Virtual Lunch Hour Preview of Mending the Sky

Grab your lunch and participate in a virtual online preview of our forthcoming exhibition Mending the Sky. Enroll in a Zoom video conference for Tuesday, September 22, from 12 to 1 pm with curator Katie Pfohl and community engagement curator Nic Brierre Aziz as they describe works by eleven contemporary artists that address themes of calamity and regeneration.

LOVE in the Garden 2020 presented by Hancock Whitney – CANCELED

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

The New Orleans Museum of Art has made the difficult decision to cancel our annual fundraiser, LOVE in the Garden presented by Hancock Whitney scheduled for Friday, September 25, 2020. Given the number of attendees and the social distancing guidelines issued by the City of New Orleans and State of Louisiana due to the COVID-...

NOMA Book Club Discussion Program

Join 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 2020 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 attend every meeting...

Helen Gillet in Virtual Concert for Mending the Sky

Helen Gillet is a singer-songwriter and surrealist-archaeologist who explores synthesized sounds, textures, and rhythms using an acoustic cello. For Mending the Sky, Gillet will weave together a soundscape using cello, drum machine, sounds in nature, loop pedal, poetry and storytelling.

Music in the Garden presents Ashlin Parker

This fall, join the New Orleans musicians you love for intimate, socially distanced outdoor performances in NOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture Garden. Jazz musician Ashlin Parker will take the stage on Friday, October 16. SOLD OUT. Join a wait list.

$17 – $20

NOMA Reset: Freedom at the Mat

Join NOMA for a new virtual series of quarterly workshops that focuses on mindfulness, creativity, comfort and reflection. NOMA Reset programs provide a much-needed infusion of relaxation and wellness by engaging our collective and individual wellbeing.

NOMA Book Club Discussion Program

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 selection for October is Seven Days in the Art World by by Sarah Thornton.

Music in the Garden presents Radio Bird Quartet

This fall, join the New Orleans musicians you love for intimate, socially distanced outdoor performances in NOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture Garden. Radio Bird Quartet will take the amphitheater stage on Friday, October 30, at 6 pm. CANCELED.

$17 – $20

New Photography Happy Hour Preview

Join NOMA for an exhibition preview during happy hour for our fall exhibition New Photography: Create, Collect, Compile. Sign up to join the Zoom video session on Thursday, November 5, from 6 to 6 pm with Russell Lord, the Freeman Family Curator of Photographs, Prints and Drawings, and Brian Piper, Mellon Foundation Assistant Curator for Photography, as they share the work of four contemporary photographers and discuss themes from the exhibition. Questions and feedback are encouraged.

Music at the Museum with the Louisiana Philharmonic Brass Quintet

Here’s your chance to resume attending live concerts! Join us Thursday evenings in the fall as Louisiana Philharmonic Orchetra chamber ensembles will perform at various museums around town. On November 5, the LPO Brass Ensemble will present an eclectic concert at the amphitheater of the Besthoff Sculpture Garden. Gates open at 5 pm, and the performance begins at 6 pm.