Kids and grown-ups are invited to explore photography on both sides of the camera during a free family day at the museum.
Go on a visual scavenger hunt through the works of Robert Polidori, currently on view in the Great Hall.
Visual AIDS presents a program of seven-short videos highlighting under-told stories of HIV and AIDS from around the world.
Join us for in-person gallery talks with NOMA curators and staff every Wednesday at noon.
Join us for each month for an after-hours program filled with performances, tours, pop-ups, and more.
NOMA is committed to being a welcoming, inclusive, anti-racist institution. We invite you to follow our progress as we become the institution we aspire to be.
This exhibition presents the work of an artist who was celebrated by the American craft world.
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NOMA is proud to partner with @visual_aids for Day With(out) Art 2022 by presenting BEING & BELONGING, a program of seven new videos centering the emotional reality of living with HIV today.
The program features new work by Clifford Prince King, Jaewon Kim, Mikiki, Davina “Dee” Conner & Karin Hayes, Camila Arce, Jhoel Zempoalteca & La Jerry, and Camilo Acosta Huntertexas & Santiago Lemus.
A day of mourning and action that uses art to respond to the ongoing HIV and AIDS crisis, Day With(out) Art encourages museums, universities, museums, and art institutions to present related programming on or around December 1, World AIDS Day. AIDS is not over!
The seven short videos will screen on a loop all day today, December 1, in NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts. Admission to this program is free for all.
#daywithoutart @visual_aids @cliffordprinceking @etc.1 @mkkultra @pozitivelydee @karin_hayes @sidiosa @jhoelze @__lajerry @huntertexasvideo @santiagolemuss ...
Jeremy Phipps of @peoplemuseumband talks about when his brother introduced him to @paramore and how he blends New Orleans musical traditions with other styles. 🎷
Don’t miss a special performance by People Museum underneath Louise Bourgeois’s monumental “Spider” in NOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture Garden this Sunday, December 4.
🎟️ Tickets on sale now at noma.org/peoplemuseum ...
We’re thankful for everyone who’s visited NOMA this year. 🍂
The museum and Besthoff Sculpture Garden are closed today, Thursday, November 24, and will reopen tomorrow.
We are open 10 am–5 pm this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday for all of your long weekend museum needs.
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🎨: Sean Scully, “Colored Stacked Frames,” 2017. Stainless steel with automotive paint. Museum purchase with funds provided by Sydney and Walda Besthoff.
📷: @thecarie ...
NOW ON VIEW 👻🪑 Joyce Lin created this “Ghostwood Chair and Table” for NOMA’s permanent collection.
Inspired by a 2021 exhibition of works by Dawn DeDeaux, the museum’s historic furniture collection, and driftwood from the Bayou Bienvenue wetlands, Lin assembled this dramatic chair from found driftwood, and then burned and inked it with the ghostly outline of a 19th-century Louisiana ladder back chair.
The work is named after so-called “ghost forests,” where salt water has intruded and left a landscape of poisoned trees.
👉 Click the link in our bio to learn more about Lin and this recent acquisition from Mel Buchanan, NOMA’s RosaMary Curator of Decorative Arts and Design.
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🎨: Joyce Lin, “Ghostwood Chair and Table,” 2022. Found driftwood, charcoal, burned & sealed with Danish oil. Museum purchase, William McDonald Boles and Eva Carol Boles Fund and Gift of the Artist and R & Company, 2022.49.1,.2. ...
From 1948 to 1986, Reverend Henry Clay Anderson and his wife Sadie Lee operated Anderson Photo Service, an important community hub and business in Greenville, Mississippi.
“Rev. Henry Clay Anderson’s portrait of the young woman displays her fragility and softness. I imagine her sitting proudly in the photo studio that day because her dress was her Sunday’s Best that her mother laid out for her that morning. Her hair had just been pressed and curled the night before and she was excited to show it off for her very first portraiture session. The photo reminds me of a portrait that an elder would show me to reference how they looked in their younger days. A photo like this is a reflection of who we are, who we will be, and our ancestors abroad. A photo has always been a way to freeze time, and capture the essence of a moment that can never be duplicated. I imagine that today, a replica of this photo sits in the home of a great-granddaughter or relative of the subject in remembrance of them.” —Delaney George, photographer and exhibition advisory group member for "Called to the Camera: Black American Studio Photographers"
👉 Learn more about Anderson's studio and work in "Called to the Camera," on view at NOMA through January 8.
#CalledToTheCamera
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Rev. Henry Clay Anderson (American, 1911-1998, Active in Greenville, MS), "A hand-tinted portrait of a young woman," 1950s. Gelatin silver print, hand-tinted. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Charles Schwartz and Shawn Wilson, 2012.137.2.3. ...
Free Screening 🎬
Today, Sunday, November 20, at 2 pm, join us as we watch the acclaimed documentary “City of a Million Dreams” and discuss the importance and influence of New Orleans’s second lines and jazz funerals with the filmmakers.
Filmed over twenty-two years, “City of a Million Dreams” is based on the book by the same name by Jason Berry.
🎟️ Free with museum admission. Click the link in our bio to learn more. ...
The museum and Besthoff Sculpture Garden will be closed Friday, December 2, for a special event. We look forward to welcoming you back on Saturday, December 3.
