By Stephen Babcock | NOLA Defender This article originally appeared here The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) and the New Orleans Film Society are once again teaming up to show movies among the rarefied art in City Park. For the hotter, soggier summer months, the latest cinematic series will move into the museum’s marbled… Read More
By Priscilla Frank | The Huffington Post This article originally appeared here This Saturday marks the first official day of summer, and whether you’ve been hiding under air conditioned shelter for months or are still praying for a day you can bust out the denim shorts, one thing is for certain: Summer art exhibitions have… Read More
CLICK HERE to view NOMA’s exhibition Gordon Parks: The Making of an Argument on Google’s Cultural Institute. Read More
By Chris Waddington, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune This article originally appeared here Essence Festival 2014 fits New Orleans. Both the city and the celebration wrap the riches of African-American culture into compelling packages. For Essence visitors, New Orleans offers tons of cultural detours, even beyond the familiar music and culinary destinations. To help you get… Read More
By John d’Addario | The New Orleans Advocate This article originally appeared here One of the greatest American mural cycles of the 20th century is coming to the New Orleans Museum of Art this month. In 1938, Atlanta-based artist Hale Woodruff received a commission from the president of Talladega College in Alabama to create a… Read More
By Chris Waddington, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune This article originally appeared here Black history gets larger than life treatment at the New Orleans Museum of Art with the May 16 debut of “Rising Up: Hale Woodruff’s Murals at Talladega College.”: The touring exhibit includes 35 pieces by the celebrated muralist – prints, drawings, a small… Read More
By Stephen Babcock | The New Orleans Advocate This article originally appeared here In the NOLA Project’s latest outdoor, theatrical romp, theNOMA Sculpture Garden is woven into Wonderland and the audience decides on their play. Then, there are the fart noises. Adventures in Wonderland, which opens Wednesday (May 7), seeks to pull the scenery and… Read More
By Jim Fitzmorris | The New Orleans Advocate This article originally appeared here Since he’s staging a wild theatrical party, director Andrew Larimer is counting on New Orleans audiences to be themselves. When he unleashes Peter McElligot’s “Adventures in Wonderland” across City Park’s Besthoff Sculpture Garden on Wednesday, the NOLA Project’s founder fully expects patrons… Read More
Shelby Hartman on The NOLA Project’s Lewis Carroll-inspired performance at City Park By Shelby Hartman | Gambit Weekly This article originally appeared here For the last three years, The NOLA Project has used the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden as a setting for Shakespeare productions. This spring, the company is using the twisting paths… Read More
Our Top Picks of the Month’s Events By Lauren LaBorde, myneworleans.com Read the complete article here Through The Looking Glass The NOLA Project is known for staging productions of Shakespeare plays in NOMA’s sculpture garden, but this May it stages an update on another familiar story. Andrew Larimer directs Pete McElligott’s Adventures in Wonderland, a… Read More
By Chris Waddington, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune This article originally appeared here Alice chased the rabbit and I followed her through the sculpture garden at New Orleans City Park. That’s how it worked at an April 29 run-through of The NOLA Project’s “Adventures in Wonderland,” an immersive theatrical experience that draws from two childhood classics… Read More
Social practice is going mainstream as more artists focus their work on making an impact on problems like homelessness and pollution. But the question of how to judge activist art remains elusive By Carolina Miranda | ARTnews This article originally appeared here Last summer, Thomas Hirschhorn constructed the final edition in a series of “monuments”… Read More