Art-making activity: Create a shadowbox
Joseph Cornell loved to visit New York and collect items he found on the streets and in secondhand stores and bookstores. He built quite a collection and created his own… Read More
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What do you believe?
Around the world and throughout history artists have engaged with diverse beliefs in their artistic endeavors. Here is an opportunity for you to participate in an exchange of beliefs within the NOMA community. Read More
Art-Making Activity: Here Comes the Sun!
In this community-oriented activity, create your own sun inspired by artist Ugo Rondinone’s The Sun, a sculpture in the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden. Read More
Art-Making Activity: Create a Solar Print
Create a sun print using solarized paper and a variety of objects of different shapes and sizes. Read More
NOMA Teen Squad builds lasting connections
The NOMA Teen Squad is a diverse group of creative teens that serve as leaders and ambassadors of the museum. Teen Squad members meet on a weekly basis throughout the school year to engage in arts immersion programming of all kinds, including planning a special Teen Night on Friday, March 6, from 6 to 9 pm with FREE food, screen-printed T-shirts, art activities, youth performances, music by DJ Legatron Prime, and more! Read More
NOMA Book Club announces selections for 2020
Join NOMA staff and fellow book lovers as we read and discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art, artists, art museums, NOMA’s collections and exhibitions. Eleven books have been selected for 2020. Read More
Fragmented Landscapes film series examines global relationships of people to the environment
Fragmented Landscapes/Beyond Acadia is a film series presented by Deltaworkers, a nomadic artistic production and residence program based in New Orleans. Throughout the run of Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana, a series of short films will be screened under various themes. Join us on Saturday, January 11, at 2 pm. Read More
November 23: Family Field Day offers art and nature lessons in Besthoff Sculpture Garden
A FREE family festival will be held in the expansion of the Besthoff Sculpture Garden with programs that focus on the body, physical play, and the environment as it relates to art making. Read More
Studio KIDS! offers workshops for budding artists ages 5 to 10
This fall, Studio KIDS! presents “Text and Textures” art classes for kids. Perfect for students ages 5 to 10 who want to get creative and learn art-making techniques. Studio KIDS! explore art in NOMA’s galleries or the Besthoff Sculpture Garden as inspiration for an art project they complete in each session. Read More
Artful Palate cooking demonstrations return to Café NOMA with tributes to culinary mentors
Chefs of the Ralph Brennan Restaurant Group will prepare their own culinary masterpieces at Café NOMA’s Artful Palate, the eighth annual summer cooking series featuring seven artfully inspired demonstrations at the New Orleans Museum of Art. Read More
Five Facts about the Smithsonian’s African American Museum of History and Culture
In partnership with the Louisiana Architecture Foundation, NOMA will screen the 2017 documentary The Black Museum on June 14 at 7 pm as part of Friday Nights at NOMA programming. Learn more about this museum in advance of watching the film. Read More
Paper Revolutions reveals the state of French art during a time of political upheaval
Paper Revolutions: French Drawings from the New Orleans Museum of Art features drawings, rough sketches, preparatory studies, and finished drawings by some of the greatest draftsmen of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries within the turbulent political context of the Age of Revolution in France (1789–1870). Read More
Cantonese Punch Bowl depicts 18th-century international trade
A newly acquired Punch Bowl with Cantonese “Hongs,”on display in the Lupin Gallery of Decorative Arts, reveals both the exquisite craftsmanship of Chinese porcelain and a window into international trade of the late eighteenth century. Read More
Watch video of opening address for The Orléans Collection
Vanessa Schmid, Senior Research Curator for European Art at NOMA, addressed visitors on November 2, in the week following the opening of The Orléans Collection. Read More
West African Cinema Series presents vivid histories of the region
Featuring recent award-winning films from Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Senegal, and the United States, the West African Cinema Series is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Lina Iris Viktor: A Haven. A Hell. A Dream Deferred. Read More
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
Edible Book Day scheduled for Saturday, April 21
Bibliophiles and bakers alike are encouraged to participate in the sixth-annual Edible Book Day. Contestants present cakes inspired by books or literary themes, and NOMA visitors are among the judges. Read More
NOMA launches Professional Pathways Internship Program for local HBCUs
The New Orleans Museum of Art has received funding from The Walton Family Foundation and Ford Foundation in support of NOMA’s HBCU Professional Pathways Internship Program to recruit paid university-level… Read More