By Doug MacCash, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune November 08, 2012 Click here to see the full article with images. “Lifelike,” the big new exhibition at the New Orleans Museum of Art, is an amusement park of brain-teasing optical deceptions. The weirdness starts the minute you step through the museum’s bronze doors. Let your eyes scan… Read More
Click here to see a photo gallery of ‘Lifelike’ on view at NOMAby Ted Jackson, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune Read More
BY BILL LODGE | Advocate staff writer November 08, 2012 Forty-three nonprofit organizations and government agencies in Louisiana will share more than $15.9 million from BP for promotion of tourism and seafood, Patrick Juneau, the Deepwater Horizon claims administrator, said Wednesday. Another $27.7 million was granted to 67 organizations and agencies for the same purposes… Read More
WWNO’s “Inside the Arts” features NOMA’s Odyssey Ball & Lifelike Exhibition, Central City Festival, LPO Brass and more! Published: Tue November 6, 2012 Click here to listen to the full interview at WWNO.org “This week on Inside the Arts we’ll Make A Joyful Noise as we kick off the 6th Annual Central City Festival; trumpeter… Read More
By Doug MacCash, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune on November 01, 2012 at 1:34 PM, updated November 01, 2012 at 3:45 PM The Odyssey Ball, the New Orleans Museum of Art’s traditional fall fundraising extravaganza, takes place from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., Nov. 10. The 47th annual party will offer art lovers a first look… Read More
New Orleans Museum of Art Appoints Brooke Minto as Deputy Director for Development and External Affairs New Orleans, LA – Susan M. Taylor, the Montine McDaniel Freeman Director at the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA), announced today the appointment of Brooke A. Minto as Deputy Director for Development and External Affairs. Minto, who previously… Read More
Jim Richard: Make Yourself At Home on view in NOMA’s Great Hall October 5, 2012 – February 24, 2013 (New Orleans, LA) – This fall the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) presents a solo exhibition of paintings by renowned New Orleans artist Jim Richard. Jim Richard: Make Yourself At Home will be the artist’s… Read More
by DEVON BRITT–DARBY Worth the Trip: Ralston Crawford in New Orleans Since the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston unveiled its acquisition of Ralston Crawford’s 1942 painting Red Barge, No. 1 -a fine example of the Precisionist depictions of the American industrial landscape for which he is known -I’ve been on the lookout for Crawford sightings… Read More
Photography, Sequence, and Time Exhibition Examines the Intersection of Narratives, Meaning and Time in 19th Century Photographs (New Orleans, LA) – Continuing the focus on the museum’s vast photography collection, The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) presents, Photography, Sequence, and Time on view in NOMA’s second floor Templeman Galleries from September 14 through December… Read More
**New Orleans Museum of Art Joins Smithsonian Magazine’s National Museum Day Live! Free Admission for All Participants** Come see NOMA’s “Ralston Crawford and Jazz” exhibition, “Photography, Sequence and Time” and our three floors of art in the museum’s permanent collection (New Orleans, LA) – On Saturday September 29, 2012, the New Orleans Museum of Art… Read More
The New Orleans Museum of Art’s Historic Urns Undergo Revitalization (New Orleans, LA) – Designed in the Beaux-Arts style by the architect Samuel A. Marx of Natchez, MS, the New Orleans Museum of Art is a handsome presence in City Park and a sought after destination for residents and tourists alike. Two of the most… Read More
By Steven Forster for the Times-Picayune Inside the New Orleans Museum of Art, hundreds celebrated the opening of “Drawn to the Edge,” which features several large canvases by artist Katie Holten suspended from the Great Hall ceiling and depicting Louisiana’s waterways and coastline. Musician Sarah Quintana serenaded the crowd, and visitors also were treated to… Read More
As told to Allese Thomson Baker for Artforum. Katie Holten is an Irish-born, New York-based multimedia artist whose work explores the relationship between human beings and the natural environment. She represented Ireland at the 2003 Venice Biennale and in 2009 created Tree Museum, a public artwork celebrating the centennial of the Grand Concourse in the… Read More
By D. Eric Bookhardt for Gambit Weekly Here’s a question: Which great American industrial-precisionist painter is buried in St. Louis Cemetery No. 3? There are only two possibilities: Charles Sheeler and Ralston Crawford. While Crawford was known to be fond of New Orleans, he never lived here. He grew up in Buffalo, N.Y., and his… Read More
By Liz Mardiks for Offbeat. One of the New Orleans Museum of Art’s most-anticipated recent exhibitions-“Ralston Crawford and Jazz”-opens tonight with a big celebration. Crawford, a prominent American artist of the mid-20th Century, became a faculty member at LSU in 1949, and began making regular trips to New Orleans. This collection of Crawford’s lesser-known art… Read More
By Doug MacCash for The Times-Picayune The New Orleans Museum of Art’s “Ralston Crawford and Jazz” exhibition, a collection of 150 New Orleans-inspired photos, drawings, paintings, prints and short films by the master mid-century abstractionist opens with a reception from 5 to 9 tonight (June 22), featuring a lecture, live music, cooking demonstration and art-making… Read More
By Judy Walker, The Times-Picayune The New Orleans Museum of Art has announced a change in plans because of an overwhelming response to the “Art You Can Eat” cooking demonstrations with chef Leah Chase. The demonstrations for the days she will appear — July 13, August 3, 10 and 24 — will be moved from… Read More
Written by Doug McCash for the Times-Picayune. Internationally known artist Katie Holten is attempting to obstruct the New Orleans Museum of Art atrium with a set of huge drawings suspended from the ceiling like fabric walls. The biggest of the drawings, Holten said, is a 12-by-36 foot behemoth that will act like a barrier, confronting… Read More