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Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month

Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month

This month, NOMA partnered with the New Orleans Hispanic Heritage Foundation for the third annual Our Hispanic Heritage student chalk-drawing contest.

Visionaries Gala and Garden Party

Visionaries Gala and Garden Party

Join us for the Visionaries Gala and Garden Party and celebrate 20 years of the Besthoff Sculpture Garden with live music, food, drinks, and more.

Japan Fest

Japan Fest

Celebrate Japanese culture through art, performances, food, and more at Japan Fest on Saturday, October 26.

NOMA X BONFOLK

NOMA X BONFOLK

In collaboration with the museum, Bonfolk releases two NOMA-inspired designs of their iconic socks.

ON VIEW NOW

ON VIEW NOW

Wang Qingsong creates elaborately staged large-format photographs that focus on the dramatic social, political, and cultural changes in China in the post-Mao era.

New in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden

New in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden

Thomas J Price’s Time Unfolding is the first of three new additions in celebration of the garden’s 20th anniversary.

 

20 YEARS OF THE BESTHOFF SCULPTURE GARDEN

20 YEARS OF THE BESTHOFF SCULPTURE GARDEN

Celebrate 20 years of the Besthoff Sculpture Garden with a year-long celebration of events and more.

This exhibition looks at the more than 4,000-year history of glass around the world and how it intersects with scientific discoveries, foodways, and artistic innovations.

Sand, Ash, Heat: Glass at the New Orleans Museum of Art

This exhibition looks at the more than 4,000-year history of glass around the world and how it intersects with scientific discoveries, foodways, and artistic innovations.

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Drawn from NOMA’s permanent collection, this exhibition explores the intersection between photography and written language, from the medium’s invention to the present day.

Show & Tell: A Brief History of Photography and Text

Drawn from NOMA’s permanent collection, this exhibition explores the intersection between photography and written language, from the medium’s invention to the present day.

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This exhibition highlights some of the most pioneering African artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in the museum’s collection.

Afropolitan: Contemporary African Arts at NOMA

This exhibition highlights some of the most pioneering African artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in the museum’s collection.

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Oct 27

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@kaminaritaikohouston closing out another incredible Japan Fest 🥁🎌✨ @japanclubnola @japaninnashville

@kaminaritaikohouston closing out another incredible Japan Fest 🥁🎌✨ @japanclubnola @japaninnashville ...

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From the earliest years of glassmaking, artists altered recipes to make glass in a rainbow of colors. 🌈 Without specific efforts to make it colorless, glass is naturally tinted green or bluish green due to trace iron content in the sand. A little bit of added manganese removes the green tint, and adding more will make a rich purple glass. Added cobalt makes deep blue glass, copper oxides produce turquoise, tin oxides make opaque white glass, and the addition of gold dissolved in an acid can make ruby red or pink glass. And a tiny percentage of uranium gives glass a fluorescent yellow-green glow. Experiments adding metals to molten glass are endless and ongoing. 👉 Learn more about artists’ explorations of glassmaking over 4,000 years in “Sand, Ash, Heat: Glass at the New Orleans Museum of Art,” on view now at the museum.

From the earliest years of glassmaking, artists altered recipes to make glass in a rainbow of colors. 🌈

Without specific efforts to make it colorless, glass is naturally tinted green or bluish green due to trace iron content in the sand.

A little bit of added manganese removes the green tint, and adding more will make a rich purple glass.

Added cobalt makes deep blue glass, copper oxides produce turquoise, tin oxides make opaque white glass, and the addition of gold dissolved in an acid can make ruby red or pink glass.

And a tiny percentage of uranium gives glass a fluorescent yellow-green glow.

Experiments adding metals to molten glass are endless and ongoing.

👉 Learn more about artists’ explorations of glassmaking over 4,000 years in “Sand, Ash, Heat: Glass at the New Orleans Museum of Art,” on view now at the museum. ...

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Oct 22

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Japan Fest is this Saturday, October 26! 🎌 Join us at the museum for the Gulf South’s largest celebration of Japanese art and culture—organized by NOMA, the Japan Club of New Orleans, and @japaninnashville. Enjoy food, performances, demonstrations, and gallery talks; shop a variety of vendors; and learn about the work of our program and community partners. Do you have your tickets? Click the link in our bio to learn more and get yours today. — 📷: @cristarockphoto

Japan Fest is this Saturday, October 26! 🎌 Join us at the museum for the Gulf South’s largest celebration of Japanese art and culture—organized by NOMA, the Japan Club of New Orleans, and @japaninnashville.

Enjoy food, performances, demonstrations, and gallery talks; shop a variety of vendors; and learn about the work of our program and community partners.

Do you have your tickets? Click the link in our bio to learn more and get yours today.
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Oct 18

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Early voting in Louisiana is now open. 🗳️ Before heading to the polls, take a look at this screen print from NOMA's collection which represents a moment in the history of voting rights in the United States.⁠ ⁠ This 1974 work by Jacob Lawrence continues themes the artist tackled in his famed "Migration Series." During the Great Migration—starting in the 1910s—millions of Black Americans moved from the South to the Northeast, Midwest, and Western United States.⁠ ⁠ Here, Lawrence shows African Americans at a busy polling location—a particularly powerful scene given that many migrants left the American South to escape Jim Crow–era oppression, which included laws intended to to suppress the votes of Black people.⁠ ⁠ This work is on view now on the museum's second floor.⁠ —⁠ 🎨: Jacob Lawrence, "The 1920s...The Migrants Cast Their Ballots" (detail), 1974. Screen print. Gift of the Lorillard Corporation, Mr. Curtis H. Judge, President, 75.281. © 2022 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.⁠ 📍: Second floor, Frederick R. Weisman Galleries

Early voting in Louisiana is now open. 🗳️ Before heading to the polls, take a look at this screen print from NOMA`s collection which represents a moment in the history of voting rights in the United States.⁠
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This 1974 work by Jacob Lawrence continues themes the artist tackled in his famed "Migration Series." During the Great Migration—starting in the 1910s—millions of Black Americans moved from the South to the Northeast, Midwest, and Western United States.⁠
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Here, Lawrence shows African Americans at a busy polling location—a particularly powerful scene given that many migrants left the American South to escape Jim Crow–era oppression, which included laws intended to to suppress the votes of Black people.⁠
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This work is on view now on the museum`s second floor.⁠
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🎨: Jacob Lawrence, "The 1920s...The Migrants Cast Their Ballots" (detail), 1974. Screen print. Gift of the Lorillard Corporation, Mr. Curtis H. Judge, President, 75.281. © 2022 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.⁠
📍: Second floor, Frederick R. Weisman Galleries ...

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