A Look at Life

New Orleans Museum of Art
One Collins C. Diboll Circle
City Park
New Orleans, Louisiana 70124

The Art of Caring: A Look at Life through Photography
through October 11

"...a visual discourse on how key life events are celebrated and honored, and how pivotal life decisions are made by a number of different cultures. Each stage of life is depicted by simple everyday situations experienced in moments of joy and gratification as well as by poignant events of passage. The unfathomable scale of devastation inflicted upon humanity and our environment by both man-made and natural disasters also is intrinsic to this life story."

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[text and image from museum website. Caption: "Joe McNally (American, contemporary); "Bill Ryan, Mike Morrissey." 2001. Color Polaroid. Collection of the artist."]

Photography and Depression

New Orleans Museum of Art
One Collins C. Diboll Circle
City Park
New Orleans, Louisiana 70124
Photography and Depression
Through March 1, 2009

"... an examination of depression in all its forms, including mental and financial, through 82 works from the Museum's permanent collection.

Featured artists include a virtual who's who of photography, including Ansel Adams, William Eggleston, Walker Evans, Lee Friedlander, Dorothea Lange, Danny Lyon, Eadweard Muybridge, George Tice, Alfred Stieglitz, Weegee and many more.

The works are accompanied by text excerpted from Culture and Depression, a 1985 book by Dr. Arthur M. Kleinman, the distinguished professor, psychiatrist, medical and social anthropologist who is also the director of the Asia Center at Harvard University.

... organized by [NOMA] Curator of Photography, Diego Cortez...."

[photo from museum Web site.]

Over the Hump

New Orleans Museum of Art
One Collins C. Diboll Circle
City Park
New Orleans, Louisiana 70124

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

NOMA is now open on Wednesdays from noon to 8 p.m. In addition to the Museum's permanent collection and special exhibitions and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden, enjoy these special evening activities. All events begin at 6:30 p.m.

AUGUST 13
Botero Tour, Bi-lingual (Spanish & English) Walk-through with Miranda Lash, NOMA's Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art>

FILM, Botero the Rebel (52 min., English/Spanish) (Please note that this film begins at 7 p.m.)

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[graphic from google image search for 'New Orleans. NASA landsat photograph].