information.

Following a viewing of the sculptures and a tour of the newly reopened library we will eat lunch at a local restaurant.

Friday April 23rd, 10:00 a.m. - 12:30 a.m. (approx)
Special Event
Field trip to the Amistad Research Center at Tulane University. We will meet at the Amistad Research Center at 10:00 a.m., where the staff at Amistad will present a program about the history of the Amistad Center and its collections, and introduce us to original documents relating to artists represented in Beyond the Blues...

At 11:30 we will walk approx. 1/4 mile to Lavin-Bernick Center for University Life and eat lunch in the faculty dining room. This is a "Dutch treat", so we will all pay our own $10 for lunch at the center.

Friday April 30th , 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. - Book Discussion Group.
Felix J. Dreyfous Library