Current Exhibitions

Second Nature: Japanese Rinpa Paintings from the Gitter-Yelen Collection

on view through February 14th, 2027

“Second Nature: Japanese Rinpa Paintings from the Gitter-Yelen Collection” offers an immersive look at the influential tradition in Japanese art, featuring nearly 60 works drawn from the collection of Alice Yelen Gitter and the late Dr. Kurt A. Gitter, as well as selections from NOMA’s collection. Read More

Sèvres Magnifique: French Porcelain from the Collection of Thomas B. Lemann

on view through January 3rd, 2027

France’s royal porcelain factory at Sèvres, on the outskirts of Paris, has for nearly 300 years produced both decorative and useful ceramic objects of exemplary craft. Creating vases, tea sets, plates, and bowls that signified wealth, power and opulence to the eighteenth-century French court at Versailles, Sèvres factory artists worked alongside chemists and the best sculptors of the Rococo era to produce fine porcelain with luscious glazes in a range of colors. This exhibition at the New Orleans Museum of Art celebrates the bequest of a superb group of Sèvres porcelain from New Orleans collector Thomas B. Lemann. Read More

Hanaq Pachap: Art of the Indigenous Guilds of Viceregal Peru

on view through March 31st, 2027

The paintings included in “Hanaq Pachap” illuminate the Indigenous Catholic religious practices and adaptations of European visual sources developed by Indigenous and Mestizo artists in the highlands of Peru and Bolivia during the 17th and 18th centuries. Read More

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

on view through December 28th, 2026

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

Upcoming Exhibitions

Danielle Mckinney: Shelter

on view starting November 6th, 2026

“Danielle Mckinney: Shelter” is a survey exhibition of paintings spanning the last six years of the artist’s practice, offering a collective understanding of the artist’s gift for weaving together art history, emotionally resonant subjects, and beautifully rendered paintings. Read More


Past Exhibitions

Robert Gordy: Outside the Mainstream

ended on October 4th, 2026

This exhibition, the first in-depth presentation of the artist’s work at NOMA in over four decades, shares selections from Gordy’s career from the 1950s until his death in 1986.    Read More


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