Small Talks are 15-to-20-minute talks by curators, docents, and other museum staff about select items or groups of objects in the permanent collection or special exhibitions. Join us this week for the following:
Wednesday, August 15
11 AM: Amedeo Modigliani’s Portrait of a Woman with docent Connie Traub
3 PM: Edgar Degas’s Portrait of Estelle Musson Degas with docent Dianne Chesson
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Artist Jet Costello created miniature rooms for display in Carlos Rolón’s Hustleman cart, on view in the exhibition Carlos Rolón: Outside/In.
Thursday, August 16
11 AM: Artist Jet Costello discusses the miniature sets he created for installation in Carlos Rolón’s Hustleman cart
3 PM: Veronese in Murano exhibition with docent Marilyn Copan
Friday, August 17
11 AM: Dutch Genre Paintings with docent Ambika Prasad
11:15 AM: Artist Jet Costello discusses the miniature sets he created for installation in Carlos Rolón’s Hustleman cart
3 PM: Manniere Dawson’s Classic Relief with docent Harvey Orth
Saturday, August 18
11 AM: Veronese in Murano with docent Pat Jackson
3 PM: Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner with docent Naomi Kornman
Sunday, August 19
3 PM: Andy Warhol’s Diamond Dust Shoes with docent Gary Gusick
Tuesday, August 21
11 AM: Pablo Picasso’s Woman in an Armchair with docent Regina Shujaa
Wednesday, August 22
3 PM: Lesley Dill’s Hell Hell Hell / Heaven Heaven Heaven: Encountering Sister Gertrude Morgan and Revelation in Changing Course: Reflections on New Orleans Histories with Curatorial Fellow Allison Young
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Lesley Dill, Hell Hell Hell/Heaven Heaven Heaven: Encountering Sister Gertrude Morgan & Revelation, 2010, New Orleans Museum of Art, Gift of the artist, 2014.45.1, Photography © Michael Smith