Events
Worldwide Head of Photographs Vanessa Hallett (right) holds up Dora Maar’s Portrait de profil à la coiffure en hauteur with Head of Department Sarah Krueger in conversation. Maar’s work is featured in The Odyssey of Collecting. On table: Man Ray Rayograph, 1922. Courtesy of Phillips.
November 15, 2018PhotoNOLA in collaboration with The Historic New Orleans Collection presents Through the Lens: Collecting Photography, a lecture with photography specialist and auctioneer Sarah Krueger.
Danny Barker
Exhibitions
A detail from New Orleans: Between Heaven and Hell
The colored pen-and-ink work—measuring three feet by six feet—is a view of an American city, held aloft by parading figures from throughout its 300-year history.
Louisiana's first Black Lieutenant Governor, Oscar James Dunn. Image courtesy of Amistad Research Center.
June 1, 2018 to December 8, 2018Presented by the New Orleans Arts & Culture Coalition
A Plantation Burial; 1860; oil on canvas by John Antrobus; The Historic New Orleans Collection, 1960.46
This permanent exhibition presents a narrative of the state’s history using art and artifacts that date from precolonial history through Hurricane Katrina.
The Historic New Orleans Collection presents a panel version of "Purchased Lives: The American Slave Trade from 1808 to 1865" at its Williams Research Center, 410 Chartres Street.
The Historic New Orleans Collection is proud to announce the donation of more than 300 hand-carved decoys and other works of art by southeastern Louisianan craftsmen.