Baby ArtsPlay!
Instill a love of art at a young age through a guided, hands-on gallery experience. Young Audiences Wolf Trap teaching artists will present a series of six workshops for caregivers and children ages 0-3. Learn how to integrate music, movement, and drama into everyday playtime to foster children’s developmental growth. Advance registration requested.
Gallery Talk: Tina Freeman: Lamentations with Curatorial Fellow Brian Piper
Gallery talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Join Brian Piper, Mellon Fellow for Photography, for a discussion about the exhibition Tina Freeman: Lamentations, a seven-year photo-documentation of Louisiana’s wetlands and the glacial landscapes of the Arctic and Antarctic by Tina Freeman.
CANCELED: The NOLA Project presents The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Due to unseasonably cold weather, the final two productions of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow on November 13 and 14 have been canceled. Ticketholders will receive a refund from The NOLA Project.
Free Admission Day
In preparation for the Odyssey Ball, NOMA will waive admission for all visitors on Thursday, November 14.
CANCELED: The NOLA Project presents The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Due to unseasonably cold weather, the final two productions of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow for Wednesday, November 13, and Thursday, November 14, have been canceled. Ticketholders will be contacted by The NOLA Project for refunds.
Free admission, early closure at 3 pm
In preparation for the 2019 Odyssey Ball, the museum will waive admission fees for all visitors but the galleries will close early at 3 pm. Café NOMA will close at 2 pm. The Besthoff Sculpture Garden will remain open until 5 pm.
Odyssey 2019: Mystère Louisiane presented by IBERIABANK
New Orleans Museum of Art 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LAThe Odyssey Ball celebrates and enhances the New Orleans Museum of Art in an evening of unparalleled elegance. Critically important to our treasured museum and the wide community it serves, Odyssey raises the funds necessary to support NOMA’s nationally-recognized exhibitions and educational programs, which bring more than 300,000 annual visitors to the museum and sculpture garden.
Book Club Discussion Group
Join fellow book lovers as we read and discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art, artists, art museums, NOMA’s collections and exhibitions. The book selection for November is Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh.
Gallery Talk: Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana with Curator Katie Pfohl
Gallery talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Join Curator Katie Pfohl for a discussion about the exhibition Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana.
Friday Nights at NOMA: Inventing Acadia and Passage lectures and gallery talks
Friday Nights at NOMA features an exciting lineup of programs in 2019: live music, movies, children’s activities, and more. Regular admission prices apply—NOMA members are FREE—but there is no extra charge for programs or films. All galleries, the Museum Shop, and Café NOMA remain open till 9 pm. Curator Katie Pfohl will provide a keynote lecture on the new exhibition Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana, and artists Regina Agu and members of the Southerly Gold photography collective will debut their related contemporary installations.
Family Field Day
A free family festival will be held in the expansion of the Besthoff Sculpture Garden with programs that focus on the body, physical play, and the environment as it relates to art making.
Gallery Talk: Portrait Miniatures with Curator Mel Buchanan
Gallery talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Join Curator Mel Buchanan for a discussion about the Latter-Schlesinger Collection of Portrait Miniatures dating from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries.