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Press Releases
NOMA celebrates promotions within development team
NEW ORLEANS, LA – Anne Banõs, Deputy Director at the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA), has announced Elisabeth Rietvelt as Membership Manager, and Monique Tourres as Development and Operations Manager. As NOMA’s Membership Manager, Elisabeth Rietvelt will be primarily responsible for membership interactions, engagement and growth as well as membership relations. Reitvelt brings experience… Read More
Trailblazing New Orleans gallerist Arthur Roger gifts his collection to NOMA
NEW ORLEANS, LA — Pride of Place: The Making of Contemporary Art in New Orleans showcases renowned art collector and gallery owner Arthur Roger’s transformational gift of his entire personal art collection to the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA). Spotlighting one of the city’s most groundbreaking contemporary art collections, the exhibition explores the rise… Read More
When Worlds Collide: NOMA celebrates artistic coincidence in Regina Scully | Japanese Landscape: Inner Journeys
NEW ORLEANS, LA — It was not until artist Regina Scully had the opportunity to closely explore the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA)’s collection of Japanese paintings that she realized the parallels between the art she was creating, and Chinese and Japanese antecedents. In Regina Scully | Japanese Landscape: Inner Journeys, on view April… Read More
NOMA recognizes Ghost Army veteran and printmaking pioneer in Jim Steg: New Work
Works celebrating the life-spanning accomplishments of printmaker, war veteran, and professor Jim Steg will be on view at the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) from March 31 – October 8, 2017 in Jim Steg: New Work. Steg was the most influential printmaker to be based in New Orleans in the twentieth century. Read More
Prized Ferraris find their way to NOMA as Venice exhibition opens
In conjunction with the opening of the New Orleans Museum of Art’s forthcoming exhibition, A Life of Seduction: Venice in the 1700s, Ferrari of Houston, in partnership with the Ferrari Club of America, will bring New Orleans’ first Concorso d’Eleganza to the museum on February 18th. Read More
A Life of Seduction: Venice in the 1700s
The grandeur of Venice comes to America’s most historic city in “A Life of Seduction: Venice in the 1700s”, an exhibition at the New Orleans Museum of Art February 16 – May 21. Read More
NOMA Receives a Major Grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded a $400,000 grant to the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) to support two curatorial fellowships in the fields of photography and modern and contemporary art. The award was announced in October 2016. “As we continue to open up NOMA’s collections to all communities, these fellowships reflect new methods… Read More
NOMA Awarded a $150,000 Grant to Digitize the Museum’s Permanent Collection
The New Orleans Museum of Art was selected to receive a $150,000 grant from The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The funds, from the Museums for America program, will support a two-year project to digitize the museum’s collection of African art. The collection from sub-Saharan tribal peoples is considered one of the most outstanding… Read More
NOMA presents first comprehensive museum retrospective for Louisiana native George Dunbar
NEW ORLEANS, LA–George Dunbar: Elements of Chance is the first comprehensive museum retrospective for the artist George Dunbar (American, b. 1927), who played a pivotal role in introducing abstract art to the South. On view November 3-February 17, this exhibition explores the evolution of Dunbar’s art from his early paintings from the 1940s and 1950s… Read More
NOMA is only southern venue for blockbuster exhibition “Seeing Nature: Landscape Masterworks from the Paul G. Allen Family Collection”
NEW ORLEANS, LA-Seeing Nature: Landscape Masterworks from the Paul G. Allen Family Collection features 39 masterpieces exploring the evolution of European and American landscape painting from the collection of Paul G. Allen, Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist. This exhibition presents masterworks spanning nearly four hundred years—from Jan Brueghel the Younger’s series devoted to the five senses… Read More
NOMA EXHIBITIONS EXPLORE OBSTRUCTION IN PHOTOGRAPHY
Something in the Way: A Brief History of Photography and Obstruction and Photography Is are on view September 9, 2016-February 19, 2017 NEW ORLEANS, LA-Based on NOMA’s permanent collection, Something in the Way: A Brief History of Photography and Obstruction explores what obstructions in photographic images, be they accidental or intentional, can tell us about… Read More
NOMA Receives $125,000 Grant from Walton Family Foundation to Debut Immersive Intern Program for Teens
NEW ORLEANS, LA-Beginning this summer, NOMA will debut the Creative Careers Internship, a new immersive educational program for teens in the New Orleans area. “NOMA’s education programs introduce youth to the arts at all phases in their development, while simultaneously encouraging continued engagement by educating teachers and motivating parents, said Susan M. Taylor, The Montine… Read More
New Orleans Museum of Art Announces Anne Phayer Baños as Deputy Director
NEW ORLEANS, LA- Susan M. Taylor, the Montine McDaniel Freeman Director at the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA), announced today the appointment of Anne Phayer Baños as Deputy Director who will begin her work at NOMA July 6. “Anne has an impressive record of leadership in major New Orleans organizations where she has served in… Read More
The Essence of Things: Design and the Art of Reduction, an exhibition of the Vitra Design Museum, celebrates simplicity in design
This is the first exhibition at NOMA dedicated to 20th century and contemporary design NEW ORLEANS, LA- The Essence of Things: Design and the Art of Reduction, on view June 24 through September 11, 2016, brings together approximately 150 objects from one hundred years of design history, ranging from humble items like flip-flops and rubber… Read More
NOMA Receives $25,000 from National Endowment for the Arts
More Than $82 Million Awarded for Arts Projects Nationwide NEW ORLEANS, LA—National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Jane Chu has approved more than $82 million to fund local arts projects and partnerships in the NEA’s second major funding announcement for fiscal year 2016. Included in this announcement is an Art Works award of $25,000 to… Read More
William A. Fagaly, Françoise Billion Richardson Curator of African Art, to retire from the New Orleans Museum of Art after 50 years of service
NEW ORLEANS, LA– William A. Fagaly, Françoise Billion Richardson Curator of African Art, is retiring from the New Orleans Museum of Art after 50 years of service. “Since joining NOMA in 1966, then the Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, Bill has been recognized as an internationally renowned curator and scholar,” said Susan M. Taylor, The… Read More
NOMA and The NOLA Project present “Don Quixote” in the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden May 4-22
New Orleans, LA– This spring, The NOLA Project and NOMA have once again partnered to bring a new and hilarious adaptation to Miguel de Cervantes’ classic tale, “Don Quixote”. Pete McElligott, a Big Easy Award-winning playwright, helps bring this classic novel to life in the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden. Directed by Jessica Podewell,… Read More
NOMA Exhibits Major Works by Contemporary Photographer Vera Lutter While Exploring the Historical Role of the Photographic Negative in Two Related Presentations on view April 15-July 17
NEW ORLEANS, LA – This spring, NOMA will explore the historical and contemporary role of the photographic negative in three related presentations. Drawing mostly on its own permanent collection, NOMA will exhibit some of the earliest examples of photographic negatives in Paper Negatives and avant-garde and twentieth-century uses of the negative image in Negative Image…. Read More