Bodies of Knowledge brings together eleven international contemporary artists to reflect on the role that language plays in archiving and asserting our cultural identities. In conjunction with this exhibition, NOMA will be screening an eclectic array of movies selected by a few of these artists that reflect their inspirations, interests, and ideals. Read More
Join Curatorial Fellow Brian Piper for a video tour of highlights in the photography exhibition You Are Here: A Brief History of Photography and Place by linking to NOMA’s Instagram account. Read More
The six-acre expansion of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden opened with great fanfare on May 16. Take a preview tour of the outdoor art space with Contemporary and Modern Art Curator Katie Pfohl, view clips of the ribbon-cutting ceremony, and scenes of the landscape in a video and photo gallery. Read More
Paper Revolutions: French Drawings from the New Orleans Museum of Art features drawings, rough sketches, preparatory studies, and finished drawings by some of the greatest draftsmen of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries within the turbulent political context of the Age of Revolution in France (1789–1870). Read More
NOMA recently acquired a jardinière that was crafted around 1890 at the short-lived New Orleans Art Pottery. Though this small operation only produced pots for a few years, it carries outsized significance as one of the earliest American art potteries and an important precursor to the cherished pottery that thrived for decades at New Orleans’s Newcomb College. Read More