Mario Barbee wore a New Orleans Saints jersey to NOMA in August. NFL fans who dressed like him — or wore Seahawks jerseys — got free admission to NOMA on Nov. 1, 2016.
The New Orleans Saints and the New Orleans Museum of Art teamed up to offer free admission on Tuesday, Nov. 1 to anyone wearing a Saints or Seahawks jersey following their regular season match up on Sunday, Oct. 30.
Scores of visitors came to NOMA that day. About 80 percent of them were locals, and many were making their first visit to the museum.
For Seattle fans, the Nov. 1 promotion was a chance to preview NOMA’s current blockbuster exhibition, Seeing Nature: Landscape Masterworks from the Paul G. Allen Family Collection, which will tour to the Seattle Art Museum in 2017.
Seattle Seahawks owner Paul G. Allen collected the works in the nationally touring exhibition. It will be on view at NOMA through Jan. 15, 2017. Seeing Nature includes 39 paintings spanning 400 years. NOMA is the only institution in the southern U.S. showing the exhibition.
Seeing Nature presents a compelling view of how some of the world’s greatest artists interpreted landscapes. It includes five landscapes by Claude Monet and works by Paul Cézanne, Gustav Klimt, Thomas Moran, Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe, Jan Brueghel the Younger and others.