GIVEAWAY 🏛️✨ To celebrate hitting 50k followers, we're giving away 5️⃣ Friends and Family memberships to the museum to help you explore our collection of nearly 50,000 artworks spanning 5,000 years of world history.⁠
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👉 Leave a comment with a 🏛️ emoji and tag a friend who you'd like to bring to #ExploreNOMA with your new membership.⁠
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We'll pick five winners at random on Monday, June 12, at noon.⁠
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🎨: NOMA's Japanese art galleries. Photo by @maddiemcclendonn⁠
🎨: @jeppehein, "Mirror Labyrinth, Besthoff Sculpture Garden," 2017. Steel and mirror. Gift of Sydney and Walda Besthoff, Installation funded by Hancock Whitney, 2019.4. Photo by @noah.kowieski⁠
🎨: Probably Swiss or German, "Rusticated" Framed Mirror, c. 1875. Museum purchase, William McDonald Boles and Eva Boles Fund. 2016.53. Photo by @tiffanytle⁠
🎨: @ugorondinone0, "The Sun," 2018. Museum purchase with funds provided by Sydney and Walda Besthoff. © Ugo Rondinone, Courtesy of the Artist and Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels. Photo by @balleman.xo⁠
🎨: @teresita.fernandez, "Viñales (Mayombe Mississippi)," 2019. Museum purchase with funds provided by Sydney and Walda Besthoff, 2019.2. © Teresita Fernández.⁠ Photo by vanessamartinezzz_ ...

NOMA presents an artist talk with photographer Binh Danh (@binhtdanh) on Wednesday, June 14, 6 pm, in the Lapis Center for the Arts during the museum’s new Wednesday evening hours.⁠
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Early in his career, Danh pioneered a technique of printing images directly onto plant matter, activating the plants’ chlorophyll with sunlight. Using this process, Danh printed images associated with the war in Vietnam onto the leaves of tropical plants and grasses. Danh’s work is included in NOMA’s permanent collection and is currently on view in the exhibition "Photogenic: Photographs from the Collection of Cherye R. and James F. Pierce."⁠
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Following the talk, attendees are invited to join Danh in the @nomamuseumshop for a book signing of the artist’s first monograph, "Binh Danh: The Enigma of Belonging" (@radius.books, 2022). The museum will be open until 8 pm for program attendees to explore.⁠
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Free with museum admission. Every Wednesday, Louisiana residents receive free admission to NOMA courtesy of The Helis Foundation.⁠
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👉 Click the link in our bio to learn more.⁠
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One of the most easily identifiable deities from the Indian subcontinent, Ganesha is worshipped by Hindus, Buddhists and Jains, although he is most often identified as the son of the Hindu gods Shiva and Parvati. His identity is proclaimed by his elephant head, stout figure and round belly. 🐘⁠
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This sculpture was created during the late 12th-13th century, when the Chola kings ruled a large part of south India, including Tamil Nadu, where this work was cast.⁠
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Chola bronzes are prized for their great attention to detail, particularly evident in the crown, jewelry and fine clothing that adorn the figure. Cast using the “lost wax,” or cire perdu, method, the wax model made for each statue is destroyed in the casting process, making each Chola bronze a unique work of art.⁠
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👉 Click the link in our bio to learn more about this statue currently on view on the museum's third floor.⁠
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🎨: "Standing Ganesha" (India, late 12th-13th century). Copper alloy. Gift of Robert Kipniss in honor of E. John Bullard, 2010.227. ...