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Gallery Talk: Portrait Miniatures with Curator Mel Buchanan
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. Join Curator Mel Buchanan for a discussion about the Latter-Schlesinger Collection of Portrait Miniatures dating from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries.
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Closed for Thanksgiving
Closed for Thanksgiving
NOMA and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden will be closed on Thursday, November 28, in observance of Thanksgiving.
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Museum Highlights Tour
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
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, followed by a panel discussion.
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Gallery Talk: The Quilts of Gee’s Bend with Conservator Howard Sutcliffe
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. Join textile conservator Howard Sutcliffe as he discusses his work within the exhibition The Quilts of Gee's Bend.
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Besthoff Sculpture Garden Tour
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. Represented sculptors include Pierre Auguste Renoir, Rene Magritte, Henry Moore, Isamu Noguchi, George Rodrigue, and Robert Indiana, among others. Meet at the gates to the garden, which offers free admission year-round.
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Studio KIDS!
Studio KIDS!
This fall, Studio KIDS presents “Text and Textures” art classes for kids on select Saturday mornings from 10 am to noon. Perfect for students ages 5-10 who want to get creative and learn art-making techniques. Studio KIDS explore art in NOMA’s galleries or the Besthoff Sculpture Garden as inspiration for an art project they complete in each session. Advance registration required.
Gallery Talk on Inventing Acadia with Kelly Presutti
Gallery Talk on Inventing Acadia with Kelly Presutti
Gallery talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Join Kelly Presutti, an art scholar who contributed to the catalog for Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana, as she describes her research into the exhibition.
Fragmented Landscapes Film Series
Fragmented Landscapes Film Series
On four select Saturdays at 2 pm throughout the run of Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana, NOMA will screen a series of films by Deltaworkers collectively titled Fragmented Landscapes. The films present landscape as a way to communicate ideas about representation and political histories. Join us on January 18 at 2 pm.
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Gallery Talk: Ancestors in Stone with Curator Ndubuisi Ezeluomba
Gallery Talk: Ancestors in Stone with Curator Ndubuisi Ezeluomba
Join Curator Ndubuisi Ezeluomba for a discussion about Ancestors in Stone, an exhibition centered upon a recently acquired akwanshi stone monolith from the Cross River region of Nigeria.
Artist’s Perspective: Photographer Lily Brooks discusses Tina Freeman: Lamentations
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
Arts & Letters: Environmental Justice in New Orleans
Thomas Beller, an author, journalist and associate professor of English at Tulane University, will be in conversation with Monique Harden, Assistant Director of Law and Policy and the Community Engagement Program Manager at the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice, on the subject of her work exposing the secret hiding places of toxic waste in New Orleans, past and present.
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PhotoNOLA Keynote Address: Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick
PhotoNOLA Keynote Address: Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick
In conjunction with the citywide PhotoNOLA Festival, NOMA will host the keynote address by Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick, a husband-and-wife team of New Orleans-based photographers born and raised in the Lower Ninth Ward who have documented Louisiana and its people for more than 35 years. Seat reservations are requested.
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Studio KIDS!
Studio KIDS!
Get Creative with Studio KIDS This fall, Studio KIDS presents “Text and Textures” art classes for kids on select Saturday mornings from 10 am to noon. Perfect for students ages 5-10 who want to get creative and learn art-making techniques. Studio KIDS explore art in NOMA’s galleries or the Besthoff Sculpture Garden as inspiration for...
Scent-Blending Workshop with Xodo Botanicals
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...
Tina Freeman: Lamentations book signing
Tina Freeman: Lamentations book signing
Photographer Tina Freeman will visit the Museum Shop to sign copies of her book that accompanies the exhibition Tina Freeman: Lamentations. The book includes pairings of photographs by Freeman of Louisiana's wetlands and the ice caps of the Arctic and the Antarctic.
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Gallery Talk: Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana with Curator Katie Pfohl
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. Join Curator Katie Pfohl for a discussion about the exhibition Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana.
Gallery Talk: An Ideal Unity: The Bauhaus and Beyond with Curatorial Associate Anne Roberts
Gallery Talk: An Ideal Unity: The Bauhaus and Beyond with Curatorial Associate Anne Roberts
Gallery talks are casual conversations between artists, curators, and other special guests with NOMA visitors frequently scheduled throughout the year. Join Curatorial Associate Anne Roberts for a discussion about the exhibition An Ideal Unity: The Bauhaus and Beyond.
The Helis Foundation Lecture: Regina Agu with Tia-Simone Gardner
The Helis Foundation Lecture: Regina Agu with Tia-Simone Gardner
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, Agu will discuss the environmental and historical themes in her creation of panoramas with Tia Simone-Gardner. Admission is free to all Louisiana residents on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation.
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Christmas Eve Holiday Hours
Christmas Eve Holiday Hours
The New Orleans Museum of Art and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden will be open on December 24 from 10 am to 3 pm.
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Closed for Christmas
Closed for Christmas
NOMA and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden will be closed on Wednesday, December 25, in observance of Christmas.
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New Year’s Eve Special Holiday Hours
New Year’s Eve Special Holiday Hours
The New Orleans Museum of Art and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden will be open on December 31st from 11 am to 5 pm.
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New Year’s Day Special Holiday Hours
New Year’s Day Special Holiday Hours
The museum and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden will be open on January 1 from 11 am to 5 pm.
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Museum Highlights Tour
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.
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Besthoff Sculpture Garden Tour
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. Sited on eleven acres adjacent to the museum, the garden contains more than ninety works by renowned sculptors placed among a picturesque mature grove of pine, magnolia, and moss-draped live oak trees bisected by a lagoon.
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