By Doug MacCash, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune Click to read the article on NOLA.com Works by Baccarat, Tiffany, Cartier, Sèvres and other legendary designers are awaiting art lovers at the New Orleans Museum of Art on Friday night (April 12) at the opening of “Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World’s Fairs, 1851-1939.”… Read More
NOMA, the NOLA Project present Much Ado About Nothing in the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden NEW ORLEANS, LA – The NOLA Project enters its third year of partnership with The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) this May as we present Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing inside the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture… Read More
By Chris Waddington, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune Click here to view the article on NOLA.com Click here to view the profile on Travel + Leisure Ralph Brennan’s Café NOMA at the New Orleans Museum of Art has been recognized as one of the 12 Best American Museum Restaurants by Travel + Leisure magazine. Restaurants from… Read More
By D. Eric Bookhardt | Gambit Weekly Click to read the review on Gambit Weekly’s website The Contemporary Arts Center’s Brilliant Disguise show is nothing if not surprising. Organized by New Orleans Museum of Art curator Miranda Lash using work from NOMA’s collection, it is not only an unexpected example of institutional collaboration, it also… Read More
An Exhibition Highlighting the Ingenuity and Innovation of Works Presented at the World’s Fairs On view at NOMA from April 12 to August 4, 2013 (New Orleans, LA) – From furniture and metalwork to jewelry and glass, the New Orleans Museum of Art’s upcoming exhibition, Inventing the Modern World, highlights the extraordinary artistic and industrial… Read More
By Doug MacCash, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune Click here to read the article on NOLA.com. Frank Stella, the 76-year-old lion of modern art, shared his views on abstraction with a crowd of 300 art lovers at the New Orleans Museum of Art Friday (March 1) night. Stella’s lecture filled NOMA’s auditorium and was broadcast via… Read More
Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans 900 Camp Street New Orleans, LA 70130 Contact: 504.528.3805 | info@cacno.org Hours: Wednesday through Monday, 11:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Admission: $5 general admission, $3 students & seniors, FREEto CAC members & Louisiana residents New Orleans Museum of Art 1 Collins Diboll Circle New Orleans, LA 70124 504.658.4100 Brilliant Disguise: Masks and… Read More
By Doug MacCash, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune Read the article on NOLA.com Frank Stella, a superstar of American modern art will speak at The New Orleans Museum of Art Friday, March 1, from 6 to 7 p.m. Stella achieved world fame in the late 1950s and 1960s with meticulous hard-edged paintings of simple repeated geometric… Read More
D. Eric Bookhardt on Jim Richard’s paintings at the New Orleans Museum of Art Click here to read the article on Gambit Weekly’s website. Art that refers to earlier art is nothing new – artists have always been influenced by art history – but longtime University of New Orleans art professor Jim Richard has taken… Read More
By Jerry Sullivan | The Buffalo News NEW ORLEANS – About three years ago, Susan Taylor met Bob Becker for the first time. He was the CEO of New Orleans City Park, the sixth-largest urban park in the country. She had just taken over as director of the city’s Museum of Art, located just inside… Read More
Frugal Traveler: Seeing the World on a Budget By Seth Kugel | The New York Times It promised to be my easiest frugal assignment yet: five days in a paradise of cheap eating, cheaper drinking and free music in the walking- and biking-friendly city – New Orleans. A self-imposed prohibition on dropping money in the… Read More
By Doug MacCash, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune The New Orleans Museum of Art has acquired “Remember the Upstairs Lounge,” a postmodern masterpiece by New Orleans artist Skylar Fein, that symbolically recalls a devastating 1973 fire in a crowded French Quarter gay bar. The 90-piece art environment that features imitation artifacts, photographs, video and a reproduction… Read More
By Doug MacCash, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune While considering the best New Orleans art exhibits of 2012, it became clear that this was a year of disquiet on the Crescent City art scene. In March, the Contemporary Arts Center was the focus of an artists’ protest over the temporary closure of an exhibition and the… Read More
By Alex Rawls | My Spilt Milk The new show at the New Orleans Museum of Art needs to be seen in its space to be fully appreciated. The subtext of “Lifelike,” the new show at the New Orleans Museum of Art, is the art gallery experience. The collected pieces not only rely on the… Read More
By Nick Stillman | Pelican Bomb From the digital revolution all the way back to when photography was so primitive that an “operator” needed to affix a portrait sitter’s head to the back of a chair with an iron clamp, the beauty and trouble of the medium has always been its sequential possibility: take a… Read More
By D. Eric Bookhardt | Gambit Weekly Click here to read the article on Gambit Weekly’s website. Visual art has long been concerned with realism – the accurate depiction of the “real” world around us – but now, thanks to digital photography, the Internet and cellphone cameras, we live in a world filled with images… Read More
By Lianna Patch | NOLA Defender Click here to read the article on NOLA Defender’s website. Now open at the New Orleans Museum of Art: an exhibit that will blow your mind, frustrate, confuse, elevate, and overwhelm you. “Lifelike,” on loan until January 27, 2013, from the Walker Art Center in Minnesota, is a multimedia… Read More
On view November 11 to January 27, Lifelike explores the boundaries between the real and fabricated in the work of over 50 artists from around the globe. Artists featured in the exhibition Include Andy Warhol, Ai Weiwei, Charles Ray, James Casebere, Thomas Demand, Susan Collins, and Vija Clemins. Get first looks at Likelike during NOMA’s… Read More