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Press Releases
Love in the Garden Presented by Whitney Bank Celebrates Visual and Culinary Artists in New Orleans
On September 22, 2017, the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) will celebrate LOVE in the Garden presented by Whitney Bank. This year, over 1,400 guests will enjoy cuisine from over 60 of New Orleans’ finest restaurants, and craft cocktails from New Orleans’ top bartenders as they vie for first place in the fourth annual LOVE Cocktail Challenge, sponsored by SKYY Vodka. Local New Orleans food trucks will provide late-night fare to keep the party going into the evening. Read More
Once-in-a-Lifetime Exhibition Features Earliest Photographs of Eastern American Landscapes on view at the New Orleans Museum of Art
The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) will present East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography from October 6, 2017, to January 7, 2018. In association with NOMA, this landmark exhibition, co-organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, is the first to exclusively explore a vivid chapter of America’s photographic history—19th-century American landscape photography made east of the Mississippi River. Read More
New Orleans Museum of Art Welcomes Curator of Programs
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
Taylor Scholars Awards Program Reveals Record-Setting Number of Students
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
NOMA Acquires 10 Works from Souls Grown Deep Foundation
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
Mechanical Wonder Marks Celebration of New Gallery at NOMA
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
NOMA celebrates promotions within development team
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
Trailblazing New Orleans gallerist Arthur Roger gifts his collection to NOMA
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
When Worlds Collide: NOMA celebrates artistic coincidence in Regina Scully | Japanese Landscape: Inner Journeys
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
NOMA recognizes Ghost Army veteran and printmaking pioneer in Jim Steg: New Work
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
Prized Ferraris find their way to NOMA as Venice exhibition opens
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
A Life of Seduction: Venice in the 1700s
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
NOMA Receives a Major Grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
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
NOMA Awarded a $150,000 Grant to Digitize the Museum’s Permanent Collection
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
NOMA presents first comprehensive museum retrospective for Louisiana native George Dunbar
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
NOMA is only southern venue for blockbuster exhibition “Seeing Nature: Landscape Masterworks from the Paul G. Allen Family Collection”
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
NOMA EXHIBITIONS EXPLORE OBSTRUCTION IN PHOTOGRAPHY
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
NOMA Receives $125,000 Grant from Walton Family Foundation to Debut Immersive Intern Program for Teens
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