By Jeannie Reiss | Gambit Weekly This review originally appeared here Mel Chin sat in the center of a room in the New Orleans Museum of Art pasted floor to ceiling with 542 surrealist scenes he’d arranged from Funk and Wagnall’s Encyclopedia. Finishing up an interview on the eve of the opening of his first-ever… Read More
By Mel Chin | The Huffington Post This article originally appeared here In the following account, I contemplate my upcoming retrospective exhibition. In response to being asked to describe my feelings surrounding the event, I wrote a story from the perspective of a fictional art historian reporting from the studio, leading up to and including… Read More
By Doug MacCash, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune This review originally appeared here Conceptual master Mel Chin’s first major retrospective, titled “Mel Chin: Rematch,” opens Thursday (Feb. 20) evening at The New Orleans Museum of Art. You may remember Chin. He’s the Houston-born artist who installed an enormous, round, working bank vault door on a small… Read More
As told to Lauren O’Neill-Butler | ARTFORUM “Mel Chin: Rematch,” a traveling retrospective organized by the New Orleans Museum of Art and curated by NOMA’s Miranda Lash, presents more than seventy works and documents related to Chin’s collective interventions. Chin is perhaps best known for Operation Paydirt, 2006, a project that supports solutions to end… Read More
D. Eric Bookhardt on vintage photos now on view at the New Orleans Museum of Art By D. Eric Bookhardt | Gambit Weekly This review originally appeared here It was America’s bloodiest war — brother against brother fighting to the bitter end. We grew up hearing that, and if it sounds overhyped, consider that its… Read More
Traveling Exhibit of Civil War Photographs ChargesNOMA By Cheryl Castjohn | NOLA Defender This article originally appeared here In an instant, The New York Times’ vast search capabilities produce an excerpt from a March 1, 1861, item explicating the wartime Americanism. The piece describes a mid-19th century farmer who has become preoccupied with seeing an… Read More
NOMA exhibit examines photography on the battlefields of the Civil War By John D’Addario | The New Orleans Advocate 2014 will mark the 150th anniversary of several key events of the Civil War, including the devastating battles at Spotsylvania and the Wilderness and Gen. William T. Sherman’s capture of Atlanta and “March to the Sea.”… Read More
By Doug MacCash, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune This article originally appeared here “Photography and the American Civil War,” an exhibit of 200 photographs taken during the Civil War (1861 to 1865) opens at the New Orleans Museum of Art Friday. It’s a stunning collection that captures the magnetic horror of the war that defines America… Read More
On View January 31-May 4, 2014 NEW ORLEANS, LA- More than 200 of the finest and most poignant photographs of the American Civil War have been brought together for the landmark exhibition Photography and the American Civil War, opening January 31 at New Orleans Museum of Art. Organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the… Read More
By Jonathan Keats | Forbes This review originally appeared on Forbes.com As a student at Toronto’s Ryerson Polytechnical Institute in the ’80s, Edward Burtynsky got the assignment of a lifetime. “Go out and photograph evidence of man,” his instructor told him. Reflecting on the experience in a magazine interview thirty years later, Burtynsky observed that… Read More
Right before we launched Jefferson Parish Parent, I was asked by NOMA to become one of their blog ambassadors. I said yes and with everyone on a school break, it’s a great time to visitNOMA and explore all of their family fun activities! Studio Kids Art Classes for ages 5-10! The theme of the new… Read More
By D. Eric Bookhardt | Gambit Weekly This review originally appeared on bestofneworleans.com Everybody knows about this city’s pioneering role in the history of American music and food, but what about photography? Blank looks are a common response to that question, yet not only was the South’s first photo studio located here, it belonged to… Read More
D. Eric Bookhardt on how New Orleans art built connections to the outside world this year By D. Eric Bookhardt | Gambit Weekly This article originally appeared on bestofneworleans.com In the New Orleans art scene, as in the city itself, change is in the air. Drivers can’t help but notice the construction zones that have… Read More
by The Red Streetcar | GoNOLA This article originally appeared on gonola.com 2013 is coming to a close, so we thought we’d celebrate with some of our favorite people, places and events from the past year in New Orleans. Rather than the ubiquitous year in review or best of list, we went retro. Just like… Read More
By Doug MacCash, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune This article originally appeared on NOLA.com My 10 favorite New Orleans art exhibits of 2013 are like a bowl of apples and oranges. The best of the bunch was, without doubt, Brandan Odums’ “Project Be,” a series of graffiti-style portraits of Civil Rights heroes painting on the walls… Read More
‘Five Brushstrokes’ By John d’Addario | The New Orleans Advocate If you’ve visited the New Orleans Museum of Art over the last few months, you’re already aware that there are some big changes in progress around the building’s iconic facade. The area in front of the museum at the end of Lelong Avenue in City… Read More
By NOLA Defender The article originally appeared here Pop art has popped up on the lawn at NOMA, with Lichtenstein’s “Five Brushstrokes” erected today. The museum announced the joint donation from Sydney and Walda Besthoff in October, and the large-scale sculpture is greeting visitors now, in the midst of some renovations. Clean lines and loud… Read More
by Doug MacCash, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune The article originally appeared here Under gray winter skies, a towering crane lifted the New Orleans Museum of Art’s new two-story pop art sculpture into place Monday morning. The sculpture, titled “Five Brushstrokes,” was designed by Roy Lichtenstein, one of the 20th century’s most significant artists. Lichtenstein was… Read More