Family Field Day
A free family festival will be held in the expansion of the Besthoff Sculpture Garden with programs that focus on the body, physical play, and the environment as it relates to art making.
Gallery Talk: Portrait Miniatures with Curator Mel Buchanan
Gallery talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Louisiana residents receive free admission to NOMA on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation. Join Curator Mel Buchanan for a discussion about the Latter-Schlesinger Collection of Portrait Miniatures dating from the sixteenth through the eighteenth...
Closed for Thanksgiving
NOMA and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden will be closed on Thursday, November 28, in observance of Thanksgiving.
Museum Highlights Tour
NOMA docents guide visitors on hour-long tours of either the permanent collection or special exhibitions. Tours are free with NOMA admission. Meet in the Great Hall to join in.
Film Screening and Conversation: World AIDS Day
The New Orleans Museum of Art is proud to partner with Visual AIDS for the thirtieth annual Day With(out) Art by presenting STILL BEGINNING, a program of seven newly commissioned videos responding to the ongoing HIV/AIDS epidemic by Shanti Avirgan, Nguyen Tan Hoang, Carl George, Viva Ruiz, Iman Shervington, Jack Waters/Victor F.M. Torres, and Derrick...
Gallery Talk: The Quilts of Gee’s Bend with Conservator Howard Sutcliffe
Gallery talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Louisiana residents receive free admission to NOMA on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation. Join Conservator Howard Sutcliffe for a discussion about his work repairing the works on display in The Quilts of Gee's Bend....
Besthoff Sculpture Garden Tour
Join NOMA’s docents for a free guided tour of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden on Mondays, Fridays, and Saturdays, weather dependent, at noon. (Call 504.658.4153 to verify.) Sited on twelve acres adjacent to the museum, the garden contains more than ninety works by renowned sculptors placed among a picturesque mature grove of pine,...
Artist’s Perspective: Photographer Lily Brooks discusses Tina Freeman: Lamentations
Throughout the exhibition of photographs in Tina Freeman: Lamentations, a seven-year photo-documentation of Louisiana’s wetlands and the glacial landscapes of the Arctic and Antarctic by Tina Freeman, fellow artists, including photographer Lily Brooks, will offer their perspective on the subject matter.
Arts & Letters: Environmental Justice in New Orleans Panel Discussion
NOMA’s Arts & Letters series welcomes authors, poets, journalists, playwrights, and literary scholars to the museum for public conversations that reflect on literature at the intersection of arts and culture. Thomas Beller, an author, journalist and associate professor of English at Tulane University, will lead a panel discussion about environmental justice issues in New Orleans with Monique Harden, Assistant...
Scent-Blending Workshop with Xodo Botanicals
In conjunction with the exhibition Inventing Acadia, scent specialist Jane Bleecker of Xodo Botanicals and visual artist Hannah Chalew invite you to explore your own relationship with scent and sensory memories with this hands-on scent-blending workshop. Participants will be given the opportunity to work with essential oils, native raw materials, and a variety of other...
Gallery Talk: Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana with Curator Katie Pfohl
Gallery talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Louisiana residents receive free admission to NOMA on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation. Join Curator Katie Pfohl for a discussion about the exhibition Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana. Image: Joseph Rusling Meeker, The...
The Helis Foundation Lecture: Regina Agu in conversation with Ryan Dennis
Regina Agu's installation of Passage in NOMA's Great Hall marks the first museum show for the contemporary artist. In a lecture sponsored by The Helis Foundation, she will join Ryan Dennis, Public Art Director of Project Row Houses in Houston, Texas, for a conversation about the environmental and historical themes in her creation of panoramas....