NOMA Gallery Talk with Curatorial Intern Ava Bush

This summer Ava Bush, the recipient of the 2022 Nell Pomeroy O'Brien Award for a Junior in Art History and a triple major in Art History, Anthropology, and Asian Studies, is a curatorial intern at the New Orleans Museum of Art. 

On Wednesday July 27th at noon, Bush will present a gallery talk at NOMA discussing the influences of Nanga and Zenga that can be observed in The Free Hermit Life: Images of Reclusion and Retirement in Japanese Edo-Period Painting.

Free with museum admission. Louisiana residents receive free admission to NOMA on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation. When you arrive at NOMA, check in at the front desk for directions to the appropriate gallery. To book your ticket in advance, click here and select the day for the gallery talk you’d like to attend.

Allison Caplan joins the Getty Graduate Internship Program

Allison Caplan, a Ph.D. student in Art History and Latin American Studies, will be joining the Getty Graduate Internship Program for 2015-2016. She will be conducting research for the upcoming Pre-Columbian art exhibition, “Luxury Arts in the Ancient Americas,” and its accompanying catalogue. The exhibition is part of the Getty’s initiative, Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, and will show at the Getty and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2017. Allison’s research for the exhibition builds on her work for her Ph.D. dissertation on central Mexican indigenous aesthetics and materiality.