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Now On View
2008
Through June 8
Rodrigue's Louisiana:
Cajuns, Blue Dogs, and Beyond Katrina
(organized by the Dixon Gallery and Gardens) (EWF Galleries)
Through May 25
A Curator's Gift:
Contemporary Photography from Diego Cortez
(organized by NOMA) (FRW Galleries)
Catalogue-zine published by Insignis, Chapel Hill.
The Frederick R. Weisman Galleries for Contemporary Art
In accepting the new position of The Freeman Family Curator of Photography at NOMA, Diego Cortez made a
donation to the Museum of more than 250 photographs from his personal collection. Cortez told NOMA Director
John Bullard that he intended this gift to strengthen the museum's foundation in contemporary photography as
well as to facilitate the solicitation of further important donations to the collection.
Diego Cortez lives in New York City and has worked as a free-lance curator and art adviser for 25 years.
From 1998 to 2000 he co-directed the Partobject Gallery in Carrboro, NC with his sister, Kathy Hudson.
During this period they presented 15 exhibitions of major international photographers, many of whom are represented in this gift.
The donation includes multiple works by Catherine Opie, Collier Schorr, Phyllis Galembo, Slater Bradley,
John Waters and Bernard Faucon, as well as works by African photographers Seydou Keita, Malick Sidibe and
Nabil Boutros. New Orleans artists include Dawn Dedeaux and Elizabeth Shannon.
Other American photographers represented in this gift are Dean Samashima, Dawoud Bey, Jean-Michel Basquiat,
Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Larry Clark, Wendy Ewald, Nan Goldin, Allen Ginsberg, Cindy Sherman and Danny Lyons.
European photographers include Joan Fontcuberta, Pierre Verger, Jean Baudrillard, Joseph Beuys, Wolfgang
Tillmans, Rineke Dijkstra, Helen Van Meene, Nick Wapplington and Boris Mikhailov.
Japanese photographers include Yasumasa Morimura, Nobuyoshi Araki, Takashi Homma, Daido Moriyama,
Enlightenment, Yoshitomo Nara, Katsumi Watanabe, Yurie Nagashima and Shomei Tomatsu. Also included is
Chinese photographer, Rong Rong.
Illustrated above: Slater Bradley, "Uncharted Settlements I," 2005, 72 x 96 inches.
Through May 11
Living Color
Photographs by Judy Cooper
(organized by NOMA)
The exhibition and programming are sponsored,
in part, by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. The catalogue is made possible through
the support of International Well Testers, Inc., and Robert and Jolie Shelton, and the Louisiana
Endowment for the Humanities.
Through April 27
Ari Marcopoulos
Architectures
(organized by NOMA)
Catalogue-zine published by Nieves, Zurich. The P. Roussel Norman and William D. Norman, M.D. Gallery.
Ari Marcopoulos, celebrated photographer, film artist and adventurist presents a special exhibition of large-scale xerox and laser-jet prints.
Marcopoulos expands the usual boundries of architectural photography to encompass graffiti (architecture in dialogue), human bodies (flexible structures),
skateboard ramps (computer-generated moonscapes), artist studios (chaos) and architectural models (surrogates of reality).
Ari Marcopoulos was born in Amsterdam in 1957 and lives in Sonoma, CA. He has exhibited at MC, Los Angeles, P.S.1, N.Y.C., Alleged Gallery,
N.Y.C., Mu, Eindhoven, Agnes B, Paris, Kunsthalle Bern, and Shibuya Tower, Tokyo. Marcopoulos' numerous books include: The Chance is Higher
(2008), Flow(2007), Out And About (2005), Transition and Exits (2001), and Pass the Mic: Beastie Boys 1991-1996 (2001).
Ari Marcopoulos: Architectures will be the first in the _museological exhibition series curated by Diego Cortez, The Freeman Family Curator
of Photography.
Through April 27
Louisiana
Where Land Meets Water
(organized by THNOC and NOMA)
The Historic New Orleans Collection and the New Orleans
Museum of Art have unveiledLouisiana: Where Land Meets Water at the New Orleans Museum of Art. The exhibition
marks the second post-Katrina collaborative effort between NOMA and THNOC. The exhibition will be
on display through March 2, 2008.
