Enjoy a series of socially-distanced performances by New Orleans musicians in NOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture Garden each Friday in April. Purchase tickets today.
To create the works in his project WATER, Edward Burtynsky travelled around the globe, weaving together an ambitious representation of water’s fragmented lifecycle.
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Purchase tickets now for Art in Bloom 2021 | Home Grown presented by IBERIABANK | First Horizon featuring spectacular floral designs. May 5-9.
NOMA presents a series of virtual concerts by New Orleans-based artists. Enjoy a performance by pianist Joey Calderazzo and singer/songwriter Gracie Jessop.
A Choice of Weapons: Photography, Surveillance, and Ethics explores ethics in photography. Panelists include Caroline Sinders, Brian Palmer, and Tara Pixley.
Vote for the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden in USA Today’s 2021 Reader’s Poll of best sculpture parks in America. Voting ends on May 7.
“Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon” features more than 70 works from across the Asian continent and reveals great achievements in Asian art spanning two millennia.
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New Photography: Create, Collect, Compile features four photographers who present visual narratives about identity, community, and power. See the exhibition by Sunday, June 6.
Experience exhibitions online through NOMA’s partnership with Google Arts & Culture.
NOMA is committed to being a welcoming, inclusive, anti-racist institution. We invite you to follow our progress.
A selection of recently bequeathed photographs from the collection of Dr. H. Russell Albright represents the core of NOMA’s modern and contemporary photography collection.
View our archive of Musicians from Home performances by local New Orleans musicians, organized by multi-instrumentalist Mahmoud Chouki.
View nearly 70 masterworks of Asian art spanning more than two millennia.
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A few of our favorite @jazzfest 2024 musicians who have performed at the museum 🎶 @mahmoudchouki @folkrockdiva @peoplemuseumband @brucesunpiebarnes @rebirthbrassband @yps_brass_band @helengillet @tremebrassband ...
If you were at the first @jazzfest in 1970, you would have seen artist Sister Gertrude Morgan in a booth selling her paintings. ➡️🔗 Swipe to learn about this important figure in New Orleans art history and then click the link in our bio to keep reading an article by curator Brian Piper.
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🎨: Sister Gertrude Morgan, "A Poem of My Calling," c. 1970. Crayon, tempera, graphite, and ballpoint ink on paper. Gift of Maria and Lee Friedlander, 2000.108.
🎨: Harriet Blum, "Sister Gertrude Morgan, Jazz & Heritage Festival," 1973. Gelatin silver print. Gift of the artist, 2006.47
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The sculptures grouped on this platform in "Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined" are macroscopic impressions of viruses. 🦠
Reminiscent of pottery, they are made from the distinctive and highly fertile red volcanic soil found in the highlands region of Kenya—a lifegiving material that is the source of the region’s dense forests and abundant horticulture.
Enlarging their scale highlights their geometry, symmetry, and distinctive textures, which evolved over millennia to facilitate the viruses’ infiltration of and reproduction within human, plant, and animal cells.
Mutu has specifically chosen to represent viruses that have historically been deployed as bioweapons of colonization (like measles and smallpox) as well as those that are tied to specific geopolitical contexts (like Zika and Dengue) or are otherwise interwoven with human societies (the common cold).
Such pathogens cause sickness and disease but also speak to
fears, vulnerabilities, and experiences that unify humanity.
"Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined" is on view at NOMA through July 14.
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🎨: Wangechi Mutu, various works, 2016–22. Red soil, paper pulp, and wood glue. Courtesy the artist, Gladstone Gallery, and Prout-Lara Collection, Vancouver.
📍: First floor, Ella West Freeman Galleries
📸: @annrowsonlove
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No better way to celebrate #EarthDay than with a walk outside through the Besthoff Sculpture Garden. 🌿🌞🌍
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🎨: Arnaldo Pomodoro, "Una Battaglia (A Battle: For the Resistance Fighters)," 1971. Bronze and stainless steel. Gift of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Foundation, 98.144.
📍: Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden
📸: @crazymajax
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Thank you, Councilmember Oliver Thomas (@otforus), for speaking to some of the pre-K students who are part of NOMA’s Mini Masters program, which combines in-school instruction and museum visits to bolster learning through the arts. 🎨🏛️✍️ ...
Scenes from Symphony of the Sown, a runway presentation by @odaomo in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden ✨🌿🪡
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🎥: @_tkcollins_ @toneontop
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