photonola.org | PHOTONOLA This article originally appeared here Since 1975, Tina Barney has been producing large-scale photographs of family and friends. Her meticulous tableaux chronicle the complexity of interpersonal relationships. Tina Barney is renowned for creating images that combine seductive beauty and poignant insight, exposing the emotional and psychological currents that run beneath the surface… Read More

By John d’Addario | The New Orleans Advocate This review originally appeared here As the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina approaches, expect to see media outlets and cultural institutions trotting out images of the 27storm and its aftermath that are likely all-too-indelibly seared on your memory already: houses, neighborhoods and lives destroyed by the floodwaters,… Read More

The NOLA Project’s latest theater in City Park is a fun family show By Tyler Gillespie | Gambit Weekly This review originally appeared here In the dark of night, a group of robbers dons woodland masks and acts like spirits to scare knights who transport a large chest. The altruistic thieves plan to give –… Read More

By Doug McCash, nola.com “What is a photograph?” an exhibit tracing the history of photo techniques from 1840 onward opens at the New Orleans Museum of Art April 20 and continues through August 19. The photographs were selected mostly from NOMA’s collection by photo curator Russell Lord. NOMA describes the scope of the show like… Read More

By Karen Celestan | The Advocate A huge gilded mirror at the entrance of “Brilliant Disguise: Masks and Other Transformations” brings visitors face-to-face with themselves – an apt introduction to the revelations to come at the new exhibit housed at the Contemporary Art Center through June 16. “I wanted people to think about how they… Read More

By Sharon Litwin | NolaVie This article originally appeared here Kongo Across the Waters, an exhibition currently at the New Orleans Museum of Art, explores the connections between the art and civilization of the African Kongo people with that of African American art and culture in the United States. History informs us that the first… Read More

by Claude Robichaux | NOLA Defender This article originally appeared here New Orleans prides herself on the fusion of cultures that combined to build the city we now know. One of the most commonly cited example of those evolutions is jazz’s origins in Congo Square. The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA)’s new installation, Kongo:… Read More

by Chris Waddington, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune This article originally appeared here Africa dwells in New Orleans. You can taste it in our gumbo, dance to it during second-lines, and hear it when the city’s drummers gather at Congo Square. Starting Friday (Feb. 27), you also can explore those African connections in a nationally touring… Read More

D. Eric Bookhardt on Josephine Sacabo’s photos at the New Orleans Museum of Art By D. Eric Bookhardt | Gambit Weekly This review originally appeared here In the French Quarter, there have always been spots where you could look out across rooftops that hint at old Paris and feel transported to another time and place…. Read More

Polly Renwick treasured her de Kooning. But when John Bullard and Anne Milling asked her to give it away, she couldn’t resist. “We didn’t have to think long and hard,” Renwick, a social worker, said of the decision she made with her husband, retired political science professor Edward F. Renwick, to donate their precious Willem… Read More

By Jim Fitzmorris | The New Orleans Advocate This review originally appeared here Holding a candle, an emotionally pinched grump in a nightcap and gown opposes merriment and seasonal celebration. An expansive man with a beard chortles and bellows while bringing mirth and mischief to all with whom he comes into contact. And young lovers… Read More