Betty Woodman, a pioneering ceramicist, died on January 2, 2018, at age 87. A trailblazer in her field, in 2006 Woodman was the first living female artist to be honored… Read More

  Joe Earle is considered one of the preeminent experts on contemporary Japanese art. As guest curator of NOMA’s current exhibition, New Forms, New Voices: Contemporary Japanese Pottery from the Gitter-Yelen… Read More

Movie buffs are invited to settle into NOMA’s Stern Auditorium over the course of five select Saturdays in November and December to visit the strange, dream/nightmare-like worlds of filmmaker David Lynch. Though he is best known for his works on the big screen and the quirky television series Twin Peaks, Lynch’s interests and inspirations extend far beyond Hollywood studios. Read More

American potters did not invent the idea that a chunk of dirt could be transformed into a glorious piece of art, but in the twentieth century, American ceramists expanded clay’s… Read More

In conjunction with the exhibition East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography, enviromental scientist Elizabeth Chamberlain of Tulane University will speak at NOMA on Friday, November 10, at 7 pm about her research tracing the history of human settlement in south Louisiana’s deltaic terrain. Read More

Garth Johnson is a self-described “craft activist” who serves as the curator of ceramics at the ASU Art Museum in Tempe, Arizona. He will speak at NOMA on Thursday, November 2, at 6 pm in advance of the opening of the exhibition Personalities in Clay: American Studio Ceramics from the E. John Bullard Collection. Read More

The works of art contained in NOMA’s galleries and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden depict the full gamut of human emotions — from love and compassion to vengeance and fright! This… Read More

Nineteenth-century stereoscopes and twenty-first century virtual reality headsets both provide means of visual escapism. Experience both during Friday Nights at NOMA at a technology symposium on October 20th. Read More

What is the difference between a selfie and a self-portrait? A new exhibition drawn from NOMA’s permanent collection of photographs from the 19th through 21st centuries opening at the St. Tammany Art Association on October 21 explores the many ways in which photographers used reflections as tools and stylistic devices. Read More

When photography arrived in the United States in 1839, populations of indigenous people in the East had been largely decimated by disease and forced removal to the West. Excluded from… Read More

NOMA visitors will have the opportunity to interact with cutting-edge technology in the realms of virtual and augmented reality, animation, digital gaming, and other immersive, artistic technology—and meet the creative minds behind such 21st-century innovations—at a first-ever symposium between Tulane University’s School of Professional Advancement and the museum. Read More

When photography arrived in the United States in 1839, it landed first in a few east coast cities and New Orleans, and then spread north and west into the American interior. The proliferation of photography studios and photographers coincided with the beginnings of massive cultural, commercial, and transportation projects that would reshape the nation. Read More

On select Saturday afternoons from November 11 to December 16, NOMA will screen five films by David Lynch. Read More

On Friday, August 25, at 7 p.m., the New Orleans Museum of Art will play host to the premiere of Designing Life: The Modernist Architecture of Albert Ledner, a documentary that chronicles the career of an architect whose vision shaped the built environment in New Orleans and other major American cities in the latter half of the twentieth century. Read More

The arts—from the visual and fine arts to music and literary arts—have always served to reflect and amplify culture and community. This media can also serve as a way of… Read More

South Louisiana will witness a partial eclipse on Monday, August 21. NOMA invites visitors year-round to view works of art inspired by the sun, moon, and stars. Read More