By Steven Forster for the Times-Picayune Artist Willie Birch hosted a walk-through and discussion of “Hard Truths: The Art of Thornton Dial” to packed galleries at the New Orleans Museum of Art. Both Birch’s walk-through and the Dial exhibition address issues related to African-American culture. On view at NOMA until May 20 are more than… Read More
By Doug McCash, nola.com It’s unusual for the New Orleans Museum of Art to schedule a gala on a Monday night, but that’s the way chef Leah Chase wanted it. After all, most of her restaurant-world colleagues are off on Mondays, so they more easily could attend the party celebrating her 90th year (she was… 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
Due to popular demand NOMA and the NOLA Project have extended the production to include May 23rd, May 24th, and May 25th! NOMA and the NOLA Project are back in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden for Shakespeare’s As You Like It Performances are May 9, 10, 13, 16, 17, 18, 20, 23, 24 and 25 at… 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