Friday Nights at NOMA: Music by Kettle Black | Screening of Against The Odds: Artists of the Harlem Renaissance
Friday Nights at NOMA will include a screening of the 2006 PBS documentary Against the Odds: Artists of the Harlem Renaissance, a film that includes rare footage of the thriving African American neighborhood in the Roaring Twenties. The Kettle Black band will play Afro-Cuban rhythms, and both the galleries and Café NOMA will be open till 9 p.m.
NOMA Book Club: Meet New Orleans’ “Gondola Guy”
In a rescheduled event delayed due to inclement weather in March, Robert Dula, the "Gondola Guy" who operates an imported Venetian gondola for hire in City Park's lagoons, will discuss the history of this unique boat. NOMA Book Club members will meet in the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden. For more information on the City Park Gondola, visit...
Noontime Talk: Regina Scully | Japanese Landscapes: Inner Journeys, with Artist Regina Scully and Curator Lisa Rotondo-McCord
Join artist Regina Scully and Curator Lisa Rotondo-McCord for a discussion of how Scully's modern, abstract works came to be exhibited among Japanese Edo-period paintings.
NOMA Book Club Discussion Group
New Orleans Museum of Art 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LAJoin NOMA staff and fellow book lovers as we read and discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art, artists, art museums, NOMA’s collections and exhibitions. Our full 2017 schedule and reading list has been announced. Organized by NOMA’s Felix J. Dreyfous Library, the Book Club is an informal group. You do not have to...
Friday Nights at NOMA: Death in Venice movie screening | Mitchell Gaudet Artist Perspective
Friday Nights at NOMA includes music by Greg Schatz and the Friggin' Geniuses, the Art on the Spot family activity table, an Artist Perspective with glass artist Mitchell Gaudet, and two movies.
Movies in the Garden: Moulin Rouge!
Movies in the Garden continues its spring film series with a theme of costuming. Time travel to Belle Epoque Paris in the lavishly filmed 2001 musical Moulin Rouge! Audience members are encouraged to join a can-can dance demonstration prior to the screening.
Create Late
New Orleans Museum of Art 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LAExclusively for adults, kick off your weekend with a glass of wine and a paint brush!
Studio KIDS!
New Orleans Museum of Art 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LAAspiring artists, get ready to sharpen your creative skills! This Spring, students will explore art made by diverse cultures as inspiration for art projects.
StoryQuest
Spark imagination, creativity, and a love of reading. Professional authors, actors and artists bring the world of children’s literature to NOMA in this family program. Family activities are offered after each StoryQuest to encourage museum exploration.
Noontime Talk: Jim Steg: New Work, with Curator Russell Lord
Curator Russell Lord will discuss the works of New Orleans' preeminent 20th-century printmaker Jim Steg. The retrospective Jim Steg: New Work spans the career of the artist, from his sketches as an art student and World War II soldier to his experimental works using a variety of media as a Newcomb College professor from the 1940s through the 1990s.
NOMA Book Club Discussion Group
Join NOMA staff and fellow book lovers as we read and discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art, artists, art museums, NOMA’s collections and exhibitions. Our full 2017 schedule and reading list has been announced. Organized by NOMA’s Felix J. Dreyfous Library, the Book Club is an informal group. You do not have to...
Friday Nights at NOMA: “Hidden Musicians of Venice: The Fascinating Story of Vivaldi’s All-Female Orchestra,” a lecture by Kim Teter
In conjunction with the exhibition A Life of Seduction: Venice in the 1700s, author Kim Teter will share her research on the little-known history of Antonio Vivaldi's all-female orchestra that he led from an orphanage in Venice. A trio of classical musicians from Loyola University will also entertain visitors in the Great Hall. Upstairs a Teen Poetry Slam will be held in the Contemporary Galleries.