Katie Holten
As told to Allese Thomson Baker for Artforum. Katie Holten is an Irish-born, New York-based multimedia artist whose work explores the relationship between human beings and the natural environment. She represented Ireland at the 2003 Venice Biennale and in 2009 created Tree Museum, a public artwork celebrating the centennial of the Grand Concourse in the… Read More
‘Ralston Crawford’ At NOMA
By D. Eric Bookhardt for Gambit Weekly Here’s a question: Which great American industrial-precisionist painter is buried in St. Louis Cemetery No. 3? There are only two possibilities: Charles Sheeler and Ralston Crawford. While Crawford was known to be fond of New Orleans, he never lived here. He grew up in Buffalo, N.Y., and his… Read More
‘Ralston Crawford And Jazz’ Opens At NOMA
By Liz Mardiks for Offbeat. One of the New Orleans Museum of Art’s most-anticipated recent exhibitions-“Ralston Crawford and Jazz”-opens tonight with a big celebration. Crawford, a prominent American artist of the mid-20th Century, became a faculty member at LSU in 1949, and began making regular trips to New Orleans. This collection of Crawford’s lesser-known art… Read More
‘Ralston Crawford And Jazz’
By Doug MacCash for The Times-Picayune The New Orleans Museum of Art’s “Ralston Crawford and Jazz” exhibition, a collection of 150 New Orleans-inspired photos, drawings, paintings, prints and short films by the master mid-century abstractionist opens with a reception from 5 to 9 tonight (June 22), featuring a lecture, live music, cooking demonstration and art-making… Read More
Leah Chase Demos At The New Orleans Musem Of Art Move To Bigger Venue
By Judy Walker, The Times-Picayune The New Orleans Museum of Art has announced a change in plans because of an overwhelming response to the “Art You Can Eat” cooking demonstrations with chef Leah Chase. The demonstrations for the days she will appear — July 13, August 3, 10 and 24 — will be moved from… Read More
Irish Artist Katie Holten’s Edgy Landscape Drawings At NOMA
Written by Doug McCash for the Times-Picayune. Internationally known artist Katie Holten is attempting to obstruct the New Orleans Museum of Art atrium with a set of huge drawings suspended from the ceiling like fabric walls. The biggest of the drawings, Holten said, is a 12-by-36 foot behemoth that will act like a barrier, confronting… Read More