Stop by The Franklin on Saturday, May 11 from 2 – 5 p.m. for the Magnolia Ball kickoff party! There will be a cash bar and passed hors d’oeuvres. Enjoy a free drink ticket when you purchase your discounted Magnolia Ball Patron ticket ($100; regularly $250).

Please RSVP to development@ogdenmuseum.org.

Magnolia Ball, celebrating Piercing the Inner Wall: The Art of Dusti Bongé, is on June 8 from 9 p.m to midnight. Get your tickets today for this summer party, featuring live music and DJs, food from New Orleans’ best restaurants, open bars with craft cocktails and a silent auction with art from talented Southern artists. This year’s Magnolia Ball will celebrate Piercing the Inner Wall: The Art of Dusti Bongé, and chairmen are Ariel and L. Kasimu Harris, Jessie Schott Haynes, Stuart Hurt, Sarah Martzolf and Cameron Elizabeth McHarg.

The Franklin is located at 2600 Dauphine Street, New Orleans.

/// Dusti Bongé, Untitled (Circus Cage) (detail), 1945, Mixed media on paper, Collection of Paul Bongé