NOMA honors Mother’s Day by granting free admission to all moms on May 12, and Café NOMA will serve complimentary “Mom-osas” during brunch. Numerous works of art throughout the museum and sculpture garden depict motherhood in all of its complicated facets. Read More
In the spring of 2018, NOMA acquired a monumental mural painting by Clementine Hunter (1887–1988), one of Louisiana’s most beloved and accomplished artists. An extremely rare example of one of the large-scale, site-specific murals Hunter created for the interiors of Melrose Plantation in the Cane River region near Natchitoches, where she spent much of her life working as a field hand before pursuing her talent as a painter after age 50. Read More
For fifteen nights, on select dates from May 8–31, The NOLA Project will stage The Henchman in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden. The production marks the eighth collaboration between NOMA and this innovative theater company and centers upon a lesser-known character from William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the “changeling boy,” portrayed by a Lusher High School student. Read More
In celebration of the glowing neon in Keith Sonnier’s retrospective and the dazzling sequined Haitian Vodou flags created by Tina Girouard on display in the Great Hall, NOMA throws open the doors till midnight for Nuit Brilliante. 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
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…. Read More
A newly acquired Punch Bowl with Cantonese “Hongs,”on display in the Lupin Gallery of Decorative Arts, reveals both the exquisite craftsmanship of Chinese porcelain and a window into international trade of the late eighteenth century. Read More
Louisiana-born saxophonist, artist, photographer, and composer Dickie Landry will perform one of his legendary site-specific SOLO concerts in tribute to the work of Keith Sonnier and Tina Girouard on Thursday, May 2, from 6 – 8 pm. Landry will play the tenor saxophone to explore the textures and abstract layers of sound within NOMA’s iconic architecture. Admission required. Read More
In response to the recent tragic fires at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris and three churches in St. Landry Parish, NOMA will donate all proceeds from museum attendance on Saturday, April 20, and Easter Sunday, April 21, to rebuilding efforts. Read More
NOMA will host a film screening of Invasion 1897 and roundtable discussion under the theme “Looking Closely at Social Conditions in Nigeria,” led by African Art Curator Ndubuisi Ezeluomba, on Friday, April 12, from 6 – 8 pm. Read More
Inspired by Nature, a new exhibition in the Art of Japan Galleries, juxtaposes paintings from the seventeenth through early twentieth centuries with ceramics, lacquers, and woodblock prints dating from the nineteenth century to today. Read More
On April 5, the museum will host a special College Night for Friday Nights at NOMA, allowing all students, faculty, and staff with ID from local colleges and universities free admission from 5 to 9 pm. Luna Loxx and DJ Legatron will perform in the Great Hall throughout the night. Read More