When photography arrived in the United States in 1839, populations of indigenous people in the East had been largely decimated by disease and forced removal to the West. Excluded from… Read More
Start your holiday shopping early this year. The annual Members Only sale in the NOMA Museum Shop will take place on Monday, October 16, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m…. Read More
NOMA visitors will have the opportunity to interact with cutting-edge technology in the realms of virtual and augmented reality, animation, digital gaming, and other immersive, artistic technology—and meet the creative minds behind such 21st-century innovations—at a first-ever symposium between Tulane University’s School of Professional Advancement and the museum. Read More
In conjunction with East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography three films that highlight landscape will be screened on select Friday Nights at NOMA: O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Days of Heaven, and There Will Be Blood. Read More
When photography arrived in the United States in 1839, it landed first in a few east coast cities and New Orleans, and then spread north and west into the American interior. The proliferation of photography studios and photographers coincided with the beginnings of massive cultural, commercial, and transportation projects that would reshape the nation. Read More
East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century Landscape Photography marks a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to view more than one hundred images of the eastern United States in the earliest decades of photography’s invention. The exhibition will be accompanied by numerous lectures, gallery talks, noontime tours, and a movie series highlighting landscape in film. Read More
On select Saturday afternoons from November 11 to December 16, NOMA will screen five films by David Lynch. Read More
Kevin and Victoria Burr from Picayune, Mississippi, joined NOMA so that their young daughter could participate in Baby Artsplay! programs. Read More
In the wake of flooding in Texas from Hurricane Harvey, the New Orleans Museum of Art is partnering with Second Harvest Food Bank to host a donation drive of nonperishable food, cleaning supplies, and personal hygiene products to alleviate the needs of those affected by the storm. Read More
The New Orleans Museum of Art was named Best Museum in Gambit Weekly‘s 31st-annual “Best of New Orleans” readers’ poll. Read More
Thursday, August 31, marks the last day for reciprocal free admission to sixteen museums across New Orleans as part of the annual Museum Month. In this final week, NOMA will… Read More
On Friday, August 25, at 7 p.m., the New Orleans Museum of Art will play host to the premiere of Designing Life: The Modernist Architecture of Albert Ledner, a documentary that chronicles the career of an architect whose vision shaped the built environment in New Orleans and other major American cities in the latter half of the twentieth century. Read More