Art-Making Activity: Yardi Gras Music Makers
This imaginative project involves creating a mirror-image transfer and a watercolor-resist painting of your signature then decorated as a monster. Read More
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NOMA Announces Major Fund and Pledged Endowment from Del and Ginger Hall
The New Orleans Museum of Art announces a major fund and pledged endowment by Del and Ginger Hall of Chicago, Illinois, in support of the NOMA photography department. The fund will support and augment an ambitious set of exhibitions and programs in the department of photographs over the next five years, while the endowment will provide a foundation for the department’s activities in perpetuity. Read More
Mardi Gras designs by Bror Anders Wikstrom
Bror Anders Wikstrom made a name for himself in New Orleans by engaging with the heart of the city’s creative culture: Mardi Gras. Read More
NOMA Announces Transformative Gift of Photography from Dr. Russell Albright
Noted radiologist and art collector Dr. H. Russell Albright (1934-2017) bequeathed his extensive and important photography collection to the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA), and left a fund to create an endowment in support of the museum’s Department of Photographs. Dr. Albright had a long and significant relationship with NOMA, filling many roles over the span of 30 years, ranging from Trustee to longtime Fellow. Read More
Arts and Letters combine in expressive works found in NOMA’s collection
At the New Orleans Museum of Art, the writing is literally on the wall, not only in descriptive labels for works on view but also in a select paintings and sculpture that feature written communication. Read more about five examples. Read More
Musicians from Home: Gabi Cavassa and Ryan Hanseler
NOMA presents a series of virtual concerts featuring a range of music’s best and brightest performing from their homes. New Orleans based vocalist-composer Gabrielle Cavassa is accompanied by Ryan Hanseler. Read More
Art-Making Activity: Name Monsters
This imaginative project involves creating a mirror-image transfer and a watercolor-resist painting of your signature then decorated as a monster. Read More
Object Lesson: Rabbit Pounding the Elixir of Life Under the Moon by Mori Ippo
Rising above a minimal landscape of reeds and clouds, a rabbit is silhouetted against the moon, busy at work using a mortar and pestle. In Japanese folklore, a mystical hare… Read More
Object Lesson: North Polar Stars by Maynard Walker
Maynard Walker’s photograph of North Polar Stars seems to trace the path of the stars through the night sky over a long period of time. What it actually records, of course, is our own planet earth spinning through space and time. Read More
Suggested Reading List for All Ages | January 2021
NOMA’s Learning and Engagement team is excited to present monthly suggested reading lists for all ages based on a theme or exhibition, in partnership with Octavia Books. The theme for January 2021 is circles. Read More
Musicians from Home: Khris Royal featuring Danny Abel
NOMA presents a series of virtual concerts featuring a range of music’s best and brightest performing from their homes. Khris Royal and Danny Abel team up to present an electrifying performance. Read More
NOMA welcomes Natrang Stanley as new Human Resources Manager
The New Orleans Museum of Art is pleased to announce and welcome Natrang Stanley as the museum’s Human Resources Manager. Ms. Stanley officially began her role as HR Manager on Monday, January 11, 2021. Read More
A Message from Susan Taylor | January 22, 2021
A message from Susan Taylor, The Montine McDaniel Freeman Director of the New Orleans Museum of Art, regarding the museum’s civic role as a cultural institution in the city. Read More
Object Lesson: Apollo and the Muses by Maerten van Heemskerck
By the 1540s the theme of Apollo and the Muses, established during the sixteenth-century Italian Renaissance, had made its way to northern Europe where Maerten van Heemskerck seems to have… Read More
Creative Activity for MLK Day: Justice and Juxtaposition
In celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King’s legacy and the work of artist Fred Wilson, create and share an example of juxtaposition through the combination of two found objects or images from online and/or your immediate surroundings. Read More
New Photography Talk: Elliott Jerome Brown Jr. in conversation with Curator Brian Piper
Brian Piper, Mellon Foundation Assistant Curator for Photography, spoke with photographer Elliott Jerome Brown Jr. Brown’s work is featured in the exhibition New Photography: Create, Collect, Compile. The exhibition presents the work of four photographers, all of whom work with, and critique, these new practices in photography. Read More
New Photography Talk: Dionne Lee in conversation with Curator Brian Piper
Brian Piper, Mellon Foundation Assistant Curator spoke with with photographer Dionne Lee. Lee’s work is featured in New Photography: Create, Collect, Compile. The exhibition presents the work of four photographers, all of whom work with, and critique, these new practices in photography. Read More
Object Lesson: Mother and Child by Elizabeth Catlett
[Update, February 2023: Following the installation of Elizabeth Catlett’s Woman and Child in NOMA’s Great Hall, the sculpture is on view in the George l. Viavant Gallery on the museum’s… Read More