press-street.org | RM220 This article originally appeared here Poet and National Book Award winner Robin Coste Lewis will speak at the New Orleans Museum of Art (1 Collins Diboll Circle) at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 8.  Her talk is included with general admission, and it will include a reading from Voyage of the Sable Venus, which was awarded… Read More

antiquesandthearts.com | Antiques And The Arts Weekly This article originally appeared here NEW ORLEANS, LA. — The New Orleans Museum of Art presents “Visions of US: American Art at NOMA,” on view through January 24, the first exhibition in the museum’s history to highlight the full breadth of its American art collection. American art, with… Read More

BY JOHN D’ADDARIO | SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE This article originally appeared here From its foundation in 1911, the New Orleans Museum of Art has always made art by American artists — in particular, artists from the American South — a focus of its mission. This month, a new exhibition at NOMA gives that collection of… Read More

By Doug MacCash, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune This article originally appeared here Why, you might ask yourself on Friday (Nov. 20) afternoon, is a museum guard dutifully patrolling the apparently empty meadow beside the New Orleans Museum of Art? To answer, we have to travel back 45 years to the height of the earth art… Read More

By Doug MacCash, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune This article originally appeared here The “Pierre Joseph Landry: Patriot, Planter, Sculptor” exhibit that opens at the New Orleans Museum of Art on Friday (Oct. 16) is the first solo show of one of Louisiana’s earliest self-taught artists, a transcendently talented whittler whose works reinterpreted French neoclassicism in New… Read More

By Doug MacCash, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune Read this article on NOLA.com The “Pierre Joseph Landry: Patriot, Planter, Sculptor” exhibit that opens at the New Orleans Museum of Art on Friday (Oct. 16) is the first solo show of one of Louisiana’s earliest self-taught artists, a transcendently talented whittler whose works reinterpreted French neoclassicism in New… Read More

theneworleansadvocate.com | The New Orleans Advocate This article originally appeared here The mystery and magic of masks from Japan is revealed in a New Orleans Museum of Art exhibit slated to coincide with the annual celebration of the Asian country’s unique culture. “Traditions Transfigured: The Noh Masks of Bidou Yamaguchi” will open Friday, Oct. 9,… Read More

By Doug MacCash, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune Click here to watch the full video Los Angeles performance artist Tim Youd began the process of retyping John Kennedy Toole’s classic “A Confederacy of Dunces” at the New Orleans Museum of Art on Friday (Oct 2). Youd said that essentially he sees the activity as a sort of devotion to… Read More

BY SUSAN LARSON | SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE The article originally appeared here Every book — whether you hold it in your hands on paper or e-reader — begins with a writer alone in a room, writing. Performance artist Tim Youd pays homage to that process in a project called 100 Novels in 10 Years,… Read More

By Doug MacCash, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune This article originally appeared here Starting Friday (October 2) visitors to the New Orleans Museum of Art may hear a clacking noise echoing through the big marble atrium. The gray haired among them will recognize the sound as an old-fashioned typewriter resonating in a second floor gallery. If… Read More