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!
Small Talk: Carlos Rolón: Outside/In
Small Talks are ten to fifteen-minute gallery talks focused on one object or a small group of objects. These brief informal sessions enrich the visitor experience and allow visitors to learn more about artworks in our permanent holdings as well as those on view in temporary exhibitions. Join NOMA curatorial intern María Beatriz Carrión as she...
Noontime Talk: Lee Friedlander in Louisiana with Curator Russell Lord
Noontime talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Wednesdays are FREE to Louisiana residents courtesy of The Helis Foundation. Join Russell Lord, Freeman Family Curator of Photographs, Prints, and Drawings, for a discussion about renowned photographer Lee Friedlander and his documentation of Louisiana...
All That Jazz: A Conversation with Alex Rawls, Gwen Thompkins, and Dr. Michael White
In conjunction with the exhibition Lee Friedlander in Louisiana, NOMA will host three leading authorities of the New Orleans music scene for a public conversation on the intersections between the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, local music/musicians, and second line traditions. This event is free and open to the public.
Small Talk: Photographing American Musicians
Small Talks are ten to fifteen-minute gallery talks focused on one object or a small group of objects. These brief informal sessions enrich the visitor experience and allow visitors to learn more about artworks in our permanent holdings as well as those on view in temporary exhibitions. Join NOMA Mellon Curatorial Fellow Brian Piper as...
Small Talk: Edgar Degas’s Portrait of Estelle Musson Degas
Small Talks are ten to fifteen minute gallery talks focused on one object or a small group of objects. These brief informal sessions enrich the visitor experience and allow visitors to learn more about artworks in our permanent holdings as well as those on view in temporary exhibitions. Join docent Naomi Kornman as she discusses...
Movies in the Garden: Alice in Wonderland
Movies in the Garden returns this spring with with Walt Disney’s 1951 classic Alice in Wonderland. Screen time is 7:30 pm. Arrive early to hear music by Shawn Williams and to participate in the Art on the Spot family activity table.
Sculpture Garden Tour
Join NOMA’s docents for a free guided tour of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden on Mondays in May at 1 pm. Sited on five acres adjacent to the museum, the garden contains more than 60 works by renowned sculptors placed among a picturesque mature grove of pine, magnolia, and moss-draped live oak trees...
Noontime Talk: Dr. Kurt Gitter and Alice Yelen-Gitter on New Forms, New Voices
Join Dr. Kurt Gitter and Alice Yelen-Gitter as they discuss their passion for collecting contemporary Japanese ceramics, selections of which are on view in the exhibition New Forms, New Voices: Japanese Ceramics from the Gitter-Yelen Collection. Noontime Talks are brief, casual discussions on exhibitions or works of art in the galleries given by NOMA curators...
The NOLA Project presents The Three Musketeers
The NOLA Project theater company takes on Alexandre Dumas’ classic tale The Three Musketeers in an adaptation that is part Monty Python foolishness and part swashbuckling adventure tale. Enjoy this comedic production in the enchanting setting of the Besthoff Sculpture Garden.
NOMA Book Club Curatorial Program
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 2018 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...
Small Talks: Newcomb Pottery
Small Talks are ten to fifteen minute gallery talks focused on one object or a small group of objects. These brief informal sessions enrich the visitor experience and allow visitors to learn more about artworks in our permanent holdings as well as those on view in temporary exhibitions. Join docent Elizabeth LaRose for a discussion...