The MelaNated Summer Reading Series started with a performance at NOMA on June 1st. Guests could hear original works from the MelaNated writers; a collection of writers of color in genres… read more
What is a Photograph? describes and includes many of the most common photographic processes (daguerreotypes, salted paper prints, gelatin silver prints, and inkjet prints), but it also includes objects, artifacts, and… read more
Looking for works with the color red? With people dancing or eating? Looking for pictures of tables and chairs? Explore the tags for each work to find works of art your… read more
Saturday StoryQuest
Spark imagination, creativity, and a love of reading. Professional authors, actors and artists are bringing the world of children’s literature to NOMA in this new family program. Family activities… 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
The Italian Collection
NOMA’s Italian painting collection from the early Renaissance through the 18th Century is particularly distinguished. A group of panel paintings in tempera with gilded backgrounds, some as early… 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 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 New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) opened on December 16, 1911 owning just nine works of art. Today the museum has over 35,000 objects in its holdings. In celebration of… read more
Ida Kohlmeyer: 100th Anniversary Highlights
In 1953, nearly sixty years ago, Ida Rittenberg Kohlmeyer submitted Cityscape – New Orleans to the Isaac Delgado Museum of Art Annual Juried Exhibition. While the… read more
New Orleans, LA ? The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) presents Ancestors of Congo Square: African Art in the New Orleans Museum of Art on May 13 to July 17.… read more
Cafe NOMA by Ralph Brennan is modern design at its most delicious
The recently expanded Cafe NOMA by Ralph Brennan is a fresh interpretation of mid-century modern. Cafe NOMA’s atmosphere is… 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
In the early 20th century, Louisiana artists continued to define the character of the South and develop a Southern aesthetic. Earlier generations of artists, believing the South was isolated and unique,… read more
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
NEW AND NOTABLE
Tooth for an Eye: A Chorography of Violence in Orleans Parish by Deborah Luster. Twin Palms Publisher, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2011. ISBN 9781931885966
Follow this link to… read more
New Orleans, LA (October 12, 2011) - On November 12th the New Orleans Museum of Art will celebrate its 100th anniversary with the Centennial Odyssey Ball, 2011... A NOMA Odyssey, generously… read more
The youngest members of our community are the most precious, and investing in early childhood education is an important step we can take to ensure their success.
More and more studies… read more
Friday, December 16 at 10 am to Saturday, December 17 at 5 pm
(New Orleans, LA)- The Isaac Delgado Museum of Art opened its doors on December 16, 1911 owning just… read more
Highlights of NOMA’s European modern paintings include outstanding examples of the important art movements of the 20th Century: Fauvism, Cubism, Die Brücke, Blaue Reiter, School of Paris, Surrealism and l’art brut.… read more
Artist Wayne Gonzales Premieres New Work, First Solo US Museum Show at New Orleans Museum of Art
Light to Dark / Dark to Light on display October 7 through February 26… read more
Self-guided Visits
Self-guided visits enable you to design and lead your own school visit to NOMA. Art, language arts, history, science and math can be explored using NOMA’s extensive permanent collection,… read more
SCHOOL TOURS
Self-guided Visits
Self-guided visits enable you to design and lead your own school tour of NOMA. Art, language arts, history, science and math can be explored using NOMA’s extensive… read more
PLANNING A SCHOOL VISIT
Self-guided Visits
Self-guided visits enable you to design and lead your own school visit to NOMA. Art, language arts, history, science and math can be explored using… read more
By Doug MacCash, the Times-Picayune
NOMA presents “Leah Chase: Paintings by Gustave Blache III,” an exhibition in honor of Leah Chase's upcoming 90th birthday. This exhibition will be on view in… read more
By Doug MacCash, The Times-Picayune
Trust me, you're going to love the 40 huge, lusciously colored, lavishly textured, carefully composed paintings, sculptures and drawings in the exhibit "Hard Truths: The Art… read more