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Greenwood Parlor installation recognizes all lives lived at a Louisiana plantation

January 15, 2020News, Magazine, Collections

In 2014, NOMA acquired the parlor furnishings from Greenwood Plantation, today called Butler-Greenwood, in St. Francisville, Louisiana. In its installation, NOMA has taken thoughtful steps to present the parlor’s story and recognize all the lives lived at Greenwood Plantation—original purchaser Harriet Mathews, her family, and, equally, the enslaved men, women, and children whose labor created their wealth. Read More

Q&A: Losing Earth author Nathaniel Rich addresses climate change at Friday Nights lecture

January 15, 2020News, Magazine, Q&A

New Orleans-based writer Nathaniel Rich takes an in-depth look at the failure to act and efforts to dismiss warnings from scientists and activists in his book Losing Earth: A Recent History. In conjunction with exhibitions at NOMA that address environmental issues, Rich will discuss his research as part of Friday Nights at NOMA on January 17, at 6:30 pm followed by a book signing in the Museum Shop. Read More

Del and Ginger Hall establish a fund to support NOMA’s photography department

January 9, 2020News, Magazine, Support

Del Hall’s career in broadcast and print media took him from his home in New Orleans around the world. He and his wife Ginger have established a major fund to support NOMA’s photography department. Read More

NOMA joins fellow museums in response to safeguarding cultural sites in the Middle East

January 7, 2020News, Magazine, Blog

NOMA joins with fellow museums across North America in supporting this statement from The Association of Art Museum Directors, issued on January 6, 2020, regarding the cultural heritage of Iraq and Iran. Read More

In Besthoff Sculpture Garden, Teresita Fernández’s mosaic mural evokes “a landscape within a landscape”

January 7, 2020News, Sculpture Garden, Magazine, Q&A

ith the debut of the six-acre expansion of the Besthoff Sculpture Garden in May of 2019, thousands of visitors have been entranced by Viñales (Mayombe Mississippi), a 60-foot-long ceramic-tile mural that forms an exterior wall of the garden’s pavilion. Artist Teresita Fernández will speak at The Helis Foundation Artist Talk on Wednesday, January 15, at 6 pm. Read More

NOMA Book Club announces selections for 2020

January 1, 2020News, Magazine, Learn

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

December 4, 2019News, Magazine, Learn

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

December 1: Seven videos and panel discussion to mark World AIDS Day

November 26, 2019News, Magazine, In the News

The New Orleans Museum of Art is proud to partner with Visual AIDS for the thirtieth annual Day With(out) Art by presenting STILL BEGINNING, a program of seven newly commissioned videos responding to the ongoing HIV/AIDS epidemic, followed by a panel discussion of local activists. Read More

An Intimate Glimpse into the Past: The Latter-Schlesinger Portrait Miniature Collection

November 19, 2019News, Magazine, Collections

The Latter-Schlesinger Collection of Portrait Miniatures, from the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries, were given to NOMA in 1974 by Shirley Latter Kaufmann in honor of her parents, Harry and Anna Latter. More than one hundred portrait miniatures are on view in a new, specially-designed cabinet in the Decorative Arts Galleries. Read More

Donate to the NOMA cause of your choice

November 18, 2019News, Magazine, Support

NOMA thanks all who attended the 2019 Odyssey Ball, a night of fun and fundraising that supports the museum’s exhibitions, conservation work, and community-engagement programming. Opportunities remain to donate to your cause of choice. Read More

November 23: Family Field Day offers art and nature lessons in Besthoff Sculpture Garden

November 14, 2019News, Magazine, Learn

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

Five works at NOMA with stories of misery, mayhem, and the macabre

October 31, 2019News, Magazine, Blog

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! Prowl our halls and the shadowy outdoor paths of the sculpture garden to view scenes and objects that are guaranteed to give visitors the willies. Some works present less obvious but definitively grisly and creepy stories beyond the frame or pedestal. Presented here are five selections from the permanent collection with stories of misery, mayhem, and the macabre. Read More

Q&A: Fred Wilson rethinks the representation of race in museum exhibitions

October 23, 2019News, Magazine, Q&A

In 1992 Fred Wilson became a cultural provocateur by taking an unorthodox approach to arranging museum artifacts in an exhibition that ignited debate over how to fairly represent race in museum galleries. He will speak at NOMA on Thursday, October 24, at 6 pm in conversation with New Orleans artist Ron Bechet. Read More

Q&A: Lee Ledbetter discusses his practice of architecture and design

October 17, 2019News, Magazine, Q&A

Lee Ledbetter, renowned for his aesthetic vision of blending the classic with the modern, will discuss his renowned practice of design and architecture during a lecture and book signing as part of Friday Nights at NOMA on October 18, beginning at 6 pm. Read More

Safar music series led by Mahmoud Chouki blends Eastern and Western music traditions

October 6, 2019News, Magazine, Q&A

In conjunction with the exhibition Bodies of Knowledge, musician Mahmoud Chouki has created a series of site-specific performances collectively titled Safar (Arabic for to travel). Chouki has invited nine musicians to join an ensemble concert on Sunday, October 13, from 6 to 8 pm. Ticket purchase required. Read More

In Lamentations, Tina Freeman pairs photographs of Louisiana wetlands and Arctic landscapes

September 17, 2019News, Magazine, Exhibitions, Photography

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

Fairyland Lusterware: Casting a spell in ceramics

September 17, 2019News, Magazine, Collections

Radiantly glazed and richly imaginative, Fairyland Luster pottery represent one of the most extraordinary technical achievements in the modern ceramic industry. Pieces of this Wedgwood collection from the early 20th century are on view in the second-floor elevator lobby. Read More

Taking measure of Shakespeare’s enduring message: The NOLA Project stages a timely morality play at NOMA

September 9, 2019News, Magazine, Q&A

The NOLA Project returns to NOMA’s Great Hall for twelve select nights from September 10 to 29 to stage a modern-verse adaptation of one of William Shakespeare’s lesser-known plays, Measure for Measure, originally written in 1603/04. Director Mark Routhier discusses the timeless themes of morality, depravity, and hypocrisy that are central to the plot. Read More

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