By Doug MacCash, the Times-Picayune The “Dario Robleto: The Prelives of the Blues” exhibit that opens at The New Orleans Museum of Art from 5:30 to 8:30 tonight, is like a cross between The Da Vinci Code and The Rock N Roll Hall of Fame. Robleto, a brainy Texas-based conceptual artist, embeds his sculptures with… Read More
By Doug MacCash, The Times-Picayune Trust me, you’re going to love the 40 huge, lusciously colored, lavishly textured, carefully composed paintings, sculptures and drawings in the exhibit “Hard Truths: The Art of Thornton Dial,” now on display at the New Orleans Museum of Art. Be sure to keep your hands in your pockets, because you… Read More
By Jim Fitzmorris on Nola Defender Amazingly, life does go on in New Orleans between Mardi Gras and Jazz Fest. Our calendar is not a complete caesura in the time after the last float rolls and the moment before tens of thousands pour into The Fairgrounds. Cultural events like French Quarter Fest, Easter, St. Patrick’s… Read More
By Alex Rawls for Offbeat The goat is probably the wrong place to start a discussion of Thornton Dial’s art, but how often does a spray-painted silver goat show up on the walls of NOMA? There’s clearly a dessicated goat – as the list of materials for the piece “Lost Farm (Billy Goat Hill)” refers… Read More
“Hard Truths: The Art of Thornton Dial,” an exhibit of more than 40 paintings, drawings and sculptures by one of America’s premier self-taught artists, opens Feb. 24 at The New Orleans Museum of Art. Dial, who was born in rural Alabama in 1928, is known for his expressive canvases, deeply layered with twisted fabric, rope,… Read More
To be considered a great American city, Gilded Age New Orleans needed a great art museum like those in New York and Philadelphia. That was the opinion of aging sugar industry magnate Isaac Delgado, who donated $150,000 to build a Beaux Arts temple in City Park near the northwest terminus of Esplanade Avenue in 1911…. Read More
by New Orleans Magazine Though it was a statewide election year, 2011 wasn’t very exciting; there were too many one-sided contests. Fortunately, to provide some suspense, there was our annual Tops of the Town voting in which our readers could make their picks in a multitude of categories, some tightly contested. Instead of having to… Read More
(Reuters) – Hospitality is king in New Orleans whether the city is hosting major sports events, the annual Mardi Gras or thousands of visitors who have dropped in for a fun weekend. Known as the Big Easy or the Crescent City, New Orleans, which straddles the Mississippi River, is famous for its French Creole cuisine,… Read More
The New Orleans Museum of Art opened in 1911 with fewer than a dozen works of art of its own. The collection has grown dramatically over the past 100 years, and magnanimous donors are stepping up to ensure that it remains vibrant and diverse in the next century. The museum is showcasing 110 new acquisitions… Read More
After a long season of cramped department stores, family gatherings and endless eating, you deserve a little “me time.” Why not enjoy a quiet, cultural respite and perhaps a light lunch? January is the final month to catch the artwork of Prospect.2, a great showcase of both local and international artists. Day passes are available… Read More
The end of the year brings us to the time when we can reflect on the current state of theatre in New Orleans and the many different aspects of our immediate past and the hope and promise of the future. As in any diverse city there are many facets to the theatre community and so… Read More
From the opening of Prospect.2 to NOMA’s centennial, 2011 was a good year for art in New Orleans. And not just for the well-established people and places, either. While the traditional museums and galleries put on plenty of great shows, we also saw lots of good stuff from the merging scene on St. Claude, and… Read More
In 2011, the Crescent City saw The New Orleans Museum of Art turn 100, the Louisiana ArtWorks studio complex shut down, more modern sculpture rise up on Veterans Memorial Boulevard, much of Kirsha Kaechele Projects disappear in St. Roch, The Contemporary Arts Center turn 35, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art survive economic stress and… Read More
When asked by Artlog to come up with my 3 or 4 best exhibits of 2011, I balked a bit, knowing that there was no way I’d be able to remember to hundreds of shows I saw this year. Luckily my Foursquare “history” page acts as a handy diary of everywhere I went this year…. Read More
Who would have ever guessed that the most produced playwright of 2011 would be William Shakespeare? The year has seen a tremendously rewarding upswing in interest in the Bard of Avon, thanks largely to the inventive new approach by the NOLA Project. The intrepid troupe first staged a magical “Midsummer Night’s Dream” set throughout the… Read More
It’s been a hell of a year. That can be taken in a number of ways, but what stands out is that more changes have occurred in this city’s art scene over the past 12 months than typically would take place over many years in more normal times. While local galleries maintained their predictably stable… Read More
Next weekend, the New Orleans Museum of Art is throwing itself a marathon 100th birthday party with concerts by Irvin Mayfield and Amanda Shaw, a roaring midnight DJ set by Mr. Quintron in the Great Hall, a second-line, yoga classes, movies and tours of some of the museum’s 35,000-piece permanent collection. That’s a far cry… Read More
The New Orleans Museum of Art is celebrating its 100th birth anniversary this week, and it’s doing so by opening its doors for 31 continuous hours. From Friday, December 16 at 10 am until Saturday, December 17 at 5 pm, NOMA will remain open, inviting residents and visitors to celebrate its 100 years with music,… Read More