Dapper Bruce Lafitte: A Time Before Katrina
ended on September 21st, 2025
Dapper Bruce Lafitte’s “A Time Before Katrina” is currently on view in the Great Hall. Read More
Past Exhibitions
New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations
ended on August 10th, 2025
New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations spotlights the work of four contemporary artists working in cities across West Africa: Chief Ekpenyong Bassey Nsa, Sheku “Goldenfinger” Fofanah, David Sanou, and Hervé Youmbi. Read More
Delicate Sights: Photography and Glass
ended on July 14th, 2025
This exhibition looks at several processes and formats of photography made on glass surfaces—ambrotypes, magic lantern slides, and glass plate negatives—illustrating ways that glass facilitates the production and presentation of photographs, and offering a chance to consider its unique visual qualities. Read More
Jim Hodges: Craig’s closet
ended on June 30th, 2025
Jim Hodges’s Craig’s closet is currently on view in front of the museum on Collins C. Diboll Circle. Read More
John Scott: Blues Poem for the Urban Landscape
ended on June 29th, 2025
One of the most globally renowned artists in the history of New Orleans, John T. Scott worked in a variety of media, including the monumental prints that make up the artist’s series Blues Poem for the Urban Landscape. This installation of ten woodcut prints in NOMA’s Great Hall includes that entire series, in which Scott uses the landscape form to visualize the history and visual cacophony of New Orleans. Read More
Suleika Jaouad and Jon Batiste’s Piano for Super Bowl LIX
ended on May 25th, 2025
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. Read More
Envisioning Japan: Transformational Gifts from Kurt A. Gitter, M.D. and Alice Yelen Gitter
ended on May 4th, 2025
In early 2024, Kurt Gitter and Alice Yelen Gitter gifted over fifty works of Japanese art to NOMA. This remarkable donation includes major works by Edo-period painters (1615-1868), as well as significant works of ceramic art from the late 20th century to the present day. Read More
Show & Tell: A Brief History of Photography and Text
ended on March 16th, 2025
Drawn from NOMA’s permanent collection, Show & Tell: A Brief History of Photography and Text explores the intersection between photography and written language, from photography’s invention to the present day. Read More
Sand, Ash, Heat: Glass at the New Orleans Museum of Art
ended on February 9th, 2025
Sand, Ash, Heat: Glass at the New Orleans Museum of Art looks at the more than 4,000-year history of glass around the world and how it intersects with scientific discoveries, foodways, and artistic innovations. Read More
Prospect.6: The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home
ended on February 2nd, 2025
Founded in 2007, Prospect New Orleans is a citywide triennial exhibition of contemporary art featuring artists from Louisiana and around the globe. For P.6, Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn has created a two-channel film made in collaboration with musician Thảo Nguyễn and New Orleans-based producer and director Marion Hoàng Ngọc Hill. Read More
Rebellious Spirits: Prohibition and Resistance in the South
ended on January 5th, 2025
Rebellious Spirits: Prohibition and Resistance in the South explores the unique methods in which the South, in particular New Orleans, dealt with the passage of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, which banned alcohol in the United States. Read More
Come! Come! Come!: A Triptych by Wang Qingsong
ended on November 29th, 2024
The contemporary artist Wang Qingsong creates elaborately staged large-format photographs that focus on the dramatic social, political, and cultural changes in China in the post-Mao era. Qingsong’s 2005 triptych Come! Come! Come!, on view in the Stafford Gallery this spring, both documents and comments upon the embrace of capitalism and the rapid Westernization of China in the 1990s through the early 2000s. Read More
Double Space: Women Photographers and Surrealism
ended on August 4th, 2024
On the 100th anniversary of the Surrealist Manifesto, The New Orleans Museum of Art presents works by six women photographers whose work explores the subconscious mind, blurs the boundary between reality and dreams, or magnifies the uncanny in everyday life. Drawn from NOMA’s permanent collection, works by Ilse Bing, Ruth Bernhard, Lola Alvarez-Bravo, Carlotta M. Corpron, Florence Henri, and Lee Miller illustrate ways that women pushed the boundaries of surrealist art. Read More
Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined
ended on July 14th, 2024
This major solo exhibition of work by Wangechi Mutu brings together nearly one hundred sculptures, paintings, collages, drawings, and films to present the breadth of the Kenyan–American artist’s multidisciplinary practice from the mid-1990s to today. Read More
Debbie Fleming Caffery: In Light of Everything
ended on May 5th, 2024
Including nearly 100 dramatic black-and-white photographs installed in three distinct spaces of the museum, In Light of Everything is the first career retrospective for the important Louisiana-born photographer Debbie Fleming Caffery. The exhibition presents examples from her most important series made in the American South, Mexico, and France, from the 1970s to the present. Read More
Field and Figure: Recent Gifts from Diane and Charles L. Frankel
ended on April 14th, 2024
This exhibition includes important works recently given to the New Orleans Museum of Art by Diane and Charles L. Frankel, collectors who have long been interested in African art, from the historical to the contemporary. Read More
Monochromes: Japanese Zen Paintings and Ceramics
ended on February 11th, 2024
In this exhibition, Zen paintings and calligraphies created during the Edo period (1603–1867) and monochrome or unglazed ceramics produced primarily during the past fifty years are presented in dialogue with each other. Read More
Ring Redux: The Susan Grant Lewin Collection
ended on February 4th, 2024
The ninety international artists represented in Ring Redux: The Susan Grant Lewin Collection imagine jewelry as a thought-provoking medium, resonating with contemporary art, design, craft, and technology. Read More
Upcoming Exhibitions
No Upcoming Exhibitions.
Current Exhibitions
The View from Here: Women Photographers of the American Landscape
on view through January 4th, 2026
The photographs included in “The View From Here: Women Photographers of the American Landscape”—all of which are from NOMA’s permanent collection—illustrate some of the exceptional diversity of landscape photographs made by women artists working in the United States since the year 1900. Read More
Exhibition Videos
Chief Ekpenyong Bassey Nsa Welcomes Visitors to New African Masquerades and Introduces Co-curator and Ekpe Chief Dr. Jordan Fenton
Watch as Chief Bassey Nsa introduces himself to visitors of the “New African Masquerades” exhibition and honors Dr. Jordan A. Fenton, an Ekpe Society Chief and exhibition co-curator. Read More