Creative Assembly Questionnaire: Steve Lands
In a new series of questionnaires, we’re learning more about the members of this year’s Creative Assembly Cohort. Keep reading to get to know musician and composer Steve Lands. Read More
Q&A with Objects Conservator Ingrid Seyb in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden
It’s springtime and that means we’re trying to spend as much time in the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden as possible. We stopped to talk with NOMA’s Object Conservator Ingrid Seyb, who was also working outside, taking care of artworks in the garden. Read More
Egyptomania: Looking Back at Ancient Egyptian Culture
Periods of “Egyptomania”—the madness for things related to ancient Egyptian culture—have occurred in the Western world for the past three thousand years. Read More
Creative Assembly Questionnaire: Tiana Nobile
In a new series of questionnaires, we’re learning more about the members of this year’s Creative Assembly Cohort. Keep reading to get to know poet, writer, and educator Tiana Nobile. Read More
Object Lesson: Doyle Lane
Vibrant glazes bubble lusciously, crack sharply, and drip dangerously off the edges of these meticulous little “Weed” Pots by Doyle Lane. In late 2021, the New Orleans Museum of Art welcomed into the permanent collection these seven extraordinary works by Doyle Lane, including two that come as a gift from NOMA Director Emeritus John Bullard’s exemplary collection of American Studio ceramics. These pots become the first works by the celebrated Black Los Angeles potter to join a public collection in the artist’s birth city. Read More