The New Orleans Museum of Art is a proud partner of the Google Cultural Institute, a website offering high-resolution images of works in the museum’s permanent collection for viewing audiences around the world. Read More
Between World Wars I and II, James Van Der Zee was one of the most popular photographers in Harlem, New York. Known primarily for his portraits, Van Der Zee also worked for a wide range of clients outside of his studio, including a variety of Harlem’s diverse faith communities. Read More
In this community-oriented activity, create your own sun inspired by artist Ugo Rondinone’s The Sun, a sculpture in the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden. Read More
NOMA’s staff offer suggestions on books for all ages related to themes of art, the natural world, and environmental issues. Read More
Around the world and throughout history artists have engaged with diverse beliefs in their artistic endeavors. Here is an opportunity for you to participate in an exchange of beliefs within the NOMA community. Read More
Explore the ways that your phone can be used as an easily accessible, generative art-making tool. 🤳
In this off-site workshop with Creative Assembly Cohort artist Paige DeVries, participants will view the artist’s solo show on view at @u.n.o_gallery (2429 St. Claude Avenue) and discuss how the artist uses photography from her phone to inform her work as a painter.
After the gallery tour and conversation, DeVries leads a photography exercise in the neighborhood surrounding the gallery. Participants will share images they take during the workshop at the end of the program.
Free with advanced registration. 🔗 Click the link in our bio to sign up today.
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🎨: Details of artworks by Paige DeVries (@devries.paige)
This year`s theme for @InternationalDesignDay asks creative thinkers to consider kindness as a design principle. According to the International Council on Design, developing a "kindness standard" starts with asking a few questions about how an object is developed, produced, and used.
NOMA`s decorative arts and design galleries include objects created around the world across centuries, in many different contexts. We encourage you to look at the guiding questions below on your next visit to begin considering how kindness might be embedded throughout the material world. 👇
1️⃣ Who is being considered by this object`s design, and who is left out?
2️⃣ Whose future was/will be affected by this object, and how?
3️⃣ How much harmony did this design in the past? What about now and in future?
4️⃣ What kind of world does this design uphold or imagine anew?
#IsItKind #IDD2024 #InternationalDesignDay @theicod
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📸: @ghost_inthecity
#FlashbackFriday to when @blinkybillmusic helped up kick off the opening of “Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined” at NOMA with a performance featuring @auroranealand and other special guests 🎶 @wangechistudio
A few of our favorite @jazzfest 2024 musicians who have performed at the museum 🎶 @mahmoudchouki @folkrockdiva @peoplemuseumband @brucesunpiebarnes @rebirthbrassband @yps_brass_band @helengillet @tremebrassband
If you were at the first @jazzfest in 1970, you would have seen artist Sister Gertrude Morgan in a booth selling her paintings. ➡️🔗 Swipe to learn about this important figure in New Orleans art history and then click the link in our bio to keep reading an article by curator Brian Piper.
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🎨: Sister Gertrude Morgan, "A Poem of My Calling," c. 1970. Crayon, tempera, graphite, and ballpoint ink on paper. Gift of Maria and Lee Friedlander, 2000.108.
🎨: Harriet Blum, "Sister Gertrude Morgan, Jazz & Heritage Festival," 1973. Gelatin silver print. Gift of the artist, 2006.47
The sculptures grouped on this platform in "Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined" are macroscopic impressions of viruses. 🦠
Reminiscent of pottery, they are made from the distinctive and highly fertile red volcanic soil found in the highlands region of Kenya—a lifegiving material that is the source of the region’s dense forests and abundant horticulture.
Enlarging their scale highlights their geometry, symmetry, and distinctive textures, which evolved over millennia to facilitate the viruses’ infiltration of and reproduction within human, plant, and animal cells.
Mutu has specifically chosen to represent viruses that have historically been deployed as bioweapons of colonization (like measles and smallpox) as well as those that are tied to specific geopolitical contexts (like Zika and Dengue) or are otherwise interwoven with human societies (the common cold).
Such pathogens cause sickness and disease but also speak to
fears, vulnerabilities, and experiences that unify humanity.
"Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined" is on view at NOMA through July 14.
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🎨: Wangechi Mutu, various works, 2016–22. Red soil, paper pulp, and wood glue. Courtesy the artist, Gladstone Gallery, and Prout-Lara Collection, Vancouver.
📍: First floor, Ella West Freeman Galleries
📸: @annrowsonlove
