In 1992 Fred Wilson became a cultural provocateur by taking an unorthodox approach to arranging museum artifacts in an exhibition that ignited debate over how to fairly represent race in museum galleries. He will speak at NOMA on Thursday, October 24, at 6 pm in conversation with New Orleans artist Ron Bechet. Read More

Lee Ledbetter, renowned for his aesthetic vision of blending the classic with the modern, will discuss his renowned practice of design and architecture during a lecture and book signing as part of Friday Nights at NOMA on October 18, beginning at 6 pm. Read More

In conjunction with the exhibition Bodies of Knowledge, musician Mahmoud Chouki has created a series of site-specific performances collectively titled Safar (Arabic for to travel). Chouki has invited nine musicians to join an ensemble concert on Sunday, October 13, from 6 to 8 pm. Ticket purchase required. Read More

The NOLA Project returns to NOMA’s Great Hall for twelve select nights from September 10 to 29 to stage a modern-verse adaptation of one of William Shakespeare’s lesser-known plays, Measure for Measure, originally written in 1603/04. Director Mark Routhier discusses the timeless themes of morality, depravity, and hypocrisy that are central to the plot. Read More

Adriana Corral’s work draws attention to the widespread disappearances and murders of women and girls in Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico. In conjunction with the exhibition Bodies of Knowledge, she will speak on Wednesday, September 18, at 6 pm as part of The Helis Foundation Artists Talk Series. Read More

Filmmaker Garrett Bradley created an installation at NOMA that presents scenes that might have been from the lost trove of African American silent movies in the early twentieth century. Her immersive, multi-channel film America reimagines this vanished archive through a corpus of new films cast primarily with New Orleanians. Read More

Visitors to Bodies of Knowledge will encounter a large wall affixed with loosely attached burned tissue paper. Titled Brève braises, this interactive work by Manon Bellet will gradually disintegrate over the course of the exhibition as musicians are invited to perform in front of the ephemeral installation. Witness a performance activation on Wednesday, July 24, from 3 to 4 pm with musicians from NOCCA. Read More

Shirin Neshat is among the eleven artists featured in Bodies of Knowledge, NOMA’s major summerlong exhibition that examines language as a means of asserting and archiving cultural identity. Her photographs, videos, and films address contemporary Iranian culture and the stark division of men’s and women’s realms in the post-revolutionary era. Read More

New Orleans native Edward Spots, an internationally renowned dancer, choreographer, and actor, will lead a group of youth dancers in a site-specific work of dance at NOMA titled Black Magic that will mark the opening of the exhibition Bodies of Knowledge. Read More

Photographer Rich Frishman has traveled much of the American South in recent years documenting the haunting physical reminders of a region where racial segregation was the social norm and enforced law until recent decades. Two of his photographs are on view in the exhibition You Are Here. Read More

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

On Thursday, May 2, from 6 to 8 pm, NOMA will host Louisiana native Dickie Landry for one of his renowned solo concerts with saxophone. Defining Landry as a musician is too limiting, given his range of talents. He spoke with NOMA Magazine about his multifaceted career in art and music that began during his childhood in the Cajun Prairie town of Cecelia. Read More