Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright swung through town for a conversation with Mayor Mitch Landrieu, more or less defending President Barack Obama’s recent speech on the conflict and placing the recent Arab uprisings on par with game-changing world events like the collapse of the Soviet Union. An overflow crowd turned up at the New… Read More
Every Friday evening, the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) keeps its doors open late for the Where Y’Art program. This weekly series offers an enjoyable variety of live music, performances, children’s activities, exhibition walk-throughs, guest speakers, film, theater, and, of course, GREATART. Continue reading on Examiner.com Read More
An ocean goddess will soon rise inside NOMA, pointing out the water’s oil spill-related decline as well as the sometime graffiti artist’s rise to stardom. A giant paper ocean goddess will soon dominate the atrium of the New Orleans Museum of Art. Her beseeching face will point upward toward the ceiling, as if she were… Read More
It’s officially summer; it is really hot and, now that the New Orleans rainy season has started, humid outside. To escape the heat, a trip to the well air conditioned New Orleans Museum of Art is in order. As you walk up the steps, the cool air invitingly escapes from the front door. Once inside… Read More
The Prospect.2 New Orleans international exhibit that begins Oct. 22 will provide Crescent City art lovers with a selection of solo shows by accomplished artists from as far away as Poland, Chile and Vietnam. It will also highlight the work of a handful of New Orleans notables. Prospect. 2 will feature 26 indoor shows, mostly… Read More
The serpent pin spurred Albright’s massive collection of pins, many of which are included in the exhibit Read My Pins: The Madeleine Albright Collection, which runs through Aug. 14 in the New Orleans Museum of Art. These are the pins that became her trademark, the pins that diplomats and world leaders read to gauge her… Read More
From February 11 to April 17, 2011, the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) presents a new exhibition of paintings and calligraphy by the most significant Japanese Zen master of the past 500 years, Hakuin Ekaku. Organized by NOMA, The Sound of One Hand: Paintings and Calligraphy by Zen Master Hakuin is the first exhibition… Read More
The New Orleans Museum of Art has started what it hopes will become a Friday night tradition with Where Y’Art. Every Friday from 5 to 9 p.m., NOMA offers live music, family art-making activities, and such museum-related events as film screenings, lectures, artist demonstrations and exhibit walk-throughs. (Tonight there will be a walk-through of the… Read More
Looking for a decidedly different happy hour? Head over Where Y’Art at the New Orleans Museum of Art. NOMA’s Friday night “inspirational happy hours” feature entertainment and family-friendly activities. For the full article Read More
In “Read My Pins, The Madeleine Albright Collection,” the exhibition that went on display Monday at the New Orleans Museum of Art, the bathroom photo is juxtaposed with an image of a brooch made of shards of glass. The pin shows the “glass ceiling in its ideal condition: shattered,” Albright said. That pin seems a… Read More
And have you visited the New Orleans Museum of Art lately? Gorgeous, ever-changing exhibits and a new café await you! FYI, it’s free admission on Wednesdays and the Sculpture Garden is free everyday! Continue reading on Examiner.com Read More
The New Orleans Museum of Art: NOMA (www.noma.org), as everyone calls it, is celebrating its 100th birthday this year. This summer, a literally larger-than-life installation of Thalassa, the Greek Goddess of the Sea by the artist Swoon lords over the museum’s neoclassical entrance hall. The 20-foot-tall woman’s figure, covered with fabric swatches and sea creatures,… Read More
The NOLA Project and the New Orleans Museum of Art have teamed up for an innovative production that combines the essential ingredients each has to offer: the highest quality acting by the most imaginative young turks on the theatrical scene and the Great Hall stage within a massive world-class art museum on which to showcase… Read More
Take the family to the Big Easy New Orleans offers perfect end-of-summer family weekend getaway “Take the Canal Streetcar from the aquarium to the end of the line and you’ll arrive at City Park. Enter Storyland, a play land with 26 ambitious storybook exhibits that feature sculpted characters created by Mardi Gras float makers and… Read More
Gambit readers have a lot of opinions – and Gambit has a lot of categories in their annual Best of New Orleans® survey. Every summer, they ask for input in categories from Best Banh Mi to Best Political Scandal, from Best Sportcaster to Best Place to Buy a Men’s Suit. This year, people really delivered,… Read More
Food and music, plus lots (and lots!) of visual art: New Orleans offers them all. The city is a veritable melting pot of entertainments. “New Orleans is a hub of music and art. The New Orleans Museum of Art, the city’s oldest fine arts institution, features more than 40,000 works in its permanent collection, and… Read More