The New Orleans Museum of Art’s collection of tribal arts from Oceania focuses on art works from Polynesia, Melanesia and Indonesia.
Polynesia
The connection features an 18th Century temple figure collected… read more
What do you get for the art museum that has everything? How about a human bone dagger from Papua New Guinea? Or perhaps a Native American Octopus Bag? Both of these… read more
Studio KIDS!
Get creative with Studio KIDS! NOMA offers art classes for students ages 5–8 and 9–12. Our art studio is conveniently located with its own courtyard entrance. Class projects are… read more
Organized by the Walker Art Center, Lifelike invites a close examination of artworks based on commonplace objects and situations, which are startlingly realistic, often playful, and sometimes surreal. This international group… read more
The NOMA collection of tribal arts from sub-Saharan Africa is considered one of the most important half-dozen collections of its type in American art museums. NOMA’s commitment to collecting African art… read more
The New Orleans Museum of Art opened in 1911 with fewer than a dozen works of art of its own. The collection has grown dramatically over the past 100 years, and… read more
After a long season of cramped department stores, family gatherings and endless eating, you deserve a little "me time." Why not enjoy a quiet, cultural respite and perhaps a light lunch?… 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
D. Eric Bookhardt on Jim Richard’s paintings at the New Orleans Museum of Art
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Art that refers to earlier art is… read more
Exhibition Features New Work Inspired by New Orleans, on view March 23 through September 16, 2012
New Orleans, LA-Conceptual artist Dario Robleto explores the power of music to transcend time, race,… 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
Posted by Wendy Rodrigue on Gambit blog.
Few art exhibitions today span seamlessly two hundred years.
I considered this at The Metropolitan Museum of Art recently during The Renaissance Portrait, a… 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