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Image: Elyn Zimmerman’s Mississippi Meanders bridge is illuminated at dusk.
The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden occupies approximately eleven acres in City Park adjacent to the museum. Atypical of most sculpture gardens, this garden is located within a mature existing landscape of pines, magnolias, and live oaks surrounding two lagoons. The garden design creates outdoor viewing spaces within this picturesque landscape. Originally conceived in 2003, the Sculpture Garden doubled in size in 2019 and has grown to include more than 90 sculptures. READ MORE
Sydney and Walda Besthoff are the namesake visionary founders behind a world-renowned sculpture garden for New Orleans.
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Architects, landscape architects, lighting designers, and arborists were among the contractors who made it all possible.
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See highlights of the Sculpture Garden in a virtual tour produced in partnership with the Google Arts & Culture Initiative.
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You can play a role in the historic expansion of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden by making a gift to support the project.
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Relive the excitement of the grand opening of the Besthoff Sculpture Garden expansion in May 2019.
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Pablo Casals’s Obelisk, a towering accumulation of welded bronze cellos, dominates the waters of a lagoon in the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden. Standing over twenty feet tall, the Obelisk, built in homage to the world-renowned Spanish-Puerto Rican cellist and human rights activist Pablo Casals, is an imposing example of monumental sculpture by French-born artist Arman.
The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden at the New Orleans Museum of Art offers detailed entries on 64 artworks in the original 2003 garden, as well as a bibliography and overview of the garden’s founding. 192 pages, hardcover. Edited by Miranda Lash. $49.95
NOMA’s Art Thrives initiative is proud to partner with the Congo Square Preservation Society (@congosquaredrumcircle) to present the Elders Sacred Talk Series with prolific elder New Orleanians, celebrating the lives they lead while learning firsthand about the impact they’ve had on the city.
Join us on October 4, at 5:30 pm in NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts for a program featuring our second set of honorees of the series: award-winning percussionist Bill Summers and Nana Anoa Nantambu, educator and community leader. Sula Janet Evans of the Congo Square Preservation Society will moderate the conversation. Doors open at 5 pm.
Free with museum admission. Louisiana residents receive free admission to NOMA on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation. When you arrive at NOMA, check in at the admissions desk for directions to the Lapis Center for the Arts.
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Consider this your official notice that we`re marching into spooky season. 💀🎃👻🦇
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🎨: Kokuro, "Procession of Skeletons," 1920. Ink on silk. Museum purchase, George S. Frierson, Jr. Fund, 2001.293.
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A "One in a Million" outfit worn by an R&B legend who redefined the brand. 💿
Tommy Hilfiger consistently channels street style in his designs and draws inspiration from the music industry. He met hip-hop artist Aaliyah early in her career. She embodied a new look for the brand in an advertising campaign with DJ Mark Ronson, wearing a cut t-shirt tied around her chest paired with low-hanging men’s Tommy Jeans with an exposed underwear band. Aaliyah’s look has become an iconic image of individuality and creative style.
Tommy Hilfiger suele incorporar el estilo urbano en sus diseños y recurre a la industria musical para encontrar inspiración. El diseñador conoció a la artista de hiphop Aaliyah cuando ella comenzaba su carrera. La artista creó su propio estilo distintivo para una campaña publicitaria con el DJ Mark Ronson en la que se ató una camiseta alrededor del pecho y se puso unos jeans Tommy de tiro bajo con el elástico de la ropa interior al descubierto. El estilo de Aaliyah se ha convertido en una imagen icónica de la expresión personal.
👉 “Fashioning America: Grit to Glamour” is on view at NOMA through November 26. / “Fabricando Moda en EE. UU.: de la firmeza al glamour” esta en vista en NOMA hasta Noviembre 26.
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🎨: Tommy Hilfiger for TOMMY HILFIGER, Ensemble worn by Aaliyah, 1997. Cotton. PVH Archives. / Conjunto lucido por Aaliyah, 1997. Algodón
📸: Aaliyah sporting classic Tommy Jeans in 1997. Courtesy of Tommy Hilfiger. / Aaliyah luciendo los clásicos Tommy Jeans en 1997. Cortesía de Tommy Hilfiger.
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Happy birthday to French Rococo painter #FrançoisBoucher, who was born #OnThisDay in 1703.
Taking inspiration from Baroque artists such as Peter Paul Rubens and Antoine Watteau, Boucher imbued his work with an eroticism that made him one of the most celebrated painters in 18th-century France.
This painting from the 1730s depicts a scandalous encounter in which a man surprises a woman resting "en déshabillé"—or in informal clothing that one would not wear out—with her cat. Flirtatious scenes such as this one garnered fans including Madame de Pompadour, an influential member of the royal French court and the chief mistress of King Louis XV.
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🎨: François Boucher, "The Surprise (Woman with a Cat)," 1730–32. Oil on canvas. Museum purchase, Women`s Volunteer Committee Fund, 84.58.
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Thank you to all of the sponsors, patrons, and attendees who made LOVE in the Garden Presented by Hancock Whitney so unforgettable! ❤️🌿 All funds raised during this annual event support NOMA`s world-class exhibitions, innovative programming, and educational initiatives.
Special thanks are due to our presenting sponsor @hancockwhitney, our media sponsors @nolanews and @neworleansmag, and all of the participating restaurants.
What was your favorite part of the night?
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Opening Soon 🗓️ "Debbie Fleming Caffery: In Light of Everything" is the first major retrospective of the photographer, whose dramatic black-and-white images draw on themes of faith, the dignity of labor, and the environment, among other subjects.
In Caffery’s own words, the exhibition is “about that moment, in taking a photograph, when everything works…eyes, guts, heart, life experiences, [and] years of paying attention.”
The exhibition includes works spanning more than five decades that are representative of Caffery`s entire career—including photographs taken throughout Louisiana and Mississippi, Mexico, and France. Recognized as one of the foremost contemporary photographers from the American South, Caffery`s career stretches beyond her importance locally and regionally.
👉 "In Light of Everything" is on view October 6, 2023–March 3, 2024.
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🎨: Debbie Fleming Caffery, "Sunset Burning Cane," 2001. Gelatin silver print. New Orleans Museum of Art, Museum purchase, 2013.1.115. © Debbie Fleming Caffery.
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