Current Exhibitions

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

Hayward Oubre: Structural Integrity

on view through May 3rd, 2026

Hayward Oubre: Structural Integrity is the first monographic exhibition dedicated to the work of American modernist, Hayward L. Oubre, Jr. (1916–2006). Born in New Orleans in 1916, Oubre became the first student to graduate with a bachelor of fine arts degree from Dillard University. Through 52 sculptures, paintings, and prints, the exhibition reveals how the artist shaped American art while working in the South, and underscores the crucial role of Black artists and art departments at HBCUs in shaping the artistic landscape of the twentieth century. Read More

Hanaq Pachap: Art of the Indigenous Guilds of Viceregal Peru

on view through April 26th, 2026

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

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Past Exhibitions

Nicolas Floc’h: Fleuves-Océan, Mississippi Watershed

ended on March 1st, 2026

This exhibition pairs vibrant monochromatic photographs of the color of water made under the surface with dramatic black-and-white landscape photographs made along the banks of the Mississippi and its tributaries—from Louisiana and across the country. Read More

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