The New Orleans Museum of Art is a proud partner of the Google Cultural Institute, a website offering high-resolution images of works in the museum’s permanent collection for viewing audiences around the world. Read More
Photographer Tina Freeman’s pairing of images of Louisiana’s coastal wetlands and the glacial landscapes of the Arctic and Antarctic creates a visual dialogue about the connectivity of two disparate but interdependent ecosystems. Read More
Join Curatorial Fellow Brian Piper for a video tour of highlights in the photography exhibition You Are Here: A Brief History of Photography and Place by linking to NOMA’s Instagram account. Read More
You Are Here: A Brief History of Photography and Place, on view through August 11, explores photographs of place, photographs in place, and photographs about place. The exhibition encourages visitors to think more deeply about how photography mediates their individual experience of the world and other people in it. Read More
Inspired by Nature, a new exhibition in the Art of Japan Galleries, juxtaposes paintings from the seventeenth through early twentieth centuries with ceramics, lacquers, and woodblock prints dating from the nineteenth century to today. Read More
Against the Grain marks the first solo museum presentation in more than thirty years of the experimental works in wood by African American artist Mildred Thompson. An accomplished painter, sculptor, writer and musician, Thompson (1936–2003) created abstract work in wood that went against the grain of the more overtly political art of her time. Read More
Del Hall’s career in photojournalism took him from his home in New Orleans around the world. As an Emmy Award-winning news cameraman and film editor, Hall pioneered the use of… Read More
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
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
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… Read More
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
A solo exhibition of works by Puerto Rican artist Carlos Rolón explores the vibrant cultural connections between New Orleans, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Read More