Talks & Tours
Museum Highlights Tour
NOMA docents guide visitors on hour-long tours of either the permanent collection or special exhibitions. Tours are free with NOMA admission. Meet in the Great Hall to join in.
Sculpture Garden Tour
NOTE: The Besthoff Sculpture Garden tour on Monday, February 3, has been rescheduled for 1 pm. Join NOMA’s docents for in informative walk through the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden on Mondays, Fridays, and Saturdays. The eleven-acre outdoor art environment contains 90 works by world-renowned sculptors set within a scenic Louisiana landscape of live oaks, magnolias, and pines surrounding a reflective lagoon.
Artist’s Perspective: Photographer Ben Depp discusses Tina Freeman: Lamentations
Throughout the exhibition of photographs in Tina Freeman: Lamentations, a seven-year photo-documentation of Louisiana’s wetlands and the glacial landscapes of the Arctic and Antarctic by Tina Freeman, fellow artists, including Ben Depp, will offer their perspective on the subject matter.
Gallery Talk: Lamentations with artist Tina Freeman
Gallery talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Photographer Tina Freeman will discuss her exhibition Tina Freeman: Lamentations, a seven-year photo-documentation of Louisiana’s wetlands and the glacial landscapes of the Arctic and Antarctic.
Gallery Talk: Curator Nic Aziz on Torkwase Dyson: Black Compositional Thought | Fifteen Paintings for the Plantationocene
Gallery talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Community Engagement Curator Nic Aziz will discuss the exhibition Torkwase Dyson: Black Compositional Thought | 15 Paintings for the Plantationocene.
Gallery Talk: Allison Young on Torkwase Dyson: Black Compositional Thought | 15 Paintings for the Plantationocene
Gallery talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Allison Young, assistant professor of contemporary art history at Louisiana State University, will discuss the exhibition Torkwase Dyson: Black Compositional Thought | 15 Paintings for the Plantationocene.
Museum Highlights Tour – CANCELED
All organized tours are temporarily canceled as NOMA joins other cultural institutions in closing during the outbreak of novel coronavirus (COVID-19).
Sculpture Garden Tour – CANCELED
All tours are temporarily canceled as the museum and sculpture garden remain closed during the advisory period for novel coronavirus (COVID-19).
Gallery Talk: An Ideal Unity: The Bauhaus & Beyond with Assistant Curator Anne C. B. Roberts
Gallery talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Join Assistant Curator Anne C. B. Roberts for a discussion about the exhibition An Ideal Unity: The Bauhaus & Beyond.
Lecture: Herbert Bayer and the Bauhaus Legacy in America with Benjamin Benus
Gallery talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. In conjunction with the exhibition An Ideal Unity: The Bauhaus & Beyond Benjamin Benus, an associate professor of art and design history at Loyola University in New Orleans, will discuss the legacy of Austrian emigre and Bauhaus teacher Herbert Bayer in the United States.
Besthoff Sculpture Garden Tour – CANCELED
Throughout Art in Bloom, from March 25 to 29, daily tours of the Besthoff Sculpture Garden will be offered at noon and 1 pm. Sited on twelve acres adjacent to the museum, the garden contains more than ninety works by renowned sculptors placed among a picturesque mature grove of pine, magnolia, and moss-draped live oak trees surrounding a picturesque lagoon.
Gallery Talk: Ancestors in Stone with Curator Ndubuisi Ezeluomba – CANCELED
Gallery talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Ndubuisi Ezeluomba, the François Billion Richardson Curator of African Art, will discuss the exhibition Ancestors in Stone.