By Jonathan Blaustein | The New York Times, Lens View the slide show and article here There were 2.5 billion people in the world when Edward Burtynsky was born in the late 1950s. Now, there are seven billion and counting. “That’s literally a billion in every decade, so I started recognizing that human enterprise was… Read More
Posted by Genevieve Fussell | The New Yorker View the slide show and article here On November 1, 1948, Life magazine published the photo essay “Harlem Gang Leader,” introducing their readers to the photography of Gordon Parks and to his subject, the seventeen-year-old Leonard (Red) Jackson, leader of the Harlem gang the Midtowners. “Gordon Parks:… Read More
By Priscilla Frank You can read the full article online here Rashaad Newsome’s upcoming exhibition at the New Orleans Museum of Art will serve up a hypnotizing medley of Baroque and bling. The show, titled “King of Arms,” remixes the Western European coats of arms, infusing the Renaissance heraldry tradition with hip-hop swagger. For years… Read More
By Doug MacCash, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune November 08, 2012 Click here to see the full article with images. “Lifelike,” the big new exhibition at the New Orleans Museum of Art, is an amusement park of brain-teasing optical deceptions. The weirdness starts the minute you step through the museum’s bronze doors. Let your eyes scan… Read More
Click here to see a photo gallery of ‘Lifelike’ on view at NOMAby Ted Jackson, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune Read More
By Susan Taylor, the Director of the New Orleans Museum of Art via myneworleans.com “Portrait of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France,” 1788, By Elisabeth Vigeé-Lebrun At the recent opening of “Leah Chase: Paintings by Gustave Blache III” at NOMA, chef Leah Chase said, “We’ve got some mighty women in this city!” Elisabeth Vigeé-Lebrun is arguably… Read More
By Steven Forster, Times-Picayune The New Orleans Museum of Art celebrated the opening of “Hard Truths: The Art of Thornton Dial” by welcoming Dial and his family, Mayor Mitch Landrieu, Indianapolis Museum of Art curator Joanne Cubbs, William and Matt Arnett of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation and many more supporters. The exhibit, on view… Read More