By Doug MacCash for The Times-Picayune The New Orleans Museum of Art’s “Ralston Crawford and Jazz” exhibition, a collection of 150 New Orleans-inspired photos, drawings, paintings, prints and short films by the master mid-century abstractionist opens with a reception from 5 to 9 tonight (June 22), featuring a lecture, live music, cooking demonstration and art-making… Read More

Written by Doug McCash for the Times-Picayune. Internationally known artist Katie Holten is attempting to obstruct the New Orleans Museum of Art atrium with a set of huge drawings suspended from the ceiling like fabric walls. The biggest of the drawings, Holten said, is a 12-by-36 foot behemoth that will act like a barrier, confronting… Read More

By Dalt Wonk, Gambit NOLA Project has once again spun its magic in an outdoor setting. Shakespeare’s comedy As You Like It, recently presented in the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden at the New Orleans Museum of Art, is perfectly suited to trees and starlight since much of the play takes place in the… Read More

Sneak into the kitchen of Dooky Chase Restaurant (2301 Orleans Ave., 821-0535) on any given weekday and you’ll probably see Leah Chase chopping trinity or completing one of her classic Creole dishes. Later this month, you’ll be able to see her doing the same on the walls of the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA)… Read More

Posted by Wendy Rodrigue on Gambit blog. Few art exhibitions today span seamlessly two hundred years. I considered this at The Metropolitan Museum of Art recently during The Renaissance Portrait, a selection of paintings dated just prior to Leonardo da Vinci’s humanized Mona Lisa of 1504. One hundred years later, Rembrandt perfected the psychological study… Read More

By Doug MacCash, the Times-Picayune The “Dario Robleto: The Prelives of the Blues” exhibit that opens at The New Orleans Museum of Art from 5:30 to 8:30 tonight, is like a cross between The Da Vinci Code and The Rock N Roll Hall of Fame. Robleto, a brainy Texas-based conceptual artist, embeds his sculptures with… Read More

By Doug MacCash, The Times-Picayune Trust me, you’re going to love the 40 huge, lusciously colored, lavishly textured, carefully composed paintings, sculptures and drawings in the exhibit “Hard Truths: The Art of Thornton Dial,” now on display at the New Orleans Museum of Art. Be sure to keep your hands in your pockets, because you… Read More

By Jim Fitzmorris on Nola Defender Amazingly, life does go on in New Orleans between Mardi Gras and Jazz Fest. Our calendar is not a complete caesura in the time after the last float rolls and the moment before tens of thousands pour into The Fairgrounds. Cultural events like French Quarter Fest, Easter, St. Patrick’s… Read More

By Alex Rawls for Offbeat The goat is probably the wrong place to start a discussion of Thornton Dial’s art, but how often does a spray-painted silver goat show up on the walls of NOMA? There’s clearly a dessicated goat – as the list of materials for the piece “Lost Farm (Billy Goat Hill)” refers… Read More

“Hard Truths: The Art of Thornton Dial,” an exhibit of more than 40 paintings, drawings and sculptures by one of America’s premier self-taught artists, opens Feb. 24 at The New Orleans Museum of Art. Dial, who was born in rural Alabama in 1928, is known for his expressive canvases, deeply layered with twisted fabric, rope,… Read More

To be considered a great American city, Gilded Age New Orleans needed a great art museum like those in New York and Philadelphia. That was the opinion of aging sugar industry magnate Isaac Delgado, who donated $150,000 to build a Beaux Arts temple in City Park near the northwest terminus of Esplanade Avenue in 1911…. Read More