Public Tours Every Wednesday and Saturday

Join us in the galleries each Wednesday and Saturday for guided public tours with museum docents and staff. During these casual tours, we’ll take a close look at different works currently on view at NOMA. Free with museum admission. Louisiana residents receive free admi......More

Join us in the galleries each Wednesday and Saturday for guided public tours with museum docents and staff. During these casual tours, we’ll take a close look at different works currently on view at NOMA. Free with museum admission. Louisiana residents receive free admission to NOMA on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation. When you arrive at NOMA, check in at the front desk for directions to the appropriate gallery. GET TICKETS

New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119

Public Tours in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden Every Saturday and Sunday

Join us in the garden each Saturday and Sunday for guided public tours with museum docents and staff. During these casual tours, we’ll take a close look at different sculptures currently on view in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden. No registration is required. The Sydney a......More

Join us in the garden each Saturday and Sunday for guided public tours with museum docents and staff. During these casual tours, we’ll take a close look at different sculptures currently on view in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden. No registration is required. The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden is free and open to the public seven days a week. When you arrive, guides will meet their group at the main entrance.

Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans , LA, 70124

Tai Chi in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden

Join us in the serene Besthoff Sculpture Garden for evening Tai Chi.  Enter at the main entrance gate to the Sculpture Garden on Dueling Oaks Drive. Register online by 3 pm the day of class. Class is $5 for Members and $10 for the general public. Please bring a digital ......More

Join us in the serene Besthoff Sculpture Garden for evening Tai Chi.  Enter at the main entrance gate to the Sculpture Garden on Dueling Oaks Drive. Register online by 3 pm the day of class. Class is $5 for Members and $10 for the general public. Please bring a digital or printed version of your ticket to class. Until the spring, Tai Chi at NOMA will take place on Wednesdays. If it is colder than 65 degrees or raining, the class will move indoors to the museum. In the event of unsuitable weather, go to the museum’s front desk to sign in for Tai Chi and you will be directed to the class. Classes will resume on their regular Mondays and in the garden after March 20, 2024. REGISTER NOW Registration will remain open until 3 pm the evening prior to class. Currently, these classes are outside only, and will be cancelled for severe weather. Registrants will be notified of cancellation via email by 5 pm the evening prior to each class. For more information, call 504.658.4128 or email [email protected].

Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans , LA, 70124

Open Rehearsals with Lauren Messina

Experience an open rehearsal of The Beauty of Things, an upcoming dance performance choreographed by NOMA Creative Assembly Cohort member Lauren Messina. Attendees will be able to watch and participate in the dance performance progress. A complete performance of The Bea......More

Experience an open rehearsal of The Beauty of Things, an upcoming dance performance choreographed by NOMA Creative Assembly Cohort member Lauren Messina. Attendees will be able to watch and participate in the dance performance progress. A complete performance of The Beauty of Things will take place on Sunday, June 9.  Rehearsals will take place every Tuesday and Thursday, 10 am–12:30 pm, throughout May, in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden’s amphitheater.  Free and open to the public. Pictures are welcome but please refrain from filming. In the case of inclement weather, rehearsals will take place in NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts. About Lauren MessinaLauren Ashlee Messina is a Big Easy Award-winning dance choreographer with a heart for community. Born in Springfield, Illinois, Messina has developed her career in the Greater New Orleans area in collaboration with the Marigny Opera Ballet, KM Dance Project, the New Orleans Opera, ELLEvate Dance Company, Dow-Dance Company’s Binge Dance Festival, and the CAC New Orleans as a 2022 Performing Artist-in-Residence. Her choreography has been performed at the New York Jazz Choreography Project, the 92nd Street Y, the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, and the Mississippi Museum of Art. Messina received the Ailey School’s Oprah Winfrey Foundation Scholarship and participated in the pilot program Moving Toward Justice Open Workshop at Gibney Dance. She is a 2023 Platforms Fund grant recipient and founder of My Free Dance Class. Messina aims to create meaningful movement experiences that inspire empathy and transformation by collaborating with artists across disciplines in a thriving collective environment. Learn More About Creative Asssembly

Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined | Film Screenings

Expand your experience of Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined through seven of the artist’s films. The films will play on a loop in NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts every Wednesday and on select Sundays throughout the run of the exhibition. Films include Cleaning Earth, 2006 Cut......More

Expand your experience of Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined through seven of the artist’s films. The films will play on a loop in NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts every Wednesday and on select Sundays throughout the run of the exhibition. Films include Cleaning Earth, 2006 Cutting, 2004 Amazing Grace, 2005 The End of eating Everything, 2013 My Cave Call, 2021 The End of carrying All, 2015 and Eat Cake, 2012. The total runtime is about an hour and a half. NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts has ample seating and is wheelchair accessible. Free with museum admission additional ticketing is not required. Louisiana residents receive free museum admission every Wednesday courtesy of The Helis Foundation. About the ExhibitionThis major solo exhibition of work by Wangechi Mutu, brings together nearly one hundred sculptures, paintings, collages, drawings, and films to present the breadth of the Kenyan–American artist’s multidisciplinary practice from the mid-1990s to today. On view January 31–July 14, Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined traces connections between recent developments in Mutu’s sculptures and her decades-long exploration of the legacies of colonialism, globalization, and African and diasporic cultural traditions. The exhibition travels to NOMA from the New Museum, New York. Learn More Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined is organized by the New Museum, New York. Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Henry Luce Foundation. Generous support for this exhibition is provided by the Ed Bradley Family Foundation, Agnes Gund, Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support is provided by The Robert Lehman Foundation. Support for the accompanying publication has been provided by the A4 Arts Foundation. The presentation in New Orleans is sponsored by the Ford Foundation. Additional support is provided by Delta Airlines, Gladstone Gallery, Walda Besthoff, Victoria Miro Gallery, the Windsor Court, Keith Fox and Tom Keyes, Aimée Farnet Siegel and Mike Siegel, Robin Rankin, Elizabeth Boh, and Harvey and Marie Orth.

Gallery Talk on Brindaban Pink by Lynda Benglis

Join us in the galleries each Wednesday for weekly talks with artists, curators, and other special guests. During these casual conversations, we’ll take a close look at different works currently on view at NOMA. This week, join Laura Moreno, NOMA Museum Educator for a c......More

Join us in the galleries each Wednesday for weekly talks with artists, curators, and other special guests. During these casual conversations, we’ll take a close look at different works currently on view at NOMA. This week, join Laura Moreno, NOMA Museum Educator for a conversation on Louisiana native Lynda Benglis’ Brindaban Pink from NOMA’s permanent collection. This talk is in connection with March’s NOMA Book Club reading pick Identity Unknown: Rediscovering Seven American Women Artists by Donna Seaman. Free with museum admission. Louisiana residents receive free admission to NOMA on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation. When you arrive at NOMA, check in at the front desk for directions to the appropriate gallery.

Public Tours Every Wednesday and Saturday

Join us in the galleries each Wednesday and Saturday for guided public tours with museum docents and staff. During these casual tours, we’ll take a close look at different works currently on view at NOMA. Free with museum admission. Louisiana residents receive free admi......More

Join us in the galleries each Wednesday and Saturday for guided public tours with museum docents and staff. During these casual tours, we’ll take a close look at different works currently on view at NOMA. Free with museum admission. Louisiana residents receive free admission to NOMA on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation. When you arrive at NOMA, check in at the front desk for directions to the appropriate gallery. GET TICKETS

New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119

Gallery Talk on Brindaban Pink by Lynda Benglis

Join us in the galleries each Wednesday for weekly talks with artists, curators, and other special guests. During these casual conversations, we’ll take a close look at different works currently on view at NOMA. This week, join Laura Moreno, NOMA Museum Educator for a c......More

Join us in the galleries each Wednesday for weekly talks with artists, curators, and other special guests. During these casual conversations, we’ll take a close look at different works currently on view at NOMA. This week, join Laura Moreno, NOMA Museum Educator for a conversation on Louisiana native Lynda Benglis’ Brindaban Pink from NOMA’s permanent collection. This talk is in connection with March’s NOMA Book Club reading pick Identity Unknown: Rediscovering Seven American Women Artists by Donna Seaman. Free with museum admission. Louisiana residents receive free admission to NOMA on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation. When you arrive at NOMA, check in at the front desk for directions to the appropriate gallery.

Open Rehearsals with Lauren Messina

Experience an open rehearsal of The Beauty of Things, an upcoming dance performance choreographed by NOMA Creative Assembly Cohort member Lauren Messina. Attendees will be able to watch and participate in the dance performance progress. A complete performance of The Bea......More

Experience an open rehearsal of The Beauty of Things, an upcoming dance performance choreographed by NOMA Creative Assembly Cohort member Lauren Messina. Attendees will be able to watch and participate in the dance performance progress. A complete performance of The Beauty of Things will take place on Sunday, June 9.  Rehearsals will take place every Tuesday and Thursday, 10 am–12:30 pm, throughout May, in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden’s amphitheater.  Free and open to the public. Pictures are welcome but please refrain from filming. In the case of inclement weather, rehearsals will take place in NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts. About Lauren MessinaLauren Ashlee Messina is a Big Easy Award-winning dance choreographer with a heart for community. Born in Springfield, Illinois, Messina has developed her career in the Greater New Orleans area in collaboration with the Marigny Opera Ballet, KM Dance Project, the New Orleans Opera, ELLEvate Dance Company, Dow-Dance Company’s Binge Dance Festival, and the CAC New Orleans as a 2022 Performing Artist-in-Residence. Her choreography has been performed at the New York Jazz Choreography Project, the 92nd Street Y, the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, and the Mississippi Museum of Art. Messina received the Ailey School’s Oprah Winfrey Foundation Scholarship and participated in the pilot program Moving Toward Justice Open Workshop at Gibney Dance. She is a 2023 Platforms Fund grant recipient and founder of My Free Dance Class. Messina aims to create meaningful movement experiences that inspire empathy and transformation by collaborating with artists across disciplines in a thriving collective environment. Learn More About Creative Asssembly

Mutu & Mimosas | Member Magic Hours for Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined

Kick off the long weekend with a members-only look at Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined. Grab a mimosa and join a guided tour to learn more about Mutu’s work on view in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden and pavilion. Drinks and pastries are on us! Not a Member?NOMA members support......More

Kick off the long weekend with a members-only look at Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined. Grab a mimosa and join a guided tour to learn more about Mutu’s work on view in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden and pavilion. Drinks and pastries are on us! Not a Member?NOMA members support our institutional mission to present meaningful arts experiences that inspire communities in New Orleans and beyond. Members receive free admission the museum all year long, invitations to special events, and discounted tickets to programs. Join Today About the ExhibitionThis major solo exhibition of work by Wangechi Mutu brings together nearly one hundred sculptures, paintings, collages, drawings, and films to present the breadth of the Kenyan-American artists’ multidisciplinary practice from the mid-1990s to today. On view January 31–July 14, 2024, Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined traces connections between recent developments in Mutu’s sculptures and her decades-long exploration of the legacies of colonialism, globalization, and African and diasporic cultural traditions. The exhibition travels to NOMA from the New Museum, New York. Learn More Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined is organized by the New Museum, New York. Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Henry Luce Foundation. Generous support for this exhibition is provided by the Ed Bradley Family Foundation, Agnes Gund, Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support is provided by The Robert Lehman Foundation. Support for the accompanying publication has been provided by the A4 Arts Foundation. The presentation in New Orleans is sponsored by the Ford Foundation. Additional support is provided by Delta Airlines, Gladstone Gallery, Walda Besthoff, Victoria Miro Gallery, The Windsor Court, The Azby Fund, Keith Fox and Tom Keyes, Aimée Farnet Siegel and Mike Siegel, Robin Rankin, Elizabeth Boh, Pat Mitchell and Scott Seydel, Harvey and Marie Orth, and Jeff Childers and Onay Gutierrez.  

