Through October 24 Ancestors and Descendants: Ancient Southwestern America at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century Selections from the George Pepper Native American Archive at the Middle American Research Institute, Tulane University (organized by NOMA) (EWF Galleries)
The exhibition consists of seventy-three antique photographs of Native American subjects, including photographs printed
from antique glass lantern slides, as well as eighty-four Native American artifacts including Navaho and Pueblo textiles,
pottery and jewelry. All the images and artifacts were collected by George Hubbard Pepper between 1895 and 1905. Pepper was
the first anthropologist/archeologist to excavate Pueblo Bonito in New Mexico, America's most spectacular Native American ruin.
The images and objects on display are representative of Pepper's large archive which until this exhibition has been mostly unknown,
unpublished and rarely seen by the public.
Through October 24 Every Year Something New: Works on Paper from the Permanent Collection (organized by NOMA) (Templeman Galleries)
Most of the works in the New Orleans Museum of Art are gifts to the collection, given almost every year since 1910. And for most of
those years NOMA has received works on paper, making the Collection of Prints and Drawings the second largest collection in the museum
and by far the largest group of pictures. Because paper is damaged by light, more than 7000 prints and drawings are kept in storage.
To celebrate our one hundred years of collecting, this exhibition presents a selection of these seldom seen treasures.
The exhibition includes sheets from celebrated artists of the past like Goya, Audubon, Matisse and Modigliani, as well as current
celebrities like Hockney and Hodgkin. Featured are local favorites: Gordy, Kohlmeyer and Casselli, for instance. Important figures
from New Orleans's past include McCrady, Tinker, Clague and Woodward. One-of-a-kind works include beautiful drawings and watercolors
as well as limited edition prints in every possible medium: etchings, lithographs, woodcuts, photographs and screenprints-many in color.
This rich variety is a testament to the more than sixty collectors who have assembled these choice works of art and given them to NOMA.
Our generous donors include Mrs. P. Roussel "Sunny" Norman, Mrs Frederick M. Stafford, Muriel Bultman Frances, Mrs. John Weinstock, and
many of the artists themselves.
Founded in 1910 by Isaac Delgado, and known today as the New Orleans Museum of Art the museum opened its doors in 1911, and acquired
its first work for the permanent collection. Since then NOMA has been assembling world class art for one hundred years, all of which
belongs to the people of New Orleans.
Through September 12 Swamp Tours: Exploring the Louisiana Contemporary Collection (organized by NOMA) (Frederick R. Weisman Galleries, second floor)
NOMA celebrates the history of collecting contemporary art by Louisiana artists with an exhibition co-curated by
Bill Fagaly, Curator of African Art, and Miranda Lash, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. The goal of Swamp
Tours: Exploring the Louisiana Contemporary Collection is to highlight unusual and unexpected acquisitions, focusing
on works that have not been on view in recent years. The artists represented reflect a broad range of backgrounds and
ages, from sculptors who emerged in the late 1960s such as Lynda Benglis and Keith Sonnier, to self-taught artists Sister
Gertrude Morgan, J. P. Scott, and Clementine Hunter. The exhibition will also include artists whose careers have formed in
recent decades, including Jeffery Cook and Jim Richard.
A reception with live music by Louisiana band Jean-Eric celebrated the opening of Swamp Tours on June 2nd. The videos below feature scenes from opening night.
A Gallery walk-through with curators Bill Fagaly and Miranda Lash will take place on Wednesday, June 23, at 6 p.m.
Through September 12 Women Artists in Louisiana, 1965-2010 (organized by NOMA and HNOC) (Louisiana Galleries)
The New Orleans Museum of Art and The Historic New Orleans Collection are proud to present their seventh joint
exhibition, Women Artists in Louisiana, 1965-2010. The show resumes where last spring's exhibition, Women Artists
in Louisiana, 1825-1965: A Place of Their Own, left off. The new exhibition continues to focus on the creative
legacy of the state's women artists, starting with the dawn of postmodernism and bringing viewers to the present
day. On view are forty-four paintings, sculpture, photographs, and decorative arts by forty artists. The works
include portraits, landscapes, genre scenes, non-objectives, and abstracts. Among the featured artists are Martha
Ambrose, Jacqueline Bishop, Lynda Benglis, Jane Nulty Bowman, Dawn Dedeaux, Lin Emery, Mignon Faget, Suzanne Joslyn
Fosberg, Joanne Greenberg, Angela Gregory, Shearly Grode, Ronna Harris, Gail Hood, Ann Hornback, Jacqueline Humphries,
Ida Kohlmeyer, Carol Leake, Shirley Rabˇ Masinter, Chyrl Savoy, Eugenie "Ersy" Schwartz, Ann Strub, Patricia Whitty,
Margaret Witherspoon, Mildred Wohl, and Jesselyn Zurik. Photographers include Debbie Fleming Caffery, Sandra Russell
Clark, Tina Freeman, and Josephine Sacabo.
