The Northern European European galleries were entirely reconceived in May, thanks to the generosity of Alvin and Carol Merlin. Several paintings from NOMA’s permanent collection have undergone much-needed conservation and were reinstalled with new interpretive texts based on the latest art-historical research. Read More
New Orleans native Edward Spots, an internationally renowned dancer, choreographer, and actor, will lead a group of youth dancers in a site-specific work of dance at NOMA titled Black Magic that will mark the opening of the exhibition Bodies of Knowledge. Read More
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
Bodies of Knowledge brings together eleven international contemporary artists to reflect on the role that language plays in archiving and asserting our cultural identities. In conjunction with this exhibition, NOMA will be screening an eclectic array of movies selected by a few of these artists that reflect their inspirations, interests, and ideals. 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
The six-acre expansion of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden opened with great fanfare on May 16. Take a preview tour of the outdoor art space with Contemporary and Modern Art Curator Katie Pfohl, view clips of the ribbon-cutting ceremony, and scenes of the landscape in a video and photo gallery. Read More
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
NOMA recently acquired a jardinière that was crafted around 1890 at the short-lived New Orleans Art Pottery. Though this small operation only produced pots for a few years, it carries outsized significance as one of the earliest American art potteries and an important precursor to the cherished pottery that thrived for decades at New Orleans’s Newcomb College. Read More
Ancestors in Stone, opening August 16, will showcase a recently acquired akwanshi stone monolith from the Cross River region of Nigeria, along with other African figures and objects made of stone. Read More
Photographer Rich Frishman has traveled much of the American South in recent years documenting the haunting physical reminders of a region where racial segregation was the social norm and enforced law until recent decades. Two of his photographs are on view in the exhibition You Are Here. Read More
Leah Chase, a renowned culinary artist, civil rights activist, and longtime patron of the arts died on June 1, 2019, at age 96. Her legacy includes philanthropy and volunteerism at the New Orleans Museum of Art that expanded the museum’s collection and broadened community outreach. Read More
The NOLA Project stages a neo-Shakespearean play, The Henchman, in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden through May 31st. Playwright Michael Aaron Santos wrote the script in 17th-century English and iambic pentameter. Read More
NOMA is aglow through Sunday, June 2, with works in neon displayed in the exhibition Keith Sonnier: Until Today. This luminescent natural element from the periodic table has an unusual history going back to its discovery in the late 19th century. 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
A diminutive portrait of an African woman by Willem van Mieris is an extraordinary acquisition, broadening NOMA’s presentation of art from the global Dutch Golden Age. Read More
The tintype portraits of musicians by Timothy Duffy are a thoroughly American enterprise: his choice of materials aligns with and challenges a distinctly American history of photography, while his subjects represent one of the most important musical legacies in the United States. Read More
NOMA honors Mother’s Day by granting free admission to all moms on May 12, and Café NOMA will serve complimentary “Mom-osas” during brunch. Numerous works of art throughout the museum and sculpture garden depict motherhood in all of its complicated facets. Read More
In the spring of 2018, NOMA acquired a monumental mural painting by Clementine Hunter (1887–1988), one of Louisiana’s most beloved and accomplished artists. An extremely rare example of one of the large-scale, site-specific murals Hunter created for the interiors of Melrose Plantation in the Cane River region near Natchitoches, where she spent much of her life working as a field hand before pursuing her talent as a painter after age 50. Read More