By Will Coviello | Gambit Weekly This article originally appeared here The Humpty Dumpty in The NOLA Project’s Adventures in Wonderland, a semi-participatory dramatic adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s two novels about Alice, doesn’t sit on a wall. He hangs out on a bridge in the middle of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden. Instead… 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
By Carol Strickland | Art in America This article originally appeared here At a 1993 conference at New York’s Dia Center for the Arts, artist Mel Chin took to the stage and pointed a rifle at the audience. The act deeply impressed Herb Tam, curator at New York’s Museum of Chinese in America, when he… Read More
By Carol Anne Blitzer | The New Orleans Advocate Time stopped in 1861 in the parlor of Butler Greenwood Plantation, just north of St. Francisville. Now all of the furnishings of that room, one of the South’s best-preserved pre-Civil War parlors, will soon travel to the New Orleans Museum of Art, where they will be… Read More
By Mark Waller, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune This article originally appeared here The emerging technology of 3D printing might take more forms than people widely understand. New Orleans native and technology executive Hugh Evans says the city could seize on the technology to become a hub for printing food, printing biological tissue for medical treatment,… Read More
By Doug MacCash, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune This article originally appeared here Art in Bloom, The New Orleans Museum of Art’s annual exhibition of botanical sculpture was busting out all over the museum on the first day of spring (March 20) as Sue Strachan, Susan Langenhennig and I stole away from the office for the… Read More
By Dorothy Spears | The New York Times This article originally appeared here ELIMINATING lead poisoning from the lives of children is not a typical goal of art. But for Mel Chin, the borders of art have long extended past the crafting of discrete objects. “I like this idea of unexpected relationships,” said Mr. Chin,… Read More
By Susan Langenhennig, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune This article originally appeared here Danielle Rollins is the author of “Soiree Entertaining with Style,” a gorgeous, photo-rich party-planning book filled with page after page of extravagant blooms— spiky orange protea arrangements the size of basketballs, red peonies and cream roses cascading across a dinner table, layers of… Read More
By Mike Scott, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune This article originally appeared here As a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and an Oscar-nominated screenwriter for Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln,” Tony Kushner knows a thing or two when it comes to writing about historical figures. This month, he’ll share some of his insight in a discussion at the New Orleans… Read More
By Mark Waller, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune This article originally appeared here The emerging field of 3D printing will make an appearance at New Orleans Entrepreneur Week this month in a newly announced design competition. The New Orleans Museum of Art and The Idea Village, which produces the business festival, are issuing a call for… Read More
Entries to be showcased later this month at New Orleans Entrepreneur Week, March 22-28 with winners to be displayed at NOMA New Orleans, La.- The New Orleans Museum of Art together with The Idea Village are issuing a call for artists to share their 3D printed designs to be included in New Orleans Entrepreneur Week’s… Read More
By John d’Addario | Hyperallergic This review originally appeared here NEW ORLEANS – Considering that one of Mel Chin’s most audacious works appeared before an audience of millions on network television over a two-year period, it’s curious that he’s not more of a household name. That piece, “In the Name of the Place” (1995-1997), ran… Read More
By Randy Kennedy | The New York Times The artist Robert Rauschenberg hated repeating himself, art-wise, and said that his works, as an honest reflection of his life, were “really just evidence that I’m still paying attention.” But for many years after his groundbreaking pieces of the 1950s and ’60s, the art world paid a… Read More