On Friday, November 15, 2019, the New Orleans Museum of Art celebrates Odyssey 2019: Mystère Louisiane presented by IBERIABANK. Now in its 53rd year, the premier event of the New Orleans gala season raises funds to support NOMA’s nationally-recognized exhibitions and educational programs, which bring more than 300,000 annual visitors to the museum and Besthoff Sculpture Garden. Read More

Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana, on view from November 16, 2019, through January 26, 2020, explores the rise of landscape painting in Louisiana during the 19th century, revealing its role in creating—and exporting—a new vision for American landscape art that was vastly different than that to be found in the rest of the United States. Read More

In Lamentations, photographer Tina Freeman pairs images from the Louisiana coastal wetlands and the glacial landscapes of the Arctic and Antarctic in a series of diptychs that communicate the critical narratives of climate change, ecological balance, and the connectedness of disparate ecosystems across time and space. Read More

Celebrating the centennial of the Bauhaus (1919-1933), An Ideal Unity explores the artistic breadth of the innovative school that integrated fine arts and design. Including photographs and decorative arts from NOMA’s permanent collection, the exhibition underscores the principles of the Bauhaus aesthetic and mission. Read More

A recently acquired akwanshi monolith from the Cross Rivers region of Nigeria forms the centerpiece of a focus exhibition, showcasing stone as a material used in ancestral veneration among African cultures. Read More

The Quilts of Gee’s Bend exhibition features five extraordinary twentieth-century quilts made by the women of Gee’s Bend, Alabama, that elevate a traditional craft form to masterful work of intentional art. The women’s use of bold geometric shapes and a fiercely independent design process brought international acclaim to Gee’s Bend quilters.  Read More

The New Orleans Museum of Art will celebrate LOVE in the Garden presented by Hancock Whitney on September 27, 2019. Now in its fifteenth year, guests will enjoy cuisine from over sixty of New Orleans’ finest restaurants, and craft cocktails from New Orleans’ top bartenders as they vie for first place in the sixth-annual LOVE Cocktail Challenge. Local New Orleans food trucks presented will provide late-night fare to keep the party going into the evening. Read More

You Are Here, on view April 26–July 28, 2019, both embraces and challenges the photograph’s role as a faithful record of place, examining photography’s successes and failures in rendering and sharing fragments of the world. Drawn almost exclusively from NOMA’s permanent collection, the exhibition traces a history of photography and place from the origins of the medium to the present.  Read More

Paper Revolutions: French Drawings from the New Orleans Museum of Art, on view through July 14th, 2019, traces the politics of draftsmanship in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries during the France’s Age of Revolution (1789–1870). Read More

NOMA presents Bodies of Knowledge, on view June 28–October 13, 2019. The exhibition brings together ten international contemporary artists to reflect on the role that language plays in defining our cultural identities, and will be the first global contemporary exhibition of its kind at NOMA. Read More

The six-acre expansion of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden at the New Orleans Museum of Art opens to the public on May 15, 2019. With environmental impact at the forefront of planning, the sculpture garden expansion emphasizes the distinctive character of the Louisiana landscape. Read More

With a focus on light, transformation and discovery, the theme of Art in Bloom 2019 at the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) is Illuminations: Looking Within and Beyond. This highly anticipated springtime event takes place March 27-31. After an extraordinary Tricentennial year of reflection and celebration, 2019 presents the opportunity to look ahead with limitless imagination and innovation. Illuminations: Looking Within and Beyond is in partnership with IBERIABANK.  Read More

Opening on May 15, 2019, the expansion of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden at the New Orleans Museum of Art will feature 26 new works by artists working primarily in the 21st century. The expansion, which broke ground in December 2017, builds on the success of the museum’s existing five-acre Besthoff Sculpture Garden, widely regarded as one of the top sculpture gardens in the world. The existing site is home to 64 sculptures from renowned artists from the 19th century to the present. Read More

NOMA presents Bondye: Between and Beyond, on view January 25 through June 16, 2019, featuring a series of sequined prayer flags by Tina Girouard with Haitian artists in Port-au-Prince. Inspired by the blend of Caribbean, African, and European culture in her own Louisiana hometown, these flags reference a range of international traditions expressed in Vodou, from All Saints Day in France to New Orleans Mardi Gras and Haitian Kanaval. Read More

NOMA presents Keith Sonnier: Until Today, on view March 15 through June 2, 2019. The first comprehensive museum survey for Keith Sonnier, the exhibition celebrates a Louisiana-born pioneering figure in conceptual, post-minimal, video and performance art of the late 1960s. Read More

Working with natural elements like earth, wind, water and fire, the artists featured in the group exhibition Ear to the Ground, on view through August 31, 2019, show how nature can spur artistic innovation and spark new thinking about human culture and community. Read More

On Sunday, December 9, the New Orleans Museum of Art welcomed its 300,000th visitor in 2018. In celebration of a significant year for New Orleans, NOMA set the goal of reaching over 300,000 visitors for the city’s 300th birthday. Read More

The “Second Line” Cocktail Service, a focused installation on view through May 2019, celebrates a new digital and glass work of art commissioned by the museum. Scottish designer Geoffrey Mann recorded the sounds he heard on Frenchmen Street in New Orleans. Using cutting-edge digital technologies combined with time-honored glass craft, Mann’s “Second Line” Cocktail Service embodies the ambient jazz music and conversation in three-dimensional objects. Read More