Gallery Talks Every Wednesday
2025-11-12 12:30 - 13:00, 2025-11-12 18:00 - 18:30, 2025-11-19 12:30 - 13:00, 2025-11-19 18:00 - 18:30, 2025-11-26 12:30 - 13:00, 2025-11-26 18:00 - 18:30, 2025-12-03 12:30 - 13:00, 2025-12-03 18:00 - 18:30 (America/Chicago) | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
Every week, NOMA hosts gallery talks in the museum and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden led by curators, artists, and other special guests. These lively, participatory conversations provide a moment to take a close look at one work—or a selection of works—currently on view.
Included with museum admission, which is free for Louisiana residents every Wednesday courtesy of The Helis Foundation’s Art for All initiative. When you arrive at NOMA, check in at the admissions desk for directions to the appropriate location.

Public Tours Every Wednesday and Saturday
2025-11-12 14:00, 2025-11-15 14:00, 2025-11-19 14:00, 2025-11-22 14:00, 2025-11-26 14:00, 2025-11-29 14:00, 2025-12-03 14:00, 2025-12-06 14:00 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
NOMA provides guided tours of the galleries with museum docents and staff every Wednesday and Saturday. During these tours, you’ll explore the museum’s permanent collection of nearly 50,000 works of art and exhibitions currently on view.
Included with museum admission, which is free for Louisiana residents every Wednesday courtesy of The Helis Foundation’s Art for All initiative. When you arrive at NOMA, check in at the admissions desk for directions to the appropriate location.

Producer's Choice: Pollock (2000) and Conversation with Meryl Poster
2025-11-12 19:00 - 22:00 | NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts
Films build community through shared experiences.
NOMA presents a series of films—selected by award-winning producer and filmmaker Meryl Poster—followed by insightful special guests. Don’t miss your chance to revisit or discover modern classics on the big screen and gain behind-the-scenes insight into the film industry from leading figures.
Discussions will draw connections to art more broadly and celebrate cinema as an essential art form.
NOMA will screen Pollock (2000) for this program, followed by a conversation with Poster and a special guest. Doors open at 6:30 pm, and the film screening starts at 7:00 pm.
View all events in the Producer’s Choice Film Series

Tickets
Tickets are $10 for NOMA members and $15 for general admission.
Buy Tickets for “Pollock”
*Please note: NOMA members must log into their my.noma account in order to see their ticket options at the link above.
Ticket Waitlist Policy

If tickets are sold out for a screening, there will be a first come, first served policy to fill any unoccupied seats:

At 6:30 pm, the waitlist will open at the Front Desk.
At 7:00 pm, we will count the number of vacant seats and begin to fill them with waitlisted individuals, who will be invited to purchase a ticket and be seated.
NOTE: There are no additional tickets available at the door. Waitlisted individuals will only be able to claim seats left open by no-show attendants. We cannot guarantee that individuals on the waitlist will be able to sit together.
The museum is open until 7:00 pm on Wednesday evenings. While waiting, waitlisted individuals are welcome to view NOMA exhibitions.

About the Film
Pollock (2000, 2h 2m)
Pollock is a look back into the life of the artist, who engaged in a lonely tug-of-war between needing to express himself and wanting to shut the world out across his career.
About Meryl Poster
Meryl Poster is an award-winning producer and filmmaker. Starting as the second ever female trainee in the William Morris Agency mailroom, she has since led and developed a slate of groundbreaking, critically acclaimed films, including the Oscar-winning Chicago, Chocolat, Cider House Rules, Cop Land, Beautiful Girls, Bounce, Kate and Leopold, and An Unfinished Life.

Book Club: How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
2025-11-13 12:00 - 13:00 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
NOMA’s book club meets monthly to discuss fiction and non-fiction books related to art in the museum’s collection and exhibitions.
It is an informal group open to anyone on a month-to-month basis. You do not have to attend every meeting or read every book to participate. In addition to monthly book discussions, the book club meets periodically for curatorial programs related to the book selections.
Books are selected in advance and planned according to the museum’s exhibition schedule. Participants are expected to procure their own copy of the titles. Selections are also available at the NOMA Museum Shop, where museum members receive a 10% discount.
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Meetings are held in person or via Zoom. All meetings begin at 12 pm. For more information or questions, please email programs@noma.org.

About the Book
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
by Clint Smith

Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks—those that are honest about the past and those that are not—that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nation’s collective history, and ourselves.
It is the story of the Monticello Plantation in Virginia, the estate where Thomas Jefferson wrote letters espousing the urgent need for liberty while enslaving more than four hundred people. It is the story of the Whitney Plantation, one of the only former plantations devoted to preserving the experience of the enslaved people whose lives and work sustained it. It is the story of Angola, a former plantation-turned-maximum-security prison in Louisiana that is filled with Black men who work across the 18,000-acre land for virtually no pay. And it is the story of Blandford Cemetery, the final resting place of tens of thousands of Confederate soldiers.
A deeply researched and transporting exploration of the legacy of slavery and its imprint on centuries of American history, How the Word Is Passed illustrates how some of our country’s most essential stories are hidden in plain view—whether in places we might drive by on our way to work, holidays such as Juneteenth, or entire neighborhoods like downtown Manhattan, where the brutal history of the trade in enslaved men, women, and children has been deeply imprinted.
Informed by scholarship and brought to life by the story of people living today, Smith’s debut work of nonfiction is a landmark of reflection and insight that offers a new understanding of the hopeful role that memory and history can play in making sense of our country and how it has come to be.

