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Get Over the Hump...Wednesday Evenings
at the New Orleans Museum of Art

Six Shooters, a panel discussion on photography presented by the New Orleans Photo Alliance, and Mistology, an interactive program for lovers of fine spirits, highlight the upcoming public programs scheduled for Wednesday nights at the New Orleans Museum of Art through May.

The events are part of the Museum's popular Mid-Week in Mid-City series, held during the weekly extended hours on Wednesday evenings, from 5-8 p.m. With the exception of Mistology, all Mid-Week in Mid-City events are free to Louisiana residents.

Below is the schedule of confirmed Mid-Week in Mid-City programs through May. For details on future Mid-Week in Mid-City programs as they become available, please consult www.noma.org.

All events listed begin at 6 p.m.

JULY

Wednesday, July 8, 6 p.m. - Community Art Studio for Adults
Explore your creative side in a relaxing and inspiring environment with other adults. NOMA's resident art therapist Holly Wherry will guide you in expressing yourself with a large selection of art materials provided in this open studio. No artistic experience is necessary.

Sunday, July 12, 2 p.m. - Social Animals: Locating the Human in the Natural World
(Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture GardenÑmeet at entrance) Sculpture Garden Walk-through with Curatorial Intern Sara Hoffman Sara Hoffman discusses three works in the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden by artists Louise Bourgeois, Deborah Butterfield, and Rona Pondick, highlighting the sculptors' use of animal forms to examine uneasy social and environmental relationships and trouble the definition of humans as distinct from animals.

Wednesday, July 15, 6 p.m. - Decorative Arts Tour with John W. Keefe
Exhibition organizer John W. Keefe, The RosaMary Foundation Curator of the Decorative Arts, leads visitors on an informal tour of With a Little Help from Our Friends: Recent Accessions in the Decorative Arts. This new exhibition gratefully acknowledges the generosity of the Museum's patrons and friends who have helped enhance the Museum's already renowned Decorative Arts collection with gifts in ceramics, glass, metalwork, small sculpture and FabergŽ objects.

Wednesday, July 22, 6 p.m. - Film:13 Most Beautiful...Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests
Released in conjunction with The Andy Warhol Museum, 13 Most Beautiful features 13 of Warhol's classic silent film portraits. Subjects include Nico, Lou Reed, Edie Sedgwick, Dennis Hopper and more. Shot between 1964 and 1966 at Warhol's Factory studio in New York City, the screen tests are presented with newly commissioned soundtracks performed by Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips. (60 minutes)

Wednesday, July 29, 6 p.m. - Mnemonic Devices Tour with Jones and Webber
In the current two-person exhibition Mnemonic Devices: Rachel Jones and David Webber, two Louisiana-based artists working in painting (Jones) and video (Webber) explore the process of selecting and assembling information from memories and pre- existing documents into new visual amalgams. Though they work in different mediums, the artists share an interest in dissolving imagery and narratives into expressive fragments. The New Orleans-based Jones has exhibited her work locally at The Front, as well as in New York and Austria. Webber is Assistant Professor of Media Art at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and has exhibited his work in numerous international film festivals.

AUGUST

Wednesday, August 5, 6 p.m. - Instant Arrested in Eternity Tour with George Roland
Join us for an informal tour of An Instant Arrested in Eternity: Sketches by Steinlen, Forain & Tchelitchew with George Roland, Doris Zemurray Stone Curator of Prints and Drawings. Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen roamed his beloved Montmartre filling his sketchbooks with the images he would draw upon to create vivid lithographs for weekly publications. Jean-Louis Forain haunted the courts, pen in hand, to capture his popular caricatures. Pavel Tchelitchew recorded the incidents from his personal life, planning more comprehensive compositions. These rapid and fluent images bring us closer to the spirit of the artist than many more highly developed works and give us the pleasure of seeing the artist at work. The exhibition features approximately 40 sheets selected from the recent gift of 135 drawings by the late Joseph F. McCrindle.

Wednesday, August 12, 6 p.m. - Chinese Tour with Lisa Rotondo-McCord
Lisa Rotondo-McCord, Assistant Director for Art and Curator of Asian Art, leads an informal tour of highlights from the permanent collection of Chinese art.

