Friday Nights at NOMA: Music by Lynn Drury | A Passion for Collecting: A Conversation with Dr. Kurt Gitter and Alice Yelen-Gitter
Friday Nights at NOMA opens the museum’s doors for many interesting activities throughout the year: 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. Listen to music by Lynn Drury, and meet the collectors behind New Forms, New Voices: Japanese Ceramics from the Gitter-Yelen Collection.
Studio KIDS!
New Orleans Museum of Art 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LAThis spring, Studio KIDS! presents “Express Yourself” art classes for children. Perfect for students ages 5-10 who want to get creative and learn art making techniques.
StoryQuest
New Orleans Museum of Art 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LAProfessional authors, actors and artists bring the world of children’s literature to NOMA in this family program. Family activities are offered after each StoryQuest to encourage museum exploration.
Noontime Talk: Bror Anders Wikstrom: Bringing Fantasy to Carnival, with Curator Mel Buchanan
Join Curator Mel Buchanan for a discussion about the watercolor sketches of New Orleans' Carnival floats and costumes from the turn of the twentieth century by artist Bror Anders Wikstrom. An exhibition of his works remains on view through April 1. Noontime Talks are brief, casual discussions on exhibitions or works of art in the...
No Friday Nights at NOMA
Friday Nights at NOMA will not be held on Friday, February 9, in advance of Mardi Gras weekend. The museum will close at 5 pm and reopen on Sunday, February 11.
Closed for Endymion Parade Saturday
NOMA and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden will be closed on Saturday, February 10, as City Park hosts thousands of Carnival revelers for the annual Krewe of Endymion parade. Please visit on Sunday, February 11, when our doors reopen at 11 am.
Closed for Mardi Gras
NOMA and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden will be closed on Tuesday, February 13, in observation of Mardi Gras.
Friday Nights at NOMA: Music by The Huval-Fuselier Cajun Trio | Docent tour of permanent collection | Collect-O-Mania Film Fest
Friday Nights at NOMA opens the museum’s doors for many interesting activities throughout the year: 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, special exhibitions, Café NOMA and the Museum Shop are open till 9 pm.
Collect-O-Mania Film Fest: Herb and Dorothy
He was a postal clerk. She was a librarian. With their modest means, the couple managed to build one of the most important contemporary art collections in history. Their unlikely story is told in a 2008 documentary, screening as part of NOMA's Collect-O-Mania Film Festival.
Collect-O-Mania Film Fest: Iris
What inspires a collector and when do personal collections become something more? Join us on select Fridays and Saturdays in January and February to explore the on-screen stories of passionate collectors who have helped shape the twenty-first-century art museum landscape. Saturday, January 6, 2 pm: Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict Friday, January 12, 7:30 pm: Adele’s...
Noontime Talk: A Queen Within with Curators Sofia Hedman and Serge Martynov
Join guest curators Sofia Hedman and Serge Martynov of MUSEEA for a discussion about the exhibition A Queen Within: Adorned Archetypes, a showcase of experimental gowns, headpieces, and jewelry by avant-garde fashion designers Ale ander McQueen, Gucci, Gypsy Sport, and Iris van Herpen, among others.
Gallery Talk: A Queen Within with artist Joanne Petit-Frére
Joanne Petit-Frére takes sculpture into new realms with her incredibly complex hair designs, which call upon influences as diverse as math, nature, engineering, chemistry, garment construction, Old World architecture, Africa, and the Americas.