NOMA joins fellow museums in response to safeguarding cultural sites in the Middle East
NOMA joins with fellow museums across North America in supporting this statement from The Association of Art Museum Directors, issued on January 6, 2020, regarding the cultural heritage of Iraq and Iran. Read More
In Besthoff Sculpture Garden, Teresita Fernández’s mosaic mural evokes “a landscape within a landscape”
ith the debut of the six-acre expansion of the Besthoff Sculpture Garden in May of 2019, thousands of visitors have been entranced by Viñales (Mayombe Mississippi), a 60-foot-long ceramic-tile mural that forms an exterior wall of the garden’s pavilion. Artist Teresita Fernández will speak at The Helis Foundation Artist Talk on Wednesday, January 15, at 6 pm. Read More
NOMA Book Club announces selections for 2020
Join NOMA staff and fellow book lovers as we read and discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art, artists, art museums, NOMA’s collections and exhibitions. Eleven books have been selected for 2020. Read More
Fragmented Landscapes film series examines global relationships of people to the environment
Fragmented Landscapes/Beyond Acadia is a film series presented by Deltaworkers, a nomadic artistic production and residence program based in New Orleans. Throughout the run of Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana, a series of short films will be screened under various themes. Join us on Saturday, January 11, at 2 pm. Read More
December 1: Seven videos and panel discussion to mark World AIDS Day
The New Orleans Museum of Art is proud to partner with Visual AIDS for the thirtieth annual Day With(out) Art by presenting STILL BEGINNING, a program of seven newly commissioned videos responding to the ongoing HIV/AIDS epidemic, followed by a panel discussion of local activists. Read More
An Intimate Glimpse into the Past: The Latter-Schlesinger Portrait Miniature Collection
The Latter-Schlesinger Collection of Portrait Miniatures, from the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries, were given to NOMA in 1974 by Shirley Latter Kaufmann in honor of her parents, Harry and Anna Latter. More than one hundred portrait miniatures are on view in a new, specially-designed cabinet in the Decorative Arts Galleries. Read More