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Today’s show: The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, which is part of the New Orleans Museum of Art, opened to the public on Wednesday after an 18-month expansion that added six acres to New Orleans City Park. The garden is now home to 27 sculptures, including works by Teresita Fernández, Elyn Zimmerman, Larry Bell, Katharina Fritsch, Frank Gehry, Shirazeh Houshiary, Hank Willis Thomas, Fred Wilson, Yinka Shonibare, Beverly Pepper, Pedro Reyes, and Ursula von Rydingsvard, among others.
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Yinka Shonibare, Wind Sculpture, 2015, installation view in the newly reopened Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, at the New Orleans Museum of Art.
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Fred Wilson, The Mete of the Muse, 2006, installation view in the newly reopened Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, at the New Orleans Museum of Art.
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Hank Willis Thomas, History of the Conquest, 2017, installation view in the newly reopened Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, at the New Orleans Museum of Art.
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Larry Bell, Pacific Red VI, 2016–17, installation view in the newly reopened Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, at the New Orleans Museum of Art.
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Teresita Fernández, Viñales (Mayombe Mississippi), 2019, installation view in the newly reopened Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, at the New Orleans Museum of Art.
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Elyn Zimmerman, Glass Bridge, 2018, installation view in the newly reopened Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, at the New Orleans Museum of Art.
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Pedro Reyes, Epicurus, 2017, installation view in the newly reopened Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, at the New Orleans Museum of Art.
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Beverly Pepper, Split Ritual II, 1996, installation view in the newly reopened Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, at the New Orleans Museum of Art.
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Shirazeh Houshiary, Exuviae, 2016–17, installation view in the newly reopened Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, at the New Orleans Museum of Art.
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Frank Gehry, Bear with Us, 2014, installation view in the newly reopened Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, at the New Orleans Museum of Art.
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Katharina Fritsch, Schädel/Skull, 2018, installation view in the newly reopened Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, at the New Orleans Museum of Art.
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Sean Scully, Colored Stacked Frames, 2017, installation view in the newly reopened Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, at the New Orleans Museum of Art.
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Tony Cragg, Sinbad, 2000, installation view in the newly reopened Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, at the New Orleans Museum of Art.
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Bernar Venet, 11 Acute Uneven Angles, 2016, installation view in the newly reopened Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, at the New Orleans Museum of Art.
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Jeppe Hein, Mirror Labyrinth, 2018, installation view in the newly reopened Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, at the New Orleans Museum of Art.
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Ursula van Rydingsvard, Dumna, 2015, installation view in the newly reopened Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, at the New Orleans Museum of Art.
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George Rickey, Four Open Rectangles, 1978, installation view in the newly reopened Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, at the New Orleans Museum of Art.
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Thomas Houseago, Striding Figure (Rome I), 2013, installation view in the newly reopened Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, at the New Orleans Museum of Art.
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