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
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
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
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
By Susan Taylor, the Director of the New Orleans Museum of Art via myneworleans.com “Portrait of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France,” 1788, By Elisabeth Vigeé-Lebrun At the recent opening of “Leah Chase: Paintings by Gustave Blache III” at NOMA, chef Leah Chase said, “We’ve got some mighty women in this city!” Elisabeth Vigeé-Lebrun is arguably… Read More