NOMA Announces New Trustees for 2023
During their December 2022 meeting, the Board of Trustees of the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) elected ten new members, who joined the board on January 1, 2023. The Board of Trustees works together to support NOMA’s mission of uniting, inspiring, and engaging diverse communities and cultures through the arts. Read More
Video: Called to the Camera: Black Studio Photographers
From photography’s beginnings in the United States, Black studio photographers operated on the developing edge of the medium to produce beautiful portraits for their clients, while also making a variety of other photographic work in keeping with important movements like pictorialism, modernism, and abstraction. Read More
Video: Curator Clare Davies on Louise Bourgeois
In conjunction with the exhibition Louise Bourgeois: Paintings, the New Orleans Museum of Art presents a special lecture with Clare Davies, Associate Curator, Modern and Contemporary Art, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Read More
Major Exhibition Exploring Creative Exchange Between Jacob Lawrence and Artists from West Africa Opens at the New Orleans Museum of Art in February 2023
In February, the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) will present Black Orpheus: Jacob Lawrence and the Mbari Club, an exhibition exploring the creative exchange between artist Jacob Lawrence and the members of the Mbari Artists & Writers Club, a Nigerian arts collective founded in 1961. Read More
Video: Interview with People Museum’s Claire Givens and Jeremy Phipps
People Museum’s EP “Destruction of, Vol. 1” is inspired by Bourgeois’s life and work, and the group will perform underneath the artist’s monumental “Spider” sculpture in NOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture Garden on Sunday, December 4. Read More
Video: Claire Givens of People Museum on the Life and Art of Louise Bourgeois
Claire Givens of New Orleans–based pop art band People Museum discusses her affinity for artist Louise Bourgeois with Community Engagement Curator Nic Brierre Aziz. Read More