2014: The Year In New Orleans Entertainment
A city enamored with tradition seems to enjoy embracing the new – or renewed. By Will Coviello | Gambit Weekly This article originally appeared here The 10-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina looms in 2015, but by then rebuilding may seem like just another longstanding New Orleans tradition. In 2014, a host of local institutions, new… Read More
The New Orleans Museum Of Art Officially Welcomes Lichtenstein Sculpture Wednesday, December 10
By Doug MacCash, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune This article originally appeared here The late pop art master Roy Lichtenstein’s sculpture “Five Brushstrokes” has been in place in front of The New Orleans Museum of Art for exactly a year. But at 6 p.m. Wednesday (Dec. 10), NOMA officially welcomes the 20-foot-tall painted aluminum landmark with… Read More
NOLA Project Stages Museum-Quality Shakespeare In The Great Hall
By Jim Fitzmorris | The New Orleans Advocate This review originally appeared here Holding a candle, an emotionally pinched grump in a nightcap and gown opposes merriment and seasonal celebration. An expansive man with a beard chortles and bellows while bringing mirth and mischief to all with whom he comes into contact. And young lovers… Read More
Review: A Lighter Twelfth Night From The NOLA Project
Staging Shakespeare in the Grand Hall of the New Orleans Museum of Art By Will Coviello | Gambit Weekly This review originally appeared here In Shakespeare’s comedy Twelfth Night; or, What You Will, it’s easy for a director to produce laughs with a drunk and insistent Sir Toby Belch and a pompous Malvolio, who is… Read More
Review: Photorealism At The New Orleans Museum Of Art
The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Collection of photorealist canvases reveals subtle painterly magic By D. Eric Bookhardt | Gambit Weekly This review originally appeared here It’s no secret Sydney and Walda Besthoff are big-time art lovers, but the size of their photorealist painting collection, which takes up the back half of NOMA’s first-floor galleries, may… Read More
Paintings Go Beyond The Realism Of Photography
By John d’Addario | The New Orleans Advocate This article originally appeared here Painting and photography have always had a complex relationship. Conceived as an adjunct to painting in the earliest years of its development in the first decades of the 19th century, when many painters discovered how useful photographs could be in composing their… Read More