By Haylie Navarre, nola.com It’s Friday after work and you and your kids want to kick off the weekend right. Why not head to the New Orleans Museum of Art’s weekly “Where Y’Art?!” The museum keeps its doors open each Friday from 5 to 9 p.m., so folks can attend lectures and view exhibits. But… Read More
By Doug MacCash, the Times-Picayune NOMA presents “Leah Chase: Paintings by Gustave BlacheIII,” an exhibition in honor of Leah Chase’s upcoming 90th birthday. This exhibition will be on view in the Louisiana Galleries from April 24rd until September 9th. An opening party will inaugurate the Leah Chase Art Purchase Fund on April 23rd. An intimate,… Read More
As a great man once said, the secret of love is art. Or, something like that. These days, we turn to greeting cards and very special can’t miss TV specials for our projections of love on Valentine’s Day. But before the last 75 years or so, art did all the saucy murmuring for us. For… Read More
What do Mick Jagger and Marie Antoinette have in common? They’re both immortalized in the permanent collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA), which celebrated its 100th year in 2011. With more than 40,000 objects in the collection, NOMA is a treasure trove of fascinating artwork and artifacts that -like everything in New… Read More
Our destination is City Park, one of the nation’s largest urban parks and home to the biggest collection of mature live oaks on the planet. In the 19th century, these trees were a favored location for duels among the Creole elite over amorous insults real and imagined. Today, their expansive, moss-drizzled branches are a popular… Read More
Re: “Gifts that keep on giving,” Page A1, Jan. 20. I was pleased to see Doug MacCash’s front page article on the New Orleans Museum of Art’s highly successful centennial collection. Anne Milling, organized and effective, combined with our revered former director, John Bullard, spear-headed an effort that redounds to the museum’s greater glory. I… Read More
Call it a creative collaboration – the Tulane School of Architecture and the New Orleans Museum of Art are joining forces to bring renowned Spanish architect José Rafael Moneo to the Crescent City for a lecture today (Jan. 27) at 6 p.m. at the museum in City Park. Moneo is “an internationally prominent architect and… 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
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