Public Tours in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden Every Saturday and Sunday

Join us in the garden each Saturday and Sunday for guided public tours with museum docents and staff. During these casual tours, we’ll take a close look at different sculptures currently on view in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden. No registration is required. The Sydney a......More

Join us in the garden each Saturday and Sunday for guided public tours with museum docents and staff. During these casual tours, we’ll take a close look at different sculptures currently on view in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden. No registration is required. The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden is free and open to the public seven days a week. When you arrive, guides will meet their group at the main entrance.

Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans , LA, 70124

Public Tours Every Wednesday and Saturday

Join us in the galleries each Wednesday and Saturday for guided public tours with museum docents and staff. During these casual tours, we’ll take a close look at different works currently on view at NOMA. Free with museum admission. Louisiana residents receive free admi......More

Join us in the galleries each Wednesday and Saturday for guided public tours with museum docents and staff. During these casual tours, we’ll take a close look at different works currently on view at NOMA. Free with museum admission. Louisiana residents receive free admission to NOMA on Wednesdays courtesy of The Helis Foundation. When you arrive at NOMA, check in at the front desk for directions to the appropriate gallery. GET TICKETS

New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119

Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined | Film Screenings

Expand your experience of Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined through seven of the artist’s films. The films will play on a loop in NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts every Wednesday and on select Sundays throughout the run of the exhibition. Films include Cleaning Earth, 2006 Cut......More

Expand your experience of Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined through seven of the artist’s films. The films will play on a loop in NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts every Wednesday and on select Sundays throughout the run of the exhibition. Films include Cleaning Earth, 2006 Cutting, 2004 Amazing Grace, 2005 The End of eating Everything, 2013 My Cave Call, 2021 The End of carrying All, 2015 and Eat Cake, 2012. The total runtime is about an hour and a half. NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts has ample seating and is wheelchair accessible. Free with museum admission additional ticketing is not required. Louisiana residents receive free museum admission every Wednesday courtesy of The Helis Foundation. About the ExhibitionThis major solo exhibition of work by Wangechi Mutu, brings together nearly one hundred sculptures, paintings, collages, drawings, and films to present the breadth of the Kenyan–American artist’s multidisciplinary practice from the mid-1990s to today. On view January 31–July 14, Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined traces connections between recent developments in Mutu’s sculptures and her decades-long exploration of the legacies of colonialism, globalization, and African and diasporic cultural traditions. The exhibition travels to NOMA from the New Museum, New York. Learn More Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined is organized by the New Museum, New York. Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the Henry Luce Foundation. Generous support for this exhibition is provided by the Ed Bradley Family Foundation, Agnes Gund, Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support is provided by The Robert Lehman Foundation. Support for the accompanying publication has been provided by the A4 Arts Foundation. The presentation in New Orleans is sponsored by the Ford Foundation. Additional support is provided by Delta Airlines, Gladstone Gallery, Walda Besthoff, Victoria Miro Gallery, the Windsor Court, Keith Fox and Tom Keyes, Aimée Farnet Siegel and Mike Siegel, Robin Rankin, Elizabeth Boh, and Harvey and Marie Orth.

Social Emotional Learning Workshop (Ages 6 and Up)

Social Emotional Learning (SEL) is an educational framework to help foster social skills that develop and maintain healthy relationships with self and others. The SEL curriculum focuses on recognizing and managing emotions, setting positive goals, demonstrating caring a......More

Social Emotional Learning (SEL) is an educational framework to help foster social skills that develop and maintain healthy relationships with self and others. The SEL curriculum focuses on recognizing and managing emotions, setting positive goals, demonstrating caring and concern for self and others, and maintaining positive relationships. SEL at NOMA helps to connect these skills with the artists and artworks in the museum’s permanent collection or featured in special exhibitions. Designed for children ages 6 and up, NOMA’s SEL workshop includes an art-making activity, close looking at an object in the collection, storytime, and a movement-based activity. SEL workshops are led and produced in partnership with NOMA’s Teen Art Council (TAC), a cohort of creative high school students and youth leaders who serve as ambassadors for the museum.  Pre-registration encouraged. Free with museum admission. Register Now SEL WORKSHOP: Setting Boundaries and the Fang People’s Standing Reliquary Guardian Figures | Sunday, May 26, 10 AM–12PM | Mental Health Awareness MonthJoin us for a Social Emotional Learning (SEL) workshop dedicated to setting boundaries for ourselves and respecting the boundaries of others. Including age-appropriate object lessons for the Fang people’s Standing Reliquary Guardian Figures, art-making activities, storytime, and a Tai Chi movement session with Terry Rappold. Tai Chi includes a series of gentle movements that create harmony between the mind and body. About NOMA’s Teen Art CouncilThe Teen Art Council (TAC) is a cohort of creative high school students and youth leaders who serve as ambassadors for the museum. TAC members meet on a weekly basis throughout the school year to plan programming for teen and youth audiences, meet with museum staff, take part in creative experiences with artworks and artists, and more!

