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MUSIC IN THE GARDEN

MUSIC IN THE GARDEN

Enjoy a series of socially-distanced performances by New Orleans musicians in NOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture Garden each Friday in April. Purchase tickets today.

OBJECT LESSON

OBJECT LESSON

To create the works in his project WATER, Edward Burtynsky travelled around the globe, weaving together an ambitious representation of water’s fragmented lifecycle.

GIVE NOLA DAY

GIVE NOLA DAY

Give NOLA Day is May 4. Your gift will allow NOMA to continue providing you with engaging programming and world-class exhibitions. Give on May 4 or schedule your gift today.

ART IN BLOOM

ART IN BLOOM

Purchase tickets now for Art in Bloom 2021 | Home Grown presented by IBERIABANK | First Horizon featuring spectacular floral designs. May 5-9.

MUSICIANS FROM HOME

MUSICIANS FROM HOME

NOMA presents a series of virtual concerts by New Orleans-based artists. Enjoy a performance by pianist Joey Calderazzo and singer/songwriter Gracie Jessop.

CREATIVE ASSEMBLY

CREATIVE ASSEMBLY

A Choice of Weapons: Photography, Surveillance, and Ethics explores ethics in photography. Panelists include Caroline Sinders, Brian Palmer, and Tara Pixley.

VOTE NOMA

VOTE NOMA

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.

PURCHASE TICKETS

PURCHASE TICKETS

“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.

ACTIVATE YOUR ACCOUNT

ACTIVATE YOUR ACCOUNT

Allow us to better serve you. Activate your my.noma.org account to buy tickets and review your membership details online.

FINAL DAYS

FINAL DAYS

New Photography: Create, Collect, Compile features four photographers who present visual narratives about identity, community, and power. See the exhibition by Sunday, June 6.

Virtual Exhibitions

Virtual Exhibitions

Experience exhibitions online through NOMA’s partnership with Google Arts & Culture.

DEI Progress Report

DEI Progress Report

NOMA is committed to being a welcoming, inclusive, anti-racist institution. We invite you to follow our progress.

ON VIEW

ON VIEW

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.

Art Projects

Art Projects

Follow along, step-by-step, as we lead you through creative projects for all ages. 

MUSICIANS FROM HOME

MUSICIANS FROM HOME

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.

Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon

View nearly 70 masterworks of Asian art spanning more than two millennia.

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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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