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Press Releases
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
NOMA welcomes Natrang Stanley as new Human Resources Manager
The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) is pleased to announce and welcome Natrang Stanley as the museum’s Human Resources Manager. Read More
NOMA announces revised hours of operation and free Thursdays
Out of an abundance of caution and in consideration of the safety of visitors and staff, the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) is temporarily revising visitation hours through March 3, 2021. Read More
NOMA announces trustees joining board in 2021
The Board of Trustees of the New Orleans Museum of Art elected a slate of new members who will join the board in January 2021. The Board of Trustees works together to support NOMA’s mission of uniting, inspiring, and engaging diverse communities and cultures through the arts. Read More
New Photography: Create, Collect, Compile
New Photography: Create, Collect, Compile brings together the work of four contemporary photographers who all work with and critique new practices in photography. In a world where photography has become an open-source language, these artists pose questions about who gets to use that language and what it can communicate. Read More
Mending the Sky: Creating Space for Care, Collectivity, and Critique
he New Orleans Museum of Art presents Mending the Sky, the museum’s first major exhibition following New Orleans’ months-long shutdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The exhibition brings together ten artists’ projects that respond to a world turned upside down. Working across the fields of art, animation, and performance, the artists work to shift conversations, challenge entrenched views, and subvert the established order. Read More
“Stunting” for New Orleans: NOMA unveils commissioned work by Roberto Lugo
In 2019, the New Orleans Museum of Art commissioned Philadelphia-based artist Roberto Lugo to create the “Stunting” Garniture Set, a set of porcelain covered vases and sculpture that expands the parameters of NOMA’s ceramics collection to highlight New Orleans music icons Louis Armstrong, Lil Wayne, and No Limit Soldiers hip-hop recording artists. Read More
Enrique Alférez Mural to Return to Public View, Historic Mural Gifted to the New Orleans Museum of Art
Created for the lobby of the New Orleans Times-Picayune Building in 1967, Enrique Alférez’s plaster relief mural Symbols of Communication will find a new home in NOMA’s renovated auditorium complex. Read More
New Orleans Museum of Art announces free admission to first responders and healthcare workers
As an expression of deep appreciation and gratitude, the New Orleans Museum of Art will offer free admission to first responders and healthcare professionals upon the reopening of the museum through December 31, 2020. Read More
New Orleans art museums jointly announce closure
The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA), the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and the Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) have decided to temporarily close our doors starting Monday, March 16, 2020 to aid in the prevention of the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Read More
Alia Ali: FLUX, Exploring Cultures at a Crossroads Through Textile and Photographs
NEW ORLEANS, LA – The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) presents Alia Ali: FLUX, the first major museum presentation of the work of Yemeni-Bosnian artist Alia Ali. On view February 21 through August 2, 2020, FLUX considers how politics, economics and histories collide in fabric patterns and techniques. Focusing on wax print fabric—a form… Read More
East Meets West at Art in Bloom 2020: Beauty, Ingenuity, and Tradition, Presented by IBERIABANK March 26-29
Art in Bloom, the most anticipated springtime events in New Orleans, returns to the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) from March 26-29. With this year’s theme of Beauty, Ingenuity, and Tradition, Art in Bloom showcases spectacular floral designs created by over 100 exhibitors that remain on display at NOMA for four days. Art in Bloom: Beauty, Ingenuity, and Tradition is presented by IBERIABANK. Read More
NOMA announces Auditorium Complex renovation
In its mission to serve as a multi-faceted cultural convener arts and audiences, the New Orleans Museum of Art began construction on renovations to its auditorium complex in early January of 2020. Read More
Torkwase Dyson: Black Compositional Thought | 15 Paintings for the Plantationocene
The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) presents Torkwase Dyson: Black Compositional Thought | 15 Paintings for the Plantationocene, on view January 24 through April 19, 2020. These compositions, specifically created for the solo exhibition, examine the legacy of plantation economies and their relationship to the environmental and infrastructural issues of the current age, often characterized as the plantationocene. Read More
NOMA awarded $1 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded the New Orleans Museum of Art a $1 million grant to support the planning and staffing of a new conservation initiative. The funds awarded by The Mellon Foundation will support the establishment of a conservation center at NOMA, and create two new museum positions in the areas of object conservation including outdoor sculpture, and photography conservation. Read More
Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon: Masterworks from the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection at Asia Society
On view March 13 through June 7, 2020, Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon showcases the broad range of bronzes, ceramics, and metalwork assembled by John D. Rockefeller 3rd (1906–1978) and his wife Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller (1909–1992) between the 1940s and the 1970s. With highlights including Chinese vases, Indian Chola bronzes, and Southeast Asian sculptures, the collection reveals great achievements in Asian art spanning more than two millennia. Read More
NOMA’s Greenwood Parlor, Reimagined | Museum reinstallation of pristine parlor honors all lives lived at Greenwood Plantation
The New Orleans Museum of Art announces the permanent installation of The Greenwood Parlor, now on view. In 2014, NOMA acquired the parlor furnishings from Greenwood Plantation, today called Butler-Greenwood, in St. Francisville, Louisiana. The 1850s/60s parlor suite assembled by Harriet Flower Mathews (1794-1873) survives with original textiles and rich documentation. After careful conservation, the parlor is one of the South’s best preserved examples of a pre-Civil War interior. In this installation, NOMA takes thoughtful steps to present the parlor’s story and recognize all the lives lived at Greenwood Plantation—Harriet Mathews, her family, and, equally, the enslaved men, women, and children whose labor created their wealth. Read More
Portrait Miniatures: Intimate Images from the Latter-Schlesinger Collection
The New Orleans Museum of Art presents the museum’s Latter-Schlesinger Collection of Portrait Miniatures. Cradled in the palm of the hand or worn close to the heart, portrait miniatures were never intended for public consumption, but rather, functioned as personal tokens of affection, love, or memorial. Drawing from NOMA’s permanent collection, the installation of more than 100 portrait miniatures is now on view in the Lupin Foundation Decorative Arts Galleries on the museum’s second floor. Read More