Historian Joan DeJean to lecture about New Orleans’ connection to Philippe II, Duke of Orléans
In conjunction with The Orleans Collection exhibition, historian Joan DeJean will present a lecture titled “Champs-Elysées: Building Paris, Building New Orleans” on Thursday, November 29 at 6 pm. The event is free and open to the public. Vanessa Schmid, NOMA’s Senior Research Curator of European Art, spoke with professor DeJean in advance of the talk. Read More
The Orléans Collection reunites Old Masters for the first time in two centuries
Rembrandt, Rubens, Veronese, and Coypel are but a few of the Old Masters whose works comprised the famed collection of Philippe II, Duke of Orléans. NOMA has reunited a selection of these paintings for the first time since their dispersal in the 1790s. Read More
National media hail opening of The Orléans Collection
NOMA’s final tribute to the New Orleans Tricentennial—an epic exhibition titled The Orleans Collection that reunites portions of the eighteenth-century collection of the city’s namesake, Philippe II, the Duke of Orléans—is receiving widespread coverage from the national and local media. Read More
Abry Brothers shoring company purchased a photograph with visible family connection for NOMA’s collection
A photograph by Clarence John Laughlin was added to NOMA’s permanent collection thanks to a donation from Abry Brothers, Inc., a New Orleans-based shoring contractor in business since 1840 that shares a special relationship with this image made in 1946. Read More
French Connection Film Series highlights 18th-century France
Travel through time to 18th-century France with films exploring life among the aristocracy. This series, presented in conjunction with the exhibition The Orléans Collection, takes place Saturday afternoons in November and December. The movies are included with standard admission to the museum. Read More
Purchase tickets or sponsorships now for Odyssey Ball 2018: All That Glitters
Purchase tickets now for the Odyssey Ball, in partnership with IBERIABANK, an evening of unparalleled elegance on Saturday, November 10. Critically important to our treasured museum and the wide community it serves, Odyssey raises the funds necessary to support NOMA’s nationally-recognized exhibitions and educational programs, which bring more than 290,000 annual visitors to the museum and sculpture garden. Raffle tickets for a gold and diamond-bejeweled bracelet are also for sale. Read More