It’s a safe bet to say that the contemporary art scene in New Orleans would be a lot less interesting without Arthur Roger. For nearly 40 years, his gallery has been a focal point for introducing the city to major currents in the national and international art scene, as well as for launching and nurturing the careers of some of the most prominent New Orleans-based artists working today.
Since the 1970s, the paintings and drawings of the Cuban American artist Luis Cruz Azaceta have reflected on some of society’s great modern tragedies.
[Arthur Roger’s] donation — paintings, sculpture and photography by local and national luminaries of modern art — comprises a new NOMA exhibit, “Pride of Place: The Making of Contemporary Art in New Orleans.” The exhibit opens Friday and runs through Sept. 3. In the exhibit’s 143-page catalog, museum Director Susan M. Taylor describes the gift as “transformational.” It “significantly expands” NOMA’s contemporary art holdings and “reaffirms the museum’s commitment to the work of local New Orleans artists,” she said.
Neapolitan (Comic Book Diplomacy, Go Cups and Water Bottle Buoys), Christopher Saucedo’s latest exhibition at Arthur Roger Gallery assembles varied works from the sculptor with an emphasis on his Comic Book Diplomacy series.
Pride of Place: The Making of Contemporary Art in New Orleans (on view June 23–September 3, 2017) celebrates Arthur Roger’s gift of his entire personal art collection to the New Orleans Museum of Art. The exhibition catalogue features a conversation between John Waters and Arthur Roger.
Pride of Place: The Making of Contemporary Art in New Orleans (on view June 23–September 3, 2017) celebrates Arthur Roger’s gift of his entire personal art collection to the New Orleans Museum of Art. The exhibition catalogue features an important essay by William Fagaly, Personal Recollections: Contemporary Art in New Orleans.
Not everything is up for years. Mass MoCA’s partnership with the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation includes exhibiting artists who have had residencies at the artist’s former estate on Captiva Island, Fla. Dawn DeDeaux and Lonnie Holley, in the show “Thumbs Up for the Mothership,” revel in Rauschenberg’s rummage-sale sensibility.
Dawn DeDeaux opens a new exhibition May 28, 2017 as part of the grand opening of Building 6 at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA).
New Orleans native Dawn DeDeaux opens a new exhibition next week as part of the grand opening of Building 6 at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA). DeDeaux shows together with Lonnie Holley and other Building 6 artists including Laurie Anderson, Louise Bourgeois, Jenny Holzer and James Turrell. The new MASSMoCA Building 6 makes the museum one of the largest venues for contemporary art in the world.
