10 a.m.
Public Opening of The Mind's Eye: Without Subject Matter, What Does the Artist See?

Every work of art begins as a blank. But if the artist is not going to make a picture of something-not a still life, not a nude, not a landscape, but an abstract-what does he have in mind as he makes the first mark on the virgin surface? What does the artist see?

Abstract art can be a puzzle for many art lovers, even though it has been the dominant style of art for more than a century. By looking at a collection of abstract works, the viewer finds that many artists see very similar things and that these form the themes and subjects of abstract art.

This exhibition of works on paper from the permanent collection, organized by NOMA's Doris Zemurray Stone Curator of Prints and Drawings George Roland, features work by several of the 20th-century's most important artists, including Josef Albers, Louise Bourgeois, George Braque, Alexander Calder, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly, Fernand Leger, Sol LeWitt, Pierre Matisse, Joan Miró, Robert Motherwell, Kenneth Noland, Richard Serra, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly and Andy Warhol.

New Orleans
Museum of Art
1 Collins Diboll Circle
City Park
504-658-4100