This exhibition features some artists whose reputations are well established locally and nationally, and others who are still
emerging. The contributions of these artists of the latter half of the century, understandably, were made possible by earlier women artists.
Through October 24 SCENTS AND SENSIBILITY: Perfume Bottles & Related Accessories from Antiquity to Present (organized by NOMA) (Cameo Gallery, second floor)
Through October 24 UNTITLED [New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, 2005]: Photographs by Richard Misrach (organized by NOMA) (Bay Gallery)
To commemorate the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the New Orleans Museum of Art will present an extraordinary exhibition
UNTITLED [New Orleans and the Gulf Coast 2005]:
Photographs by Richard Misrach.
It is incredible that the fifth anniversary of Katrina is just weeks away. It feels simultaneously so long ago and as if it were just yesterday. Now living
with the consequences of the horrific Gulf oil spill—yet another example of corporate and political incompetence and greed—
the citizens of New Orleans will
come together on August 29 to commemorate their survival of possibly the worst disaster in U.S. history.
The New Orleans Museum of Art will mark the occasion with the premiere of an extraordinary exhibition: UNTITLED [New Orleans and the Gulf Coast 2005]:
Photographs by Richard Misrach. The show features sixty-nine color photographs of messages that people scrawled on roofs and walls, cars and trucks,
fences and trees following the flooding of the city. Arranged by Misrach in a powerful narrative sequence, the images express, as the artist has stated,
"people pleading for help, then defending their turf, then suffering human loss, then animal loss, then despair, then humor, then anger at the political
establishment, then anger at the insurance companies, and finally determination and hope to survive and perhaps recover." In these photographs you hear
the voices of the people as they cry out too often for help that never came or came too late. This mostly spray-painted graffiti has a primitive, Lascaux
Cave-like authenticity, the messages written with an economy of expression that poets strive to achieve. Among the sad, poignant, even funny messages are:
"Don"t Try—I am sleeping inside with a big dog, an ugly woman and two shotguns..."; "Katrina U Bitch"; "Hey, Katrina!! That's all you got? We will be back!!";
and "Destroy this memory."
Richard Misrach, the nationally/internationally acclaimed American photographer, is based in California, where he has found much of his subject matter during
the past forty years. In several major series, most famously his Desert Cantos, he was one of the pioneers in the creation of large-scale color photographs,
focused in his case on the landscape and man's complex relationship to it. Misrach has worked in Louisiana beginning in the late 1970s, first with landscapes
in the Louisiana series and later in the powerful Cancer Alley series, documenting the sprawl of petro-chemical plants along the Mississippi River.
His work has been celebrated in innumerable exhibitions, catalogues, and books and is included in the collections of over fifty major museums, including NOMA.
Misrach came to New Orleans soon after Katrina, spending three months photographing all over the city. His plan was to continue working here every month for a year and a half, but after hauling his 8 x 10 inch camera around for twelve to fourteen hours a day, he herniated a disc in his back and couldn't work for
ten months and consequently end his project. Still, in the time he was in New Orleans, he made approximately one thousand 8 x 10 inch
negatives as well as over two thousand images with a smaller digital camera. With all of the photographs, documentaries, and media attention that
followed the disaster, and because the goal of his project was incomplete, he decided to put his Katrina work aside for posterity. His plan was to
edit the work and then release it in twenty years. Misrach has followed a similar plan with his extensive coverage of the 1991 Oakland, California fire,
which will finally be exhibited for the first time next year, marking the twentieth anniversary of that disaster.
However, with the fifth anniversary of Katrina approaching, he decided early this year to present images from a recently edited
section of his small camera photographs in a book to be published by Aperture. The artist selected five museums to receive
the generous donation of this group of images: the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.,
the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the New Orleans Museum of Art. Two of the museums
will premiere the exhibition in August, 2010: the New Orleans Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The artist will
attend the premiere in New Orleans.
Coming Soon
2010
October 20, 2010 - January 30, 2011 Selections from Projects 35: International Video (organized by Independent Curators International) (Second floor contemporary galleries)
NOMA presents nine videos selected by nine curators from around the world.
