NOMA’s Arts & Letters series welcomes authors, poets, journalists, playwrights, and literary scholars to the museum for public conversations that reflect on literature at the intersection of arts and culture. In partnership with One Book One New Orleans, on Wednesday, April 24, from 5 – 7 pm, novelist Zachary Lazar, photographer Deborah Luster, and actor… Read More

Hundreds of years since the Maya solely dominated Mesoamerica, with a network of cities stretching from present-day Northern Mexico southward to the isthmus of Central America, archaeologists continue to unearth mysteries of this ancient empire. Jeremy A. Sobloff, an external professor of the Santa Fe Institute and past president of the Institute, will be the keynote speaker at the sixteenth-annual Tulane Maya Symposium. Museum visitors are invited to the talk during Friday Nights at NOMA on February 15 at 6 pm. Dr. Sobloff spoke with NOMA Magazine about the theme of his lecture, “Is ‘Collapse’ a Useful Term in Understanding Pre-Columbian Maya History?” Read More

Sri Murali, spokesperson for Dance It Off, a New Orleans-based Bollywood dance troupe, spoke with NOMA Magazine in advance of the group’s performance at a Night of India festival on Friday, February 8th. Read More

Critically acclaimed novelist, memoirist, essayist, biographer and playwright Edmund White has never shied away from confronting brutal truths. He will join Tulane professor and widely published author Thomas Beller on stage during Friday Nights at NOMA on February 1 for an “Arts and Letters” conversation. He spoke with NOMA Magazine in advance of his talk. Read More

Art historian Andrew McClellan, a professor at Tufts University, will deliver the final guest lecture in conjunction with The Orléans Collection on Friday, January 25, at 7 pm as part of Friday Nights at NOMA. As author of the definitive book on the history of the Louvre, and a respected scholar on the study of museology, he has extensively studied the evolution of the public’s access to art in eighteenth-century France. He spoke to NOMA Magazine in advance of his lecture, which is titled “Viewing Art in 18th-Century Paris.” Read More

NOMA visitors can experience firsthand the process involved in creating a tintype photograph at a free workshop led by Timothy Duffy, a renowned contemporary master of this antiquated camera medium. A free workshop will be held on Saturday, January 19, from 1 to 3 pm. Read More

Julia Armstrong-Totten will be among the ten scholars speaking at The Orléans Collection Symposium on January 11 and 12. She spoke with NOMA Magazine about The Orléans Collection, on view at NOMA through January 27, 2019. Read More

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 The Orléans Collection. Opera Director Robert Lyall spoke about how this performance will incorporate art from the exhibition into set design. How did you conceive… Read More

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 NOMA, A Haven. A Hell. A Dream Deferred, Viktor examines the founding of the West African nation of Liberia. She spoke with Curatorial Fellow Allison… Read More

The NOLA Project stages an all-female play featuring four beautiful and bold women caught up in the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror. Artistic Director A.J. Allegra discusses the timeless themes of this dark comedy. Read More