Street Artist Swoon Creates Sea Goddess At New Orleans Museum Of Art
An ocean goddess will soon rise inside NOMA, pointing out the water’s oil spill-related decline as well as the sometime graffiti artist’s rise to stardom. A giant paper ocean goddess will soon dominate the atrium of the New Orleans Museum of Art. Her beseeching face will point upward toward the ceiling, as if she were… Read More
The New Orleans Museum Of Art On A Hot Summer Day Is Well Worth The Trip
It’s officially summer; it is really hot and, now that the New Orleans rainy season has started, humid outside. To escape the heat, a trip to the well air conditioned New Orleans Museum of Art is in order. As you walk up the steps, the cool air invitingly escapes from the front door. Once inside… Read More
Prospect.2 Director Cameron Describes International Art Exhibit To Come
The Prospect.2 New Orleans international exhibit that begins Oct. 22 will provide Crescent City art lovers with a selection of solo shows by accomplished artists from as far away as Poland, Chile and Vietnam. It will also highlight the work of a handful of New Orleans notables. Prospect. 2 will feature 26 indoor shows, mostly… Read More
Pin Pal
The serpent pin spurred Albright’s massive collection of pins, many of which are included in the exhibit Read My Pins: The Madeleine Albright Collection, which runs through Aug. 14 in the New Orleans Museum of Art. These are the pins that became her trademark, the pins that diplomats and world leaders read to gauge her… Read More
Paintings By Zen Master Hakuin (1685-1768) At NOMA Friday
From February 11 to April 17, 2011, the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) presents a new exhibition of paintings and calligraphy by the most significant Japanese Zen master of the past 500 years, Hakuin Ekaku. Organized by NOMA, The Sound of One Hand: Paintings and Calligraphy by Zen Master Hakuin is the first exhibition… Read More
WHERE TO BE: At NOMA, It’s Where Y’Art
The New Orleans Museum of Art has started what it hopes will become a Friday night tradition with Where Y’Art. Every Friday from 5 to 9 p.m., NOMA offers live music, family art-making activities, and such museum-related events as film screenings, lectures, artist demonstrations and exhibit walk-throughs. (Tonight there will be a walk-through of the… Read More