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
Past Exhibitions
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
Photorealism: The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Collection
ended on January 25th, 2015
The New Orleans Museum of Art is pleased to be organizing Photorealism: The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Collection, the most extensive presentation to-date of the Photorealist painting collection of Sydney and Walda Besthoff. Read More
Prospect 3: Notes for Now
ended on January 25th, 2015
Prospect New Orleans launched its first international contemporary art biennial in November 2008. Read More
Reparation: Contemporary Artists from New Orleans
ended on January 25th, 2015
Reparation is an exhibition of 187 works by 180 New Orleans artists, young and old, and is part of Luciano Benetton’s Imago Mundi collection: works commissioned and collected by Benetton on his world travels Read More
Spheres of Influence: Pictorialism, Women, and Modernism
ended on November 23rd, 2014
These works from NOMA’s permanent collection focus on a network of women who shared ideas through correspondences and reacted to each other’s works, creating a web of mutual influence that helped pull photography from its nineteenth century roots into the modernist twentieth century. Read More
Alexis Rockman: Drawings from Life of Pi
ended on October 12th, 2014
This exhibition provides a unique opportunity to explore the relationship between visual art and commercial filmmaking through Alexis Rockman’s watercolor drawings that were the first stage in the development of the 2012 feature film “Life of Pi.” Read More
Behind Closed Doors: Art in the Spanish American Home, 1492–1898
ended on September 21st, 2014
Explores the private lives and interiors of Spain’s New World elite from 1492 through the nineteenth century Read More
Rising Up: Hale Woodruff’s Murals at Talladega College
ended on September 14th, 2014
This project, a collaboration between the High Museum of Art and Talladega College, conserves Hale Woodruff’s murals commissioned by Talladega College in 1938 and presents them to a national audience for the first time Read More
Mel Chin: Rematch
ended on May 25th, 2014
The New Orleans Museum of Art is proud to present a major retrospective of the conceptual artist Mel Chin. ‘Mel Chin: Rematch’ is the most expansive presentation of the artist’s work to-date, the outgrowth of extensive research and archiving of Chin’s past work and artistic practice, uncovering rarely seen materials from over the past four decades. Read More
Photography and the American Civil War
ended on May 4th, 2014
More than two hundred of the finest and most poignant photographs of the American Civil War have been brought together for this landmark exhibition. Read More
Camille Henrot: Cities of Ys
ended on April 13th, 2014
The first U.S. solo exhibition of French artist and 2013 Silver Lion winner Camille Henrot explores the evolution of cultures. Read More
Upcoming Exhibitions
Sand, Ash, Heat: Glass at the New Orleans Museum of Art
on view starting August 30th, 2024
Sand, Ash, Heat: Glass at the New Orleans Museum of Art looks at the more than 4,000-year history of glass around the world and how it intersects with scientific discoveries, foodways, and artistic innovations. Read More
Current Exhibitions
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
Exhibition Videos
Video: Twins Seven-Seven and Yoruba Folklore
Public Programs Coordinator Connor Kilian discusses artworks by Twins Seven-Seven on view in Black Orpheus: Jacob Lawrence and the Mbari Club. Read More