NOMA Acquires Evocative Major Artwork By Skylar Fein: ‘Remember The Upstairs Lounge’
By Doug MacCash, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune The New Orleans Museum of Art has acquired “Remember the Upstairs Lounge,” a postmodern masterpiece by New Orleans artist Skylar Fein, that symbolically recalls a devastating 1973 fire in a crowded French Quarter gay bar. The 90-piece art environment that features imitation artifacts, photographs, video and a reproduction… Read More
The Best New Orleans Art Exhibits Of 2012, Doug MacCash’s Transcendent 10
By Doug MacCash, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune While considering the best New Orleans art exhibits of 2012, it became clear that this was a year of disquiet on the Crescent City art scene. In March, the Contemporary Arts Center was the focus of an artists’ protest over the temporary closure of an exhibition and the… Read More
“Lifelike” Is All About Context
By Alex Rawls | My Spilt Milk The new show at the New Orleans Museum of Art needs to be seen in its space to be fully appreciated. The subtext of “Lifelike,” the new show at the New Orleans Museum of Art, is the art gallery experience. The collected pieces not only rely on the… Read More
Review: Photography, Sequence, & Time
By Nick Stillman | Pelican Bomb From the digital revolution all the way back to when photography was so primitive that an “operator” needed to affix a portrait sitter’s head to the back of a chair with an iron clamp, the beauty and trouble of the medium has always been its sequential possibility: take a… Read More
Lifelike At NOMA
By D. Eric Bookhardt | Gambit Weekly Click here to read the article on Gambit Weekly’s website. Visual art has long been concerned with realism – the accurate depiction of the “real” world around us – but now, thanks to digital photography, the Internet and cellphone cameras, we live in a world filled with images… Read More
Banal Bliss: Massive, ‘Lifelike’ Show Blurs Lines Of Reality At NOMA
By Lianna Patch | NOLA Defender Click here to read the article on NOLA Defender’s website. Now open at the New Orleans Museum of Art: an exhibit that will blow your mind, frustrate, confuse, elevate, and overwhelm you. “Lifelike,” on loan until January 27, 2013, from the Walker Art Center in Minnesota, is a multimedia… Read More