Drawn from the Ogden Museum Permanent Collection, BIG is an exhibition highlighting the Museum’s largest holdings. Assembled together for the first time, this exhibition will showcase works that are typically hidden from public view due to their complicated size, and will celebrate artists’ endeavors on a grand scale. Read More about BIG

Established in 2012, this statewide, juried exhibition promotes the contemporary art practices in the state of Louisiana, provides an exhibition space for the exposition of living artist’s work and engages a contemporary audience that recognizes the vibrant visual arts culture of Louisiana and the role of New Orleans as a rising, international art center. Read More about Louisiana Contemporary, Presented by The Helis Foundation

Newton Howard (1912-1984) was a New Orleans painter known for his serene landscapes of the marshes and bayous of South Louisiana. Read More about Newton Howard: Painter of the Sportsman’s Paradise

A native New Yorker, Doris Ulmann traveled through the American South from Appalachia and the Sea Islands of South Carolina to the deep South and New Orleans. Read More about Doris Ulmann: From the Highlands to the Lowlands

Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Ogden Museum are currently installed on the third and fourth floor of Goldring Hall. Ranging from 19th century Bayou School landscapes to Vernacular Art, these exhibitions celebrate the depth and breadth of the Museum’s holdings. Read More about The Permanent Collection

Since its founding in 2012, the fund has focused on building a museum-quality collection of photographs taken in the American South since World War II. Read More about One Place Understood: Photographs from The Do Good Fund Collection

Drawing from both private and public collections, this exhibition tells the story of one man’s mastery of his chosen medium, of his obsession with the built environment of his home and of his transcendent combination of history and art. Read More about A Precise Vision: The Architectural Archival Watercolors of Jim Blanchard Celebrating the New Orleans Tricentennial

The Whole Drum Will Sound – drawn primarily from the Ogden Museum of Southern Art’s Permanent Collection – celebrates strong female voices in abstract art in the American South. Read More about The Whole Drum Will Sound: Women in Southern Abstraction

In conjunction with the Tricentennial celebration of New Orleans, Salazar: Portraits of Influence in Spanish New Orleans, 1785 – 1802 tells the story of Yucatán-born Josef Francisco Xavier de Salazar y Mendoza (c. 1750-1802), whose career spanned the second half of the Spanish administration of New Orleans. Read More about Salazar: Portraits of Influence in Spanish New Orleans, 1785 – 1802 Celebrating the New Orleans Tricentennial