The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, adjacent to the New Orleans Museum of Art and across from the Cafe Du Monde, is an 11-acre art park. It showcases over 90 modern sculptures from international artists, set in a landscape of pines, magnolias, camellias, and moss-covered live oaks. A walking path meanders through the green space, sculptures, and reflecting lagoons. The sculpture garden opened to the public in 2003, hosting early 60 sculptures, including Augustus Saint-Gaudens’s golden sculpture of the goddess Diana and Alison Saar’s Travelin Light, a commentary on the…
