New Orleans Museum of Art Director Emeritus E. John Bullard gives a video tour of ‘NOMA 100: Gifts for the Second Century,’ an exhibition of 110 recent donations honoring the centennial of the museum. Bullard describes a set of ancient Egyptian artifacts, an 80 pound 19th-century trophy cup by the Gorham Silver Company, a ballerina… Read More

The NOLA Project has found an appropriate venue to render a finely crafted piece of art. Their current production of Shakespeare’s tragedy of “Romeo and Juliet” is nestled appropriately between other works of art by acknowledged masters. Except for the prologue presented just outside the entrance to the museum, the Great Hall of the New… Read More

There’s Shakespeare, and then there’s Shakespeare through the fresh prism of the NOLA Project, where the traditional light of the Bard erupts in a dazzling display. The young actors of the intrepid NOLA Project first turned to Shakespeare with the environmental staging of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” which played to sold-out crowds in the sculpture… Read More

The strength of the Nola Project’s Shakespeare productions has been their homemade inventiveness. The company has used it wits and creativity to overcome budgetary restrictions, usually to effective results. In the production of Romeo and Juliet that opens tonight at the New Orleans Museum of Art, the cast circumvented the cost of scabbards by sheathing… Read More

While randomly perusing the interwebs I stumbled upon an amazing redesign for the New Orleans Museum of Art. The logo is the same, but the site overhaul breathes new life into a brand that is having its own rebirth. Here are 5 reasons I’m obsessed with NOMA right now: 1. There comes a point in… Read More

Although the New Orleans Museum of Art isn’t celebrating its official birthday until Dec. 16, it is opening a show of its gifts a little early. “It’s an important way to celebrate the museum’s history, its legacy and the legacy of our donors,” director Susan Taylor says. “A milestone characterizes an institution.” NOMA began commemorating… Read More

On December 16, 1911, thanks to a generous benefactor named Isaac Delgado, the art museum that originally carried his name opened its doors in New Orleans’s City Park. At the time the Isaac Delgado Museum of Art owned only nine works of art but it was a good start. Today, a full century later, the… Read More

What do you get for the art museum that has everything? How about a human bone dagger from Papua New Guinea? Or perhaps a Native American Octopus Bag? Both of these gifts, along with plenty of other treasures, were recently donated in celebration of the New Orleans Museum of Art’s 100th birthday. Read the full… Read More

Looking for a decidedly different happy hour? Head over Where Y’Art at the New Orleans Museum of Art. NOMA’s Friday night “inspirational happy hours” feature entertainment and family-friendly activities. For the full article Read More

In “Read My Pins, The Madeleine Albright Collection,” the exhibition that went on display Monday at the New Orleans Museum of Art, the bathroom photo is juxtaposed with an image of a brooch made of shards of glass. The pin shows the “glass ceiling in its ideal condition: shattered,” Albright said. That pin seems a… Read More

The New Orleans Museum of Art: NOMA (www.noma.org), as everyone calls it, is celebrating its 100th birthday this year. This summer, a literally larger-than-life installation of Thalassa, the Greek Goddess of the Sea by the artist Swoon lords over the museum’s neoclassical entrance hall. The 20-foot-tall woman’s figure, covered with fabric swatches and sea creatures,… Read More