By Eileen Fleming You can read the full article and listen to samples of Rashaad Newsome’s work online here A new exhibit at the New Orleans Museum of Art blends the traditions of the Middle Ages with a futuristic vision of pop culture. The work of former New Orleans resident Rashaad Newsome takes a variety… Read More

By Fritz Esker You can read the full article online here Renowned video, performance, and collage artist Rashaad Newsome returned to his native New Orleans for the opening of Rashaad Newsome: King of Arms at the New Orleans Museum of Art on June 21 as part of NOMA’s Great Hall Exhibition Series. King of Arms… Read More

By Barri Bronston | New Orleans Advocate When the thermometer starts to hover around 100, there may be no better place to cool off than an art museum or gallery. At least that’s what the folks at the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and many other arts venues around… Read More

By Doug MacCash You can read the full article online here Artist Rashaad Newsome’s exhibit “King of Arms” brings bling to the New Orleans Museum of Arts’ Great Hall this Friday (June 24). It’s a colorful, upbeat, endlessly bejeweled interpretation of 21st century pop culture, but it has its roots way back in the Middle… Read More

BY JOHN D’ADDARIO American documentary photographer Gordon Parks began his career shooting portraits and fashion in Chicago and Washington, D.C., eventually landing a position with the Farm Security Administration alongside such notable fellow photographers as Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange. But it was his 1948 LIFE magazine photo essay on youth gang culture in Harlem… Read More

By Benjamin Sutton | BLOUIN ARTINFO Read the article here “America” (2013), a full-scale replica of Abraham Lincoln’s childhood log cabin that Will Ryman constructed out of chains, bullets, pills, assorted electronic components, jewelry, keyboard keys, and other assorted consumer flotsam, all coated in shiny gold paint, has been acquired by the New Orleans Museum… Read More

By Mark Waller You can read the full article online here The New Orleans Museum of Art on Friday is hosting a discussion on the 1984 Louisiana World Exposition and its impact on the city. Although the fair suffered financial troubles, it also gets credit for starting the revitalization of the Warehouse District. The event… Read More

What would a local festival be without food? But food won’t be the only offering when the New Orleans Museum of Art hosts its inaugural India Festival on Saturday, May 11. The museum, its environs, and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden will be transformed into a multi-dimensional experience of Indian culture that organizers say has never… Read More

India Fest brings yoga, dance, fashion and fun to New Orleans Museum of Art By Chris Waddington, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune The inaugural India Fest at New Orleans Museum of Art will showcase dance, music, food — and a host of Indian traditions and crafts, including the henna tattoos and elaborate bridal fashions pictured here…. Read More

By Doug MacCash, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune Click to read the article on NOLA.com Works by Baccarat, Tiffany, Cartier, Sèvres and other legendary designers are awaiting art lovers at the New Orleans Museum of Art on Friday night (April 12) at the opening of “Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World’s Fairs, 1851-1939.”… Read More

By Chris Waddington, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune Click here to view the article on NOLA.com Click here to view the profile on Travel + Leisure Ralph Brennan’s Café NOMA at the New Orleans Museum of Art has been recognized as one of the 12 Best American Museum Restaurants by Travel + Leisure magazine. Restaurants from… Read More

Frugal Traveler: Seeing the World on a Budget By Seth Kugel | The New York Times It promised to be my easiest frugal assignment yet: five days in a paradise of cheap eating, cheaper drinking and free music in the walking- and biking-friendly city – New Orleans. A self-imposed prohibition on dropping money in the… Read More

By Doug MacCash, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune The New Orleans Museum of Art has acquired “Remember the Upstairs Lounge,” a postmodern masterpiece by New Orleans artist Skylar Fein, that symbolically recalls a devastating 1973 fire in a crowded French Quarter gay bar. The 90-piece art environment that features imitation artifacts, photographs, video and a reproduction… Read More

By Doug MacCash, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune While considering the best New Orleans art exhibits of 2012, it became clear that this was a year of disquiet on the Crescent City art scene. In March, the Contemporary Arts Center was the focus of an artists’ protest over the temporary closure of an exhibition and the… Read More

BY BILL LODGE | Advocate staff writer November 08, 2012 Forty-three nonprofit organizations and government agencies in Louisiana will share more than $15.9 million from BP for promotion of tourism and seafood, Patrick Juneau, the Deepwater Horizon claims administrator, said Wednesday. Another $27.7 million was granted to 67 organizations and agencies for the same purposes… Read More

By Doug MacCash, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune on November 01, 2012 at 1:34 PM, updated November 01, 2012 at 3:45 PM The Odyssey Ball, the New Orleans Museum of Art’s traditional fall fundraising extravaganza, takes place from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., Nov. 10. The 47th annual party will offer art lovers a first look… Read More