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 African ancestral veneration
Ancestors in Stone, opening August 16, will showcase a recently acquired akwanshi stone monolith from the Cross River region of Nigeria, along with other African figures and objects made of stone. Read More
Q&A: Rich Frishman captures the “Ghosts of Segregation” in an ongoing photo-documentation project
Photographer Rich Frishman has traveled much of the American South in recent years documenting the haunting physical reminders of a region where racial segregation was the social norm and enforced law until recent decades. Two of his photographs are on view in the exhibition You Are Here. Read More
Remembering Leah Chase: NOMA honors the legacy of longtime trustee and volunteer
Leah Chase, a renowned culinary artist, civil rights activist, and longtime patron of the arts died on June 1, 2019, at age 96. Her legacy includes philanthropy and volunteerism at the New Orleans Museum of Art that expanded the museum’s collection and broadened community outreach. Read More
Q&A: Playwright Michael Aaron Santos channels William Shakespeare in The Henchman
The NOLA Project stages a neo-Shakespearean play, The Henchman, in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden through May 31st. Playwright Michael Aaron Santos wrote the script in 17th-century English and iambic pentameter. Read More
Glowing inspiration: Neon has sparked the imagination for more than a century
NOMA is aglow through Sunday, June 2, with works in neon displayed in the exhibition Keith Sonnier: Until Today. This luminescent natural element from the periodic table has an unusual history going back to its discovery in the late 19th century. Read More
