Through August 24th, in a brief and beautifully-positioned hallway of NOMA known as the “A. Charlotte Mann and Joshua Mann Pailet Gallery” sits a tiny photography show culled from the museum’s permanent collection. It is a show which is as much about collaboration as it is about the unsung, undocumented influence of women in art…. Read More

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 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 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 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 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

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