Your unique tour of New Orleans Museum of Art, featuring over 1000 years of creativity.

The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) and its Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden stewards a collection of nearly 50,000 works, with exceptional holdings in African art, photography, decorative arts, and Japanese art, as well as strengths in American and French art, and an expanding collection highlighting contemporary artists. 

Joining Scala's popular 'Director's Choice' series, this collection guide provides NOMA Director Susan M. Taylor's personal selection of some of her favorite works in the collection, balancing significant historical works of art history with the art of our time, allowing NOMA to be as accessible to as broad an audience as possible. 

Taylor's choices range from a Mayan carving, an 18th-century Mexican market scene to European and American artworks by Elizabeth Catlett, Joan Miró, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Jackson Pollock, and many more - including Edgar Degas's remarkable portrait of his sister-in-law, painted during his time in New Orleans in 1871-72.

About The Author

Susan M. Taylor is The Montine McDaniel Freeman Director at the New Orleans Museum of Art. Since she began her tenure in 2010, she has led an ambitious expansion of NOMA’s Besthoff Sculpture Garden and created powerful art experiences through acquisitions, exhibitions, and expanded spaces.