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 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
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
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/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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
American labor is evident in numerous works within NOMA’s permanent collection. Visit the museum on Labor Day, September 2, during special holiday hours from noon to 5 pm. Read More
The New Orleans Museum of Art will celebrate LOVE in the Garden presented by Hancock Whitney on September 27, 2019. Now in its fifteenth year, guests will enjoy cuisine from more than sixty of New Orleans’ finest restaurants, and craft cocktails from New Orleans’ top bartenders as they vie for first place in the sixth-annual LOVE Cocktail Challenge. Read More