Past Exhibitions

Alexis Rockman: Drawings from Life of Pi

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

Mel Chin: Rematch

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

Camille Henrot: Cities of Ys

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

Woven Histories: Houma Basketry

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

Chinese Jades from the Collection of Marianne and Isidore Cohn Jr.

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

NOMA -> CAC presents Edward Burtynsky: Water

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

Photography at NOMA

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

Lin Emery: in Motion

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

Gordon Parks: The Making of an Argument

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

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