Noontime talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Join Curator Mel Buchanan for a tour of NOMA's first fashion exhibition. Every Wednesday Louisiana residents receive free admission to NOMA courtesy of The Helis Foundation.

Join Dr. Kurt Gitter and Alice Yelen-Gitter as they discuss their passion for collecting contemporary Japanese ceramics, selections of which are on view in the exhibition New Forms, New Voices: Japanese Ceramics from the Gitter-Yelen Collection. Noontime Talks are brief, casual discussions on exhibitions or works of art in the galleries given by NOMA curators...

In conjunction with A Queen Within: Adorned Archetypes, join Kelsey Brosnan, Curatorial Fellow for European Art, for a discussion about women’s fashion as depicted in NOMA’s eighteenth-century French art collection, with particular emphasis on a portrait of Marie Antoinette.

Join Curatorial Fellow Brian Piper for a discussion about renowned photographer Lee Friedlander's documentation of Louisiana in a retrospective exhibition.

Noontime talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year.

Join Curatorial Fellow Allison Young for a discussion about Carlos Rolón: Outside/In, a solo exhibition by the artist that examines the cultural connections between New Orleans, the Caribbean, and Latin America.

Join Curator Russell Lord for a discussion about Lee Friedlander in Louisiana, a retrospective of images by the renowned photographer that solely depict his time spent in metro New Orleans over the course of the past six decades. From jazz musicians and second line parades, to architectural oddities and reflected urban scenes, the assembled photographs speak to Friedlander's sense of playfulness and unique vision.