theneworleansadvocate.com | The New Orleans Advocate This article originally appeared here The mystery and magic of masks from Japan is revealed in a New Orleans Museum of Art exhibit slated to coincide with the annual celebration of the Asian country’s unique culture. “Traditions Transfigured: The Noh Masks of Bidou Yamaguchi” will open Friday, Oct. 9,… Read More
By Doug MacCash, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune Click here to watch the full video Los Angeles performance artist Tim Youd began the process of retyping John Kennedy Toole’s classic “A Confederacy of Dunces” at the New Orleans Museum of Art on Friday (Oct 2). Youd said that essentially he sees the activity as a sort of devotion to… Read More
By Susan Larson | The New Orleans Advocate This article originally appeared here Every book — whether you hold it in your hands on paper or e-reader — begins with a writer alone in a room, writing. Performance artist Tim Youd pays homage to that process in a project called 100 Novels in 10… Read More
BY SUSAN LARSON | SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE The article originally appeared here Every book — whether you hold it in your hands on paper or e-reader — begins with a writer alone in a room, writing. Performance artist Tim Youd pays homage to that process in a project called 100 Novels in 10 Years,… Read More
By Doug MacCash, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune This article originally appeared here Starting Friday (October 2) visitors to the New Orleans Museum of Art may hear a clacking noise echoing through the big marble atrium. The gray haired among them will recognize the sound as an old-fashioned typewriter resonating in a second floor gallery. If… Read More
By Doug MacCash, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune This article originally appeared here Starting Friday (October 2) visitors to the New Orleans Museum of Art may hear a clacking noise echoing through the big marble atrium. The gray haired among them will recognize the sound as an old-fashioned typewriter resonating in a second floor gallery. If… Read More
Ten years ago this week New Orleans was under water. A decade later, people who survived the flood are still turning to art to make sense of Hurricane Katrina’s fury. Several of the city’s major museums have acknowledged the anniversary with new exhibits, including one at the New Orleans Museum of Art. As Here &… Read More
photonola.org | PHOTONOLA This article originally appeared here Since 1975, Tina Barney has been producing large-scale photographs of family and friends. Her meticulous tableaux chronicle the complexity of interpersonal relationships. Tina Barney is renowned for creating images that combine seductive beauty and poignant insight, exposing the emotional and psychological currents that run beneath the surface… Read More
By Cameron Shaw | The New York Times This feature originally appeared here > NEW ORLEANS — How well do you remember the last days of August 10 years ago? Asked that question, a 23-year-old New Orleanian writes of seeing a dead alligator on the highway, having nowhere to sleep and crying every night. This… Read More
By Neda Ulaby | NPR This article originally appeared here > Anniversaries call for exhibitions, and art museums across New Orleans felt compelled to remember Hurricane Katrina as the 10th anniversary of its landfall approaches. But the anniversary shows at some of the city’s most high-profile museums seem surprisingly understated, at least to outsiders’ eyes…. Read More
Opening this summer at the New Orleans Museum of Art, A Louisiana Parlor: Antebellum Taste & Context is an exhibition featuring the Butler-Greenwood Plantation parlor furnishings acquired by the museum from descendants of the family in St. Francisville, Louisiana. Read More
The New Orleans Museum of Art is debuting new technology making NOMA’s galleries an interactive learning environment to engage visitors of all ages. Read More
By John d’Addario | The New Orleans Advocate This review originally appeared here As the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina approaches, expect to see media outlets and cultural institutions trotting out images of the 27storm and its aftermath that are likely all-too-indelibly seared on your memory already: houses, neighborhoods and lives destroyed by the floodwaters,… Read More
On view at from NOMA May 29, 2015 – September 7, 2015 New Orleans, LA- Ten Years Gone brings together six artists whose work engages with the broad themes of time, memory, loss and transformation. Timed to coincide with the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the exhibition seeks to situate the significance of the past… Read More
The NOLA Project’s latest theater in City Park is a fun family show By Tyler Gillespie | Gambit Weekly This review originally appeared here In the dark of night, a group of robbers dons woodland masks and acts like spirits to scare knights who transport a large chest. The altruistic thieves plan to give –… Read More
Critics called the movement patronizing and repressive, but it is having something of a resurgence By J.S. Marcus | The Wall Street Journal This article originally appeared here > While French Impressionists were creating their masterpieces in the 1870s and ’80s, the glory often went elsewhere-to artists known as Orientalists, who worked in their Paris… Read More
New Orleans, LA- Susan M. Taylor, the Montine McDaniel Freeman Director at the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA), announced today the appointment of Katie Pfohl as the new Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art who will begin her work at NOMA June 15. “Katie has distinguished herself as an accomplished curator and scholar. Her… Read More
By Karen Dalton-Beninato | Huffington Post This article originally appeared here International Jazz Day was celebrated, appropriately enough, in the city where jazz was born on the 4th day of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 2015. From the steps of the New Orleans Museum of Art, musicians Terence Blanchard and Poncho Sanchez led… Read More