by Doug MacCash, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune The article originally appeared here Under gray winter skies, a towering crane lifted the New Orleans Museum of Art’s new two-story pop art sculpture into place Monday morning. The sculpture, titled “Five Brushstrokes,” was designed by Roy Lichtenstein, one of the 20th century’s most significant artists. Lichtenstein was… Read More
D. Eric Bookhardt on Will Ryman’s sculpture installation at the New Orleans Museum of Art by D. Eric Bookhardt | Gambit Weekly Read the article here During President Abraham Lincoln’s inaugural address, he emphatically stated he had “no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the states where it exists…. Read More
Pilot Program Begins January 2014 — will Provide Internships, Career-Readiness Assistance, and Professional Development for Students of Color New York— Nov. 21—New Orleans Museum of Art today announced that it will participate in the UNCF’s (the United Negro College Fund) and the Association of Art Museum Directors’ (AAMD) nationwide program to address diversity in the… Read More
By Eileen Fleming | WWNO Listen to the story here The New Orleans Museum of Art is offering a glimpse at a fraction of its collection of photographs. Of the 10,000 pictures, 132 are on display. We spoke with curator Russell Lord about the exhibition — how NOMA built such an extensive collection, starting in… Read More
By Doug MacCash, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune View the slideshow and article here At the south end of City Park in New Orleans, lies a photography treasure trove. Back in the early 1970s, The New Orleans Museum of Art got into the photo collecting business. Then director, John Bullard, appreciated that documentary and artistic photos… Read More
New Orleans, LA- New Orleans Museum of Art is pleased to announce the naming of the A. Charlotte Mann and Joshua Mann Pailet Gallery. This gallery is named in honor of Joshua Mann Pailet and his mother Charlotte Mann in recognition of their continued support of the arts and NOMA. Included with Pailet’s generous gift,… Read More
By Jill Ensley | Southern Glossary Read this article at Southern Glossary As a Gulf Coast resident, it’s not easy to look at “Oil Spill #10,” (above). The photograph’s deceptive beauty comes from its vibrant, emerald water streaked with jagged rivulets of black oil. Taken out of context, it could be a close up of… Read More
By D. Eric Bookhardt | Gambit Weekly This review originally posted at bestofneworleans.com Though visually spare, this New Orleans Museum of Art exposition goes straight to the heart of the paradoxes that define coastal Louisiana. French artist and Venice Biennale award-winner Camille Henrot uses videos and symbolic objects to portray Louisiana’s receding coast and the… Read More
By Kristine Dworkin | Trekaroo NOMA gets mentioned in the #1 spot! View the full list here Read More
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By Jonathan Blaustein | The New York Times, Lens View the slide show and article here There were 2.5 billion people in the world when Edward Burtynsky was born in the late 1950s. Now, there are seven billion and counting. “That’s literally a billion in every decade, so I started recognizing that human enterprise was… Read More
Posted by Genevieve Fussell | The New Yorker View the slide show and article here On November 1, 1948, Life magazine published the photo essay “Harlem Gang Leader,” introducing their readers to the photography of Gordon Parks and to his subject, the seventeen-year-old Leonard (Red) Jackson, leader of the Harlem gang the Midtowners. “Gordon Parks:… Read More
Photography at NOMA Features Works by Berenice Abbott, Ansel Adams, Diane Arbus, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Robert Mapplethorpe, William Henry Fox Talbot, and Edward Weston, Among Many Others New Orleans,LA— Featuring masterworks by photographers Edward Weston, William Henry Fox Talbot, André Kertész, Robert Mapplethorpe, and many more, the New Orleans Museum of Art’s… Read More
By Chris Waddington, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune View the original article here Will Ryman just assembled a log cabin inside the New Orleans Museum of Art — a walk-in wood structure, coated in gold resin and packed with ideas about American history. He also packed the cabin with things that shaped our history: bullets, arrowheads,… Read More
By John d’Addario | The Advocate In the ancient French Breton legend of the city of Ys, a coastal city full of splendor and vice is submerged by a great wave and disappears beneath the ocean, never to be seen again. Southern Louisiana might have been spared that unhappy ending for the time being, but… Read More
America is a gift of Sydney and Walda Besthoff and will be on view beginning October 25 in the Modern and Contemporary Galleries New Orleans, LA- The New Orleans Museum of Art is pleased to announce the acquisition of a major work of art,America, by artist Will Ryman. Made in 2013, Americaprovides an in-depth exploration… Read More
By Tori Bush | Daily Serving Read the full article here French video artist Camille Henrot creates parallels between the mythical and the contemporary. In her first solo exhibition in the United States at the New Orleans Museum of Art, she investigates the legendary city of Ys in France and the vanishing coastal area of… Read More
By Renée Peck | WWNO Voices of the Arts, a series presented by NolaVie and WWNO – New Orleans Public Radio, explores the thoughts and visions of eight new arts leaders in New Orleans. Through conversations we try to understand how they will engage with the arts and the artists in this already vibrant cultural… Read More