NOMA+ brings a “pop-up museum” to the community
After years of planning, NOMA+, a pop-up museum without walls, has launched. The mobile museum will visit schools, community centers, libraries, festivals, and other gatherings across metro New Orleans. Read More
‘Attributed To: Photographs by E. J. Bellocq’ features images from Storyville
Portraits of women working as prostitutes in Storyville, long attributed to Ernest Jean Bellocq, have become some the most indelible images of New Orleans, making Bellocq (1873-1949) one of the most recognized photographers in the history of the city. Yet, we know remarkably little about the photographer, long the subject of local legend. Read More
Arts & Letters Series brings literary conversations to NOMA
Join the conversation! NOMA’s Arts & Letters series welcomes authors, poets, journalists, playwrights, and literary scholars to the museum for public conversations that reflect on literature at the intersection of arts and culture. Arts & Letters, led by dynamic local moderators, takes place three to four times annually in NOMA’s Stern Auditorium. This program is… Read More
Video: Sixteenth-century Venetian masterpieces by Paolo Veronese arrive at NOMA
Two recently restored paintings from Venice that exemplify the glory of Paolo Veronese’s art will be on view in a focus gallery from April 18 – September 3, 2018. NOMA is only the second museum in the US to host Veronese in Murano: Two Venetian Renaissance Masterpieces Restored, following the Frick Collection in New York. Read More
Listen to the American Musicians exhibition Spotify playlist
The walls of NOMA’s Great Hall are now a pictorial Hall of Fame for some of America’s greatest musical talents of the late twentieth century. From the mid-1950s through the 1970s, photographer Lee Friedlander was hired by a number of major recording labels to shoot album covers and publicity shots for a pantheon of top-bill… Read More
Prospect.4 artistic director reflects upon the life and work of Barkley L. Hendricks
As Prospect.4 comes to a close, Trevor Schoonmaker, the artistic director of New Orleans’ citywide triennial of contemporary art, reflects upon his friendship and collaboration with the late artist Barkley L. Hendricks. Read More