For a limited time, NOMA visitors have the unique opportunity to see the custom piano played by acclaimed musical artist Jon Batiste during the Super Bowl LIX pregame show. On view in the museum’s Lapis Center for the Arts, the vibrant and colorful grand piano features a design by artist and bestselling author Suleika Jaouad, who is Batiste’s wife.

Before Sunday’s Super Bowl LIX game, Batiste performed the national anthem as part of a star-studded pregame lineup honoring New Orleans’s legendary music scene. A Louisiana native, Batiste is a seven-time Grammy Award-winning and Academy Award-winning artist known for his dynamic work as a singer, songwriter, and composer. Visitors to NOMA will have the unique opportunity to see the custom piano featured in Batiste’s Super Bowl LIX performance.

The one-of-a-kind instrument, which features a painting with a butterfly motif, is one of many artistic collaborations between Batiste and Jaouad, who is an Emmy Award-winning journalist and the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life and Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted. In 2024, Jaouad’s paintings were on view at ArtYard in Frenchtown, New Jersey, as part of the collaborative exhibition The Alchemy of Blood with Jaouad’s mother, artist Anne Francey.

NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts is open for viewings of Jaouad and Batiste’s piano on Wednesdays, 12–7 pm; Saturdays, 10–5 pm, and Sundays, 10–5 pm. Every Wednesday, museum admission is free for Louisiana residents courtesy of The Helis Foundation’s Art for All initiative.