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. As summer winds down, make visiting museums a part of your end-of-summer bucket list. Check out the highlighted exhibits below and search our calendar to find even more art in New Orleans. 

“Flags of Our Mothers”

On view at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art from September 13, 2025 through March 8, 2026, the exhibition features artist Raven Halfmoon’s largest sculptures to date, including a monumental three-part stacked ceramic form towering more than twelve feet tall. The title of the exhibition, "Flags of Our Mothers," is a tribute to the matriarchs in her life and all the Indigenous women, who over many centuries have created and endured, keeping their stories and traditions present, active, and alive.

“The Unending Stream: Chapter II”

“The Unending Stream” is a two-part exhibition that showcases the thriving community of photographers living and working in New Orleans. The title of the exhibition pays homage to a Clarence John Laughlin photograph of the same title, which is a part of the permanent collection at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. “The Unending Stream” highlights the work of six photographers who investigate themes similar to Laughlin’s of memory, place, time and identity while capturing the mysterious beauty of America’s most unique city. See it at the Ogden from September 27, 2025 – March 15, 2026.

“Dawoud Bey: Elegy”

A new exhibit at the New Orleans Museum of Art, "Dawoud Bey: Elegy" draws upon the factual and imagined realities of the early African American presence in the United States. Including forty-five black-and-white photographs and two film installations, the exhibition elucidates the deeply profound historical memory still embedded in geography at historically significant sites in Virginia, Louisiana, and Ohio. The exhibit is on view from September 26, 2025 through January 4, 2026.