Current Exhibitions

Prospect.6: The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home

on view through February 2nd, 2025

Founded in 2007, Prospect New Orleans is a citywide triennial exhibition of contemporary art featuring artists from Louisiana and around the globe. For P.6, Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn has created a two-channel film made in collaboration with musician Thảo Nguyễn and New Orleans-based producer and director Marion Hoàng Ngọc Hill. Read More

Show & Tell: A Brief History of Photography and Text

on view through February 16th, 2025

Drawn from NOMA’s permanent collection, Show & Tell: A Brief History of Photography and Text explores the intersection between photography and written language, from photography’s invention to the present day. Read More

John Scott: Blues Poem for the Urban Landscape

on view through January 26th, 2025

One of the most globally renowned artists in the history of New Orleans, John T. Scott worked in a variety of media, including the monumental prints that make up the artist’s series Blues Poem for the Urban Landscape. This installation of ten woodcut prints in NOMA’s Great Hall includes that entire series, in which Scott uses the landscape form to visualize the history and visual cacophony of New Orleans. Read More

Rebellious Spirits: Prohibition and Resistance in the South

on view through January 5th, 2025

Rebellious Spirits: Prohibition and Resistance in the South explores the unique methods in which the South, in particular New Orleans, dealt with the passage of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, which banned alcohol in the United States. Read More

Upcoming Exhibitions

Carlo Saraceni’s Our of Loreto and Peruvian Viceregal Statue Paintings

on view starting December 7th, 2024

Paintings of richly dressed statues of the Virgin Mary were among the preferred themes in Spanish and Peruvian 17th- and 18th-century painting. This installation reflects the gradual process of adoption and adaptation of this iconography by Indigenous and Mestizo artists in Viceregal Peru in the creation of Marian images. Read More


Past Exhibitions

Come! Come! Come!: A Triptych by Wang Qingsong

ended on November 29th, 2024

The contemporary artist Wang Qingsong creates elaborately staged large-format photographs that focus on the dramatic social, political, and cultural changes in China in the post-Mao era. Qingsong’s 2005 triptych Come! Come! Come!, on view in the Stafford Gallery this spring, both documents and comments upon the embrace of capitalism and the rapid Westernization of China in the 1990s through the early 2000s. Read More


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