Public Tours in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden Every Saturday and Sunday

Join us in the garden each Saturday and Sunday for guided public tours with museum docents and staff. During these casual tours, we’ll take a close look at different sculptures currently on view in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden. No registration is required. The Sydney a......More

Join us in the garden each Saturday and Sunday for guided public tours with museum docents and staff. During these casual tours, we’ll take a close look at different sculptures currently on view in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden. No registration is required. The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden is free and open to the public seven days a week. When you arrive, guides will meet their group at the main entrance.

Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans , LA, 70124

Tai Chi in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden

Join us in the serene Besthoff Sculpture Garden for evening Tai Chi.  Enter at the main entrance gate to the Sculpture Garden on Dueling Oaks Drive. Register online by 3 pm the day of class. Class is $5 for Members and $10 for the general public. Please bring a digital ......More

Join us in the serene Besthoff Sculpture Garden for evening Tai Chi.  Enter at the main entrance gate to the Sculpture Garden on Dueling Oaks Drive. Register online by 3 pm the day of class. Class is $5 for Members and $10 for the general public. Please bring a digital or printed version of your ticket to class. Until the spring, Tai Chi at NOMA will take place on Wednesdays. If it is colder than 65 degrees or raining, the class will move indoors to the museum. In the event of unsuitable weather, go to the museum’s front desk to sign in for Tai Chi and you will be directed to the class. Classes will resume on their regular Mondays and in the garden after March 20, 2024. REGISTER NOW Registration will remain open until 3 pm the evening prior to class. Currently, these classes are outside only, and will be cancelled for severe weather. Registrants will be notified of cancellation via email by 5 pm the evening prior to each class. For more information, call 504.658.4128 or email [email protected].

Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans , LA, 70124

Open Rehearsals with Lauren Messina

Experience an open rehearsal of The Beauty of Things, an upcoming dance performance choreographed by NOMA Creative Assembly Cohort member Lauren Messina. Attendees will be able to watch and participate in the dance performance progress. A complete performance of The Bea......More

Experience an open rehearsal of The Beauty of Things, an upcoming dance performance choreographed by NOMA Creative Assembly Cohort member Lauren Messina. Attendees will be able to watch and participate in the dance performance progress. A complete performance of The Beauty of Things will take place on Sunday, June 9.  Rehearsals will take place every Tuesday and Thursday, 10 am–12:30 pm, throughout May, in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden’s amphitheater.  Free and open to the public. Pictures are welcome but please refrain from filming. In the case of inclement weather, rehearsals will take place in NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts. About Lauren MessinaLauren Ashlee Messina is a Big Easy Award-winning dance choreographer with a heart for community. Born in Springfield, Illinois, Messina has developed her career in the Greater New Orleans area in collaboration with the Marigny Opera Ballet, KM Dance Project, the New Orleans Opera, ELLEvate Dance Company, Dow-Dance Company’s Binge Dance Festival, and the CAC New Orleans as a 2022 Performing Artist-in-Residence. Her choreography has been performed at the New York Jazz Choreography Project, the 92nd Street Y, the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, and the Mississippi Museum of Art. Messina received the Ailey School’s Oprah Winfrey Foundation Scholarship and participated in the pilot program Moving Toward Justice Open Workshop at Gibney Dance. She is a 2023 Platforms Fund grant recipient and founder of My Free Dance Class. Messina aims to create meaningful movement experiences that inspire empathy and transformation by collaborating with artists across disciplines in a thriving collective environment. Learn More About Creative Asssembly