Artful, Aerial Views Of Humanity’s Impact
By Jonathan Blaustein | The New York Times, Lens View the slide show and article here There were 2.5 billion people in the world when Edward Burtynsky was born in the late 1950s. Now, there are seven billion and counting. “That’s literally a billion in every decade, so I started recognizing that human enterprise was… Read More
Slide Show: ‘Gordon Parks: The Making Of An Argument’
Posted by Genevieve Fussell | The New Yorker View the slide show and article here On November 1, 1948, Life magazine published the photo essay “Harlem Gang Leader,” introducing their readers to the photography of Gordon Parks and to his subject, the seventeen-year-old Leonard (Red) Jackson, leader of the Harlem gang the Midtowners. “Gordon Parks:… Read More
First Comprehensive Exhibition Of Masterworks From New Orleans Museum Of Art Photography Collection Opens In November 2013
Photography at NOMA Features Works by Berenice Abbott, Ansel Adams, Diane Arbus, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Robert Mapplethorpe, William Henry Fox Talbot, and Edward Weston, Among Many Others New Orleans,LA— Featuring masterworks by photographers Edward Weston, William Henry Fox Talbot, André Kertész, Robert Mapplethorpe, and many more, the New Orleans Museum of Art’s… Read More
Star Sculptor Will Ryman Sets Up A Golden Log Cabin At New Orleans Museum Of Art
By Chris Waddington, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune View the original article here Will Ryman just assembled a log cabin inside the New Orleans Museum of Art — a walk-in wood structure, coated in gold resin and packed with ideas about American history. He also packed the cabin with things that shaped our history: bullets, arrowheads,… Read More
NOMA Spotlights Houma Culture
By John d’Addario | The Advocate In the ancient French Breton legend of the city of Ys, a coastal city full of splendor and vice is submerged by a great wave and disappears beneath the ocean, never to be seen again. Southern Louisiana might have been spared that unhappy ending for the time being, but… Read More
New Orleans Museum Of Art Acquires Major Work By Artist Will Ryman
America is a gift of Sydney and Walda Besthoff and will be on view beginning October 25 in the Modern and Contemporary Galleries New Orleans, LA- The New Orleans Museum of Art is pleased to announce the acquisition of a major work of art,America, by artist Will Ryman. Made in 2013, Americaprovides an in-depth exploration… Read More