Past Exhibitions

Photography, Sequence, & Time

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

MASS PRODUCED

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

Ralston Crawford and Jazz

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

Katie Holten: Drawn to the Edge (The Great Hall Project)

ended on September 9th, 2012

This summer the New Orleans Museum of Art is pleased to present a new work by Katie Holten (born 1975, Dublin, Ireland) for the 2012 iteration of the Great Hall Project series, which is designed to debut large-scale site-specific installations in NOMA’s Great Hall space. Read More

What is a Photograph?

ended on August 19th, 2012

This exhibition describes and includes many of the most common photographic processes (daguerreotypes, salted paper prints, gelatin silver prints, and inkjet prints), but it also includes objects, artifacts, and practices that have typically been considered marginal to the history of photography (reproductions of photographs in ink, negatives, camera-less photographs, cartes-de-visite, color processes, and even a piece of jewelry). Read More

Making a Mark: The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection

ended on April 8th, 2012

This exhibition includes works in a variety of media- sculptures, prints, paintings, and photographic collages- but the Vogels were especially interested in drawings of all kinds, from preparatory sketches and designs for sculptures to discrete finished works. Read More

Wayne Gonzales: Light to Dark / Dark to Light

ended on February 26th, 2012

The exhibition features paintings depicting crowds, which Gonzales is well‐known for, including waiting crowds in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. The newest painting is a large blue Seated Crowd completed this year, depicts a passive audience in a movie theater. Gonzales will also paint two original murals on the walls of the galleries that will contrast idyllic scenes of nature with war images. Read More

Prospect.2

ended on January 29th, 2012

Founded by the curator Dan Cameron, Prospect New Orleans is one of the leading biennials of international contemporary art in the United States. Conceived in the tradition of the great… Read More

Bookmarks: The Artist’s Response to Text

ended on November 28th, 2011

The genre of the livre d’artiste emerged in the late 19th century and astonished contemporaries. This marked the first time artwork been arranged within a book, allowing for the interaction of pictures and text. Read More

Residents and Visitors: 20th-Century Photographs of Louisiana

ended on November 28th, 2011

The exhibition drew from the holdings of both museums and featured more than 100 photographs by artists who lived or worked in Louisiana. Offering glimpses of Louisiana and its people throughout the 20th century, Residents and Visitors also displayed the evolution of photographic technology. Read More

Upcoming Exhibitions

Carlo Saraceni’s Our of Loreto and Peruvian Viceregal Statue Paintings

on view starting December 7th, 2024

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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Current Exhibitions

Prospect.6: The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home

on view through February 2nd, 2025

Founded in 2007, Prospect New Orleans is a citywide triennial exhibition of contemporary art featuring artists from Louisiana and around the globe. For P.6, Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn has created a two-channel film made in collaboration with musician Thảo Nguyễn and New Orleans-based producer and director Marion Hoàng Ngọc Hill. Read More

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