French Connection Film Series highlights 18th-century France
Travel through time to 18th-century France with films exploring life among the aristocracy. This series, presented in conjunction with the exhibition The Orléans Collection, takes place Saturday afternoons in November and December. The movies are included with standard admission to the museum. Read More
Purchase tickets or sponsorships now for Odyssey Ball 2018: All That Glitters
Purchase tickets now for the Odyssey Ball, in partnership with IBERIABANK, an evening of unparalleled elegance on Saturday, November 10. Critically important to our treasured museum and the wide community it serves, Odyssey raises the funds necessary to support NOMA’s nationally-recognized exhibitions and educational programs, which bring more than 290,000 annual visitors to the museum and sculpture garden. Raffle tickets for a gold and diamond-bejeweled bracelet are also for sale. Read More
NOMA Book Club sets 2019 reading list and schedule
Join NOMA staff and fellow book lovers as we read and discuss fiction and nonfiction books related to art, artists, art museums, NOMA’s collections and exhibitions. Organized by NOMA’s Felix J. Dreyfous Library, the Book Club is an informal group. Contact NOMA Librarian Sheila Cork for more information. Read More
Q&A: Robert Lyall, Director of the New Orleans Opera, finds inspiration in The Orléans Collection
The New Orleans Opera will stage Pygmalion, Jean-Phillippe Rameau’s 1748 one-act acte-de-ballet, at Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carré from November 8 to 11 in tribute to NOMA’s presentation of… Read More
A new look for NOMA’s decorative arts galleries
The Lupin Foundation Decorative Arts Galleries on the museum’s second floor have reopened with a new installation drawn from the permanent collection, and for the first time include contemporary design and craft of recent decades. Read More
Q&A: Lina Iris Viktor discusses A Haven. A Hell. A Dream Deferred.
Lina Iris Viktor is widely recognized for her gilded paintings and installations that explore art’s relationship to history, spirituality, and prophecy. In her forthcoming exhibition in the Great Hall at… Read More