Big Easy on the Lawn will be an outdoor lawn event to support the closing of the Mint's newest art exhibition, Masterworks from the New Orleans Museum of Art, with proceeds benefitting the 2009 Art for Children's Holiday Party and Mint Museum.  Ticket Includes:  Live entertainment, New Orleans inspired fare and featured Hurricane cocktails, a ticket holder's raffle featuring prizes from local merchants, a docent led tour of the Masterworks exhibit, and lawn seating.  Buy Tickets Now! About The Masterworks from the New Orleans Museum of Art Exhibition   Masterworks from the New Orleans Museum of Art provides an opportunity to see an exceptional selection of rare paintings and sculptures from a top museum! The exhibition represents the prized names in European and American art history–ranging from the 16th through the 20th century–including: Degas, Gauguin, Giacometti, Giordano, Kandinsky, Lipchitz, Lorrain, Matisse, Monet, Nattier, O'Keeffe, Picasso, Pissarro, Renoir, Rodin, Sargent, Vigée-Lebrun, and Vlaminck, among many others.    Although the museum’s collection of 40,000 artworks was largely unharmed by the hurricane, the building and adjacent sculpture garden sustained more than $6 million in damage. The fees that NOMA generates from this traveling exhibition benefit its Katrina Recovery Fund.