Exhibitions in New Orleans in December 2026

16 events from Tuesday, December 1 to Thursday, December 31, 2026. Busiest venues: New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA), The Historic New Orleans Collection, Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane University.

Tuesday, December 1, 2026

Visual arts
until Mar 31

Jim Hodges: Craig's closet

Jim Hodges

New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) · City Park
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Dec 28

Carlo Saraceni's Our Lady of Loreto and Peruvian Viceregal Statue Paintings

New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) · City Park
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Mar 31

Hanaq Pachap: Art of the Indigenous Guilds of Viceregal Peru

New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) · City Park
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until May 16

New Orleans Musicians in Art: Selections from the Permanent Collection

The Historic New Orleans Collection · French Quarter
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Dec 4

The Moss Mystique: Southern Women and Newcomb Pottery

Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane University · Uptown
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Jan 3

Sèvres Magnifique: French Porcelain from the Collection of Thomas B. Lemann

New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) · City Park
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Jan 17

American Revolution: The Augmented Exhibition

The Historic New Orleans Collection · French Quarter
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Feb 14

Come Back Fighting: USS New Orleans at War

The National WWII Museum · Warehouse District
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Apr 18

Drawn to Combat: Bill Mauldin and the Art of War

The National WWII Museum · Warehouse District
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Jan 10

The Dream is the Truth

Ogden Museum of Southern Art · Warehouse District
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Dec 4

Quiet Reserve: Stitching an Ambitious New Woman

Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane University · Uptown
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Mar 14

In the Eyes and Mind of the Feral Child: The Art of Tom McNease

Tom McNease

Ogden Museum of Southern Art · Warehouse District
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until May 9

Bunny Matthews: His Life, Art, and Obsessions

Bunny Matthews

The Historic New Orleans Collection · French Quarter
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Feb 14

Second Nature: Japanese Rinpa Paintings from the Gitter-Yelen Collection

New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) · City Park
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Mar 9

Great Scott! The Life/Work of Carol Scott

Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans · Warehouse District
- Visual arts
Visual arts
until Feb 14

Nic[o] Brierre Aziz: Sweet Surrender

Nic[o] Brierre Aziz

Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans · Warehouse District
- Visual arts

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