Tour the You Are Here photography exhibition with a curator on Instagram Field Guide
Join Curatorial Fellow Brian Piper for a video tour of highlights in the photography exhibition You Are Here: A Brief History of Photography and Place by linking to NOMA’s Instagram account. Read More
Fairyland Lusterware: Casting a spell in ceramics
Radiantly glazed and richly imaginative, Fairyland Luster pottery represent one of the most extraordinary technical achievements in the modern ceramic industry. Pieces of this Wedgwood collection from the early 20th century are on view in the second-floor elevator lobby. Read More
Video: The Besthoff Sculpture Garden opens with fanfare and a rave reception among first-day visitors
The six-acre expansion of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden opened with great fanfare on May 16. Take a preview tour of the outdoor art space with Contemporary and Modern Art Curator Katie Pfohl, view clips of the ribbon-cutting ceremony, and scenes of the landscape in a video and photo gallery. Read More
Paper Revolutions reveals the state of French art during a time of political upheaval
Paper Revolutions: French Drawings from the New Orleans Museum of Art features drawings, rough sketches, preparatory studies, and finished drawings by some of the greatest draftsmen of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries within the turbulent political context of the Age of Revolution in France (1789–1870). Read More
NOMA acquires rare 19th-century jardinière made by short-lived New Orleans Art Pottery
NOMA recently acquired a jardinière that was crafted around 1890 at the short-lived New Orleans Art Pottery. Though this small operation only produced pots for a few years, it carries outsized significance as one of the earliest American art potteries and an important precursor to the cherished pottery that thrived for decades at New Orleans’s Newcomb College. Read More
Ankwanshi stone sculpture represents the physical permanence of ancestral veneration in Nigeria’s Cross River region
Ancestors in Stone, opening July 26, will showcase a recently acquired Akwanshi stone monolith from the Cross River region of Nigeria, along with figures and objects collectively made with stones. Read More