Sand, Ash, Heat: Glass at the New Orleans Museum of Art
Aug 30th, 2024 - Feb 10th, 2025
Allison Reid, Deputy Director for Interpretation and Audience Engagement at the New Orleans Museum of Art, has announced Erin M. Greenwald as the museum’s first ever Curator of Programs. Read More
The longstanding partnership that Audubon Nature Institute and New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) have with the Patrick F. Taylor Foundation continued to blossom during the 2016/2017 academic year with a record-setting 211,582 students taking part in a program that rewards excellence in the classroom. Read More
Works by African American artists Thornton Dial, Ronald Lockett, Joe Minter, Mary Proctor and the quilters of Gee’s Bend, Alabama, are included in recent gift/purchase. Read More
NOMA unveils Automaton Clock, Re-opens Beloved Decorative Arts Galleries NEW ORLEANS, LA – The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA)’s automaton musical clock would have been viewed as a mechanical wonder when it was made in London around 1800, and it still charms today as the centerpiece of a new installation. On view through October… Read More
NEW ORLEANS, LA – Anne Banõs, Deputy Director at the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA), has announced Elisabeth Rietvelt as Membership Manager, and Monique Tourres as Development and Operations Manager. As NOMA’s Membership Manager, Elisabeth Rietvelt will be primarily responsible for membership interactions, engagement and growth as well as membership relations. Reitvelt brings experience… Read More
NEW ORLEANS, LA — Pride of Place: The Making of Contemporary Art in New Orleans showcases renowned art collector and gallery owner Arthur Roger’s transformational gift of his entire personal art collection to the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA). Spotlighting one of the city’s most groundbreaking contemporary art collections, the exhibition explores the rise… Read More
NEW ORLEANS, LA — It was not until artist Regina Scully had the opportunity to closely explore the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA)’s collection of Japanese paintings that she realized the parallels between the art she was creating, and Chinese and Japanese antecedents. In Regina Scully | Japanese Landscape: Inner Journeys, on view April… Read More
Works celebrating the life-spanning accomplishments of printmaker, war veteran, and professor Jim Steg will be on view at the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) from March 31 – October 8, 2017 in Jim Steg: New Work. Steg was the most influential printmaker to be based in New Orleans in the twentieth century. Read More
In conjunction with the opening of the New Orleans Museum of Art’s forthcoming exhibition, A Life of Seduction: Venice in the 1700s, Ferrari of Houston, in partnership with the Ferrari Club of America, will bring New Orleans’ first Concorso d’Eleganza to the museum on February 18th. Read More
The grandeur of Venice comes to America’s most historic city in “A Life of Seduction: Venice in the 1700s”, an exhibition at the New Orleans Museum of Art February 16 – May 21. Read More
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded a $400,000 grant to the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) to support two curatorial fellowships in the fields of photography and modern and contemporary art. The award was announced in October 2016. “As we continue to open up NOMA’s collections to all communities, these fellowships reflect new methods… Read More
The New Orleans Museum of Art was selected to receive a $150,000 grant from The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The funds, from the Museums for America program, will support a two-year project to digitize the museum’s collection of African art. The collection from sub-Saharan tribal peoples is considered one of the most outstanding… Read More
NEW ORLEANS, LA–George Dunbar: Elements of Chance is the first comprehensive museum retrospective for the artist George Dunbar (American, b. 1927), who played a pivotal role in introducing abstract art to the South. On view November 3-February 17, this exhibition explores the evolution of Dunbar’s art from his early paintings from the 1940s and 1950s… Read More
NEW ORLEANS, LA-Seeing Nature: Landscape Masterworks from the Paul G. Allen Family Collection features 39 masterpieces exploring the evolution of European and American landscape painting from the collection of Paul G. Allen, Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist. This exhibition presents masterworks spanning nearly four hundred years—from Jan Brueghel the Younger’s series devoted to the five senses… Read More
Something in the Way: A Brief History of Photography and Obstruction and Photography Is are on view September 9, 2016-February 19, 2017 NEW ORLEANS, LA-Based on NOMA’s permanent collection, Something in the Way: A Brief History of Photography and Obstruction explores what obstructions in photographic images, be they accidental or intentional, can tell us about… Read More
NEW ORLEANS, LA-Beginning this summer, NOMA will debut the Creative Careers Internship, a new immersive educational program for teens in the New Orleans area. “NOMA’s education programs introduce youth to the arts at all phases in their development, while simultaneously encouraging continued engagement by educating teachers and motivating parents, said Susan M. Taylor, The Montine… Read More
NEW ORLEANS, LA- Susan M. Taylor, the Montine McDaniel Freeman Director at the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA), announced today the appointment of Anne Phayer Baños as Deputy Director who will begin her work at NOMA July 6. “Anne has an impressive record of leadership in major New Orleans organizations where she has served in… Read More
This is the first exhibition at NOMA dedicated to 20th century and contemporary design NEW ORLEANS, LA- The Essence of Things: Design and the Art of Reduction, on view June 24 through September 11, 2016, brings together approximately 150 objects from one hundred years of design history, ranging from humble items like flip-flops and rubber… Read More