Classes with Curators | Looking Again: Histories of Photography
Interested in taking a closer look at NOMA’s collections? Want to take a deep dive into our special exhibitions? Join NOMA curators as they explore a variety of topics and take you behind the scenes in our new Classes with Curators series. Designed for small groups of no more than twenty students, classes are organized...
Noontime Talk: A Queen Within: Adorned Archetypes with Curator Mel Buchanan
Join Decorative Arts Curator Mel Buchanan as she leads visitors through A Queen Within: Adorned Archetypes, NOMA’s first-ever exhibition devoted to fashion. Experimental gowns, headpieces, and jewelry by avant-garde fashion designers Alexander McQueen, Gucci, Gypsy Sport, and Iris van Herpen investigate symbols of womanhood and challenge conventional notions of beauty.
Book Launch: Looking Again: Photography at the New Orleans Museum of Art by Russell Lord
Join Russell Lord, Freeman Family Curator of Photographs, Prints, and Drawings, at the launch of his new book, Looking Again: Photography at the New Orleans Museum of Art. Museum admission will be waived for the program but the galleries will be closed to the public after 6 pm.
Bring Your Own and NOMA present A Queen Within: Stories That Reimagine Gender, Conformity, Royalty, and Power
Bring a blanket or lawn chair for an evening under the stars in NOMA's Besthoff Sculpture Garden. Presented in conjunction with A Queen Within: Adorned Archetypes, Bring Your Own and NOMA invite storytellers to spin original tales of queens and female empowerment: Yas Queen | Killer Queen | Drag Queen | Beauty Queen. Storytellers have...
NOMA Book Club Discussion Group
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...
Noontime Talk: American Musicians with Curatorial Fellow Brian Piper
Join Curatorial Fellow Brian Piper for a discussion about Lee Friedlander: American Musicians. From the mid-1950s through the 1970s, renowned photographer Lee Friedlander was commissioned by major recording studios to take portraits of famous twentieth-century recording artists.
NOMA Book Club Discussion Group
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...
Good Friday – No Friday Nights at NOMA
Friday Nights at NOMA will not take place on Good Friday, March 30. The museum will close at 5 pm.
Sculpture Garden Tour
Join NOMA’s docents for a free guided tour of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden on Saturdays at noon through mid-June. 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 bisected by a lagoon.
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!
Noontime Talk: Women, Fashion, and Power with Kelsey Brosnan, Curatorial Fellow for European Art
In conjunction with A Queen Within: Adorned Archetypes, join Kelsey Brosnan, Curatorial Fellow for European Art, for a discussion about women's fashion as depicted in NOMA's eighteenth-century French art collection.
Small Talk: Women and Power
Small Talks are 10–15 minute gallery talks focused on one object or a small group of objects. Join NOMA curatorial intern María Beatriz Carrión as she discusses works in the permanent collection related to women and power.