MASS PRODUCED
ended on November 11th, 2012
Highlighting rich examples of British decorative arts in our collection, exploring the fascinating relationships between design, technology, & mass production. Read More
Past Exhibitions
Ralston Crawford and Jazz
ended on October 14th, 2012
NOMA presents “Ralston Crawford and Jazz,” an exhibition that considers the relationships between music, photography, painting, drawing and film as they intersect in Crawford’s work in New Orleans. Organized by the Sheldon Art Galleries, in Saint Louis, MO, the exhibition includes over 150 photographs, prints, paintings, drawings and films, many never before published. Read More
Dario Robleto: The Prelives of the Blues
ended on September 16th, 2012
Inspired by Robleto’s visits to New Orleans, and focuses on the transference of music across multiple generations. Opens March 23, 2012 Read More
Leah Chase: Paintings by Gustave Blache III
ended on September 16th, 2012
Celebrating Leah’s upcoming 90th year! Leah Chase Gala on April 23. Exhibition opens April 24. Read More
Katie Holten: Drawn to the Edge (The Great Hall Project)
ended on September 9th, 2012
This summer the New Orleans Museum of Art is pleased to present a new work by Katie Holten (born 1975, Dublin, Ireland) for the 2012 iteration of the Great Hall Project series, which is designed to debut large-scale site-specific installations in NOMA’s Great Hall space. Read More
What is a Photograph?
ended on August 19th, 2012
This exhibition describes and includes many of the most common photographic processes (daguerreotypes, salted paper prints, gelatin silver prints, and inkjet prints), but it also includes objects, artifacts, and practices that have typically been considered marginal to the history of photography (reproductions of photographs in ink, negatives, camera-less photographs, cartes-de-visite, color processes, and even a piece of jewelry). Read More
Self-Taught Artists from NOMA’s Permanent Collection
ended on June 7th, 2012
“Self-Taught Artists from NOMA’s Permanent Collection” features the work of eleven nationally recognized self-taught American artists. This Great Hall exhibition is curated by Alice Yelen. Read More
Hard Truths: The Art of Thornton Dial
ended on May 20th, 2012
Over 40 of Dial’s large-scale paintings, drawings and found-object sculptures, including 25 new works. Read More
Making a Mark: The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection
ended on April 8th, 2012
This exhibition includes works in a variety of media- sculptures, prints, paintings, and photographic collages- but the Vogels were especially interested in drawings of all kinds, from preparatory sketches and designs for sculptures to discrete finished works. Read More
Wayne Gonzales: Light to Dark / Dark to Light
ended on February 26th, 2012
The exhibition features paintings depicting crowds, which Gonzales is well‐known for, including waiting crowds in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. The newest painting is a large blue Seated Crowd completed this year, depicts a passive audience in a movie theater. Gonzales will also paint two original murals on the walls of the galleries that will contrast idyllic scenes of nature with war images. Read More
Forty Years in Edo
ended on February 26th, 2012
Edo-period paintings from the permanent collection Read More
Prospect.2
ended on January 29th, 2012
Founded by the curator Dan Cameron, Prospect New Orleans is one of the leading biennials of international contemporary art in the United States. Conceived in the tradition of the great… 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