Your New Orleans Museum of Art

We welcome you to your New Orleans Museum of Art to celebrate art and culture... and life! The museum is open five days a week, Wednesday, 12 p.m. to
8 p.m. and Thursday through Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden is FREE to the public and open 7 days a week, 10 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. and Wednesday, 10 a.m. to dusk.

The Museum and Sculpture Garden are closed on all legal holidays.

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We have joined with Women of the Storm, a non-partisan, grassroots organization formed in New Orleans and South Louisiana in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, to support funding and implementation for Gulf Coast restoration. The group has harnessed the latest in social media techniques as it seeks to capture hundreds of thousands of e-signatures that its members will take to Congress and the Administration in a return visit to Washington, DC.

The innovative campaign emphasizes the importance of the Gulf Coast to America, especially in seafood, energy, oil and gas, shipping, ecosystem and culture. Among its stars of its moving video are Sandra Bullock, Wendell Pierce, Lenny Kravitz, John Goodman, Dave Matthews, Mary Matalin, James Carville, Drew Brees, Peyton and Eli Manning, Emeril Lagasse, Harry Shearer, Dr. John, Leah Chase, Bryan Batt, Blake Lively, Alfre Woodard, Eric Harvey (of the band Spoon), Jack del Rio, Clay Hensley and many more.

The initiative does not advocate a particular piece of legislation. It simply seeks to demonstrate to national leaders the strong and deep support across America for the essential funding for Gulf Coast restoration.

Please sign the petition at the url above, share it with all of your contacts and friends—and help restore this crucial part of our nation.

We thank you for using your voice to make a difference—and for being the one for the Gulf Coast.

Now Showing at NOMA

Through October 24
Ancestors and Descendants: Ancient Southwestern America at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
Selections from the George Pepper Native American Archive at the Middle American Research Institute, Tulane University
(organized by NOMA) (EWF Galleries)

The exhibition consists of seventy-three antique photographs of Native American subjects, including photographs printed from antique glass lantern slides, as well as eighty-four Native American artifacts including Navaho and Pueblo textiles, pottery and jewelry. All the images and artifacts were collected by George Hubbard Pepper between 1895 and 1905. Pepper was the first anthropologist/archeologist to excavate Pueblo Bonito in New Mexico, America's most spectacular Native American ruin. The images and objects on display are representative of Pepper's large archive which until this exhibition has been mostly unknown, unpublished and rarely seen by the public.

New Orleans Museum of Art Names
Susan M. Taylor New Museum Director
E. John Bullard will retire as Museum Director
after 37 years at NOMA

NEW ORLEANS - The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) announces the appointment of Susan M. Taylor as Director Designate. She will officially become the Museum's sixth director on September 1, 2010.

Taylor will succeed E. John Bullard, who will retire as one of America's longest-serving museum directors. Bullard will remain on staff as Director Emeritus to aid Taylor in the transition and will continue to work on NOMA's centennial celebrations throughout 2011.
"As NOMA commemorates a century of art, I am thrilled that Susan Taylor has been selected to lead the Museum into its next chapter of service and success," Bullard said. "I have known her for a number of years and know that she is an outstanding choice to lead our institution."

A museum director for over 20 years, Taylor most recently directed Princeton University Art Museum, where she is well-known for instituting wide-ranging innovations in collections development, planning, programming and outreach. She is also deeply involved in the ongoing debate about collection ownership and cultural property issues, having successfully resolved several ownership claims for works of art in Princeton's collection.

"I am delighted to be joining a museum of the caliber of NOMA," Taylor said. "To follow John's legacy and write the next chapter of the Museum's history is a remarkable opportunity."

Taylor is the former director of the Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College. During her twelve-year tenure at Wellesley, she oversaw the construction of an award-winning museum facility designed by Spanish architect Rafael Moneo. She holds art history degrees from Vassar College and the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University.

Bullard's retirement from NOMA has been planned for nearly a year. In September 2009, the Museum Board formed a search committee and in October enlisted the services of Laurie Nash of Russell Reynolds Associates. Taylor was selected from a large field of applicants.
"Susan Taylor was selected from a field of strong candidates thanks to Laurie Nash of Russell Reynolds Associates," said Donna Rosen, trustee and member of NOMA's Search Committee. "I spoke to many museum directors around the country about Susan. Words that came up most often while describing her were 'imaginative, encyclopedic knowledge of the history of art, high standards, seizes opportunities, visionary, intelligent and of our time.' In fact, through the search process, all of these accolades were revealed."

"NOMA is a true jewel in New Orleans' cultural crown and building on the great job John Bullard has done is a daunting task," said Stephen Hansel, president of NOMA's Board of Directors and Chairman of the Search Committee. "Susan Taylor was our Search Committee's overwhelming first choice because of her broad experience, charm, contacts and managerial expertise. We are confident that she will lead NOMA to even greater heights."

Come enjoy the newly opened Ralph Brennan Courtyard Café. This is a four month partnership with the New Orleans Museum of Art that coincides with the Dreams Come True: Art of the Classic Fairy Tales from the Walt Disney Studio. Menu standouts include Turtle Soup by Ralph's on the Park, Alligator Sausage & Seafood Gumbo by Red Fish Grill, and Roasted Gulf Shrimp Salad with lemon parmesan dressing by Bacco. The 72-seat Courtyard Café will be serving breakfast, lunch, and snack items on Wednesdays noon - 4 p.m. and Thursdays - Sundays 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Click here to download the menu.