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Friday Nights at NOMA: Music by the Underground Railroad Freedom Singers | Lecture: “Navigating Rivers and Music East of the Mississippi” with Nick Spitzer and Captain Doc Hawley
Friday Nights at NOMA: Music by the Underground Railroad Freedom Singers | Lecture: “Navigating Rivers and Music East of the Mississippi” with Nick Spitzer and Captain Doc Hawley
Friday Nights at NOMA opens the museum’s doors for many interesting activities throughout the year: live music, movies, children’s activities, and more. Regular admission prices apply—NOMA members are FREE—but there is no extra charge for programs or films. 5 - 8 pm: Art on the Spot family activity table 5:30 - 8:30 pm: Music by...
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Baby Artsplay! at NOMA
Baby Artsplay! at NOMA
Instill a love of art at a young age through a guided, hands-on gallery experience. Young Audiences Wolf Trap teaching artists will present a series of 6 workshops for caregivers and children ages 0-3. Learn how to integrate music, movement, and drama into everyday playtime to foster children’s developmental growth.
Sculpture Garden Tour
Sculpture Garden Tour
Join NOMA’s docents for a free guided tour of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden on Saturdays at noon through mid-December. Sited on five acres adjacent to the museum, the garden contains more than 60 works by renowned sculptors placed among a picturesque mature grove of pine, magnolia, and moss-draped live oak trees bisected...
David Lynch Film Retrospective: Blue Velvet
David Lynch Film Retrospective: Blue Velvet
The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child. Blue Velvet blends psychological horror with film noir and stars Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper and Laura Dern. Lynch has called it a “film about things that are hidden—within a small city and within people.”
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Noontime Talk: East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography with Curator Russell Lord
Noontime Talk: East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography with Curator Russell Lord
Join Curator Russell Lord on a tour of East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography with an emphasis on the business of being a photographer. East of the Mississippi marks the first exhibition of nineteenth-century photography from the eastern half of the United States. Noontime Talks are brief, casual discussions on exhibitions or works of art...
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Friday Nights at NOMA: Music by Marcus Akinlana | Lecture: “Improving Nature: Image Manipulation in Nineteenth-Century Photography,” by France Scully Osterman and Mark Osterman
Friday Nights at NOMA: Music by Marcus Akinlana | Lecture: “Improving Nature: Image Manipulation in Nineteenth-Century Photography,” by France Scully Osterman and Mark Osterman
Friday Nights at NOMA opens the museum’s doors for many interesting activities throughout the year: live music, movies, children’s activities, and more. Regular admission prices apply—NOMA members are FREE—but there is no extra charge for programs or films. 5 - 8 pm: Art on the Spot family activity table 5:30 - 8:30 pm: Music by...
Create Late
Create Late
Exclusively for adults, kick off your weekend with a glass of wine and a paint brush! Unwind with a teaching artist-led art project while enjoying Friday Nights at NOMA programming. Reserve your space now!
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Studio KIDS!
Studio KIDS!
Get Creative with Studio KIDS! This Fall, Studio KIDS! presents Art 101 for young artists. Perfect for students ages 5-10 who want to get creative and build up their artistic skills. In each class, Studio KIDS! explores art made by diverse cultures as inspiration for art projects. From sculpting to painting, each class features different...
Baby Artsplay! at NOMA
Baby Artsplay! at NOMA
Instill a love of art at a young age through a guided, hands-on gallery experience. Young Audiences Wolf Trap teaching artists will present a series of 6 workshops for caregivers and children ages 0-3. Learn how to integrate music, movement, and drama into everyday playtime to foster children’s developmental growth.
StoryQuest
StoryQuest
Professional authors, actors and artists bring the world of children’s literature to NOMA in this family program. Family activities are offered after each StoryQuest to encourage museum exploration.
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Friday Nights at NOMA: Music by Opera on Tap | Gallery Talk with Mary Niall Mitchell on East of the Mississippi | Landscape on Film Series screening of Days of Heaven
Friday Nights at NOMA: Music by Opera on Tap | Gallery Talk with Mary Niall Mitchell on East of the Mississippi | Landscape on Film Series screening of Days of Heaven
Friday Nights at NOMA opens the museum’s doors for many interesting activities throughout the year: live music, movies, children’s activities, and more. Regular admission prices apply—NOMA members are FREE—but there is no extra charge for programs or films. All galleries and exhibitions, Café NOMA, and the Museum Shop remain open till 9 pm. 5 -...
