More Than $82 Million Awarded for Arts Projects Nationwide NEW ORLEANS, LA—National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Jane Chu has approved more than $82 million to fund local arts projects and partnerships in the NEA’s second major funding announcement for fiscal year 2016. Included in this announcement is an Art Works award of $25,000 to… Read More
NEW ORLEANS, LA– William A. Fagaly, Françoise Billion Richardson Curator of African Art, is retiring from the New Orleans Museum of Art after 50 years of service. “Since joining NOMA in 1966, then the Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, Bill has been recognized as an internationally renowned curator and scholar,” said Susan M. Taylor, The… Read More
New Orleans, LA– This spring, The NOLA Project and NOMA have once again partnered to bring a new and hilarious adaptation to Miguel de Cervantes’ classic tale, “Don Quixote”. Pete McElligott, a Big Easy Award-winning playwright, helps bring this classic novel to life in the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden. Directed by Jessica Podewell,… Read More
NEW ORLEANS, LA – This spring, NOMA will explore the historical and contemporary role of the photographic negative in three related presentations. Drawing mostly on its own permanent collection, NOMA will exhibit some of the earliest examples of photographic negatives in Paper Negatives and avant-garde and twentieth-century uses of the negative image in Negative Image…. Read More
Acquisition complements the installation of the artist’s ‘Wave of the World’ in City Park NEW ORLEANS, La. — The New Orleans Museum of Art has acquired Wing, a 1970 sculpture by artist Lynda Benglis, with funds provided by The Helis Foundation and additional funds provided by the Frierson Art Purchase Fund. In the 1960s,… Read More
NEW ORLEANS, LA— The National Art Education Association has named Allison Reid, of the New Orleans Museum of Art, the 2016 Southeastern Region Museum Education Art Educator of the Year. This prestigious award, determined through a peer review of nominations, recognizes the exemplary contributions, service, and achievements of an outstanding NAEA member annually at the… Read More
By D. Eric Bookhardt This article originally appeared here Tina Barney is a photographer with an anthropological passion for documenting the most mysterious of American subcultures: old-time wealthy white people. Barney photographs the genteel, WASP-y residents of Watch Hill, Rhode Island, a Victorian-era resort town that evolved into a homey if tony community based on… Read More
NEW ORLEANS, LA-Self-Taught Genius: Treasures from the American Folk Art Museum, on view at the New Orleans Museum of Art February 26-May 22, 2016, reconsiders the continuum of American self-taught art and artists from the Revolutionary War to contemporary times. Because each art object is not only a product of its creator’s mind, but also… Read More
By Doug MacCash, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune This article originally appeared here Poet Robin Coste Lewis will read from her 2015 National Book Award-winning collection “Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems” at The New Orleans Museum of Art, Friday (Jan. 8) from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., followed by a book signing until 8. Lewis… Read More
NEW ORLEANS, LA-Poet and National Book Award winner Robin Coste Lewis will present a reading and lecture in conjunction with NOMA’s exhibition Visions of US: American Art at NOMA Friday, January 8 from 6:30-7:30 p.m. in NOMA’s Stern Auditorium. The talk is included with general admission, and a book signing in the Museum Shop from 7:30-8:00… Read More
New Board Members and NOMA Volunteer Committee Chair Appointed NEW ORLEANS, LA – Susan M. Taylor, NOMA’s Montine McDaniel Freeman Director, and Julie Livaudais George, president of NOMA’s Board of Trustees, announce the appointment of ten new trustees to the board as well as a new NOMA Volunteer Committee Chair. The ten new trustees are: Eric K. Blue, Elizabeth Boone,… Read More
Visions of US: American Art at NOMA is on view November 14-January 24, 2016 NEW ORLEANS, LA– This November, NOMA will open Visions of US: American Art at NOMA, the first exhibition in the museum’s history to highlight the full breadth of its extraordinary American Art collection. American art, with a particular emphasis on artists… Read More
NEW ORLEANS, LA-Jasper Johns: Reversals showcases an exceptional group of prints by Jasper Johns, one of most influential artists of the twentieth century. Known for his representations of icons of American culture like flags, targets and maps, Johns is a master printmaker whose work in print influences all aspects of his art. “NOMA is honored… Read More
Pierre Joseph Landry: Patriot, Planter, Sculptor Exhibition Showcases Art of Earliest Known Self-Taught Artist in Louisiana New Orleans, LA- The New Orleans Museum of Art and the Louisiana State Museum will present an exhibition of works by Pierre Joseph Landry (1770-1843) who is the earliest known self-taught artist of note in Louisiana. On view from… Read More
New Orleans, LA- The New Orleans Museum of Art will open Traditions Transfigured: The Noh Masks of Bidou Yamaguchi Friday, October 9th, in conjunction with NOMA’s annual Japan Festival, which takes place Saturday, October 10, from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. The exhibition focuses on recent sculptures by the Japanese contemporary artist Bidou Yamaguchi (b. 1970) who employs the… Read More
NOMA Organizes Public Performances of Contemporary Artist Tim Youd’s 100 Novels Project at NOMA and Throughout Louisiana Read More
Opening this summer at the New Orleans Museum of Art, A Louisiana Parlor: Antebellum Taste & Context is an exhibition featuring the Butler-Greenwood Plantation parlor furnishings acquired by the museum from descendants of the family in St. Francisville, Louisiana. Read More
The New Orleans Museum of Art is debuting new technology making NOMA’s galleries an interactive learning environment to engage visitors of all ages. Read More