Producer's Choice: Basquiat (1996) and Conversation with Julian Schnabel and Meryl Poster
2025-11-14 19:00 - 22:00 | NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts
Films build community through shared experiences.
NOMA presents a series of films—selected by award-winning producer and filmmaker Meryl Poster—followed by insightful special guests. Don’t miss your chance to revisit or discover modern classics on the big screen and gain behind-the-scenes insight into the film industry from leading figures.
Discussions will draw connections to art more broadly and celebrate cinema as an essential art form.
NOMA will screen a 2024 black-and-white remaster of Basquiat (1996), a black-and-white restoration of the original 1996 film, for this program. The screening will be followed by a conversation with director Julian Schnabel via Zoom and Poster. Doors open at 6:30 pm, and the film screening starts at 7:00 pm.
For this screening of Basquiat, guests will also have the option of purchasing an additional ticket to a seated dinner at Café NOMA before the film. Details will be announced soon.
View all events in the Producer’s Choice Film Series

Tickets
Tickets are $10 for NOMA members and $15 for general admission.
Buy Tickets for “Basquiat”
*Please note: NOMA members must log into their my.noma account in order to see their ticket options at the link above.

Ticket Waitlist Policy

If tickets are sold out for a screening, there will be a first come, first served policy to fill any unoccupied seats:

At 6:30 pm, the waitlist will open at the Front Desk.
At 7:00 pm, we will count the number of vacant seats and begin to fill them with waitlisted individuals, who will be invited to purchase a ticket and be seated.
NOTE: There are no additional tickets available at the door. Waitlisted individuals will only be able to claim seats left open by no-show attendants. We cannot guarantee that individuals on the waitlist will be able to sit together.
The museum is open until 7:00 pm on Wednesday evenings. While waiting, waitlisted individuals are welcome to view NOMA exhibitions.

About the Film
Basquiat (1996, 1h 50m)
An exploration of the brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world-renowned New York street artist struggling with fame, drug use, and his identity.
About Meryl Poster
Meryl Poster is an award-winning producer and filmmaker. Starting as the second ever female trainee in the William Morris Agency mailroom, she has since led and developed a slate of groundbreaking, critically acclaimed films, including the Oscar-winning Chicago, Chocolat, Cider House Rules, Cop Land, Beautiful Girls, Bounce, Kate and Leopold, and An Unfinished Life.

Yoga in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden Every Saturday
2025-11-15 08:00 - 09:00, 2025-11-22 08:00 - 09:00, 2025-11-29 08:00 - 09:00, 2025-12-06 08:00 - 09:00 | Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans , LA, 70124
Take in the beauty of NOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture Garden during outdoor yoga sessions every Saturday morning.
Class is $10; $5 for NOMA members. Registration remains open until 3 pm the day before class. Please bring a digital or printed version of your ticket to class. Enter at the main entrance gate to the Besthoff Sculpture Garden on Dueling Oaks Drive. Please bring your own mat.
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These classes are outside and will be canceled for severe weather. Registrants will be notified of cancellation via email by 5 pm the day before class. Call 504.658.4128 or email education@noma.org with any questions.

Public Tours in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden Every Saturday
2025-11-16 10:30, 2025-11-23 10:30, 2025-11-30 10:30 | Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans , LA, 70124
NOMA provides guided tours of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden every Saturday. During these tours, you’ll learn about a selection of the 100 large-scale works installed in the garden.
No registration is required. NOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture Garden is free and open to all, seven days a week. Tours start at the main entrance gate to the Besthoff Sculpture Garden on Dueling Oaks Drive.

Butterfly Music Series: Henrietta Alves
2025-11-16 14:00 - 15:00 | NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts
Experience part of Super Bowl LIX history and enjoy music played on Suleika Jaouad and Jon Batiste’s custom Yamaha piano on view at NOMA. Batiste performed his moving rendition of The Star-Spangled Banner on this instrument in the Caesars Superdome during the Super Bowl pregame show.
This series celebrates the piano’s residency at NOMA and pays homage to the musical history of New Orleans by inviting New Orleans–based musicians to offer intimate sets in NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts, which also features bas-relief murals by Enrique Alférez.
This installment of the Butterfly Music Series will feature pianist Henrietta Alves. Previous performers have included Amina Figarova, David Torkanowsky, Tonya Boyd Cannon, Sam Kuslan, and others.
Attendance is included with museum admission. Preregistration for this event is recommended. Seating is limited and not guaranteed with attendance.
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About Henrietta Alves
Henrietta Alves is a singer, pianist, teacher, actor, and entertainer, with 35 years of experience playing at the legendary Pat O’Brien’s. Read more at henriettasmusic.com.
About the Work
For a limited time, NOMA visitors have the unique opportunity to see the custom piano played by acclaimed musical artist Jon Batiste during the Super Bowl LIX pregame show. On view in the museum’s Lapis Center for the Arts, the vibrant and colorful grand piano features a design by artist and bestselling author Suleika Jaouad, who is Batiste’s wife.
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Tai Chi in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden
2025-11-17 18:00 - 19:00, 2025-11-24 18:00 - 19:00, 2025-12-01 18:00 - 19:00 | Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans , LA, 70124
Explore movement and meditation during outdoor tai chi classes in NOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture Garden every Monday evening.
Class is $10; $5 for NOMA members. Registration remains open until 3 pm the day before class. Please bring a digital or printed version of your ticket to class. Enter at the main entrance gate to the Besthoff Sculpture Garden on Dueling Oaks Drive.
REGISTER NOW
These classes are outside and will be canceled for severe weather. Registrants will be notified of cancellation via email by 5 pm the day before class. Call 504.658.4128 or email education@noma.org with any questions.
