Meet the New Boss, in the Shadow of the Old Boss By CAROL KINO, New York Times FOR any museum director, the chance to lead a renowned institution is a career-defining moment – especially when his or her predecessor has run it for two decades or more. For Christoph Heinrich, now the director of the… Read More
By Doug MacCash, The Times-Picayune Published: Wednesday, August 29, 2012, 12:53 PM The New Orleans Museum of Art, which suffered costly water seepage through its basement floor doing Hurricane Katrina, was undamaged by Hurricane Isaac as of midday Wednesday, chief of security Byron Winbush said. Rain water leaked through the windows near the museum cafe,… Read More
By Doug MacCash, The Times-Picayune Trust me, you’re going to love the 40 huge, lusciously colored, lavishly textured, carefully composed paintings, sculptures and drawings in the exhibit “Hard Truths: The Art of Thornton Dial,” now on display at the New Orleans Museum of Art. Be sure to keep your hands in your pockets, because you… Read More
By Ann Maloney, The Times-Picayune We wonder: Is it more difficult to find a snark in the park or in a theater? The Skin Horse Theater troupe has taken its adaptation “The Hunting of the Snark” by Lewis Carroll into the New Orleans Museum of Art and The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden in… Read More
By Mike Scott, The Times-Picayune With spring seemingly on the verge of springing, the New Orleans Museum of Art and New Orleans Film Society on Friday (March 9) re-launch the outdoor screening series they introduced last year. And their choice for the first movie on tap is, in a word, “Stella-arrrrrr.” That film: director Elia… Read More
By Jim Fitzmorris on Nola Defender Amazingly, life does go on in New Orleans between Mardi Gras and Jazz Fest. Our calendar is not a complete caesura in the time after the last float rolls and the moment before tens of thousands pour into The Fairgrounds. Cultural events like French Quarter Fest, Easter, St. Patrick’s… Read More
By Alex Rawls for Offbeat The goat is probably the wrong place to start a discussion of Thornton Dial’s art, but how often does a spray-painted silver goat show up on the walls of NOMA? There’s clearly a dessicated goat – as the list of materials for the piece “Lost Farm (Billy Goat Hill)” refers… Read More
By Haylie Navarre, nola.com It’s Friday after work and you and your kids want to kick off the weekend right. Why not head to the New Orleans Museum of Art’s weekly “Where Y’Art?!” The museum keeps its doors open each Friday from 5 to 9 p.m., so folks can attend lectures and view exhibits. But… Read More
By Doug MacCash, the Times-Picayune NOMA presents “Leah Chase: Paintings by Gustave BlacheIII,” an exhibition in honor of Leah Chase’s upcoming 90th birthday. This exhibition will be on view in the Louisiana Galleries from April 24rd until September 9th. An opening party will inaugurate the Leah Chase Art Purchase Fund on April 23rd. An intimate,… Read More
“Hard Truths: The Art of Thornton Dial,” an exhibit of more than 40 paintings, drawings and sculptures by one of America’s premier self-taught artists, opens Feb. 24 at The New Orleans Museum of Art. Dial, who was born in rural Alabama in 1928, is known for his expressive canvases, deeply layered with twisted fabric, rope,… Read More
By Ian McNulty, MyNewOrleans.com You’ve done Mardi Gras right, so today, on Ash Wednesday, the last thing you want is some report about nightlife. You want snooze alarms, a nice scouring shower and a strong penchant for absolution. You’ve had enough of drinks and music and socializing. Great. But how long does such stoic resolve… Read More
New Orleans, LA – Susan Taylor, the Montine McDaniel Freeman Director at the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA), announced today the appointment of Allison Reid as Director of the Department of Interpretation and Audience Engagement. Previously the Vice President for Collections & Programs at Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art in Nashville, Tennessee,… Read More
As a great man once said, the secret of love is art. Or, something like that. These days, we turn to greeting cards and very special can’t miss TV specials for our projections of love on Valentine’s Day. But before the last 75 years or so, art did all the saucy murmuring for us. For… Read More
Exhibition Features New Work Inspired by New Orleans, on view March 23 through September 16, 2012 New Orleans, LA-Conceptual artist Dario Robleto explores the power of music to transcend time, race, circumstance, and life cycles in his upcoming solo exhibition, Dario Robleto: The Prelives of the Blues, at the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA)…. Read More
What do Mick Jagger and Marie Antoinette have in common? They’re both immortalized in the permanent collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA), which celebrated its 100th year in 2011. With more than 40,000 objects in the collection, NOMA is a treasure trove of fascinating artwork and artifacts that -like everything in New… Read More
Our destination is City Park, one of the nation’s largest urban parks and home to the biggest collection of mature live oaks on the planet. In the 19th century, these trees were a favored location for duels among the Creole elite over amorous insults real and imagined. Today, their expansive, moss-drizzled branches are a popular… Read More
Re: “Gifts that keep on giving,” Page A1, Jan. 20. I was pleased to see Doug MacCash’s front page article on the New Orleans Museum of Art’s highly successful centennial collection. Anne Milling, organized and effective, combined with our revered former director, John Bullard, spear-headed an effort that redounds to the museum’s greater glory. I… Read More
To be considered a great American city, Gilded Age New Orleans needed a great art museum like those in New York and Philadelphia. That was the opinion of aging sugar industry magnate Isaac Delgado, who donated $150,000 to build a Beaux Arts temple in City Park near the northwest terminus of Esplanade Avenue in 1911…. Read More