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
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 Will Ryman’s sculpture installation at the New Orleans Museum of Art by D. Eric Bookhardt | Gambit Weekly Read the article here During President Abraham Lincoln’s inaugural address, he emphatically stated he had “no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the states where it exists…. Read More
By Eileen Fleming | WWNO Listen to the story here The New Orleans Museum of Art is offering a glimpse at a fraction of its collection of photographs. Of the 10,000 pictures, 132 are on display. We spoke with curator Russell Lord about the exhibition — how NOMA built such an extensive collection, starting in… Read More
By Jill Ensley | Southern Glossary Read this article at Southern Glossary As a Gulf Coast resident, it’s not easy to look at “Oil Spill #10,” (above). The photograph’s deceptive beauty comes from its vibrant, emerald water streaked with jagged rivulets of black oil. Taken out of context, it could be a close up of… Read More
By D. Eric Bookhardt | Gambit Weekly This review originally posted at bestofneworleans.com Though visually spare, this New Orleans Museum of Art exposition goes straight to the heart of the paradoxes that define coastal Louisiana. French artist and Venice Biennale award-winner Camille Henrot uses videos and symbolic objects to portray Louisiana’s receding coast and the… 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 Chris Waddington, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune View the original article here Will Ryman just assembled a log cabin inside the New Orleans Museum of Art — a walk-in wood structure, coated in gold resin and packed with ideas about American history. He also packed the cabin with things that shaped our history: bullets, arrowheads,… Read More
By John d’Addario | The Advocate In the ancient French Breton legend of the city of Ys, a coastal city full of splendor and vice is submerged by a great wave and disappears beneath the ocean, never to be seen again. Southern Louisiana might have been spared that unhappy ending for the time being, but… Read More
By Doug MacCash, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune You can click here to read the full article Water Two floors of the Contemporary Arts Center, 900 Camp St., will be dedicated to lush, large-scale photographs by Canadian documentary photographer Edward Burtynsky. The exhibit is presented by the CAC and the New Orleans Museum of Art. Collections… Read More
Posted By D. Eric Bookhardt “I still don’t know exactly who I am,” Gordon Parks wrote in a 1979 memoir. Despite being one of the biggest names in 20th century photography, he remains a paradoxical figure because he was so accomplished in many different fields. He was a noted writer and composer, and he also… Read More
By D. Eric Bookhardt You can read the full article online here Is rap the new performance art? Mega-rapper Jay-Z recently punctuated New York’s summer doldrums with his six-hour Pace Gallery Picasso Baby performance featuring art-world notables in conjunction with his new single and accompanying video of the same name. In a related vein, New… Read More