Adore March 2021

E ach time Susan and Mauricio Prieto were in New Orleans to visit his brother Carlos Miguel, the conductor of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, they wondered out loud "Why aren't we living here? This place is amazing." And they'd lived in some pretty amazing places — 15 years in Barcelona and six in San Francisco. With one daughter, Sofia, soon off to college and the younger, Carolina, in high school and up for an adventure, the timing just felt right and they decided to make it happen. As Susan explains, "New Orleans has everything we value: we love the openness and warmth of the people, the superb food, the beautiful outdoors, and the architecture. It mixes so many facets of what we love about Spanish and French culture. There's such joie de vivre." In 2019, they purchased a spacious Eastlake Queen Anne home on a leafy Uptown avenue. The house had been impeccably renovated by Hamilton Bros. "It felt like home almost immediately. When we first saw the house, it felt so open, bright and airy — very happy. I looked at Mauricio and the girls and they were all smiles." She found local

Buddha and Shiva Lotus and Dragon Masterworks from the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection at Asia Society

MARCH 6 – MAY 31, 2021

Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon: Masterworks from the Mr. andMrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection at Asia Society is co-organized by the American Federation of Arts and Asia Society. This project is supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

The installation at NOMA is sponsored by Dr. Siddharth K. Bhansali, Virginia EasonWeinmann, Judith Fos Burrus, TimL. Fields, Dr. Nina Dhurandhar, Drs. Tarun and Rupa Jolly, Nuria Rowley, E. Alexandra Stafford and Raymond M. Rathle, Jr., Mr. andMrs. John A. Batt, Jr., Mrs. Anila Keswani, WilliamW. Watson, Jr., Tom and DianWiningder, Saffron NOLA, Danny and Denise Kingston, Hiren and Urvi Shah, Drs. Dimple and Kiran Zaveri, and Gia Rabito.

IMAGE Made in Pakistan, Gandhara area , Head of Buddha, Kushan period, late 2nd–early 3rd century, Schistose phyllite, Asia Society, New York: Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection, 1979.2, Photograph by Synthescape, courtesy American Federation of Arts

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