Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana

It's hard to imagine a Louisiana gallery without at least one mossy landscape on view, but no major exhibition of this regional splendor has been held in more than forty years. That changes this month with the opening of Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana at New Orleans Museum of Art. Learn about the rise of landscape painting in Louisiana during the nineteenth century and its role in creating—and exporting—a new vision for American landscape art from a place that stayed wild as the rest of the country settled down. 

The exhibition will be accompanied by a site-specific contemporary art installation in NOMA’s Great Hall by the artist Regina Agu; the large-scale photographic panorama will wrap the museum’s Great Hall and is based on Agu's experiences revisiting the sites of many of the historical landscape paintings in the exhibition. noma.org.