VIRTUAL EXHIBITION Look closely at Portrait of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, presented in partnership with Google Arts & Culture. MUSICIANS FROM HOME NOMA presents a series of virtual concerts by New Orleans-based artists. Enjoy a performance by multi-instrumentalist Nick Ellman. OBJECT LESSON In early 1950s New Orleans, Katherine Choy was one of the very first American ceramicists to bridge Asian clay traditions into emergent abstract Modern art. OBJECT LESSON Often inspired by sources close to home, Alma Thomas created a style of abstract painting entirely her own. Virtual Exhibitions Experience exhibitions online through NOMA's partnership with Google Arts & Culture. On View A recently acquired akwanshi stone monolith from the Cross River region of Nigeria forms the centerpiece of an exhibition about ancestral veneration.
Recently released emails show that former first lady of Oregon Cylvia Hayes called on the governor's state police security detail to obtain information on her nephew. Oregon Live reported that in April 2011, Hayes contacted Sgt. Curt Driver, requesting he assist her in getting information about her nephew in Oklahoma. She wrote that he had "been in trouble with the law" and she wanted to confirm that he had recently gotten his driver's license like he had claimed. "I need to make sure he is telling me the truth, " she wrote to Driver. "If I give you the number and info, can you either check it out or let me know who to talk to check it? " Hayes had sent the email with the subject line of "a non-DPU request. " Driver was head of the Dignitary Protection Unit assigned to provide security for former Governor John Kitzhaber. Hayes request was beyond his job description, but it seems as though she knew that. When Driver wrote her back, he requested Hayes contact him with her nephew's personal information.