By Karen Dalton-Beninato | Huffington Post This article originally appeared here International Jazz Day was celebrated, appropriately enough, in the city where jazz was born on the 4th day of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 2015. From the steps of the New Orleans Museum of Art, musicians Terence Blanchard and Poncho Sanchez led… Read More
By Doug McCash, nola.com “What is a photograph?” an exhibit tracing the history of photo techniques from 1840 onward opens at the New Orleans Museum of Art April 20 and continues through August 19. The photographs were selected mostly from NOMA’s collection by photo curator Russell Lord. NOMA describes the scope of the show like… Read More
By Karen Celestan | The Advocate A huge gilded mirror at the entrance of “Brilliant Disguise: Masks and Other Transformations” brings visitors face-to-face with themselves – an apt introduction to the revelations to come at the new exhibit housed at the Contemporary Art Center through June 16. “I wanted people to think about how they… Read More
By Chris Waddington, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune This article originally appeared here The New Orleans Museum of Art will feel a like a New York museum-of-art on Friday (March 14), as three of the biggest names in the Big Apple visual arts scene share their insights at the 2014 Donna Perret Rosen Lecture. The participants… Read More
By Sharon Litwin | NolaVie This article originally appeared here Kongo Across the Waters, an exhibition currently at the New Orleans Museum of Art, explores the connections between the art and civilization of the African Kongo people with that of African American art and culture in the United States. History informs us that the first… Read More
by Claude Robichaux | NOLA Defender This article originally appeared here New Orleans prides herself on the fusion of cultures that combined to build the city we now know. One of the most commonly cited example of those evolutions is jazz’s origins in Congo Square. The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA)’s new installation, Kongo:… Read More
By Sue Strachan, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune This article originally appeared here Exploring the connections between the art and culture of the Kongo peoples of western Central Africa and African-Americans in the U.S., “Kongo Across the Waters” exhibition at New Orleans Museum of Art features more than 160 works from collections and museums from around… Read More
by Chris Waddington, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune This article originally appeared here Africa dwells in New Orleans. You can taste it in our gumbo, dance to it during second-lines, and hear it when the city’s drummers gather at Congo Square. Starting Friday (Feb. 27), you also can explore those African connections in a nationally touring… Read More
D. Eric Bookhardt on Josephine Sacabo’s photos at the New Orleans Museum of Art By D. Eric Bookhardt | Gambit Weekly This review originally appeared here In the French Quarter, there have always been spots where you could look out across rooftops that hint at old Paris and feel transported to another time and place…. Read More
Entries to be showcased at New Orleans Entrepreneur Week (NOEW), March 20-27 with winners to be displayed at NOMA New Orleans, La.- The New Orleans Museum of Art, in partnership with The Idea Village, is issuing a call for artists to share their 3D printed designs to be included in New Orleans Entrepreneur Week’s 2nd… Read More
On View February 27, 2015 – May 25, 2015 New Orleans, LA- Opening February 27, 2015 at the New Orleans Museum of Art, the exhibition Kongo across the Waters explores the connections between the art and civilization of the African Kongo peoples with that of African American art and culture in the United States. The… Read More
On view January 23, 2015-April 5, 2015 NEW ORLEANS, LA- In Salutations, Josephine Sacabo (American, b. 1944) combines collaged and distorted photographic images with a wet collodion on metal process that dates back to the 19th century to create a world that is barely recognizable as such, hovering like a memory or a dream in… Read More
Baby Arts Play! and Family Art Workshops begin this month at NOMA New Orleans, LA- NOMA is implementing two new family programs this spring: Baby Arts Play! and Family Art Workshops. In addition to Studio KIDS! art classes and StoryQuest, NOMA will host these new regularly scheduled programs in order to further engage children and… Read More
Seven New Board Members and NOMA Volunteer Committee Chair Appointed NEW ORLEANS, LA- NOMA has named Julie Livaudais George as president of its board of trustees, and has appointed seven new trustees to the board as well as a new NOMAVolunteer Committee Chair. George replaces David F. Edwards who oversaw a comprehensive strategic planning process… Read More
Polly Renwick treasured her de Kooning. But when John Bullard and Anne Milling asked her to give it away, she couldn’t resist. “We didn’t have to think long and hard,” Renwick, a social worker, said of the decision she made with her husband, retired political science professor Edward F. Renwick, to donate their precious Willem… Read More
By Eileen Fleming | WWNO Listen to the entire interview here There are two new additions on display at the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden: Caduto a Ragione by Mimmo Paladino and Wind Sculpture V by Yinka Shonibare. WWNO’s Eileen Fleming met up with New Orleans Museum of Art Director Susan Taylor outside the… Read More
By Doug MacCash, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune View the full slideshow here Read More
By David Lee Simmons, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune This article originally appeared here When we think about the fun that’s in store for New Orleanians on New Year’s Eve, it’s with a decidedly adult theme. There’s plenty of partying, plenty of revelry, plenty of fireworks, and a whole lot of bubbly. Which is totally fine…. Read More