The Art in Bloom Presented by @first_horizon silent auction is live! 🙋🌺⁠
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Bid now on unique works and objects from over 80 local and regional artists, including this featured painting, titled "Islanders" by Gretchen Weller Howard. The online auction is open through this Monday, March 27, at noon.⁠
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👉 Click the link in our bio to browse all items and place a bid today.⁠
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🎨: Gretchen Weller Howard, "Islanders." Acrylic and plaster with fragments on canvas, 48 x 48 inches. ...

This scene portrayed by artist Paul Édouard Poincy was likely common in the 1880s at the French Market or any of the 30 neighborhood markets that existed in New Orleans at the time.⁠
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Originally a site of Native American trading, the French Market opened at the riverfront of New Orleans at the end of the 18th century when the city was under Spanish rule. By the 1880s, the French Market was at a high point in popularity, but at its lowest in cleanliness and general upkeep.⁠
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Waste-filled gutters and scraps of food attracted dogs scrounging for their dinner. Poincy captured one dog opting for a steak as he grabs meat from a butcher’s stall. A second dog underneath the table warns him off.⁠
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👉 Click the link in our bio to learn more about this work by Poincy in an article by Curator of Education Tracy Kennan for @nolanews.⁠
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🎨: Paul Édouard Poincy, "Dogs in the French Market," 1889. Oil on canvas. Museum purchase, 25.0. ...

You have four more nights to catch @thenolaproject's latest production in NOMA's Lapis Center for the Arts. ⁠
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Written by Pulitzer Prize winner James Ijames, "White" is a contemporary Frankenstein story set in a fiercely competitive art world. In this dark comedy directed by Beau Bratcher, ambitious artist Gus has his sights set on a major museum exhibition. But eventually, he has to come face-to-face with his own creations.⁠
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👉 Click the link in our bio to get your tickets today for the remaining performances on March 19, 29, 30, and 31. ...

Happy birthday to artist @hankwillisthomas, whose sculpture "History of the Conquest" is on permanent view in NOMA's Besthoff Sculpture Garden.⁠
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The artwork, commissioned for @prospect_nola in 2017, reflects on global histories of colonialism and empire. Thomas based the work on a 17th-century miniature sculpture composed of a real nautilus shel covered in silver and topped with a black enamel figure. Enlarged to monumental scale and cast in solid bronze, Thomas transforms a negative stereotype from the past into a monumental hero for the present.⁠
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🎨: Hank Willis Thomas, "History of the Conquest," 2017. Museum purchase with funds provided by Sydney and Walda Besthoff, 2018.30. © Hank Willis Thomas. ...