A Choice of Weapons: Photography, Surveillance, and Ethics

This panel will explore the new emerging chapter in the ethics of photography, considering how the digital, social world has made photography an instantaneous and global "weapon" that can slip easily from one hand to another, and offering guidance on ethical and inclusive approaches to protest photography.

Opening Reception: What Is Harmony?

NOMA, the New Orleans Photo Alliance, and New Harmony High School celebrate the opening of What Is Harmony? with a public reception.

Recurring

Steve Lands: Rearranging the Planets

New Orleans Museum of Art 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA

Creative Assembly Cohort member Steve Lands presents Rearranging the Planets, a new musical performance reinterpreting composer Gustav Holst’s influential orchestral suite <em.The Planets.

Virtual Premiere: Rearranging the Planets

Creative Assembly Cohort member Steve Lands presents Rearranging the Planets, a new musical performance reinterpreting composer Gustav Holst’s influential orchestral suite The Planets.

Gallery Talk with Joseph Darensbourg

Join us in the galleries each Wednesday for weekly talks with artists, curators, and other special guests. During these casual conversations, we’ll take a close look at different works currently on view at NOMA.

Food as Medicine: New Orleans Cuisine with Healthy Alternatives

Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans , LA

As one of the culinary capitals of the world, New Orleans’s cuisine is one of the city’s most notable attributes. While many of these dishes are world renowned, their nutrition and healthiness is sometimes compromised during their creation. Lower 9th Ward native Courtney Clark has dedicated much of her multidisciplinary creative practice to community food justice organizing in an attempt to combat many of the diet-related diseases that exist within many of New Orleans’ communities.

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Steve Lands: Rearranging the Planets

Creative Assembly Cohort member Steve Lands presents Rearranging the Planets, a musical performance reinterpreting composer Gustav Holst’s influential orchestral suite <em.The Planets.

Performance and Record Release: People Museum

Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans , LA

New Orleans–based pop art band People Museum present a special one-night-only performance in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden responding to the work of artist Louise Bourgeois.

Adam Davis’s Black Magic

In conjunction with Called to the Camera: Black American Studio Photographers, Los Angeles–based photographer Adam Davis is bringing his ongoing Black Magic project to NOMA.

Free Screening: People Museum

NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts

Want to revisit People Museum’s Louise Bourgeois–inspired performance in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden? Join for a free screening of the full performance on Saturday, January 7, 1 pm, in NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts.