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
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
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
ended on January 25th, 2015
Prospect New Orleans launched its first international contemporary art biennial in November 2008. Read More
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
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
ended on October 12th, 2014
This exhibition provides a unique opportunity to explore the relationship between visual art and commercial filmmaking through Alexis Rockman’s watercolor drawings that were the first stage in the development of the 2012 feature film “Life of Pi.” Read More
ended on September 21st, 2014
Explores the private lives and interiors of Spain’s New World elite from 1492 through the nineteenth century Read More
ended on September 14th, 2014
This project, a collaboration between the High Museum of Art and Talladega College, conserves Hale Woodruff’s murals commissioned by Talladega College in 1938 and presents them to a national audience for the first time Read More
ended on May 25th, 2014
The New Orleans Museum of Art is proud to present a major retrospective of the conceptual artist Mel Chin. ‘Mel Chin: Rematch’ is the most expansive presentation of the artist’s work to-date, the outgrowth of extensive research and archiving of Chin’s past work and artistic practice, uncovering rarely seen materials from over the past four decades. Read More
ended on May 4th, 2014
More than two hundred of the finest and most poignant photographs of the American Civil War have been brought together for this landmark exhibition. Read More
ended on April 13th, 2014
The first U.S. solo exhibition of French artist and 2013 Silver Lion winner Camille Henrot explores the evolution of cultures. Read More
ended on March 2nd, 2014
Celebrating the history and current practice of basket making and palmetto weaving amongst the tribal members of the United Houma Nation of Louisiana Read More
ended on February 23rd, 2014
A remarkable selection of jades from the collection of Marianne and Isidore Cohn Jr. illustrate this practice. Fashioned into various forms – real and imagined animals, plants, human figures, utilitarian objects, and variations on ancient bronzes – these jades created during the Qing dynasty feature auspicious decoration. Read More
ended on January 19th, 2014
This exhibition, comprised of sixty large format color photographs by world-renowned Canadian artist, Edward Burtynsky, explores humanity’s increasingly stressed relationship with the world’s most vital natural resource. Read More
ended on January 19th, 2014
Featuring masterpieces by photographers such as William Fox Talbot, André Kertész, and Edward Weston,Photography at NOMA: Selections from the Permanent Collection explores the museum’s extensive 10,000 – work photography collection and demonstrates the city of New Orleans’ role in the history of photography. Read More
ended on January 12th, 2014
This exhibition explores the making of Gordon Parks’ first photographic essay for Life magazine in 1948, “Harlem Gang Leader.” After gaining the trust of one particular group of gang members and their leader, Leonard “Red” Jackson, Parks produced a series of photographs that are artful, poignant, and, at times, shocking. Read More
ended on January 12th, 2014
This selection of Lin Emery’s new kinetic sculptures continue to be inspired by natural forms and activated by natural forces. Read More
No Upcoming Exhibitions.
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
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