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Dawn DeDeaux’s work addresses apocalyptic themes. She discusses her forthcoming retrospective in 2021.
Often focusing on the confines of her own home, Dorothea Tanning transformed ordinary furniture into painted scenes where magical experiences might unfold.
Engage children ages 1 to 2 with free Facebook Live workshops on Saturday mornings through June 20.
Curator Nic Aziz discusses a future collaboration between NOMA+, a mobile pop-up museum, and The Black School, an experimental art academy focusing on radical Black history.
Russel Wright’s “Saturn” punch service is an innovative example of the use of aluminum in mid-century modern design.
You Are Here embraces photography’s success as a faithful record but also questions the medium’s effectiveness in depicting and sharing fragments of our world.
Join Saturday morning family-oriented virtual workshops with a NOMA teaching artist. Limited enrollment remains for January 16. Advance registration required.
NOMA staff, in partnership with independent New Orleans bookseller Octavia Books, offer a list of titles centered upon themes of home.
Photographers make choices within the singularity of a home-space and whether to expand or explode the domestic myths they have been invited to turn into a picture.
Create a self-portrait on paper from collaged materials using your hand as a representation of your body.
Like all pictures of windows, Leslie Gill’s Studio Window, West 56th Street, New York is an example of “photographing photography.”
During the stay-at-home order, a team of NOMA employees are making an ongoing effort to call every Museum Member.
Teens are invited to submit photographs to NOMA’s Instagram account in a “Captured in Quarantine” photo challenge.
Kathleen Tunnell Handel discusses her ongoing project photographing residential mobile homes and manufactured housing communities. Photo: ©2020 Kathleen Dreier
If you were at the first @jazzfest in 1970, you would have seen artist Sister Gertrude Morgan in a booth selling her paintings. ➡️🔗 Swipe to learn about this important figure in New Orleans art history and then click the link in our bio to keep reading an article by curator Brian Piper.
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🎨: Sister Gertrude Morgan, "A Poem of My Calling," c. 1970. Crayon, tempera, graphite, and ballpoint ink on paper. Gift of Maria and Lee Friedlander, 2000.108.
🎨: Harriet Blum, "Sister Gertrude Morgan, Jazz & Heritage Festival," 1973. Gelatin silver print. Gift of the artist, 2006.47
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The sculptures grouped on this platform in "Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined" are macroscopic impressions of viruses. 🦠
Reminiscent of pottery, they are made from the distinctive and highly fertile red volcanic soil found in the highlands region of Kenya—a lifegiving material that is the source of the region’s dense forests and abundant horticulture.
Enlarging their scale highlights their geometry, symmetry, and distinctive textures, which evolved over millennia to facilitate the viruses’ infiltration of and reproduction within human, plant, and animal cells.
Mutu has specifically chosen to represent viruses that have historically been deployed as bioweapons of colonization (like measles and smallpox) as well as those that are tied to specific geopolitical contexts (like Zika and Dengue) or are otherwise interwoven with human societies (the common cold).
Such pathogens cause sickness and disease but also speak to
fears, vulnerabilities, and experiences that unify humanity.
"Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined" is on view at NOMA through July 14.
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🎨: Wangechi Mutu, various works, 2016–22. Red soil, paper pulp, and wood glue. Courtesy the artist, Gladstone Gallery, and Prout-Lara Collection, Vancouver.
📍: First floor, Ella West Freeman Galleries
📸: @annrowsonlove
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No better way to celebrate #EarthDay than with a walk outside through the Besthoff Sculpture Garden. 🌿🌞🌍
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🎨: Arnaldo Pomodoro, "Una Battaglia (A Battle: For the Resistance Fighters)," 1971. Bronze and stainless steel. Gift of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Foundation, 98.144.
📍: Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden
📸: @crazymajax
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Thank you, Councilmember Oliver Thomas (@otforus), for speaking to some of the pre-K students who are part of NOMA’s Mini Masters program, which combines in-school instruction and museum visits to bolster learning through the arts. 🎨🏛️✍️ ...
Scenes from Symphony of the Sown, a runway presentation by @odaomo in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden ✨🌿🪡
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🎥: @_tkcollins_ @toneontop
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Feliz cumpleaños, Fernando Botero! 🎉 Museum Educator Laura Moreno discusses the artist’s work “Mother and Child” in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden.
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🎨: Fernando Botero, “Mother and Child,” 1988. Bronze. Museum purchase, Sydney and Walda Besthoff Foundation Fund, 2003.157.
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