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.
Closed for Thanksgiving
NOMA and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden will be closed on Thursday, November 28, in observance of Thanksgiving.
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.
Film Screening and Conversation: World AIDS Day
The New Orleans Museum of Art is proud to partner with Visual AIDS for the thirtieth annual Day With(out) Art by presenting STILL BEGINNING, a program of seven newly commissioned videos responding to the ongoing HIV/AIDS epidemic, followed by a panel discussion.
Gallery Talk: The Quilts of Gee’s Bend with Conservator Howard Sutcliffe
Gallery talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Join textile conservator Howard Sutcliffe as he discusses his work within the exhibition The Quilts of Gee's Bend.