Mending the Sky
Oct 9th, 2020 - Jan 31st, 2021
Press Releases
An Ideal Unity: The Bauhaus and Beyond
Celebrating the centennial of the Bauhaus (1919-1933), An Ideal Unity explores the artistic breadth of the innovative school that integrated fine arts and design. Including photographs and decorative arts from NOMA’s permanent collection, the exhibition underscores the principles of the Bauhaus aesthetic and mission. Read More
Ancestors in Stone: Showcasing NOMA’s Akwanshi Monolith
A recently acquired akwanshi monolith from the Cross Rivers region of Nigeria forms the centerpiece of a focus exhibition, showcasing stone as a material used in ancestral veneration among African cultures. Read More
The Quilts of Gee’s Bend: Extraordinary 20th-Century Quilts of Gee’s Bend, Alabama
The Quilts of Gee’s Bend exhibition features five extraordinary twentieth-century quilts made by the women of Gee’s Bend, Alabama, that elevate a traditional craft form to masterful work of intentional art. The women’s use of bold geometric shapes and a fiercely independent design process brought international acclaim to Gee’s Bend quilters. Read More
LOVE in the Garden presented by Hancock Whitney celebrates New Orleans art, cuisine, and libations
The New Orleans Museum of Art will celebrate LOVE in the Garden presented by Hancock Whitney on September 27, 2019. Now in its fifteenth year, guests will enjoy cuisine from over sixty of New Orleans’ finest restaurants, and craft cocktails from New Orleans’ top bartenders as they vie for first place in the sixth-annual LOVE Cocktail Challenge. Local New Orleans food trucks presented will provide late-night fare to keep the party going into the evening. Read More
You Are Here: A Brief History of Photography and Place
You Are Here, on view April 26–July 28, 2019, both embraces and challenges the photograph’s role as a faithful record of place, examining photography’s successes and failures in rendering and sharing fragments of the world. Drawn almost exclusively from NOMA’s permanent collection, the exhibition traces a history of photography and place from the origins of the medium to the present. Read More
Paper Revolutions: French Drawings from the New Orleans Museum of Art
Paper Revolutions: French Drawings from the New Orleans Museum of Art, on view through July 14th, 2019, traces the politics of draftsmanship in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries during the France’s Age of Revolution (1789–1870). Read More
Bodies of Knowledge: NOMA hosts international contemporary art exhibition
NOMA presents Bodies of Knowledge, on view June 28–October 13, 2019. The exhibition brings together ten international contemporary artists to reflect on the role that language plays in defining our cultural identities, and will be the first global contemporary exhibition of its kind at NOMA. Read More
NOMA’S Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden Expansion Incorporates Innovative Architectural Elements
The six-acre expansion of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden at the New Orleans Museum of Art opens to the public on May 15, 2019. With environmental impact at the forefront of planning, the sculpture garden expansion emphasizes the distinctive character of the Louisiana landscape. Read More
Art in Bloom 2019 Looks to the Future at NOMA: Illuminations: Looking Within and Beyond in Partnership with IBERIABANK March 27-31
With a focus on light, transformation and discovery, the theme of Art in Bloom 2019 at the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) is Illuminations: Looking Within and Beyond. This highly anticipated springtime event takes place March 27-31. After an extraordinary Tricentennial year of reflection and celebration, 2019 presents the opportunity to look ahead with limitless imagination and innovation. Illuminations: Looking Within and Beyond is in partnership with IBERIABANK. Read More
NOMA announces artists selected for Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden expansion
Opening on May 15, 2019, the expansion of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden at the New Orleans Museum of Art will feature 26 new works by artists working primarily in the 21st century. The expansion, which broke ground in December 2017, builds on the success of the museum’s existing five-acre Besthoff Sculpture Garden, widely regarded as one of the top sculpture gardens in the world. The existing site is home to 64 sculptures from renowned artists from the 19th century to the present. Read More
Bondye: Between and Beyond | Tina Girouard’s Flags on View for Mardi Gras
NOMA presents Bondye: Between and Beyond, on view January 25 through June 16, 2019, featuring a series of sequined prayer flags by Tina Girouard with Haitian artists in Port-au-Prince. Inspired by the blend of Caribbean, African, and European culture in her own Louisiana hometown, these flags reference a range of international traditions expressed in Vodou, from All Saints Day in France to New Orleans Mardi Gras and Haitian Kanaval. Read More
Keith Sonnier retrospective at NOMA: Exploring the Influence of Louisiana Art and Culture
NOMA presents Keith Sonnier: Until Today, on view March 15 through June 2, 2019. The first comprehensive museum survey for Keith Sonnier, the exhibition celebrates a Louisiana-born pioneering figure in conceptual, post-minimal, video and performance art of the late 1960s. Read More
Ear to the Ground: Earth and Element in Contemporary Art
Working with natural elements like earth, wind, water and fire, the artists featured in the group exhibition Ear to the Ground, on view through August 31, 2019, show how nature can spur artistic innovation and spark new thinking about human culture and community. Read More
NOMA welcomes 300,00th visitor in 2018: Museum Sees All-Time Highest Visitation in City’s Tricentennial Year
On Sunday, December 9, the New Orleans Museum of Art welcomed its 300,000th visitor in 2018. In celebration of a significant year for New Orleans, NOMA set the goal of reaching over 300,000 visitors for the city’s 300th birthday. Read More
Geoffrey Mann captures the rhythms of New Orleans in “Second Line” Cocktail Service
The “Second Line” Cocktail Service, a focused installation on view through May 2019, celebrates a new digital and glass work of art commissioned by the museum. Scottish designer Geoffrey Mann recorded the sounds he heard on Frenchmen Street in New Orleans. Using cutting-edge digital technologies combined with time-honored glass craft, Mann’s “Second Line” Cocktail Service embodies the ambient jazz music and conversation in three-dimensional objects. Read More
NOMA reopens reimagined decorative arts galleries
The Lupin Foundation Center for Decorative Arts on the second floor of the New Orleans Museum of Art has reopened with a new installation drawn from the permanent collection, and for the first time includes modern and contemporary design. Read More
Timothy Duffy: Blue Muse
Using a photography process invented in the United States in the nineteenth-century, Timothy Duffy creates masterful one-of-a-kind tintype portraits of American musicians, preserving the faces of American roots music for future generations. His solo exhibition, Timothy Duffy: Blue Muse, will be on view from April 25 through July 28, 2019. Read More
NOMA in partnership with IBERIABANK presents Odyssey 2018: All That Glitters
On Saturday, November 10, 2018, at the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA), Odyssey 2018: All That Glitters in partnership with IBERIABANK will once again celebrate NOMA and the integral place of this annual gala in New Orleans’ cultural life and history. Now in its 52nd year, this signature event has become a New Orleans legacy. Read More
