Video: People Museum in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden
New Orleans–based pop art band People Museum presents a special performance in NOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture Garden responding to the work of artist Louise Bourgeois. Read More
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A New Partnership Between NOMA and Blue Bikes
Blue Bikes—New Orleans’ community run bikeshare—is a great way to get to NOMA! Lock up at the two conveniently located hubs near the museum at City Park and Esplanade Avenues or at Café du Monde. For a limited time, use the promo code NOMA23 for a free 30-minute ride on Blue Bikes to or from NOMA. Read More
Announcing the 2023 NOMA Book Club Picks
The NOMA Book Club meets monthly to discuss fiction and non-fiction books related to art in NOMA’s collection and exhibitions. Read More
NOMA Announces New Trustees for 2023
During their December 2022 meeting, the Board of Trustees of the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) elected ten new members, who joined the board on January 1, 2023. The Board of Trustees works together to support NOMA’s mission of uniting, inspiring, and engaging diverse communities and cultures through the arts. Read More
Video: Called to the Camera: Black Studio Photographers
From photography’s beginnings in the United States, Black studio photographers operated on the developing edge of the medium to produce beautiful portraits for their clients, while also making a variety of other photographic work in keeping with important movements like pictorialism, modernism, and abstraction. Read More
Video: Curator Clare Davies on Louise Bourgeois
In conjunction with the exhibition Louise Bourgeois: Paintings, the New Orleans Museum of Art presents a special lecture with Clare Davies, Associate Curator, Modern and Contemporary Art, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Read More
Major Exhibition Exploring Creative Exchange Between Jacob Lawrence and Artists from West Africa Opens at the New Orleans Museum of Art in February 2023
In February, the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) will present Black Orpheus: Jacob Lawrence and the Mbari Club, an exhibition exploring the creative exchange between artist Jacob Lawrence and the members of the Mbari Artists & Writers Club, a Nigerian arts collective founded in 1961. Read More
Video: Interview with People Museum’s Claire Givens and Jeremy Phipps
People Museum’s EP “Destruction of, Vol. 1” is inspired by Bourgeois’s life and work, and the group will perform underneath the artist’s monumental “Spider” sculpture in NOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture Garden on Sunday, December 4. Read More
Video: Claire Givens of People Museum on the Life and Art of Louise Bourgeois
Claire Givens of New Orleans–based pop art band People Museum discusses her affinity for artist Louise Bourgeois with Community Engagement Curator Nic Brierre Aziz. Read More
Save at the NOMA Museum Shop This Holiday Season
On Sunday, November 27, pick up a museum store passport from the NOMA Museum Shop. Your passport gives you 20% off one in-store purchase at the NOMA Museum Shop and at all participating museum stores in New Orleans (see the full list below) between November 27 and December 23, 2022. Read More
Scavenger Hunt: Robert Polidori in the Great Hall
Photographer Robert Polidori is renowned for his large-format images of architecture, interiors, and urban environments around the world. Test your attention to detail with a family-friendly scavenger hunt to find these objects, people, and places in Polidori’s photographs. Read More
Video: Cooking with Courtney Clark
Learn to cook blackened chicken and blackened portobello mushrooms with artist, food justice activist, and Creative Assembly Cohort member Courtney Clark Read More
NOMA and AARP New Orleans
This fall, AARP New Orleans and NOMA are collaborating to offer AARP members and their guests $5 off on admission to the museum. Read More
Preteen Art Intensive: Ways of Knowing
This past summer, after a two-year hiatus, the museum welcomed young artists back to the museum for Summer Camp! In this second feature of a two-part series, we’re taking a moment to look back on the Preteen Intensive: Ways of Knowing, a new offering for youth, ages 11-13, to dive into works in the museum’s galleries and garden and spark their own creative projects. Read More
NOMA Welcomes Decorative Arts Trust Curatorial Fellow Laura Ochoa Rincon
The New Orleans Museum of Art welcomes Laura Ochoa Rincon as the Decorative Arts Trust Curatorial Fellow. Beginning this month, the two-year position is funded by a significant grant from the Decorative Arts Trust to support an emerging curator working with NOMA’s esteemed decorative arts and growing design collection, focusing specifically in the area of glass. Read More
After a Three-Year Hiatus, LOVE in the Garden Presented by Hancock Whitney Returns to NOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture Garden
The New Orleans Museum of Art welcomes Laura Ochoa Rincon as the Decorative Arts Trust Curatorial Fellow. Beginning this month, the two-year position is funded by a significant grant from the Decorative Arts Trust to support an emerging curator working with NOMA’s esteemed decorative arts and growing design collection, focusing specifically in the area of glass. Read More
2022 Summer Camp Recap: Ways of Knowing
As the summer comes to an end and we begin to set our sights on cooler days ahead, we’re taking a moment to reflect on the Summer Camp program at NOMA. After a two-year hiatus, we welcomed campers back to the museum for an immersive, art-filled Summer Camp experience! Read More
Louise Bourgeois: Paintings Opens at NOMA on September 9
Opening next month at NOMA, Louise Bourgeois: Paintings is the first in-depth presentation of paintings by the celebrated artist. Recognized as one of the most prominent sculptors of the 20th century, Louise Bourgeois was also a prolific painter at the beginning of her career. Read More