The partnership, a venture begun in December 2006 with the exhibition The New Orleans Arts and Crafts Club: An Artistic Legacy,
includes the sharing of collections of Louisiana art, both for temporary exhibitions and long-term loans; the sharing of curatorial
expertise and research; and joint educational programming. Combined, THNOC and NOMA offer the finest and most comprehensive holding of
Louisiana art in the country.
Louisiana: Where Land Meets Water traces the development of 175 years of landscape painting in Louisiana. Scenes portray images
from across the state through a showcase of paintings, watercolors, prints, books and drawings by more than 50 artists from both
collections. Most of these images, depicted from 1815 to 1990, underscore the state's geographic proximity to water.
Curated by Judith Bonner of THNOC, the exhibition features works by artists from across the state who responded to the land,
exploring different techniques and stylistic trends in their quest to capture the essence of the Louisiana landscape and its
waterways. Notable artists in the exhibition include Ellsworth and William Woodward, Marie Adrien Persac, Richard Clague,
William Henry Buck, Alexander J. Drysdale, Will Henry Stevens, and Edward Milman.
Images from the exhibition are available upon request. Please contact Teresa Devlin
(teresad@hnoc.org, (504) 598-7170) or Anne McCall (annem@hnoc.org, (504) 598-7137) for digital files.
Master Works of Fabergé from Southern Collections
Art lovers rejoice! The Fabergé Gallery at the New Orleans Museum of Art is re-opened.
The new exhibition, made possible by a group of Southern collectors, is larger and contains a broader range of
Fabergé objects than the Museum has ever exhibited before.
There are a total of 82 objects on exhibition, not including 44 miniature Easter Eggs by Fabergé which are displayed on
three separate objects: 13 on a miniature golden tree, 19 on a 17th century gold Russian necklace and 12 on a bracelet.
Those that were charmed by the Matilda Geddings Gray Foundation Collection of Fabergé, now at its new home at the Cheekwood
Museum in Nashville, should also be delighted with the new collection, some of which has never been displayed publicly.
The new installation includes, but is not limited to, Fabergé Easter Eggs, a box in the form of an Easter egg, a pink clock
set with peals that was owned by the last Tsarina of Russia, a Bismark Box laden with 90 carats of diamonds, an Imperial Horse
Guard helmet, cigarette and card cases, clocks, inkwells, letter knives, glue pots, photograph frames and stamp viewers.
But the collection is not all glitter and gold. Fans of history will be fascinated by an enamel and palisander wood frame that
contains a period photograph of the Grand Duchess Anastasia in court dress. Anastasia, of course, was one of the many victims of
the Russian revolution.
Coming Soon
2008
May 25 - October 12
Gentleman Callers
Paul Cadmus and George Dureau from the Collection of Kenneth Holditch
(organized by NOMA)
June 28 - September 21
The Baroque World of Fernando Botero
(organized by Art Services International) (EWF Galleries)
November 8 - January 11, 2009
OBJECTS OF DESIRE
Fabergé from the Hodges Family Collection
(organized by NOMA) (EWF Galleries)
2009
February 7 - May 10
The Art of Caring
A Look at Life
(organized by NOMA) (EWF Galleries)
May 30 - August 16
Art of the Harlem Renaissance from the African Diaspora
(organized by NOMA and the Amistad Research Center) (EWF Galleries)
September 5 - October 25
The Sound of One Hand
Paintings and Calligraphy by the Zen Monk Hakuin
(organized by NOMA) (EWF Galleries)
November 15 - February 28, 2010
Walt Disney, New Orleans, and Jazz
Prelude to The Princess and the Frog
(organized by NOMA) (EWF Galleries)
2010 - NOMA's Centennial
March 20 - July 11
Origins of Chinese Civilization
Treasures from Henan
(organized by NOMA) (EWF Galleries)
July 31 - October 24
Andy to Jim
American Master Prints 1960-1980
(organized by NOMA) (EWF Galleries)
November 14 - February 6, 2011
Humans, Animals and the Spirit World
Art from Village and Tribal India from the Bhansali Collections
(organized by NOMA) (EWF Galleries)
2011 - NOMA's Centennial
February 26 - June 26
Monet to Gauguin
The Traveling Artist in the Age of Impressionism
(organized by NOMA)(EWF Galleries)
July 16 - October 16
Contemporary Japanese Ceramics in New Orleans
(organized by NOMA)(EWF Galleries)
November 13 - February 26, 2012
100 Masterworks for 100 Years
A Centennial Celebration
(organized by NOMA)(EWF Galleries)
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