January 19–May 29, 2010
Williams Research Center
410 Chartres Street
Presented in conjunction with ¡Sí Cuba! (more…)
Events
Exhibitions
Spotlights
Past Exhibitions
Extended through June 5, 2010
Williams Research Center
410 Chartres Street
An exhibition of more than 50 photographs of New Orleans. (more…)
October 17, 2009–February 28, 2010
New Orleans Museum of Art
One Collins Diboll Circle, City Park
The sixth join exhibition presented by The Historic New Orleans Collection and New Orleans Museum of Art.
September 30, 2009–May 2, 2010
533 Royal Street, Williams Gallery
On December 20, 1803, the largest real estate transaction in U.S. history was fulfilled with the official transfer of the Louisiana Purchase territory from France to the United States.
April 15–September 13, 2009
NOMA
Drawing from the holdings of both institutions, the exhibition features paintings, sculpture, Newcomb pottery, photographs and metalwork by artists who visited or resided in Louisiana from the late 19th century through the cusp of postmodernism. Part two of the exhibition, opening in April 2010, will feature artworks from 1965 to the present. (more…)
March 31- August 29, 2009
Williams Research Center • 410 Chartres
This spring The Historic New Orleans Collection celebrates the life and work of New Orleans artist Josephine Marien Crawford (1878–1952) with the release of a biography, Josephine Crawford:
An Artist’s Vision, and an accompanying exhibition at the Williams Research Center, 410 Chartres Street. (more…)
March 11- September 13, 2009
Williams Gallery, 533 Royal St.
from The Historic New Orleans Collection marks the inaugural public presentation
of the Michael P. Smith Archive from The Historic New Orleans Collection. (more…)
December 19, 2008–April 25, 2009
Williams Research Center Lobby, 410 Chartres Street
Although it was written more than 160 years ago, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s epic poem “Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie” still resonates with Acadians throughout North America.
December 2, 2008–February 20, 2009
Williams Research Center, 410 Chartres Street
For six months in 1974, New Yorkers Charles H. Traub and Douglas Baz lived in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, and photographed there and in the surrounding countryside. Their collective work encompassed many hundreds of images that depict the land, people, and life patterns of Louisiana’s Cajuns. This exhibition is a selection of thirty images from that series.
October 1, 2008–February 20, 2009
Williams Gallery, 533 Royal Street
A Closer Look: The Antebellum Photographs of Jay Dearborn Edwards, 1858–1861 features three dozen images of a thriving southern city on the brink of the Civil War. (more…)
