BY JOHN D’ADDARIO American documentary photographer Gordon Parks began his career shooting portraits and fashion in Chicago and Washington, D.C., eventually landing a position with the Farm Security Administration alongside such notable fellow photographers as Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange. But it was his 1948 LIFE magazine photo essay on youth gang culture in Harlem… Read More
By Eileen Fleming | WWNO Read the article and listen to the broadcast here There’s a new sculpture on the way for the New Orleans Museum of Art. A 20-foot-tall aluminum piece by pop modernist Roy Lichtenstein will soon take the prized placement at the museum’s front steps. It’s called “Five Brushstrokes.” Picture a three-dimensional… Read More
By Benjamin Sutton | BLOUIN ARTINFO Read the article here “America” (2013), a full-scale replica of Abraham Lincoln’s childhood log cabin that Will Ryman constructed out of chains, bullets, pills, assorted electronic components, jewelry, keyboard keys, and other assorted consumer flotsam, all coated in shiny gold paint, has been acquired by the New Orleans Museum… Read More
Victorian Parlor from Butler-Greenwood Plantation will be on view June 26-October 11, 2015 New Orleans, LA- Opening this summer at the New Orleans Museum of Art, A Louisiana Parlor: Antebellum Taste & Context is an exhibition featuring the Butler-Greenwood Plantation parlor furnishings acquired by the museum from descendants of the family in St. Francisville, Louisiana…. Read More
By Mark Waller You can read the full article online here The New Orleans Museum of Art on Friday is hosting a discussion on the 1984 Louisiana World Exposition and its impact on the city. Although the fair suffered financial troubles, it also gets credit for starting the revitalization of the Warehouse District. The event… Read More