NOMA

New Orleans Museum of Art is New Orleans’ oldest art institution and one of the top art museums in the South, hosting an impressive permanent collection of almost 40,000 objects and the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden.

The V Side: Life after Jazz Fest

35 dancers will perform The Joffrey Ballet Saturday at the Mahalia Jackson Theater

As we all know, there IS life after Jazz Fest. This weekend is teeming with offbeat entertainment options -- several of them involving spandex -- for Mom, budding spring romance, or anyone looking for something new and different [...]

The V Side: Art, Design, Music, and Fests in Bloom

The message is clear: Thomas Dolby's "Time Capsule" will be parked outside of Tipitina's during his show there Saturday night for fans to confer with the future

THURSDAY / Language of Flowers: The New Orleans Museum of Art blooms with plants, floral arrangements, and outside-the-box answers to floral design that would interest anyone from garden party attendees to designers to landscapers. In years past, Art in [...]

The V Side: What now? Lent, of course!

Alexander Konsantia plays with the LPO

This weekend, NolaVie curates plenty of cultural options that lie far, far away from bars or other nexuses of party and drink (no small feat in a city with one bar per capita), because we're sure you've sworn [...]

The V Side: Speaking / playing / partying with a purpose

Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, a Los Angeles building designed by Rafael Moneo, NOMA's Friday Night lecturer presented by Tulane School of Architecture.

THURSDAY / Occupy Earth: If you need a refresher on the Power of the People, who better to hear it from than renowned social theorist Jeffrey C. Alexander? He's the leading figure in the study of the power of culture [...]

NOMA curator explains how and why of collecting art

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Ever wonder how and why a museum chooses the particular paintings on its walls? In "Curating NOMA," UNO film student Robert Monk interviews Miranda Lash, curator of contemporary art at New Orleans Museum of Art, to investigate just [...]

The NOLA Project creates vitality in the arts scene with 'Romeo and Juliet' at NOMA

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With the New Orleans Museum of Art as its backdrop, the NOLA Project has created a successful production of William Shakespeare’s tragic romance, Romeo and Juliet.  The talented cast of 20 local actors delivers a captivating show that [...]