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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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Bronze
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
A few more days to catch "Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined" at NOMA ✨ Do you have weekend plans to visit?
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📸: coachreed83 @cafenoma @anna.ton @nomad.nelle @margotnorton
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An invitation from curator Orlando Hernández Ying to visit the museum’s collection of Precolumbian art on the third floor 👋
Hérnandez Ying is NOMA’s Lapis Curator of the Arts of the Americas, the first permanent curatorial role at the museum decorated to an expanded look at the arts of North, Central, and South America.
His research focuses on the art of the ancient Americas, the Spanish American viceroyalties, and modern and contemporary Latin America.
Over the next few years, Hernández Ying is working on a major permanent installation at NOMA that takes an expansive and inclusive look at “American art” over time—a project supported by the Terra Foundation for American Art.
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Join us this Friday, July 12, for NOMA at Night as we close out “Wangechi Mutu: Interwined” with a bang! 💥
👉 Performances from @kumbuka_african_dance_co and @laurenashleemessina
💿 DJ sets from @mynameisphlegm
🎤 Gallery talks and after-hours access to the exhibition
🧑🎨 Art-making activities for all ages
🍸 Food or drink available for purchase from @cafenoma
Discounted admission for museum members and free entry for visitors ages 19 and under. Click the link in our bio to get your tickets today.
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📸: @angelo._ from the opening celebration of “Wangechi Mutu Intertwined”
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Have you seen “Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined” at NOMA? The major retrospective of nearly 100 works by the Kenyan-American artist closes next Sunday, July 14. ...
Quiz time ⏰ Can you name the three artists whose works are shown in this illustration?
To celebrate 20 years of NOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture Garden, winter design intern @hannahjb.art sketched a few of her favorite views in rhetorical garden.
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People say we’re alike, they say we got the same hair
Let’s work it out on the remix
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🎨: Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema, “Shrine of Venus” (detail), 1889. Oil on wood panel. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Chapman H. Hyams, 15.3.
📍: Second floor, Bea and Harold Forgotston Gallery
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