LOVE in the Garden fundraiser party set for Friday, September 27, presented by Hancock Whitney
The New Orleans Museum of Art will celebrate LOVE in the Garden presented by Hancock Whitney on September 27, 2019. Now in its fifteenth year, guests will enjoy cuisine from more than sixty of New Orleans’ finest restaurants, and craft cocktails from New Orleans’ top bartenders as they vie for first place in the sixth-annual LOVE Cocktail Challenge. Read More
Q&A: Adriana Corral’s Memento draws attention to disappearances of women and girls in Juarez, Mexico
Adriana Corral is among the eleven artists whose works are included in Bodies of Knowledge, an exhibition that reflects on the role language plays in archiving and asserting cultural identities. Her work draws attention to the widespread disappearances and murders of women and girls in Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico. Read More
Helis Foundation “Art & A/C” promotion offers free admission to Louisiana residents when August temperatures top 95 degrees
To help Louisianans beat the heat, The Helis Foundation has again teamed up with some of New Orleans’ largest art institutions for the third year to offer free admission when temperatures hits 95 degrees throughout the month of August. In partnership with the meteorological team at WVUE-TV (FOX 8), The Helis Foundation presents Art & A/C. Read More
Q&A: Garrett Bradley reimagines a lost trove of African American silent films
Filmmaker Garrett Bradley created an installation at NOMA that presents scenes that might have been from the lost trove of African American silent movies in the early twentieth century. Her immersive, multi-channel film America reimagines this vanished archive through a corpus of new films cast primarily with New Orleanians. Read More
Q&A: Manon Bellet captures “disappearance, change and alteration” in an ephemeral installation
Visitors to Bodies of Knowledge will encounter a large wall affixed with loosely attached burned tissue paper. Titled Brève braises, this interactive work by Manon Bellet will gradually disintegrate over the course of the exhibition as musicians are invited to perform in front of the ephemeral installation. Witness a performance activation on Wednesday, July 24, from 3 to 4 pm with musicians from NOCCA. Read More
Q&A: Wafaa Bilal connects art, literature, history and generosity in an interactive installation
Iraqi artist Wafaa Bilal is among eleven international artists represented in Bodies of Knowledge, an exhibition that features a broad range of cultural expression in many mediums, from dance, film, music, and photography to books, which are central to Bilal’s installation 168:01. Learn more during a curatorial Gallery Talk on Wednesday, August 14, at noon. Read More