A new portrait exhibition invites visitors to imagine the lives and identities of unnamed subjects.
As the national conversation stirred up by Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter has shown, Black musicians have played an important role in the evolution of country music at every stage of its development.
Frank Merlo was the playwright’s companion for 15 years. THNOC’s new issue of the Tennessee Williams Annual Review introduces a never-before-published poem about Merlo’s death.
Highlights from the Disney Imagineers’ Carnival-themed show-and-tell at THNOC.
From neoclassical architecture to street names, southern Louisiana is full of references to the Roman Empire.
For decades, studio photographer John E. Kuhlman spent his free time taking pictures of jazz musicians. THNOC is now home to that part of his archive.
THNOC's Aeolian organ harkens back to a decadent era in musical history.
A product of New Orleans, Simmons sweated his way to spotlight.
Explore interesting connections hidden in the painter's portraits of the wealthy elite in Spanish New Orleans.
Before stereos and Spotify were commonplace, much of people’s musical lives happened at home. Music boxes, soirées musicales, and more in this survey of homemade music before the broadcast era.
