Talks & Tours
Sculpture Garden Tour – CANCELED
All tours are temporarily canceled as the museum and sculpture garden remain closed during the advisory period for novel coronavirus (COVID-19).
Gallery Talk: An Ideal Unity: The Bauhaus & Beyond with Assistant Curator Anne C. B. Roberts
Gallery talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Join Assistant Curator Anne C. B. Roberts for a discussion about the exhibition An Ideal Unity: The Bauhaus & Beyond.
Lecture: Herbert Bayer and the Bauhaus Legacy in America with Benjamin Benus
Gallery talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. In conjunction with the exhibition An Ideal Unity: The Bauhaus & Beyond Benjamin Benus, an associate professor of art and design history at Loyola University in New Orleans, will discuss the legacy of Austrian emigre and Bauhaus teacher Herbert Bayer in the United States.
Besthoff Sculpture Garden Tour – CANCELED
Throughout Art in Bloom, from March 25 to 29, daily tours of the Besthoff Sculpture Garden will be offered at noon and 1 pm. Sited on twelve acres adjacent to the museum, the garden contains more than ninety works by renowned sculptors placed among a picturesque mature grove of pine, magnolia, and moss-draped live oak trees surrounding a picturesque lagoon.
Gallery Talk: Ancestors in Stone with Curator Ndubuisi Ezeluomba – CANCELED
Gallery talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Ndubuisi Ezeluomba, the François Billion Richardson Curator of African Art, will discuss the exhibition Ancestors in Stone.
Gallery Talk: Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon with Yu Jiang, Director of the Confucius Institute at Xavier University – CANCELED
Due to the outbreak of coronavirus, the Gallery Talk on April 4 has been canceled.
Artist’s Perspective with MaPo Kinnord on Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon – CANCELED
Throughout the exhibition Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon: Masterworks from the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection at Asia Society, artists influenced by Asian art will offer their perspective on the objects on view. MaPo Kinnord is a ceramics artist and an associate professor of art at Xavier University of Louisiana.
Gallery Talk: Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon with Curator Lisa Rotondo-McCord – CANCELED
Gallery talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Lisa Rotondo-McCord, Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs/Curator of Asian Art, will discuss the exhibition Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon: Masterworks from the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection at Asia Society.
Gallery Talk: Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon with Fan Zhang, Asian Art Institute at Tulane University – CANCELED
Gallery talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Fan Zhang, professor of practice at the Asian Art Institute at Tulane University, will discuss the exhibition Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon: Masterworks from the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection at Asia Society.
Artist’s Perspective with Rose Bratcher on Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon – CANCELED
Throughout the exhibition Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon: Masterworks from the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection at Asia Society, artists influenced by Asian aesthetics will offer their perspective on the objects on view. Rose Bratcher is an ensō painter and a monk at the New Orleans Zen Temple.
Japanese Way of Tea demonstration with Naomi Yoder – CANCELED
In conjunction with the exhibition Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon: Masterworks from the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection at Asia Society, Naomi Yoder, a board member of the Japan Society of New Orleans who holds an intermediate license with the Urasenke Tea School, will demonstrate a traditional Japanese tea ceremony.
Gallery Talk: Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon with Richard Collins, New Orleans Zen Temple – CANCELED
Gallery talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Richard Collins, abbot of the New Orleans Zen Temple, will discuss the exhibition Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon: Masterworks from the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection at Asia Society.
Collins is a former RosaMary Professor of English at Xavier University and Dean Emeritus of the School of Arts and Humanities at Cal State University Bakersfield, he is the author or editor of several books, including No Fear Zen and Mushotoku Mind: The Heart of the Heart Sutra.