Exhibitions Archive - New Orleans Museum of Art https://noma.org/exhibitions/ Fri, 10 Oct 2025 19:58:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 The View from Here: Women Photographers of the American Landscape https://noma.org/exhibitions/view-from-here-women-photographers/ Fri, 25 Jul 2025 14:34:51 +0000 https://noma.org/?post_type=exhibitions&p=89938 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.

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]]> Hanaq Pachap: Art of the Indigenous Guilds of Viceregal Peru https://noma.org/exhibitions/hanaq-pachap-art-of-the-indigenous-guilds-of-viceregal-peru/ Fri, 10 Oct 2025 19:47:56 +0000 https://noma.org/?post_type=exhibitions&p=90699 The paintings included in "Hanaq Pachap" illuminate the Indigenous Catholic religious practices and adaptations of European visual sources developed by Indigenous and Mestizo artists in the highlands of Peru and Bolivia during the 17th and 18th centuries.

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]]> New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations https://noma.org/exhibitions/new-african-masquerades/ Fri, 24 Jan 2025 18:36:15 +0000 https://noma.org/?post_type=exhibitions&p=88204 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.

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]]> Nicolas Floc’h: Fleuves-Océan, Mississippi Watershed https://noma.org/exhibitions/nicolas-floch/ Fri, 11 Apr 2025 16:49:26 +0000 https://noma.org/?post_type=exhibitions&p=88918 This exhibition pairs vibrant monochromatic photographs of the color of water made under the surface with dramatic black-and-white landscape photographs made along the banks of the Mississippi and its tributaries—from Louisiana and across the country.

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]]> Dawoud Bey: Elegy https://noma.org/exhibitions/dawoud-bey-elegy/ Thu, 24 Jul 2025 21:15:37 +0000 https://noma.org/?post_type=exhibitions&p=89919 Through the interweaving of three photographic series—"Stony the Road "(2023), "In This Here Place" (2019), and "Night Coming Tenderly, Black" (2017)—Bey offers a framework through which to conceptualize the landscapes of Virginia, Louisiana, and Ohio (respectively) not merely as sites of a troubled history, but also as places that still hold the memories of our shared American past. The exhibition also includes two films: "Evergreen" (2019) and "350,000" (2023).

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]]> Carlo Saraceni’s Our Lady of Loreto and Peruvian Viceregal Statue Paintings https://noma.org/exhibitions/carlo-saracenis-our-of-loreto-and-peruvian-viceregal-statue-paintings/ Thu, 21 Nov 2024 22:20:39 +0000 https://noma.org/?post_type=exhibitions&p=87582 Paintings of richly dressed statues of the Virgin Mary were among the preferred themes in Spanish and Peruvian 17th- and 18th-century painting. This installation reflects the gradual process of adoption and adaptation of this iconography by Indigenous and Mestizo artists in Viceregal Peru in the creation of Marian images.

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]]> John Scott: Blues Poem for the Urban Landscape https://noma.org/exhibitions/john-scott-blues-poem/ Thu, 23 May 2024 14:45:28 +0000 https://noma.org/?post_type=exhibitions&p=85695 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.

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]]> Dapper Bruce Lafitte: A Time Before Katrina https://noma.org/exhibitions/dapper-bruce-lafitte-a-time-before-katrina/ Thu, 24 Jul 2025 21:36:46 +0000 https://noma.org/?post_type=exhibitions&p=89928 Dapper Bruce Lafitte's "A Time Before Katrina" is currently on view in the Great Hall.

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]]> Suleika Jaouad and Jon Batiste’s Piano for Super Bowl LIX https://noma.org/exhibitions/jaouad-batiste-piano/ Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:46:27 +0000 https://noma.org/?post_type=exhibitions&p=88520 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.

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]]> Jim Hodges: Craig’s closet https://noma.org/exhibitions/jim-hodges/ Wed, 31 Jul 2024 16:49:24 +0000 https://noma.org/?post_type=exhibitions&p=86846 Jim Hodges’s Craig’s closet is currently on view in front of the museum on Collins C. Diboll Circle.

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]]> Afropolitan: Contemporary African Arts at NOMA https://noma.org/exhibitions/afropolitan/ Tue, 05 Mar 2024 23:10:03 +0000 https://noma.org/?post_type=exhibitions&p=84775 Afropolitan: Contemporary African Arts at NOMA highlights some of the most pioneering African artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in the museum’s collection.

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]]> Delicate Sights: Photography and Glass https://noma.org/exhibitions/delicate-sights/ Thu, 05 Dec 2024 15:45:57 +0000 https://noma.org/?post_type=exhibitions&p=87635 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.

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]]> Envisioning Japan: Transformational Gifts from Kurt A. Gitter, M.D. and Alice Yelen Gitter https://noma.org/exhibitions/envisioning-japan/ Fri, 10 May 2024 21:03:32 +0000 https://noma.org/?post_type=exhibitions&p=85615 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.

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]]> Show & Tell: A Brief History of Photography and Text https://noma.org/exhibitions/show-and-tell/ Mon, 08 Jul 2024 21:41:15 +0000 https://noma.org/?post_type=exhibitions&p=86723 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.

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]]> Rebellious Spirits: Prohibition and Resistance in the South https://noma.org/exhibitions/rebellious-spirits/ Mon, 11 Dec 2023 17:36:30 +0000 https://noma.org/?post_type=exhibitions&p=83324 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.

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]]> Sand, Ash, Heat: Glass at the New Orleans Museum of Art https://noma.org/exhibitions/sand-ash-heat/ Fri, 23 Feb 2024 18:11:12 +0000 https://noma.org/?post_type=exhibitions&p=84553 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.

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]]> Prospect.6: The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home https://noma.org/exhibitions/prospect6-the-future-is-present/ Thu, 24 Oct 2024 14:24:03 +0000 https://noma.org/?post_type=exhibitions&p=87350 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.

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]]> Double Space: Women Photographers and Surrealism https://noma.org/exhibitions/double-space/ Fri, 01 Mar 2024 21:18:21 +0000 https://noma.org/?post_type=exhibitions&p=84723 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.

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