French Masterpieces on Loan to New Orleans Museum of Art in Show: Femme, Femme, Femme

The French Cultural Ministry is living up to its promise made to New Orleans two months after hurricane Katrina. They have loaned masterpieces artworks (85 works from the Louvre, the Musée d'Orsay, and 40 other museums throughout France) to the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) for a show illustrating the many roles of women. It is an unprecedented gathering of these artworks in the US in a show title "Femme, Femme, Femme" on display from March 4 - June 3, 2007.

The art exhibit examines the many roles of the modern women as seen through art including "timeless images of domestic life in the family circle from birth to death, progressing to the nineteenth-century phenomenon of women working outside the home and the emerging independence of the twentieth-century woman." -- From New Orleans Museum of Art Website. The show includes important works from well known masters including Renoir, Degas, Manet, Toulouse-Lautrec and Picasso.

According to NOMA, the operations and surroundings have returned to normalcy now over a year since hurricane Katrina. They welcome visitors and encourage art lovers to return to one of the great cultural centers of the US.

Link: NOMA | New Orleans Museum of Art and Femme, Femme, Femme Info.

Link: Exhibition Guide at RMN for Femme, Femme, Femme

Link: Museum Replicas at eMuseumStore.com: Female Statue, Mother and Daughter Sculptures.

Comments

[doctorj]

I saw the exhibition yesterday and it was beautiful. More importantly it accomplished what the French intended. One, it told New Orleanians they are not forgotten by the world even if their own government is treating them as the unwanted step-child. Two, the park which was flooded and a wreak was once again alive with people. It was a light in the storm! The last time I saw the park was when I volunteered to help clean it up 3 weeks after the city was again open to the public. It was full of debris and dead plant life and EMPTY of life. Yesterday to was brimming with life and it brought complete joy to my broken heart. Thank you France for being there for us in our darkest of hours. The city is healing and coming back - and you were very much a part of that.