The series includes videos by Israeli artist Guy Ben-Ner (selected by Mai Abu ElDahab), Japanese artist Yukihiro Taguchi
(selected by Mami Kataoka), Zimbabwean/ South African artist Dan Halter (selected by Kathryn Smith), Chinese artist Zhou
Xiaohu (selected by Lu Jie), American artist Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz (selected by Franklin Sirmans), Vietnamese artists Tuan
Andrew Nguyen and Phù Nam Thúc Hà (selected by curator Zoe Butt), German/American artist Kota Ezawa (selected by Constance
Lewallen), Colombian artist Edwin Sánchez (selected by José Roca), and Robert Cauble (selected by Raimundas Malasauskas).
Presented in conjunction with Tulane University's Service Learning Program.
Guy Ben-Ner
Berkeley's Island, 1999
Single-channel color video and sound, 15 minutes
Courtesy of the artist
Robert Cauble
Alice in Wonderland or Who is Guy Debord?, 2003
Single-channel color video and sound, 20 minutes, 20 seconds
Courtesy of the artist
October 20, 2010 - February 13, 2011 Déjà Vu All Over Again Generic Art Solutions (organized by NOMA) (Frederick R. Weisman Galleries)
Since 2000 New Orleans-based artists Tony Campbell (b. 1965, London) and Matt Vis (b. 1965, Quantico, VA) have collaborated
as the artistic team Generic Art Solutions. As G.A.S. their work has a strong conceptual bent, often with political and
social undertones. They are also known as the "International Art Police" or "Art Cops." One of their enduring passions
is the incorporation of ideas and imagery from old Master painters, including Diego Velasquez, Edouard Manet, and Leonardo
da Vinci. For their exhibition at NOMA, they have chosen the British Petroleum Oil Spill as their artistic focus.
The exhibition title "Déjà Vu All Over Again" (a quote from Yogi Berra) captures the typical sense of surreality and
levity in G.A.S.'s work, and the frustrating sentiment in Louisiana that its history of corruption and man-made disasters
has a tendency to repeat itself.
A reception to celebrate the opening of Déjà vu All Over Again and Selections from Project 35: International Video will take
place on Wednesday, October 20, 2010.
A gallery walkthrough with artists Tony Campbell and Matt Vis will take place on Wednesday, November 10, 2010 at 6 p.m.
An inspection of the NOMA collection by the International Art Police will take place on Wednesday, January 12, 2011 at 6 p.m.
Generic Art Solutions
American Gothic, 2006
Photograph
16 x 24 inches
Courtesy of the artists
Generic Art Solutions
International Art Police at the Venice Biennale, 2007
Photograph
Courtesy of the artists
November 14, 2010 - January 23, 2011 Great Collectors/Great Donors: Building the New Orleans Museum of Art 1910-2010 (organized by NOMA) (EWF Galleries)
November 14, 2010 - March 13, 2011 Bernard Faucon: The Most Beautiful Day of My Youth (organized by NOMA) (Templemen Galleries)
2011 - NOMA's Centennial
February 12 - April 17 The Sound of One Hand Paintings and Calligraphy by the Zen Monk Hakuin (organized by NOMA) (EWF Galleries)
May 7 - July 17 Andy to Jim: American Master Prints 1960-1980 (organized by NOMA) (EWF Galleries)
August 6 - October 16 The Elegant Image: Hindu, Buddhist and Jain Bronzes from the Bhansali Collection (organized by NOMA) (EWF Galleries)
November 13, 2011 - February 19, 2012 100 Masterworks for 100 Years - NOMA's Centennial Celebration (organized by NOMA) (EWF Galleries)
2012
March 17 - May 27 Super Real! Photorealist Paintings from the Besthoff Family Collection (organized by NOMA) (EWF Galleries)
TBD Mel Chin retrospective
TBD Prospect.2
TBD New Media Arts from Latin American, 1990 - 2010
TBD Contemporary Japanese Ceramics from New Orleans Collections
TBD Origins of Chinese Civilization: Treasures from Henan (organized by NOMA) (EWF Galleries)
The exhibition consists of seventy-three antique photographs of Native American subjects, including photographs printed
from antique glass lantern slides, as well as eighty-four Native American artifacts including Navaho and Pueblo textiles,
pottery and jewelry. All the images and artifacts were collected by George Hubbard Pepper between 1895 and 1905. Pepper was
the first anthropologist/archeologist to excavate Pueblo Bonito in New Mexico, America's most spectacular Native American ruin.
The images and objects on display are representative of Pepper's large archive which until this exhibition has been mostly unknown,
unpublished and rarely seen by the public.
Through September 12
