ended on February 19th, 2017
This exhibition presents a brief survey of the work of Kenneth Josephson (American, born 1932), one of the most inventive photographers of the second half of the twentieth century. Read More
ended on February 19th, 2017
This exhibition of works from NOMA’s collection explores photography’s relationship to the world through a diverse selection of photographs that include obstructing elements or remind us that the photograph itself is often an obstruction to the real world. Read More
ended on January 16th, 2017
Seeing Nature explores the development of landscape painting, from a small window on the world to interpretations of artists’ personal experiences with their surroundings on land and sea. It reveals the power of landscape to locate the viewer in time and place—to record, explore, and understand the natural and man-made world. This exhibition presents masterpieces… Read More
ended on December 31st, 2016
NOMA has commissioned Nigerian-born Odili Donald Odita to transform the first floor elevator lobby with a kaleidoscope mural. Read More
ended on October 17th, 2016
Throughout the twentieth century, the raw, instinctive approach of self-taught artists has quietly attracted acclaimed “contemporary” artists, collectors with keen eyes and in more recent decades, insightful museum curators, who bring this material to the public eye. The New Orleans Museum of Art was among the early pioneers, organizing the first solo exhibition of Clementine Hunter’s… Read More
ended on September 11th, 2016
This exhibition brings together approximately 150 objects covering 100 years of design history. From familiar items like flip-flops and paperclips, to conceptual chairs and lamps by superstar designers, this exhibition celebrates simplicity in design. Read More
ended on July 31st, 2016
Dylan portrays traditional views of French Quarter courtyards and alleyways, and captures moments in the private and public lives of New Orleans’s inhabitants in this series of paintings. Read More
ended on July 17th, 2016
Vera Lutter elevates the current role of the negative from a nearly invisible part of the photography process to the chief object of our attention. Lutter’s photographs are one-of-a-kind negative prints made inside a room-sized pinhole camera with exposures that range from hours to days. Read More
ended on July 17th, 2016
This spring, NOMA will explore historical and contemporary roles of the photographic negative through three complementary exhibitions: Vera Lutter: Inverted Worlds, Paper Negatives, and Negative Image. Although the history of photography has typically focused on the importance of positives in photography, NOMA will demonstrate that the negative possesses a rich, parallel history. Once necessary to… Read More
ended on May 22nd, 2016
Self-Taught Genius considers the shifting implications of a self-taught ideology in the United States, from a widely endorsed and deeply entrenched movement of self-education to its current usage to describe artists creating outside traditional frames of reference and canonical art history. Self-taught art, past and present, blurs lines between disciplines, makes definitions look constricted, and… Read More
ended on March 20th, 2016
NOMA will present the first exhibition to focus on the works of Pierre Joseph Landry. Born in France, Landry immigrated to Louisiana at the age of 15. He became a military officer under Andrew Jackson during the war of 1812, and subsequently became a successful sugar planter. Stricken by illness at the age of 63,… Read More
ended on February 28th, 2016
This selection of photographs from NOMA’s permanent collection invites an intimate reflection on the concept of time and our place within it. Read More
on view starting June 29th, 2019
Bodies of Knowledge brings together ten international contemporary artists to reflect on the role that language plays in archiving and asserting our cultural identities. Working with materials that range from books and silent film to ink, ashes and musical scores, ten artists propose language as a living and ever-evolving document that can counter more staid and static ways of representing our collective pasts. Read More
on view through June 9th, 2019
The arts of Japan are inseparably associated with nature, whether through themes and subjects associated with seasonal change or through the shape, material, and decoration of objects. This installation focuses on flower and bird subjects, a particularly popular theme during the Edo (1615–1868) and Meiji (1868–1912) periods and one that continues to find enduring resonance in the modern era. Read More
Keith Sonnier: Until Today marks the first comprehensive museum survey for Keith Sonnier, a pioneering figure in conceptual, post-minimal, video, and performance art of the late 1960s. In 2012, he spoke with a German journalist about his Louisiana youth and early years as an artist in New York. Read More