First Fridays at NOMA: House Party

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

#ExploreNOMA after hours. The museum is open late night for an evening packed with musical performances, gallery tours, special pop-ups, and a full bar.

Recurring

Baby Artsplay! (12–24 Months)

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

Young Audiences of Louisiana (YALA) presents a free six-part workshop series for children ages 12–24 months and their caregivers—inspired by works on view at NOMA!

Odyssey: To Your Heart’s Content Presented by First Horizon

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

Odyssey celebrates and enhances the New Orleans Museum of Art in an evening of unparalleled elegance. Critically important to the museum and the wide community it serves, Odyssey raises the funds necessary to support NOMA’s internationally recognized exhibitions and educational programs.

Gallery Talk with Winston Ho

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.

Family Day: Say Cheese!

Kids and their grown-ups are invited for a day of free family fun at the museum! Explore all things photography—on both sides of the camera. Pose for a photo at our artist-run pop-up, visit the museum’s galleries, enjoy a time-hopping musical performance by Little Stompers, get creative with art-making activities, and more.

Free Screening: City of a Million Dreams

NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts

Join us in NOMA's Lapis Center for the Arts for a screening of the acclaimed documentary City of a Million Dreams. The film, based on the book of the same name by Jason Berry, explores New Orleans’s jazz funerals and second lines.

Gallery Talk with Malik Bartholomew

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.

Book Club Discussion: Braiding Sweetgrass

The NOMA Book Club meets monthly to discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art in NOMA’s collection and exhibitions. It is an informal group open to anyone on a month-to-month basis. You do not have to attend every meeting or read every book!

Gallery Talk with Polo Silk and Charlie Vaughn

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.

Day With(out) Art: Being & Belonging

NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts

NOMA is proud to partner with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2022 by presenting Being & Belonging, a program of seven short videos highlighting under-told stories of HIV and AIDS from the perspective of artists living with HIV across the world.

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.

Gallery Talk

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.