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Studio KIDS!
Studio KIDS!
Get Creative with Studio KIDS! This Fall, Studio KIDS! presents Art 101 for young artists. Perfect for students ages 5-10 who want to get creative and build up their artistic skills. In each class, Studio KIDS! explores art made by diverse cultures as inspiration for art projects. From sculpting to painting, each class features different...
Baby Artsplay! at NOMA
Baby Artsplay! at NOMA
Instill a love of art at a young age through a guided, hands-on gallery experience. Young Audiences Wolf Trap teaching artists will present a series of 6 workshops for caregivers and children ages 0-3. Learn how to integrate music, movement, and drama into everyday playtime to foster children’s developmental growth.
David Lynch Film Retrospective | Mulholland Drive
David Lynch Film Retrospective | Mulholland Drive
After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a perky Hollywood hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality. The net-noir mystery film stars Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Justin Theroux, Ann Miller and Robert Forster. Mulholland Drive includes several other seemingly unrelated vignettes that eventually interlock, as well as some surreal and darkly comic scenes and images that relate to the cryptic narrative.
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Noontime Talk: East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography with Curatorial Fellow Brian Piper
Noontime Talk: East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography with Curatorial Fellow Brian Piper
Join Curatorial Fellow Brian Piper on a tour of East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography with an emphasis on industry and agriculture. East of the Mississippi marks the first exhibition of nineteenth-century photography from the eastern half of the United States. Noontime Talks are brief, casual discussions on exhibitions or works of art in the...
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Friday Nights at NOMA: Screening of An Affair to Remember | Holiday Tunes with DJ Neil Pellegrin | Gallery Talk with John Lawrence on photographer J.D. Edwards in East of the Mississippi | Vintage Christmas Performance by New Orleans Dance Academy | Café NOMA Cooking Demo
Friday Nights at NOMA: Screening of An Affair to Remember | Holiday Tunes with DJ Neil Pellegrin | Gallery Talk with John Lawrence on photographer J.D. Edwards in East of the Mississippi | Vintage Christmas Performance by New Orleans Dance Academy | Café NOMA Cooking Demo
Friday Nights at NOMA opens the museum’s doors for many interesting activities throughout the year: live music, movies, children’s activities, and more. Regular admission prices apply—NOMA members are FREE—but there is no extra charge for programs or films. 5 - 8 pm: Art on the Spot family activity table 5:30 - 8 pm: Retro Holiday...
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StoryQuest
StoryQuest
Professional authors, actors and artists bring the world of children’s literature to NOMA in this family program. Family activities are offered after each StoryQuest to encourage museum exploration.
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Christmas Eve – Special Hours
Christmas Eve – Special Hours
NOMA and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden will be open on Sunday, December 24, from 11 a.m. to 5 pm. Find those last-minute gifts in the Museum Shop!
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Closed for Christmas
Closed for Christmas
NOMA and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden will be closed on December 25 in observance of the Christmas holiday.
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Studio KIDS! Holiday Workshops
Studio KIDS! Holiday Workshops
Explore your artistic side this holiday season! NOMA offers 3 single-day Studio KIDS! Holiday Workshops to engage young artists in the creative process.
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Studio KIDS! Holiday Workshops
Studio KIDS! Holiday Workshops
Explore your artistic side this holiday season! NOMA offers 3 single-day Studio KIDS! Holiday Workshops to engage young artists in the creative process.
Friday Nights at NOMA: Landscape on Film Series: There Will Be Blood | Music by Alexis and the Samurai
Friday Nights at NOMA: Landscape on Film Series: There Will Be Blood | Music by Alexis and the Samurai
Friday Nights at NOMA opens the museum’s doors for many interesting activities throughout the year: live music, movies, children’s activities, and more. Regular admission prices apply—NOMA members are FREE—but there is no extra charge for programs or films. 5 – 8 pm: Art on the Spot family activity table with YAYA 5:30 - 8:30 pm:...
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New Year’s Eve – Special Hours
New Year’s Eve – Special Hours
NOMA and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden will be open on Sunday, December 31, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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