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Next time you’re in City Park you must check out its new sculpture garden. With 14 sculptures all created by a famous sculptor, Enrique Alferez.
Alferez’s daughter, Tlaloc Selway Alferez is so proud of her pops and the new sculpture garden, “The Helis Foundation Enrique Alferez Sculpture Garden” in City Park’s New Orleans Botanical Garden near the Pavilion of the Two Sisters.
“The tranquility of his pieces need to be transmitted throughout human kind,” she said…
On Wednesday, October 28th, at 11:00 a.m., The Helis Foundation Enrique Alférez Sculpture Garden will open to the public with a dedication ceremony followed by a day of free tours and public programming celebrating the history and influence of Mexican-American New Orleans artist Enrique Alférez (1901-1999). The dedication will include remarks by Dr. Tlaloc Alférez, daughter of the famed artist, and officials from The Helis Foundation and New Orleans City Park. Throughout the day, docents will offer free guided tours of the 8000 sq…
“Jean-Michel said he had a surprise for me. And, he took me to see the Mississippi. It symbolized the bond between us, because of the slaves who traveled on it when coming through the Delta.”
—Ouattara Watts (2010)
“Basquiat and the Bayou Presented by The Helis Foundation” is a focused exhibition of eight to ten paintings and drawings by Jean‐Michel Basquiat that consider the work of this important artist in light of his relationship to the American South…
On the occasion of the dedication of Lynda Benglis’ The Wave of the World in the “Big Lake” at New Orleans City Park, The Helis Foundation and the New Orleans Museum of Art hosted a conversation between Lynda Benglis and NOMA’s curator of Modern and Contemporary Art Katie Pfohl.
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Sometimes, just sometimes, communities can actually get together to do something that transcends politics.
The greater New Orleans area will soon see such an event. Through a collaboration of the City of Kenner, New Orleans City Park and the folks at the Helis Foundation, the public good is going to be served in the most artistic of ways: with the installation of a very special, long-missing bronze sculpture. Created for the 1984 World’s Fair in New Orleans, The Wave is getting a new home in City Park…