A magnificent and comprehensive collection of glass objects is the single greatest strength of the New Orleans Museum of Art’s Decorative Arts Department. The glass collection is ranked among the top… read more
The Facts & Figures
The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden at the New Orleans Museum of Art occupies approximately 5 acres in City Park adjacent to the Museum. Atypical of… read more
By Doug MacCash, The Times-Picayune
Published: Wednesday, August 29, 2012, 12:53 PM
The New Orleans Museum of Art, which suffered costly water seepage through its basement floor doing Hurricane Katrina, was… read more
Art in Bloom
March 20-24, 2013
Celebrating Steel Magnolias
Patron and Preview Party, March 20, 2013
Lectures and Luncheon, March 21, 2013
This annual springtime celebration includes educational programs and social… read more
This Friday night come to NOMA for a staged reading of Steel Magnolias. Plus, music by Robin Barnes and an art activity for the kids. Come spend Friday night with us!… read more
Video by: Dough MacCash of the Times Picayune
Watch as Texas-based conceptual artist Dario Robleto describes a fragile drumstick he custom-made from the brittle glass called trinitite produced by atomic bomb… read more
Art in Bloom
March 20-24, 2013
Celebrating Steel Magnolias
Patron and Preview Party, March 20, 2013
Lectures and Luncheon, March 21, 2013
This annual springtime celebration includes educational programs and social… 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
By D. Eric Bookhardt | Gambit Weekly
Click here to read the article on Gambit Weekly’s website.
Visual art has long been concerned with realism - the accurate depiction of the… read more
The Decorative Arts Department of the New Orleans Museum of Art is the largest division of the permanent collection, with more than 15,000 works of art. The collection ranges from antiquity… read more
Just as young gentleman charmed the women in Jane Austin’s Sense and Sensibility, perfumes have inspired people for centuries. The designs of each unique bottle reflect history. Curator John Keefe, Curator… read more
In "Read My Pins, The Madeleine Albright Collection," the exhibition that went on display Monday at the New Orleans Museum of Art, the bathroom photo is juxtaposed with an image of… read more
By Doug MacCash, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
While considering the best New Orleans art exhibits of 2012, it became clear that this was a year of disquiet on the Crescent City… read more
From his early figurative work in welded steel, cast bronze, and intaglio printmaking, to his more recent forays into site-specific, public art and mammoth works on paper, Scott incorporates into each… read more
“It’s almost time for our gentlemen callers to start arriving.
How many do you suppose we’re going to entertain this afternoon?”
-Amanda Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
World famous… read more
NOMA 100: Gifts for the Second Century Features Works by Anish Kapoor, Keith Sonnier, Matthew Barney, Jasper Johns, Sol LeWitt, Kathe Kollwitz, and Gabrielle Münter On View November 12, 2011-January 22,… read more
Welcome to the New Orleans Museum of Art
The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA), New Orleans’ oldest fine arts institution, opened on December 16, 1911 with only 9 works of… read more
Polly Renwick treasured her de Kooning. But when John Bullard and Anne Milling asked her to give it away, she couldn't resist. "We didn't have to think long and hard," Renwick,… 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
By Doug MacCash, the Times-Picayune
The "Dario Robleto: The Prelives of the Blues" exhibit that opens at The New Orleans Museum of Art from 5:30 to 8:30 tonight, is like a… read more
1911 – 2011
The New Orleans Museum of Art, the city’s oldest fine arts institution, has a magnificent permanent collection of almost 40,000 objects. The collection, noted for its extraordinary strengths… read more
To be considered a great American city, Gilded Age New Orleans needed a great art museum like those in New York and Philadelphia. That was the opinion of aging sugar industry… read more
A World Class Collection in the South
The New Orleans Museum of Art, the city’s oldest fine arts institution, has a magnificent permanent collection of almost 40,000 art objects. The collection,… read more
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by DEVON BRITT-DARBY
Worth the Trip: Ralston Crawford in New Orleans
Since the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston unveiled its acquisition of Ralston Crawford's 1942 painting Red Barge,… read more
By Ian McNulty, MyNewOrleans.com
You’ve done Mardi Gras right, so today, on Ash Wednesday, the last thing you want is some report about nightlife. You want snooze alarms, a nice scouring… read more
History of the New Orleans Museum of Art
The institution now known as the New Orleans Museum of art began in 1910 when local businessman Isaac Delgado offered $150,000 to the… read more
The Isaac Delgado Society
For those who have made a bequest or planned gift to the New Orleans Museum of Art
Philanthropist Isaac Delgado realized that a city of New Orleans’… read more
By Nick Stillman | Pelican Bomb
From the digital revolution all the way back to when photography was so primitive that an "operator" needed to affix a portrait sitter's head to… read more
By Jerry Sullivan | The Buffalo News
NEW ORLEANS – About three years ago, Susan Taylor met Bob Becker for the first time. He was the CEO of New Orleans City… read more