Senior Research Curator Vanessa Schmid provides historical background on Angelique, a painting by New Orleans-born artist Léopold Burthe, purchased by the museum in 2018 with funds provided by Michael and Susie McLoughlin. Read more about the purchase and installation in this article from NOMA Magazine. Read More
Filmmaker Garrett Bradley created an installation at NOMA that presents scenes that might have been from the lost trove of African American silent movies in the early twentieth century. Her immersive, multi-channel film America reimagines this vanished archive through a corpus of new films cast primarily with New Orleanians. Read More
Visitors to Bodies of Knowledge will encounter a large wall affixed with loosely attached burned tissue paper. Titled Brève braises, this interactive work by Manon Bellet will gradually disintegrate over the course of the exhibition as musicians are invited to perform in front of the ephemeral installation. Witness a performance activation on Wednesday, July 24, from 3 to 4 pm with musicians from NOCCA. Read More
Iraqi artist Wafaa Bilal is among eleven international artists represented in Bodies of Knowledge, an exhibition that features a broad range of cultural expression in many mediums, from dance, film, music, and photography to books, which are central to Bilal’s installation 168:01. Read More
NOMA is renowned for its collection of French art. As the museum opens its doors for a French Fête on Friday, August 9, from 5-9 p.m., we invite you to share the vision of Edgar Degas, Auguste Rodin, and Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, among the many French artists represented in the museum’s collection. Read More