Leah Chase: Paintings by Gustave Blache III
ended on September 16th, 2012
Celebrating Leah’s upcoming 90th year! Leah Chase Gala on April 23. Exhibition opens April 24. Read More
Past Exhibitions
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
Self-Taught Artists from NOMA’s Permanent Collection
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
Hard Truths: The Art of Thornton Dial
ended on May 20th, 2012
Over 40 of Dial’s large-scale paintings, drawings and found-object sculptures, including 25 new works. 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
Forty Years in Edo
ended on February 26th, 2012
Edo-period paintings from the permanent collection 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
NOMA 100: Gifts for the Second Century
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
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
The Elegant Image: Hindu, Buddhist and Jain Bronzes from the Indian Subcontinent in the Siddharth K. Bhansali Collection
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
Swoon: THALASSA (The Great Hall Project)
ended on September 25th, 2011
THALASSA (The Great Hall Project) Read More
Zen Painting from the Permanent Collection
ended on August 21st, 2011
Zen Painting from the Permanent Collection Read More
Read My Pins: The Madeleine Albright Collection
ended on August 14th, 2011
The Madeleine Albright Collection Read More
Ancestors of Congo Square: African Art in the New Orleans Museum of Art
ended on July 17th, 2011
Ancestors of Congo Square: African Art in the New Orleans Museum of Art, on display May 13 to July 17. In keeping with the spirit of NOMA’s centennial year, the Museum will be highlighting one of the most impressive areas of its permanent collection: its extensive holdings in African art. Read More
The Sound of One Hand
ended on April 17th, 2011
Paintings and Calligraphy by Zen Master Hakuin Read More
Upcoming Exhibitions
No Upcoming Exhibitions.
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
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