Friday Nights at NOMA: “Celebrating the Senses” and “David Hockney: A Bigger Picture”
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Curator Vanessa Schmid gives a talk about historical cabinets of curiosity, and the museum screens a documentary about David Hockney.
Jan Brueghel the Younger, The Five Senses: Sight, c. 1625. Oil on panel. Courtesy the Paul G. Allen Family Collection and the New Orleans Museum of Art.
As part of its regular Friday Nights at NOMA programs, the New Orleans Museum of Art presents a lecture with curator Vanessa Schmid, in conjunction with “Seeing Nature: Landscape Masterworks from the Paul G. Allen Family Collection.” Schmid discusses the history of cabinets of curiosity and Jan Brueghel the Younger’s The Five Senses: Sight, c. 1625. The talk begins at 6:30 pm.
At 8 pm, NOMA screens director Bruno Wollheim’s David Hockey: A Bigger Picture (2010), a documentary about the painter, whose work is also included in “Seeing Nature.”
Regular museum admission applies. For more information, visit NOMA’s website.
