With so much to do in New Orleans, many forget that the city’s art scene is just as vibrant as the food and music. March is a great time to visit a museum. Check out the highlighted exhibits below and search our calendar to find even more art in New Orleans.

 

“In the Beloved”

Ogden Museum presents, “In the Beloved,” a new body of work by Alexis McGrigg, that merges fluid abstraction, spiritual inquiry and an exploration of Blackness as both a physical and metaphysical space. Influenced by dance, film, literature and spiritual philosophy, including the writings of Octavia Butler, Malidoma Patrice Somé, Gary Zukav and Christina Lonsdale, this series investigates the origin and transcendence of the soul from a third space McGrigg calls “The Beloved.” This realm is in constant metamorphosis, allowing Black souls to exist in continual transition and transformation. Multidimensional in nature, “The Beloved” is a space where time can simultaneously collapse and expand, opening possibilities for alternate realities of the soul. Like the soul itself, esoteric and intangible, this body of work imagines a spiritual realm connected to ancestral lineage that transcends time and space, where the viewer is invited to venture beyond the physical plane. See it on view from March 21 – July 19.

“American Revolution”
Image courtesy of The Historic New Orleans Collection
“American Revolution”

“American Revolution”

“American Revolution: The Augmented Exhibition” moves beyond the traditional museum experience by utilizing handheld HistoPad technology, allowing each visitor to create a customized experience according to their own curiosity and interests. Guests can travel through places and events from the past and present, from the hushed air of Philadelphia during the signing of the Declaration of Independence to Spanish Governor Bernardo de Gálvez’s pivotal battle that took place on the Gulf Coast. Experience the exhibit at The Historic New Orleans Collection from March 20, 2026 to January 17, 2027.

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

France’s royal porcelain factory at Sèvres, on the outskirts of Paris, has for nearly 300 years produced both decorative and useful ceramic objects of exemplary craft. Creating vases, tea sets, plates, and bowls that signified wealth, power and opulence to the eighteenth-century French court at Versailles, Sèvres factory artists worked alongside chemists and the best sculptors of the Rococo era to produce fine porcelain with luscious glazes in a range of colors. This exhibition at the New Orleans Museum of Art celebrates the bequest of a superb group of Sèvres porcelain from New Orleans collector Thomas B. Lemann. See the exhibit from March 28, 2026 – January 3, 2027 at the New Orleans Museum of Art.