Wednesday, August 19, 6 p.m. - Art of Caring Tour with Alice Webb Dickinson
Join Alice Webb Dickinson, associate collections manager and the institutional curator for The Art of Caring, on a tour of the exhibition. Through photography and film, The Art of Caring examines how key life events are celebrated and honored and how pivotal life decisions are made by a number of different world cultures. The tour will look at the themes and artists highlighted in the show as well as discuss the way in which photography is used to document life.

Wednesday, August 26, 6 p.m. - Film: Last of the Czars: Death of a Dynasty
From Films for the Humanities and Sciences: "Decades of social unrest coupled with the privations of World War I brought Russia to revolution; yielding to the people's will, Czar Nicholas II abdicated the throne. This finely crafted program presents the final years of the Romanovs, from the outbreak of revolt and the return of Lenin to their brutal execution, the culmination of the Bolshevik leader's lifelong plan of revenge. The program uses an incredible array of rare film footage, diaries, letters, and interviews with survivors of the era, to include Prince Nicholas Romanov, the present head of the family. DNA evidence is also examined, proving finally the identities of the Romanov remains. A Discovery Channel Production." (47 minutes)

SEPTEMBER

Wednesday, September 2, 6 p.m. - Asian Art Tour with Lisa Rotondo-McCord
Lisa Rotondo-McCord, Assistant Director for Art and Curator of Asian Art, leads an informal tour of her latest reinstallation of the third-floor Asian galleries.

Wednesday, September 9, 6 p.m. - Community Art Studio for Adults
Explore your creative side in a relaxing and inspiring environment with other adults. NOMA's resident art therapist Holly Wherry will guide you in expressing yourself with a large selection of art materials provided in this open studio. No artistic experience is necessary.

Wednesday, September 16, 6 p.m. - Artist Talk with William Sooter
New Orleans-based video artist William Sooter screens and discusses his recent work. Says Sooter: "My investigation is centered on the conflict between my fascination with and repulsion toward the war machine. I am questioning the paradox which I feel many confront between the romanticized depiction of organized violence and the realities which have severe repercussions in our culture. I am interested in the paradox between what is portrayed as entertainment but in reality is a perpetuation of violence. This causes desensitization toward perceptions of organized violence."

Wednesday, September 23, 6 p.m. - Film: What About Style? Alex Katz: A Painter's Painter
For over 50 years, painter Alex Katz has bucked trends in modern art to pioneer and refine his own style of flat, elegant and realistic figure painting. What About Style? offers an uncluttered view of this American maverick. Filmmaker and art critic Heinz Peter Schwerfel captures the elusive Katz working in his Maine studio and his New York SoHo flat, laboring over a 32-foot painting called The Black Brook. Interviews, archival footage, images of his subjects and a virtual tour of 20 Katz paintings are combined to convey his unique style to the viewer. (56 minutes)

Wednesday, September 30, 6 p.m. - Artist Performance by Skylar Fein (NOMA)
Evening of live music curated by exhibiting artist Skylar Fein, in celebration of the contemporary art exhibition Skylar Fein: Youth Manifesto (opening on September 12).

Mid-Week in Mid-City made possible through a generous donation from the Ruby K. Worner Trust.

November 15, 2009 - March 14, 2010
Dreams Come True
Art of the Classic Fairy Tales from the Walt Disney Studio
(organized by NOMA) (EWF Galleries)

Dreams Come True showcases original artwork from legendary Disney animated films, including Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast, and will feature a children's section celebrating Disney's connections with jazz music and the Crescent City. The artworks, on loan from the Walt Disney Studio Animation Research Library, will be accompanied by film clips to demonstrate how individual sketches and paintings lead to a finished celluloid masterpiece. Organized by the Walt Disney Animation Research Library and the New Orleans Museum of Art, this once-in-a-lifetime exhibition, which cannot be seen anywhere else, is set to coincide with the premier of Disney's upcoming animated feature, The Princess and the Frog, set in New Orleans during the 1920s Jazz Age.

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SAVE THE DATE:
Friday, September 25, 2009
LOVE in the Garden

Join us as we make
Love in the Garden
the best ever...

Delectable dining, open bar, and dancing under the stars and the oaks in the most romantic setting in New Orleans...
NOMA's Besthoff Sculpture Garden.

Click here to purchase tickets online.