Our Top Picks of the Month’s Events By Lauren LaBorde, myneworleans.com Read the complete article here Through The Looking Glass The NOLA Project is known for staging productions of Shakespeare plays in NOMA’s sculpture garden, but this May it stages an update on another familiar story. Andrew Larimer directs Pete McElligott’s Adventures in Wonderland, a… Read More
By Chris Waddington, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune This article originally appeared here Alice chased the rabbit and I followed her through the sculpture garden at New Orleans City Park. That’s how it worked at an April 29 run-through of The NOLA Project’s “Adventures in Wonderland,” an immersive theatrical experience that draws from two childhood classics… Read More
Social practice is going mainstream as more artists focus their work on making an impact on problems like homelessness and pollution. But the question of how to judge activist art remains elusive By Carolina Miranda | ARTnews This article originally appeared here Last summer, Thomas Hirschhorn constructed the final edition in a series of “monuments”… Read More
By Carol Strickland | Art in America This article originally appeared here At a 1993 conference at New York’s Dia Center for the Arts, artist Mel Chin took to the stage and pointed a rifle at the audience. The act deeply impressed Herb Tam, curator at New York’s Museum of Chinese in America, when he… Read More
By Carol Anne Blitzer | The New Orleans Advocate Time stopped in 1861 in the parlor of Butler Greenwood Plantation, just north of St. Francisville. Now all of the furnishings of that room, one of the South’s best-preserved pre-Civil War parlors, will soon travel to the New Orleans Museum of Art, where they will be… Read More