Joe Earle is considered one of the preeminent experts on contemporary Japanese art. As guest curator of NOMA’s current exhibition, New Forms, New Voices: Contemporary Japanese Pottery from the Gitter-Yelen… Read More
Movie buffs are invited to settle into NOMA’s Stern Auditorium over the course of five select Saturdays in November and December to visit the strange, dream/nightmare-like worlds of filmmaker David Lynch. Though he is best known for his works on the big screen and the quirky television series Twin Peaks, Lynch’s interests and inspirations extend far beyond Hollywood studios. Read More
American potters did not invent the idea that a chunk of dirt could be transformed into a glorious piece of art, but in the twentieth century, American ceramists expanded clay’s… Read More
In conjunction with the exhibition East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography, enviromental scientist Elizabeth Chamberlain of Tulane University will speak at NOMA on Friday, November 10, at 7 pm about her research tracing the history of human settlement in south Louisiana’s deltaic terrain. Read More
Nostalgic and wannabe Gen-Xers will recognize many touchstones of the 1980s in the coming-of-age movie Sixteen Candles, screening on Friday, November 3rd. Read More
Garth Johnson is a self-described “craft activist” who serves as the curator of ceramics at the ASU Art Museum in Tempe, Arizona. He will speak at NOMA on Thursday, November 2, at 6 pm in advance of the opening of the exhibition Personalities in Clay: American Studio Ceramics from the E. John Bullard Collection. Read More
The works of art contained in NOMA’s galleries and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden depict the full gamut of human emotions — from love and compassion to vengeance and fright! This… Read More
The 51st-annual Odyssey Ball features an online silent auction with one-of-a-kind items and, for the first time, opportunities to make a lasting legacy at the museum through sponsored programs, art purchases, and exhibitions. Read More
NOMA curators Russell Lord and Katie Pfohl and donor Arthur Roger will be among hundreds of presenting authors at the fourteenth annual Louisiana Book Festival in Baton Rouge on Saturday,… Read More
Nineteenth-century stereoscopes and twenty-first century virtual reality headsets both provide means of visual escapism. Experience both during Friday Nights at NOMA at a technology symposium on October 20th. Read More
The MacArthur Foundation recently announced its prestigious Fellows recipients for 2017. Among the awardees are two artists whose works either have or will appear at the New Orleans Museum of Art: photographer and educator Dawoud Bey and painter Njideka Akunyili Crosby. Read More
What is the difference between a selfie and a self-portrait? A new exhibition drawn from NOMA’s permanent collection of photographs from the 19th through 21st centuries opening at the St. Tammany Art Association on October 21 explores the many ways in which photographers used reflections as tools and stylistic devices. Read More