10 Years Gone
ended on September 7th, 2015
Timed to coincide with the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Ten Years Gone features six contemporary artists who explore the passage of time, memory, loss, and transformation. Read More
Past Exhibitions
Robert Rauschenberg and the “Five From Louisiana”
ended on August 30th, 2015
This installation highlights NOMA’s recent acquisition of Melic Meeting (Spread), 1979, by Robert Rauschenberg, one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. Read More
Self/Reflection
ended on August 9th, 2015
A selection of works from the permanent collection by Brassaï, Jaroslav Rossler, Florence Henri, Clarence John Laughlin, and others that investigate, play with, and exploit reflections and mirror images in modern photography. Read More
Kongo Across the Waters
ended on May 25th, 2015
This exhibition explores connections between the art and culture of the Kongo peoples of western Central Africa and African American art and culture in the United States. Read More
Photo-Unrealism
ended on April 25th, 2015
This exhibition from the permanent collection explores the history of the abstract, the unreal, and the surreal in photography from its origins to the present Read More
Josephine Sacabo: Salutations
ended on April 5th, 2015
This January, NOMA premiers the newest body of work by photographer Josephine Sacabo. Read More
Emmet Gowin: Concerning America and Alfred Stieglitz, and Myself
ended on March 8th, 2015
One of the most influential photographers of his generation, Emmet Gowin (b. 1941) confronted his own influences in his first major photography project, Concerning America and Alfred Stieglitz, and Myself on display here. Read More
Degas’ Little Dancer
ended on March 1st, 2015
NOMA will share this renowned work, on loan from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, with audiences in a newly created focus gallery this fall. Read More
Photorealism: The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Collection
ended on January 25th, 2015
The New Orleans Museum of Art is pleased to be organizing Photorealism: The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Collection, the most extensive presentation to-date of the Photorealist painting collection of Sydney and Walda Besthoff. Read More
Prospect 3: Notes for Now
ended on January 25th, 2015
Prospect New Orleans launched its first international contemporary art biennial in November 2008. Read More
Reparation: Contemporary Artists from New Orleans
ended on January 25th, 2015
Reparation is an exhibition of 187 works by 180 New Orleans artists, young and old, and is part of Luciano Benetton’s Imago Mundi collection: works commissioned and collected by Benetton on his world travels Read More
Spheres of Influence: Pictorialism, Women, and Modernism
ended on November 23rd, 2014
These works from NOMA’s permanent collection focus on a network of women who shared ideas through correspondences and reacted to each other’s works, creating a web of mutual influence that helped pull photography from its nineteenth century roots into the modernist twentieth century. Read More
Upcoming Exhibitions
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Current Exhibitions
Exhibition Videos
Spotlight on An Ideal Unity: The Bauhaus & Beyond with Curatorial Associate Anne Roberts
Curatorial Associate Anne Roberts offers a preview of works on view in the exhibition An Ideal Unity: The Bauhaus and Beyond, on view from August 16, 2019, through March 15,… Read More