Friday Nights at NOMA opens the museum’s doors for many interesting activities: live music, movies, children’s activities, and more.

• 5 to 8 pm: Art on the Spot
• 5:30 to 8:30 pm: Music by Ben Redwine
• 6:30 pm: Seeing Nature lecture: Vanessa Schmid: Celebrating the Senses
• 8 to 9 pm: Film: David Hockney: A Bigger Picture

About Celebrating the Senses

Visitors to the Seeing Nature exhibition have been captivated by Jan Brueghel the Younger’s exquisite paintings of the five senses. NOMA curator Vanessa I. Schmid will focus on the series in her lecture and tour on Friday evening. We will start in the auditorium with a lecture to give context for the paintings, including: the tradition of ‘Kunstkammer’ (or curiosity chambers of wonders), Jan Brueghel’s art (and that of the Brueghel Dynasty), and Antwerp as a port and artistic center in the period. The second half of the discussion will take place in the galleries. Schmid previewed the Seeing Nature exhibition in a NOMA video.

About David Hockney: A Bigger Picture

Filmed over three years, this documentary is an unprecedented record of a major artist at work. It captures David Hockney’s return from California to paint his native Yorkshire, outside, through the seasons and in all weathers. It tells the story of a homecoming and gives a revealing portrait of what inspires and motivates today’s greatest living British-born artist. (2009, 60 minutes) A colossal landscape by Hockney is included in NOMA’s current Seeing Nature exhibition.

About Ben Redwine

New Orleans based clarinetist Ben Redwine feels equally comfortable playing Brahms or Ellington. He is devoted to the performance of new classical music and old jazz, as well as to teaching the next generation of performers and teachers. He served as an Assistant Professor at The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC from 2012-2016. In 2014, he retired after 27 years in the US military band system, the majority of time serving as the e-flat clarinet soloist with the US Naval Academy Band in Annapolis, Maryland. He has been a featured soloist at seven International Clarinet Association ClarinetFests in the U.S. and Europe, and has performed extensively as a freelance musician nationally and internationally. In 2016, he moved to the New Orleans area to pursue performance opportunities in the birthplace of jazz. Ben performs exclusively on Selmer Paris instruments.

SPONSORS: Friday Nights at NOMA is supported in part by grant funds from the Azby Fund; Ruby K. Worner Charitable Trust; New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation; and the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council as administered by the Arts Council of New Orleans.