ended on June 7th, 2012
“Self-Taught Artists from NOMA’s Permanent Collection” features the work of eleven nationally recognized self-taught American artists. This Great Hall exhibition is curated by Alice Yelen. Read More
ended on May 20th, 2012
Over 40 of Dial’s large-scale paintings, drawings and found-object sculptures, including 25 new works. Read More
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
ended on February 26th, 2012
Edo-period paintings from the permanent collection Read More
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
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 international biennials, such as the Venice Biennale and the Bienal de São Paulo, Prospect New Orleans showcases new artistic practices from around the world in… Read More
ended on January 22nd, 2012
Featuring works by Anish Kapoor, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Jasper Johns, Keith Sonnier, Andy Warhol, Sol LeWitt, Dale Chihuly and Robert Polidori. Read More
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
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
ended on October 23rd, 2011
Hindu, Buddhist and Jain Bronzes from the Indian Subcontinent in the Siddharth K. Bhansali Collection. Extensive Exhibition Spans 15 centuries. Read More
ended on September 25th, 2011
THALASSA (The Great Hall Project) Read More
ended on August 21st, 2011
Zen Painting from the Permanent Collection Read More
on view starting April 17th, 2020
Over the past two decades, the ways in which we create, collect, and compile photographs have shifted dramatically. In broad strokes, we might define this shift as away from photographs as singular, iconic, and private objects to a ubiquitous, public, and collective phenomenon that is now often immaterial. This exhibition presents the work of four photographers, all of whom work with, and critique, these new practices in photography. Unified by their understanding of the photograph as an ambiguous messenger, each of these artists creates, collects, or compiles photographs to trace narratives about identity, community, and power. Read More
on view starting October 16th, 2020
Dawn DeDeaux: The Space Between Worlds is the first comprehensive museum exhibition for the pioneering multimedia artist Dawn DeDeaux. Since the 1970s, DeDeaux’s practice has spanned video, performance, photography, and installation to create art that exists at the edge of the Anthropocene. Anticipating a future imperiled by the runaway population growth, breakneck industrial development, and the looming threat of climate change, DeDeaux has long worked between worlds of the present and the future. Read More
on view through July 27th, 2020
A recently acquired akwanshi stone monolith from the Cross River region of Nigeria forms the centerpiece of a focus exhibition featuring stone as a material used in ancestral veneration among West African cultures. Read More
Join performance artist Cristina Molina on a “whispering tour” of Ear to the Ground. Working with natural elements like earth, wind, water and fire, the contemporary artists in this exhibition show how how nature can spur artistic innovation and spark new thinking about human culture and community. Molina’s performance is called Under Three Things. “In… Read More
