“The Bayou School: 19th Century Louisiana Landscapes of Clague, Buck, and Smith”
Landscape painting flowered in America in the nineteenth century as the country began to appreciate its vast and varied… read more
Watch as Dr. Bhansali explains his passion for collection and highlights his numerous rare and noteworthy bronzes. Few private or public collections anywhere can claim so many metal figures of this… read more
The exhibition includes over 100 bronze sculptures of Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain deities, presenting a rich diversity of figures of the three major religions of ancient India.
The Bhansali collection contains… read more
By Ann Maloney, The Times-Picayune
We wonder: Is it more difficult to find a snark in the park or in a theater? The Skin Horse Theater troupe has taken its adaptation… read more
The strength of the Nola Project's Shakespeare productions has been their homemade inventiveness. The company has used it wits and creativity to overcome budgetary restrictions, usually to effective results. In the… read more
To kick-off the final centennial exhibition NOMA 100: Gifts for the Second Century, NOMA presents a talk by Keith Sonnier about his recent gift to NOMA called Fluorescent Room. For this… read more
Artist Keith Sonnier talks to Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Miranda Lash, about his recent gift to NOMA called “Fluorescent Room.” For his piece, Sonnier arranges different size foam rubber… read more
Modern and contemporary Louisiana artists continued the area’s rich and diverse arts tradition. John McCrady, who came to be aligned with the Regionalist art movement during his early career, returned to… read more
MASS PRODUCED as been extended!
This exhibition aims to examine the impact of industrial techniques on mass-produced objects for the home. The nineteenth century saw an explosion in the quantity and… read more
Written by Doug McCash for the Times-Picayune.
Internationally known artist Katie Holten is attempting to obstruct the New Orleans Museum of Art atrium with a set of huge drawings suspended from… read more
The Southwestern United States has been the homeland of indigenous peoples for more than 10,000 years. Over the millennia, drastic changes occurred in the natural environment, producing the semi-arid desert and… read more
The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) enjoys being in beautiful City Park, but NOMA and City Park are separate entities.
City Park is a unique state agency of the Department… read more
Growing Pains: The Autobiography of Emily Carr
Emily Carr
(Any edition is acceptable.)
Growing Pains tells the story of writer and painter Emily Carr’s life, from a proper Canadian girlhood, through… read more
Hard Truths: The Art of Thornton Dial highlights the artist’s significant contribution to the field of American art and shows how Dial’s work speaks to the most pressing issues of our… read more
“The beauty of natural countryside is never surpassed by anything created by the human imagination.” – Bernard Faucon
As New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) kicks off centennial celebrations, Bernard Faucon:… read more
New Orleans, LA -? The Elegant Image: Hindu, Buddhist and Jain Bronzes from the Indian Subcontinent in the Siddharth K. Bhansali Collection, presented by the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA)… read more
As told to Allese Thomson Baker for Artforum.
Katie Holten is an Irish-born, New York–based multimedia artist whose work explores the relationship between human beings and the natural environment. She represented… read more
What is a photograph? How do we define its history? This exhibition, compiled mostly from NOMA’s permanent collection, examines many forms of photography from the 1840s to the present, in order… read more
By Doug MacCash, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
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Frank Stella, the 76-year-old lion of modern art, shared his views on abstraction with a crowd… read more
Fall 2009, the New Orleans Museum of Art presented Skylar Fein: Youth Manifesto, the first solo museum exhibition of work by the New Orleans-based artist Skylar Fein. Focusing on youth culture,… read more
This spring NOMA is pleased to present a solo exhibition of work by conceptual artist Dario Robleto, featuring sculpture and works on paper from the past ten years. Dario Robleto: The… read more
This Friday, join us for an artist perspective on “Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World’s Fairs, 1851-1939“ by noted jewelry designer Mignon Faget.
5-8 p.m.: Art activity with… read more
"Hard Truths: The Art of Thornton Dial," an exhibit of more than 40 paintings, drawings and sculptures by one of America's premier self-taught artists, opens Feb. 24 at The New Orleans… read more
On view November 11 to January 27, Lifelike explores the boundaries between the real and fabricated in the work of over 50 artists from around the globe. Artists featured in the… read more
By Doug McCash, nola.com
“What is a photograph?” an exhibit tracing the history of photo techniques from 1840 onward opens at the New Orleans Museum of Art April 20 and continues… read more
“The beauty of natural countryside is never surpassed by anything created by the human imagination.” – Bernard Faucon
As New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) kicked off centennial celebrations, Bernard Faucon:… read more
By Lianna Patch | NOLA Defender
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Now open at the New Orleans Museum of Art: an exhibit that will blow your… read more
An Exhibition Highlighting the Ingenuity and Innovation of Works Presented at the World's Fairs
On view at NOMA from April 12 to August 4, 2013
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NOMA’s collection of American Modern and Contemporary art ranges from the Impressionism of Mary Cassatt to the modernism of Georgia O’Keeffe, from the Abstract Expressionism of Jackson Pollock to the dynamic… read more
Ansel Adams was a collection of 125 black and white photographs by Ansel Adams, drawn from The Lane Collection and organized by the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The photographs… read more