Remembering Leah Chase: NOMA honors the legacy of longtime trustee and volunteer
Leah Chase, a renowned culinary artist, civil rights activist, and longtime patron of the arts died on June 1, 2019, at age 96. Her legacy includes philanthropy and volunteerism at the New Orleans Museum of Art that expanded the museum’s collection and broadened community outreach. Read More
Q&A: Playwright Michael Aaron Santos channels William Shakespeare in The Henchman
The NOLA Project stages a neo-Shakespearean play, The Henchman, in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden through May 31st. Playwright Michael Aaron Santos wrote the script in 17th-century English and iambic pentameter. Read More
Glowing inspiration: Neon has sparked the imagination for more than a century
NOMA is aglow through Sunday, June 2, with works in neon displayed in the exhibition Keith Sonnier: Until Today. This luminescent natural element from the periodic table has an unusual history going back to its discovery in the late 19th century. Read More
You Are Here exhibition questions sense of place in photography
You Are Here: A Brief History of Photography and Place, on view through August 11, explores photographs of place, photographs in place, and photographs about place. The exhibition encourages visitors to think more deeply about how photography mediates their individual experience of the world and other people in it. Read More
NOMA acquires an African tronie from the Dutch Golden Age
A diminutive portrait of an African woman by Willem van Mieris is an extraordinary new acquisition, which will transform NOMA’s presentation of art of the global Dutch Golden Age. Read More
Timothy Duffy captures roots musicians on tintype, exhibition on view through August 4
The tintype portraits of musicians by Timothy Duffy are a thoroughly American enterprise: his choice of materials aligns with and challenges a distinctly American history of photography, while his subjects represent one of the most important musical legacies in the United States. Read More