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Object Lesson: Destruction of Zeppelin near London by H. Scott Orr

Object Lessons

On September 3, 1916, Lieutenant William Leefe Robinson of the Royal Air Force was on night patrol in his biplane, when he spotted the wooden-framed Schütte-Lanz airship outside of London. It was one of sixteen that had launched from Germany for the largest air raid over England. Robinson first lost the airship in the clouds, but found it again and made three attack runs on it. During the third, the airship burst into flames and crashed into a field. Read More

GIRLS NOLA Spends the Day at NOMA and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden

News, Education, Creative Assembly

After several quiet months, the museum is slowly and safely welcoming small groups of young visitors back into our spaces, sprinkling chatter and laughter back into the sounds and rhythms of the galleries. Lit in hot pink on a Saturday in May, NOMA’s new Lapis Center for the Arts became home-for-a-day to GIRLS NOLA—the Girls Initiative for Reproducing Leaders in Society—for an incredibly special reunion and retreat.  Read More

Art-Making Activity: Paper Sculpture Inspired by Ida Kohlmeyer

Art-Making Activity

New Orleans-born artist Ida Kohlmeyer began her life as an artist at age 37 when she took her first painting class. She created a unique pictorial language with playful combinations of line, color, and shape. Working in a variety of media including paint and pastels, Kohlmeyer also translated her personal glyphs into stacked aluminum sculptures, often titled Rebus. A rebus is a riddle. what do you make of this one? Read More

A sculpture by Ida Kohlmeyer in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden is made of abstract painted aluminum shapes.

Object Lesson: Rebus 3D-89-3 by Ida Kohlmeyer

Object Lessons

This month, Ida Kohlmeyer’s painted aluminum sculpture Rebus 3D-89-3 returns to the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, newly refreshed from structural repairs and brandishing a brand new coat of paint. The expert restoration—undertaken by Kohlmeyer’s longtime fabricator G. Paul Lucas of Lucas Limited in Louisburg, Kansas—brings the work back to its intended brilliancy and allows us to appreciate the work of one of Louisiana’s most influential and enigmatic abstract artists anew. Read More

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