George Dureau: Selected Photographs
on view through August 9th, 2026
This survey of George Dureau’s figurative photography includes current and promised works from NOMA’s permanent collection, and includes nudes, portraits, and studies. Read More
Current Exhibitions
Robert Gordy: Outside the Mainstream
on view through October 11th, 2026
This exhibition, the first in-depth presentation of the artist’s work at NOMA in over four decades, shares selections from Gordy’s career from the 1950s until his death in 1986. Read More
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
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
Afropolitan: Contemporary African Arts at NOMA
on view through October 31st, 2026
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
Upcoming Exhibitions
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Past Exhibitions
Hanaq Pachap: Art of the Indigenous Guilds of Viceregal Peru
ended on 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
Exhibition Videos
Chief Ekpenyong Bassey Nsa Welcomes Visitors to New African Masquerades and Introduces Co-curator and Ekpe Chief Dr. Jordan Fenton
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