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As we enter into Phase 1 of reopening the city of New Orleans, NOMA is finalizing plans to ensure the health and safety of our guests, staff, and collection. The Besthoff Sculpture Garden is now open. Join us on Tuesday, June 2, from 9:30 am to 6 pm. Visit our website, sign up for our weekly enews, or join us on social media for continual updates.

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Summer Art Kits

Summer Art Kits

Receive a 20% discount now on remaining  Hot Art, Cool Kids: Summer Art Kits, featuring online lessons and art supplies for at-home art-making activities.

Q&A

Q&A

Dawn DeDeaux’s work addresses apocalyptic themes. She discusses her forthcoming retrospective in 2021.

OBJECT LESSON

OBJECT LESSON

Often focusing on the confines of her own home, Dorothea Tanning transformed ordinary furniture into painted scenes where magical experiences might unfold.

Baby ArtsPlay! at Home

Baby ArtsPlay! at Home

Engage children ages 1 to 2 with free Facebook Live workshops on Saturday mornings through June 20.

YouTube Video

YouTube Video

Curator Nic Aziz discusses a future collaboration between NOMA+, a mobile pop-up museum, and The Black School, an experimental art academy focusing on radical Black history.

Web-Exclusive Feature

Web-Exclusive Feature

Russel Wright’s “Saturn” punch service is an innovative example of the use of aluminum in mid-century modern design.

Virtual Tour

Virtual Tour

You Are Here embraces photography’s success as a faithful record but also questions the medium’s effectiveness in depicting and sharing fragments of our world.

Studio KIDS!

Studio KIDS!

Join Saturday morning family-oriented virtual workshops with a NOMA teaching artist. Limited enrollment remains for January 16. Advance registration required.

Suggested Reading List

Suggested Reading List

NOMA staff, in partnership with independent New Orleans bookseller Octavia Books, offer a list of titles centered upon themes of home.

Focus on Photography

Focus on Photography

Photographers make choices within the singularity of a home-space and whether to expand or explode the domestic myths they have been invited to turn into a picture.

Art-Making Activity

Art-Making Activity

Create a colorful neighborhood using printmaking techniques at home.

Art-Making Activity

Art-Making Activity

Create a self-portrait on paper from collaged materials using your hand as a representation of your body.

Focus on Photography

Focus on Photography

Like all pictures of windows, Leslie Gill’s Studio Window, West 56th Street, New York is an example of “photographing photography.”

NOMA Cares

NOMA Cares

During the stay-at-home order, a team of NOMA employees are making an ongoing effort to call every Museum Member.

Instagram Photo Challenge

Instagram Photo Challenge

Teens are invited to submit photographs to NOMA’s Instagram account in a “Captured in Quarantine” photo challenge.

YouTube Video

YouTube Video

Kathleen Tunnell Handel discusses her ongoing project photographing residential mobile homes and manufactured housing communities. Photo: ©2020 Kathleen Dreier

 

Virtual Visit

 

NOMA on YouTube


Curator Brian Piper in conversation with
photographer Kathleen Tunnell Handel

 


Curator Nic Aziz in conversation with Shani Peters and Joseph Cuillier of The Black School, an experimental art school teaching radical Black history

 

NOMA on Instagram @neworleansmuseumofart

Last week, Mahmoud Chouki and special guests celebrated the vinyl release of “Caravan—From Marrakech to New Orleans” with a performance in NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts 🎶 ...

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In New Orleans photography, few images are now so well-known as the Storyville photographs attributed to Ernest J. Bellocq around 1913. 📸 But did you know that glass is an integral part of that history?⁠

The object reproduced here is one of the ninety known glass plate negatives of Storyville subjects attributed to the photographer, and one of two in NOMA’s collection.⁠

Glass has always been an important material in photography, especially as a base for the light-sensitive chemistry that makes a photographic negative—sharper and more detailed than those made using previous materials, like paper. By the time this photograph was made, Kodak film was available, but professional photographers’ preference for glass negatives persisted into the 1930s.⁠

Prints from the Storyville glass negatives that Bellocq definitively made himself have not been found. This photographic glass negative shows a mantelpiece in the interior of an unidentified brothel, and at least one of the subjects in the pictures on the mantel display also appears in the group of Bellocq’s Storyville portraits. ⁠

🔗 Click the link in our bio to read more from Brian Piper, Freeman Family Curator of Photographs, Prints, and Drawings.⁠
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🎨 : Ernest J. Bellocq, "Mantel, Storyville, New Orleans," ca. 1911–13. Gelatin silver negative on glass. Museum purchase, 73.241.⁠
📍: 2nd floor, A. Charlotte Mann & Joshua Mann Pailet Gallery (beginning Friday, December 6)⁠
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"With more than 90 pieces exhibited, exploring among gardens, magnolias and gorgeous live oaks becomes as culturally enriching as it is soul-soothing – think of it as forest-bathing meets gallery-hopping. Spectacular sculptures like Frank Gehry’s `Bear with Us,` Frank Stella’s `Alu Truss Star,` or Sean Scully’s `Colored Stack Frames` become even more fascinating against this uniquely Louisiana backdrop, inviting you to admire them from different angles and immerse yourself in nature."⁠

Click the link in our bio to read the full "24 Hours in New Orleans" guide from @departuresint, which includes NOMA`s Besthoff Sculpture Garden.⁠
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🎨: Sean Scully, "Colored Stacked Frames," 2017. Stainless steel with automotive paint. Museum purchase with funds provided by Sydney and Walda Besthoff, 2017.192. © Sean Scully.⁠
📸: @stephaniegalt
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Mark your calendars for a gallery talk with artist @ayo.y.scott on the work of his father, artist John T. Scott, on Wednesday, December 4, at 12:30 pm. 🗓️⁠

Scott will lead a discussion on John T. Scott’s “Blues Poem for the Urban Landscape” series, currently on view in NOMA’s Great Hall.⁠

Free with museum admission. Louisiana residents receive free admission to NOMA on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation.⁠
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🎨: John T. Scott, “Blues Poem for Urban Landscape: Food Store” (detail), 2003. Woodcut on Coventry white wove paper, from an edition of eight. Gift of Ashley and Timothy Francis, 2005.66.⁠
📍: First floor, Great Hall
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