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
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
This imaginative project involves creating a mirror-image transfer and a watercolor-resist painting of your signature then decorated as a monster. Read More
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
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
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
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
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, 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
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
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
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
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
[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
An unadorned glass bowl displayed in NOMA’s decorative arts galleries was made in 1932 directly from the factory mold of a Corning Glass Company locomotive-headlight lens. The “Lens” Bowl is part of the important Modern design movement that openly paid tribute to new materials and thoughtful industrial production. Read More
NOMA presents a series of virtual concerts featuring a range of music’s best and brightest performing from their homes. Assembled by internationally renowned multi-instrumentalist and composer Mahmoud Chouki, enjoy these… Read More
From 1923 through 1929 the circle was the single motif which Wassily Kandinsky explored exhaustively in ten major paintings. Sketch for Several Circles is a study for Kandinsky’s large painting Several Circles, now in the collection of the Guggenheim Museum, New York. Read More
From 1900 to 1907, Antoine Bourdelle worked on the model for Hercules the Archer, which is considered his most famous work. In Roman mythology, Hercules is known for his strength and numerous far-ranging adventures, including a cycle known as the “Twelve Labors,” one of which is depicted in this sculpture. Read More