Join us in celebrating the opening of First Folio! The Book That Gave Us Shakespeare with a jazz funeral for the Bard. Led by Dr. Michael White, this special parade will honor and remember the greatest playwright and poet the world has known. Celebrating life at the moment of death, the traditional New Orleans jazz […]
Join us in celebrating the opening of three exhibitions: - First Folio! The Book That Gave Us Shakespeare - Diana Al-Hadid - Elena Dorfman: Syria's Lost Generation Prior to the public reception, a jazz funeral for Shakespeare will be led by Dr. Michael White around the Newcomb Quad. Free and open to the public.
Diana Al-Hadid will discuss her upcoming NAM exhibition, which runs from May 9 – July 24, 2016. The works appear to be trapped in an eternal moment of precariousness and decay. Inspired by historical forms from art and architecture, Al-Hadid’s highly material sculptures and paintings are charged with drips, textures, patterns, and ornaments that recall […]
A reading of Shakespeare’s love poetry, on the site of the First Folio exhibition, will be hosted by Peter Cooley (Tulane Professor of English and Poet Laureate of the State of Louisiana).
Lecture given by Hillary Eklund, Associate Professor of English, Loyola University as part of the First Folio! event. The First Folio! exhibition at the Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane — part of the international events planned for 2016 in observance of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death — will feature a First Folio of Shakespeare open to the famous […]
Join us in celebrating the opening of Women of Newcomb, Recent Acquisitions. 5:30-6:30 pm VIP reception & members-only exhibition tour A special opportunity for our VIPs and members to see the exhibition before it opens to the public. Email museum@tulane.edu to join, renew, or inquire into membership. 6:30-8:00 pm Exhibition public reception Free & open […]
It's time to say goodbye to KAWS' Companion (Passing Through). The 16-foot outdoor sculpture has greeted visitors to the museum for the past year, but it will leave campus later this month. We think it looks a little sad to go, no? At the same time, we are thrilled about the arrival of our Newcomb […]
Museum V.I.P.s and members are invited to attend a sneak peek of Marking the Infinite: Contemporary Women Artists from Aboriginal Australia. Guests will enjoy light hors d'oeuvres and libations. Email museum@tulane.edu to join, renew, or inquire into membership.
Join us in celebrating the opening of Marking the Infinite, Contemporary Women Artists from Aboriginal Australia. 6:30 pm - Talk by Dennis Scholl, collector and Henry F. Skerritt, Curator, Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia 7:30-9:00 pm - Public reception Free and open to the public.
Renowned former NASA Senior Researcher Dr. Yvonne Clearwater will explore the range of meanings and variance of human experience in the realm of isolation and confinement, solitude and loneliness, highlighting the human experience of living and working in space. She will then present an overview of her interdisciplinary work in leading NASA space human factors […]
