Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana, on view from November 16, 2019, through January 26, 2020, explores the rise of landscape painting in Louisiana during the 19th century, revealing its role in creating—and exporting—a new vision for American landscape art that was vastly different than that to be found in the rest of the United States. Read More

In Lamentations, photographer Tina Freeman pairs images from the Louisiana coastal wetlands and the glacial landscapes of the Arctic and Antarctic in a series of diptychs that communicate the critical narratives of climate change, ecological balance, and the connectedness of disparate ecosystems across time and space. Read More

Celebrating the centennial of the Bauhaus (1919-1933), An Ideal Unity explores the artistic breadth of the innovative school that integrated fine arts and design. Including photographs and decorative arts from NOMA’s permanent collection, the exhibition underscores the principles of the Bauhaus aesthetic and mission. Read More

A recently acquired akwanshi monolith from the Cross Rivers region of Nigeria forms the centerpiece of a focus exhibition, showcasing stone as a material used in ancestral veneration among African cultures. Read More

The Quilts of Gee’s Bend exhibition features five extraordinary twentieth-century quilts made by the women of Gee’s Bend, Alabama, that elevate a traditional craft form to masterful work of intentional art. The women’s use of bold geometric shapes and a fiercely independent design process brought international acclaim to Gee’s Bend quilters.  Read More

You Are Here, on view April 26–July 28, 2019, both embraces and challenges the photograph’s role as a faithful record of place, examining photography’s successes and failures in rendering and sharing fragments of the world. Drawn almost exclusively from NOMA’s permanent collection, the exhibition traces a history of photography and place from the origins of the medium to the present.  Read More

Paper Revolutions: French Drawings from the New Orleans Museum of Art, on view through July 14th, 2019, traces the politics of draftsmanship in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries during the France’s Age of Revolution (1789–1870). Read More

NOMA presents Bodies of Knowledge, on view June 28–October 13, 2019. The exhibition brings together ten international contemporary artists to reflect on the role that language plays in defining our cultural identities, and will be the first global contemporary exhibition of its kind at NOMA. Read More

The six-acre expansion of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden at the New Orleans Museum of Art opens to the public on May 15, 2019. With environmental impact at the forefront of planning, the sculpture garden expansion emphasizes the distinctive character of the Louisiana landscape. Read More

With a focus on light, transformation and discovery, the theme of Art in Bloom 2019 at the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) is Illuminations: Looking Within and Beyond. This highly anticipated springtime event takes place March 27-31. After an extraordinary Tricentennial year of reflection and celebration, 2019 presents the opportunity to look ahead with limitless imagination and innovation. Illuminations: Looking Within and Beyond is in partnership with IBERIABANK.  Read More

Opening on May 15, 2019, the expansion of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden at the New Orleans Museum of Art will feature 26 new works by artists working primarily in the 21st century. The expansion, which broke ground in December 2017, builds on the success of the museum’s existing five-acre Besthoff Sculpture Garden, widely regarded as one of the top sculpture gardens in the world. The existing site is home to 64 sculptures from renowned artists from the 19th century to the present. Read More