ended on January 19th, 2014
Featuring masterpieces by photographers such as William Fox Talbot, André Kertész, and Edward Weston,Photography at NOMA: Selections from the Permanent Collection explores the museum’s extensive 10,000 – work photography collection and demonstrates the city of New Orleans’ role in the history of photography. Read More
ended on January 12th, 2014
This selection of Lin Emery’s new kinetic sculptures continue to be inspired by natural forms and activated by natural forces. Read More
ended on January 12th, 2014
This exhibition explores the making of Gordon Parks’ first photographic essay for Life magazine in 1948, “Harlem Gang Leader.” After gaining the trust of one particular group of gang members and their leader, Leonard “Red” Jackson, Parks produced a series of photographs that are artful, poignant, and, at times, shocking. Read More
ended on September 15th, 2013
The first solo exhibition in Louisiana by renowned video, performance, and collage artist Rashaad Newsome (born 1979), Rashaad Newsome: King of Arms explores the artist’s interest in ornament, systems of heraldry, and Baroque grandeur. Read More
ended on September 8th, 2013
From the very origins of photography, the absence or presence of light has always dictated the form of a photograph, but in the twentieth century, photographers became discontent to let light fall where it may. Instead they sought out peculiar interactions of light and shadow, or manipulated light in front of the camera to create images that range from the abstract to the ominous. Read More
ended on August 25th, 2013
“If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn’t need to lug around a camera.”
–Lewis Hine Read More
ended on August 3rd, 2013
From nearly a century following their inception in 1851, world’s fairs were the most important vehicles for debuting advancements in modern living and democratizing design. The decorative arts they showcased were the physical manifestation of the progressive, economic, and technological ideals embodied in the fairs. Read More
ended on July 7th, 2013
Marking twenty-five years since Pope John Paul II’s historic visit to New Orleans in 1987, this exhibition celebrates his life through sculpture, photography, and video. Read More
ended on June 16th, 2013
This exhibition explores the motivations and meanings behind masking and disguise as it is manifested in contemporary art and in masks of different cultures. Read More
ended on May 19th, 2013
In the nineteenth century, French artists created prints, drawings, oil sketches, photographs, and paintings of the forest that challenged traditional conceptions of landscape depiction. This exhibition reconsiders the role of those works of art in the reinvention of nature in the Forest of Fontainebleau. Read More
ended on May 12th, 2013
In the wake of the Civil War, the New Orleans-based artists Richard Clague, Marshall Smith Jr., and William Buck emerged to form a cohesive landscape tradition, the first of its kind in the region. These landscapes are fascinating not only for what they picture, but also for what they ignore. Clague, Smith, and Buck collectively turned away from the bustling and at-times contentious city they inhabited and focused on the seemingly un-complicated rural life of the post-Civil War Gulf South. Today, the paintings of Clague, Smith, Buck, and the followers of their style are collectively known as the “Bayou School.” Read More
ended on April 14th, 2013
In honor of Ida Kohlmeyer’s 100th anniversary, NOMA will present a selection of key works based in the permanent collection called “Ida Kohlmeyer: 100th Anniversary Highlights” on view on in the museum’s second floor Fredrick R. Weisman Galleries. Kohlmeyer’s versatile style will be illustrated through examples of rich abstract expressionist paintings, vibrant prints, and powerful sculpture. Read More
ended on February 24th, 2013
This fall the New Orleans Museum of Art is pleased to present a solo exhibition of the paintings by renowned New Orleans artist Jim Richard. Read More
ended on December 2nd, 2012
‘Photography, Sequence, & Time’ will examine the ways in which meaning, narrative, and time intersect in photographic sequences from the 19th century to the present. Read More
ended on November 11th, 2012
Highlighting rich examples of British decorative arts in our collection, exploring the fascinating relationships between design, technology, & mass production. Read More
ended on October 14th, 2012
NOMA presents “Ralston Crawford and Jazz,” an exhibition that considers the relationships between music, photography, painting, drawing and film as they intersect in Crawford’s work in New Orleans. Organized by the Sheldon Art Galleries, in Saint Louis, MO, the exhibition includes over 150 photographs, prints, paintings, drawings and films, many never before published. Read More
ended on September 16th, 2012
Inspired by Robleto’s visits to New Orleans, and focuses on the transference of music across multiple generations. Opens March 23, 2012 Read More
on view starting February 28th, 2026
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
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
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