Current and Upcoming Exhibitions:

Ancestors and Descendants: Ancient Southwestern America at the Dawn of the 20th Century
July 24 - October 24

A little known American Indian archive will be unveiled at the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) from July 24 until October 24, 2010. Ancestors and Descendants: Ancient Southwestern America at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century will be the first comprehensive exhibition of nineteenth century photography, southwestern artifacts and archival research from the George Hubbard Pepper Native American Archive at Tulane
University.

In collaboration with Tulane’s Middle American Research Institute (MARI) and Latin American Library (LAL), the exhibition offers a special glimpse of the Tulane archive featuring over 150 objects from Pepper’s personal Native American art collection as well as over 140 photographic images Pepper, a museum ethnologist and scholar, used as visual complements to his lectures. Many of the images and the objects in Ancestors and Descendents, including textiles, pottery, baskets, and other Pueblo and Navajo paraphernalia, have never been published or seen by the general public since 1924.

“There has never been an opportunity to bring together this many items from the Pepper archive,” said Paul Tarver, curator of Ancestors and Descendants. “Even in his lifetime, Pepper could only display a handful of objects with a few dozen images he projected through a magic lantern. This is the first time the breadth of the archive has been researched and displayed.”

The objects and images selected for the NOMA exhibition document the relationship between American Indians and the scientists, photographers and tourists who traveled to New Mexico and Arizona at the turn of the twentieth century. MARI and LAL archives include Pepper’s original excavation journals, personal diaries, sketch books, lectures and photographs that illustrate everyday interactions between Pepper and his subjects. The exhibition will utilize excerpts from these materials and bring the time period to life
through Pepper’s words.

The exhibition at NOMA will display the wide variety of art forms Pepper collected from the Southwest as well as drawings and original handwritten journals from his Bonito excavation. Ancestors and Descendents presents a rare opportunity to see a collection that was put together over one hundred years ago by a museum ethnologist and early collector and scholar of Native American art.

Ancestors and Descendents: Ancient Southwestern America at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century is curated by Paul J. Tarver NOMA’s Curator of Pre-Columbian and Native American Art and co-curated by Cristin J. Nunez. The exhibition is generously funded by the National Endowment of the Arts.


Every Year Something New: A Centennial Celebration from the Collection of Prints and Drawings
July 24 - October 24

Curator George Roland has scoured the Museum's 7,000 prints and drawings, selecting one from each year of the Museum's history. These seldom-seen treasures include work from Goya, Audubon, Matisse, Robert Gordy, Ida Kohlmyer, Henry Casselli and many more.

Every Year Something New will be on view in the Templeman Galleries. George Roland will host gallerys tour at noon on Fridays, July 30, August 13 and September 17.


Women Artists in Louisiana, 1965–2010
March 17 - September 12

The New Orleans Museum of Art and The Historic New Orleans Collection are proud to present their seventh joint exhibition, Women Artists in Louisiana, 1965-2010. The show resumes where last spring's exhibition, Women Artists in Louisiana, 1825-1965: A Place of Their Own, left off. The new exhibition continues to focus on the creative legacy of the state's women artists, starting with the dawn of postmodernism and bringing viewers to the present day. On view are forty-four paintings, sculpture, photographs, and decorative arts by forty artists. The works include portraits, landscapes, genre scenes, non-objectives, and abstracts. Among the featured artists are Martha Ambrose, Jacqueline Bishop, Lynda Benglis, Jane Nulty Bowman, Dawn Dedeaux, Lin Emery, Mignon Faget, Suzanne Joslyn Fosberg, Joanne Greenberg, Angela Gregory, Shearly Grode, Ronna Harris, Gail Hood, Ann Hornback, Jacqueline Humphries, Ida Kohlmeyer, Carol Leake, Shirley RabŽ Masinter, Chyrl Savoy, Eugenie "Ersy" Schwartz, Ann Strub, Patricia Whitty, Margaret Witherspoon, Mildred Wohl, and Jesselyn Zurik. Photographers include Debbie Fleming Caffery, Sandra Russell Clark, Tina Freeman, and Josephine Sacabo.

This exhibition features some artists whose reputations are well established locally and nationally, and others who are still emerging. The contributions of these artists of the latter half of the century, understandably, were made possible by earlier women artists.

July 24 - October 24
Ancestors and Descendants: Ancient Southwestern America at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
Selections from the George Pepper Native American Archive at the Middle American Research Institute, Tulane University
(organized by NOMA) (EWF Galleries)

The exhibition consists of seventy-three antique photographs of Native American subjects, including photographs printed from antique glass lantern slides, as well as eighty-four Native American artifacts including Navaho and Pueblo textiles, pottery and jewelry. All the images and artifacts were collected by George Hubbard Pepper between 1895 and 1905. Pepper was the first anthropologist/archeologist to excavate Pueblo Bonito in New Mexico, America's most spectacular Native American ruin. The images and objects on display are representative of Pepper's large archive which until this exhibition has been mostly unknown, unpublished and rarely seen by the public.

July 24 - October 24
Katrina Messages from New Orleans and the Gulf Coast:
Photographs by Richard Misrach
(organized by NOMA) (Bay Gallery)

November 14, 2010 - January 23, 2011
Great Collectors/Great Donors:
Building the New Orleans Museum of Art 1910-2010
(organized by NOMA) (EWF Galleries)

November 14, 2010 - March 13, 2011
Bernard Faucon:
The Most Beautiful Day of My Youth
(organized by NOMA) (Templemen Galleries)