New Orleans Museum of Art Director Emeritus E. John Bullard gives a video tour of ‘NOMA 100: Gifts for the Second Century,’ an exhibition of 110 recent donations honoring the centennial of the museum. Bullard describes a set of ancient Egyptian artifacts, an 80 pound 19th-century trophy cup by the Gorham Silver Company, a ballerina… Read More

The NOLA Project has found an appropriate venue to render a finely crafted piece of art. Their current production of Shakespeare’s tragedy of “Romeo and Juliet” is nestled appropriately between other works of art by acknowledged masters. Except for the prologue presented just outside the entrance to the museum, the Great Hall of the New… Read More

There’s Shakespeare, and then there’s Shakespeare through the fresh prism of the NOLA Project, where the traditional light of the Bard erupts in a dazzling display. The young actors of the intrepid NOLA Project first turned to Shakespeare with the environmental staging of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” which played to sold-out crowds in the sculpture… Read More

The strength of the Nola Project’s Shakespeare productions has been their homemade inventiveness. The company has used it wits and creativity to overcome budgetary restrictions, usually to effective results. In the production of Romeo and Juliet that opens tonight at the New Orleans Museum of Art, the cast circumvented the cost of scabbards by sheathing… Read More