Celebrating its 2012 and 2013 acquisitions of photography by four renowned social documentarians, the New Orleans Museum of Art recently opened The Story in Pictures: Social Documents from the Permanent Collection. The black-and-white show is on view through August 25, 2013.

Tonight, Poolside Calypso at the Country Club in the Bywater! All over the city, there's live music, theater, and more happening this Friday. On this date in Louisiana’s Civil War history, Union troops captured Baton Rouge. Now, more ways to kick off your weekend.

After traveling from Kansas City to the Carnegie Museum, nearly a century’s worth of decorative arts objects from various World’s Fairs lands at the New Orleans Museum of Art.  

When New Orleanians swap laces for flops and sweaters for seersucker you know spring has sprung in the Crescent City. On Wednesday, the New Orleans Museum of Art rings in the first official day of spring with their 25th annual Art in Bloom fundraiser. From March 20 to March 24, NOMA salutes spring with a series of lecture seminars, fashion shows, and an auction.

Shouts of Stella! are coming a month early in New Orleans. Admirers of the abstract should forgo their usual Friday night plans for an exciting evening at the New Orleans Museum of Art with legendary abstract artist Frank Stella.  

Now open at the New Orleans Museum of Art: an exhibit that will blow your mind, frustrate, confuse, elevate, and overwhelm you. “Lifelike,” on loan until January 27, 2013, from the Walker Art Center in Minnesota, is a multimedia collection of works celebrating the places, objects and moments we often take for granted.

by Lianna Patch 

Raise your hand if you like free things. Now raise your hand if you like museums. If you kept your hand up, you’ll be excited to learn that this Saturday, September 29, is Museum Day Live! Sponsored by Smithsonian magazine, the event is your chance to wander museums and plantations in and around New Orleans without having to buy so much as a pencil at the gift shop.

Ralston Crawford was not an artist limited by medium.

Isaac put a temporary damper on the local arts scene, postponing exhibitions all over the city. At the New Orleans Museum of Art, things took a little longer to get going, as the stately corridors in City Park have been closed for more than a week. But this week begins with good news for museum-goers: NOMA re-opens tomorrow, and they’re kicking off with a free day!

Lin Emery’s newest exhibition is moving. Literally.