Opening May 15 at 11 am, the expansion of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden at the New Orleans Museum of Art features twenty-six new works by artists working primarily in the 21st century. Read More
For fifteen nights, on select dates from May 8–31, The NOLA Project will stage The Henchman in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden. The production marks the eighth collaboration between NOMA and this innovative theater company and centers upon a lesser-known character from William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the “changeling boy,” portrayed by a Lusher High School student. Read More
on view through June 2nd, 2019
NOMA hosts the first comprehensive museum survey for Keith Sonnier, a pioneering figure in conceptual, post-minimal, video and performance art of the late 1960s. Born in Grand Mamou, Louisiana, in 1941, Sonnier was one of the first artists to incorporate light into sculpture: an innovation that forms the foundation of his subsequent work. Read More
on view through October 13th, 2019
Louisiana-born artist Tina Girouard created twelve sequined prayer flags inspired by the religious rituals of Vodou in a cultural exchange with Haitian artists in Port-au-Prince. Read More
on view through July 28th, 2019
This exhibition of works from NOMA’s permanent collection explores photography’s complicated relationship to the places it represents, the places in which it is created, and the places in which we experience it. Read More