on view through January 4th, 2026
The photographs included in “The View From Here: Women Photographers of the American Landscape”—all of which are from NOMA’s permanent collection—illustrate some of the exceptional diversity of landscape photographs made by women artists working in the United States since the year 1900. Read More
on view through 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
on view through December 28th, 2025
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
on view through September 21st, 2025
Dapper Bruce Lafitte’s “A Time Before Katrina” is currently on view in the Great Hall. Read More
on view through December 28th, 2025
Afropolitan: Contemporary African Arts at NOMA highlights some of the most pioneering African artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in the museum’s collection. Read More
on view starting September 26th, 2025
Through the interweaving of three photographic series—”Stony the Road “(2023), “In This Here Place” (2019), and “Night Coming Tenderly, Black” (2017)—Bey offers a framework through which to conceptualize the landscapes of Virginia, Louisiana, and Ohio (respectively) not merely as sites of a troubled history, but also as places that still hold the memories of our shared American past. The exhibition also includes two films: “Evergreen” (2019) and “350,000” (2023). Read More
ended on August 10th, 2025
New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations spotlights the work of four contemporary artists working in cities across West Africa: Chief Ekpenyong Bassey Nsa, Sheku “Goldenfinger” Fofanah, David Sanou, and Hervé Youmbi. Read More
Watch as Chief Bassey Nsa introduces himself to visitors of the “New African Masquerades” exhibition and honors Dr. Jordan A. Fenton, an Ekpe Society Chief and exhibition co-curator. Read More