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
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
NOMA’s Learning and Engagement staff suggests a range books for all ages related to themes of sustainability. In partnership with Octavia Books, links are provided to purchase these titles through this independent bookstore based in New Orleans. Read More
Mandala comes from the classical Indian language Sanskrit. Loosely translated, the word means circle, but a mandala has symbolic meaning as well. The shape of a mandala is circular and… Read More
NOMA’s Learning and Engagement staff suggests the following books related to themes of belief systems. In partnership with Octavia Books, links are provided to purchase these titles through this independent… Read More
As a captain in the East India Company army, Linnaeus Tripe produced some of the earliest photographs of India and Burma in the 1850s. Many of his photographs were ultimately set into a series of lavish bound albums that comprised a visual survey of these locations. Read More
Karl Struss was an active member of the pictorialist photography community, which favored soft, dark, and carefully crafted prints. The Faith Healer is a kind of film still on the set of the 1921 silent movie, now lost. Read More
A visitor to the shrine at Lourdes could purchase a photograph as a souvenir, or such images could order one from a photographer’s catalog without ever making the pilgrimage. For a person of faith, viewing this photograph in an album or on the mantle could call up feelings of hope and reverence across time and space. Read More
In 1935, Roman Vishniac was hired by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, a leading humanitarian assistance organization, to photograph Jewish communities throughout Eastern Europe. Over the next few… Read More
A group of Muslim women pray on Hari Parbat in photograph by Henri Cartier-Bresson. In this arrested the moment, a woman’s rgesture of prayer ooks as if she is releasing the distant clouds into the air like doves. Read More
Throughout his career, Ansel Adams was always interested in gravestones. Beginning in the 1930s and continuing through the 1960s, Adams photographed old carved headstones in cemeteries from California to New England. He viewed these markers as “profoundly human.” Read More
Between World Wars I and II, James Van Der Zee was one of the most popular photographers in Harlem, New York. Known primarily for his portraits, Van Der Zee also worked for a wide range of clients outside of his studio, including a variety of Harlem’s diverse faith communities. Read More
NOMA’s staff offer suggestions on books for all ages related to themes of art, the natural world, and environmental issues. Read More
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
John Genin’s panoramic portrayal of a leisurely day at the beach in Surf Bathing, Grand Isle (c. 1885–1890) is a scene familiar to generations of Louisianians who have enjoyed carefree excursions to Louisiana’s only inhabited island in the Gulf of Mexico. Read More
A unique camera-less photograph NOMA’s collection was part of an extensive project to document plants from Great Britain and British colonies like Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). This cyanotype illustrates an early example of how important photography would become in our attempts to learn about and protect the natural world. Read More
In the pantheon of Catholic saints, St. Joseph holds a special place of devotion among many New Orleanians. On his feast day of March 19, Sicilian Americans in south Louisiana… Read More
On Wednesday, March 11, at noon Benjamin Benus, an associate professor of art and design history at Loyola University in New Orleans who specializes in the history of twentieth-century art… Read More
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