By Priscilla Frank | The Huffington Post Arts It’s that time of year, art lovers. Winds are blowing, leaves are crunching and the streets are buzzing with talk of the newest art exhibitions. Autumn is officially upon us, and with the new season comes a barrage of stimulating art exhibitions that will make even the… Read More

By Alexandra Wolfe of The Wall Street Journal Click here to view the entire article When photographer Edward Burtynsky chose water as a new theme, he had a hard time narrowing down how he would depict it. The challenge was intellectual as well as physical. He rented a hydro-truck with a bucket lift, and had… Read More

By: John Edwin Mason You can read the full article here It’s the season of Gordon Parks. Still. Over the last year or so, Parks’ photography has been more visible and more appreciated than at perhaps any time since the 1960s and ’70s. In 2012, he was the subject of several major exhibitions in New… Read More

Posted By: Barbara Davidson “reFramed” is a feature showcasing fine art photography and vision-forward photojournalism. It is curated by Los Angeles Times staff photographer Barbara Davidson. twitter@photospice You can read the full interview here Edward Burtynsky is known as one of Canada’s most respected photographers. His remarkable photographic depictions of global industrial landscapes are included… Read More

By Karen Rosenberg You can read the full article online here EDWARD BURTYNSKY: WATER The 60 large-format color photographs in this show, organized in collaboration with the New Orleans Museum of Art, invoke humans’ fraught relationship with a precious natural resource. Oct. 5-Jan. 19, Contemporary Arts Center of New Orleans, (504) 658-4100, noma.org. Read More

By Chris Waddington The New Orleans Museum of Art remains a natural spot for locals who like to contemplate Picasso, find out about Crescent City art stars, or meet scholars who know about the family porcelain. On Friday nights, however, NOMA’s sacrosanct halls serve as one of the city’s most distinctive party venues. This Friday… Read More

By Eileen Fleming You can read the full article and listen to samples of Rashaad Newsome’s work online here A new exhibit at the New Orleans Museum of Art blends the traditions of the Middle Ages with a futuristic vision of pop culture. The work of former New Orleans resident Rashaad Newsome takes a variety… Read More

By Fritz Esker You can read the full article online here Renowned video, performance, and collage artist Rashaad Newsome returned to his native New Orleans for the opening of Rashaad Newsome: King of Arms at the New Orleans Museum of Art on June 21 as part of NOMA’s Great Hall Exhibition Series. King of Arms… Read More

By Barri Bronston | New Orleans Advocate When the thermometer starts to hover around 100, there may be no better place to cool off than an art museum or gallery. At least that’s what the folks at the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and many other arts venues around… Read More

By Doug MacCash You can read the full article online here Artist Rashaad Newsome’s exhibit “King of Arms” brings bling to the New Orleans Museum of Arts’ Great Hall this Friday (June 24). It’s a colorful, upbeat, endlessly bejeweled interpretation of 21st century pop culture, but it has its roots way back in the Middle… Read More

BY JOHN D’ADDARIO American documentary photographer Gordon Parks began his career shooting portraits and fashion in Chicago and Washington, D.C., eventually landing a position with the Farm Security Administration alongside such notable fellow photographers as Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange. But it was his 1948 LIFE magazine photo essay on youth gang culture in Harlem… Read More