NOMA will host a film screening of Invasion 1897 and roundtable discussion under the theme “Looking Closely at Social Conditions in Nigeria,” led by African Art Curator Ndubuisi Ezeluomba, on Friday, April 12, from 6 – 8 pm. Read More
The following is excerpted from a review by Charlie Tatum posted on April 4, 2019, to the website for Art in America. In 1968 Keith Sonnier created his first artwork using neon. Untitled (Cloth… Read More
Inspired by Nature, a new exhibition in the Art of Japan Galleries, juxtaposes paintings from the seventeenth through early twentieth centuries with ceramics, lacquers, and woodblock prints dating from the nineteenth century to today. Read More
On April 5, the museum will host a special College Night for Friday Nights at NOMA, allowing all students, faculty, and staff with ID from local colleges and universities free admission from 5 to 9 pm. Luna Loxx and DJ Legatron will perform in the Great Hall throughout the night. Read More
The six-acre expansion of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden includes twenty-seven new works by artists working primarily in the 21st century, along with an amphitheater, an indoor pavilion, multiple bridges, and an outdoor classroom. Read More
With a focus on light, transformation and discovery, the theme of Art in Bloom 2019 at the New Orleans Museum of Art is Illuminations: Looking Within and Beyond. This highly anticipated springtime event, which pairs imaginative floral designers with works of art, takes place March 27-31, in partnership with IBERIABANK. Read More
Hundreds of years since the Maya solely dominated Mesoamerica, with a network of cities stretching from present-day Northern Mexico southward to the isthmus of Central America, archaeologists continue to unearth mysteries of this ancient empire. Jeremy A. Sobloff, an external professor of the Santa Fe Institute and past president of the Institute, will be the keynote speaker at the sixteenth-annual Tulane Maya Symposium. Museum visitors are invited to the talk during Friday Nights at NOMA on February 15 at 6 pm. Dr. Sobloff spoke with NOMA Magazine about the theme of his lecture, “Is ‘Collapse’ a Useful Term in Understanding Pre-Columbian Maya History?” Read More
Learn how to build your own private photography collection with advice from NOMA curators at an On Collecting Workshop, Tuesday, March 19, from 6 to 8 pm. Advance registration is required. Read More
Get creative at NOMA’s Summer Art Camps. From June 3 through August 8, a series of eight weeklong, full-day sessions will allow children ages 5 through 10 to explore works of art in the museum galleries and get creative in the studio or on the stage. Read More
Sri Murali, spokesperson for Dance It Off, a New Orleans-based Bollywood dance troupe, spoke with NOMA Magazine in advance of the group’s performance at a Night of India festival on Friday, February 8th. Read More
Critically acclaimed novelist, memoirist, essayist, biographer and playwright Edmund White has never shied away from confronting brutal truths. He will join Tulane professor and widely published author Thomas Beller on stage during Friday Nights at NOMA on February 1 for an “Arts and Letters” conversation. He spoke with NOMA Magazine in advance of his talk. Read More
Art historian Andrew McClellan, a professor at Tufts University, will deliver the final guest lecture in conjunction with The Orléans Collection on Friday, January 25, at 7 pm as part of Friday Nights at NOMA. As author of the definitive book on the history of the Louvre, and a respected scholar on the study of museology, he has extensively studied the evolution of the public’s access to art in eighteenth-century France. He spoke to NOMA Magazine in advance of his lecture, which is titled “Viewing Art in 18th-Century Paris.” Read More
At select intervals throughout the run of Ear to the Ground: Earth and Element in Contemporary Art, New Orleans-based artist Cristina Molina will host a series of performances in the exhibition’s galleries in, which she offers museum visitors intimate guided tours of the exhibition. Read More
Bondye: Between and Beyond, opening January 25 and on view in the Great Hall through October 13, features twelve sequined prayer flags created by the Louisiana-born artist Tina Girouard in collaboration with artists in Haiti. Read More
Keith Sonnier: Until Today, on view from March 15 to June 2, 2019, will include more than thirty key works created between 1967 and 2018, making it the first retrospective to consider the full arc of this artist’s achievement. Read More
NOMA visitors can experience firsthand the process involved in creating a tintype photograph at a free workshop led by Timothy Duffy, a renowned contemporary master of this antiquated camera medium. A free workshop will be held on Saturday, January 19, from 1 to 3 pm. Read More
Léopold Burthe’s Angelique is a recently rediscovered masterpiece by a native New Orleanian who lived and painted in Paris in the 1840s and ‘50s. NOMA recently acquired the painting thanks to a generous donor. 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. The exhibition closes August 4. Read More