By Mel Chin | The Huffington Post This article originally appeared here In the following account, I contemplate my upcoming retrospective exhibition. In response to being asked to describe my feelings surrounding the event, I wrote a story from the perspective of a fictional art historian reporting from the studio, leading up to and including… 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
As told to Lauren O’Neill-Butler | ARTFORUM “Mel Chin: Rematch,” a traveling retrospective organized by the New Orleans Museum of Art and curated by NOMA’s Miranda Lash, presents more than seventy works and documents related to Chin’s collective interventions. Chin is perhaps best known for Operation Paydirt, 2006, a project that supports solutions to end… 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