Jasper Johns: Reversals
ended on January 31st, 2016
This exhibition showcases an exceptional group of prints by Jasper Johns (American, b. 1930), one of most influential artists of the 20th century. Read More
Past Exhibitions
Visions of US: American Art at NOMA
ended on January 24th, 2016
Visions of US explores evolving ideas about American cultural identity from the 18th through 20th centuries. Drawn from NOMA’s world-class collection of American art, the exhibition brings together paintings, sculptures, photography and decorative arts to tell a rich and inclusive story about how we imagine and represent the United States. Read More
Traditions Transfigured: The Noh Masks of Bidou Yamaguchi
ended on January 10th, 2016
This exhibition features work by the Japanese artist Bidou Yamaguchi (b. 1970). Trained to make reproductions of historic Japanese Noh masks, the artist has, since 2003, radicalized this traditional idea and practice. Yamaguchi’s masks apply the forms, techniques, transformative spirit, and mysterious elegance of Noh masks to iconic female portraits from the European art historical canon, as well as to Kabuki actor prints by Sharaku, Japan’s enigmatic eighteenth century portrait master. Read More
A Louisiana Parlor: Antebellum Taste & Context
ended on October 11th, 2015
This exhibition is in celebration of the acquisition of a superb rococo revival parlor from the Butler-Greenwood Plantation in St. Francisville, Louisiana. Read More
10 Years Gone
ended on September 7th, 2015
Timed to coincide with the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Ten Years Gone features six contemporary artists who explore the passage of time, memory, loss, and transformation. Read More
Robert Rauschenberg and the “Five From Louisiana”
ended on August 30th, 2015
This installation highlights NOMA’s recent acquisition of Melic Meeting (Spread), 1979, by Robert Rauschenberg, one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. Read More
Self/Reflection
ended on August 9th, 2015
A selection of works from the permanent collection by Brassaï, Jaroslav Rossler, Florence Henri, Clarence John Laughlin, and others that investigate, play with, and exploit reflections and mirror images in modern photography. Read More
Kongo Across the Waters
ended on May 25th, 2015
This exhibition explores connections between the art and culture of the Kongo peoples of western Central Africa and African American art and culture in the United States. Read More
Photo-Unrealism
ended on April 25th, 2015
This exhibition from the permanent collection explores the history of the abstract, the unreal, and the surreal in photography from its origins to the present Read More
Josephine Sacabo: Salutations
ended on April 5th, 2015
This January, NOMA premiers the newest body of work by photographer Josephine Sacabo. Read More
Emmet Gowin: Concerning America and Alfred Stieglitz, and Myself
ended on March 8th, 2015
One of the most influential photographers of his generation, Emmet Gowin (b. 1941) confronted his own influences in his first major photography project, Concerning America and Alfred Stieglitz, and Myself on display here. Read More
Degas’ Little Dancer
ended on March 1st, 2015
NOMA will share this renowned work, on loan from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, with audiences in a newly created focus gallery this fall. Read More
Upcoming Exhibitions
Lee Friedlander in Louisiana
on view starting April 27th, 2018
One of the most famous living American photographers, Lee Friedlander has been visiting Louisiana since 1957 to document New Orleans jazz and to make artful street photographs. Lee Friedlander in Louisiana is the first major exhibition in any institution to examine the full scope and influence of Friedlander’s work in the region on the history of photography. Read More
Changing Course: Reflections on New Orleans Histories
on view starting June 29th, 2018
Changing Course: Reflections on New Orleans Histories marks New Orleans’ three-hundredth anniversary by bringing together a group of seven contemporary art projects that focus on forgotten or marginalized histories of the city. Read More
The Orléans Collection
on view starting October 26th, 2018
In celebration of the tricentennial of the city that bears his regal title, NOMA will present an exhibition of selections from the magnificent personal collection of French nobleman Philippe II, the Duke of Orléans. This international loan exhibition will bring together masterpieces by Veronese, Valentin, Poussin, Rubens, and Rembrandt that formerly graced the walls of the Palais Royal in Paris. Read More
Current Exhibitions
Veronese in Murano: Two Venetian Renaissance Masterpieces Restored
on view through September 3rd, 2018
NOMA is only the second US museum to host this focused exhibition on two recently conserved and rarely seen paintings by the celebrated Italian Renaissance artist Paolo Veronese (1528–1588), St. Jerome in the Wilderness and St. Agatha Visited in Prison by St. Peter. Read More
Exhibition Videos
A Queen Within features video of Chromat’s inclusive-sizing fashion show
In September 2017 Chromat, the label of Becca McCharen-Tran, a staunch defender of inclusive sizing, featured models with a wide range of body types wearing the spring/summer collection. A video of the fashion show is on view in A Queen Within: Adorned Archetypes. Read More