With his influential art gallery on Julia Street, Arthur Roger has established himself as New Orleans’ foremost contemporary art dealer. Roger has been promoting local artists in his native city since 1978, when he opened his first showroom on Magazine Street in the Lower Garden District. Roger is the subject of the latest NOLA Life…
150 works by 100 artists crowd the flagship Julia Street gallery By Doug MacCash | Staff writer for The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate The 150 artworks in the Arthur Roger gallery 45th anniversary show aren’t arranged in chronological order. And they’re not arranged according to style, subject matter, whether the artists are local or from…
Demond Melancon was featured on WYES’ “Steppin’ Out”. See the segment below.
KNOXVILLE, TENN.- Eco Tone is a show at the Knoxville Museum of Art of Egan’s artwork from 2020 to present, including new pieces made in collaboration with another New Orleans artist, Natori Green. Courtney Egan’s projection-based sculptural installations deliver an experience that is both pleasing and disconcerting. The ethereal projections – converging on walls, floors…
Poetry in Motion Lin Emery Papersgift of Brooks Emery Braselman, 2022.0005 Lin Emery (1926–2021) was an internationally recognized kinetic sculptor and a New York native who spent much of her adult life in New Orleans. Her father passed away when she was very young, and her mother suffered from mental health challenges, so Emery was…
Dawn DeDeaux’s retrospective The Space Between Worlds at the New Orleans Museum of Arts has been featured in the November/December 2022 issue of Sculpture Magazine. You can read the transcript below and download view the spread below. Progressive Destinations: A Conversation with Dawn DeDeaux by Leah Triplett Harrington For multimedia artist Dawn DeDeaux, “between”…
Big Easy living made even easier, thanks to Brockschmidt & Coleman. BY NANCY HASS AND STYLED BY BEBE HOWORTH for ELLE DECOR The journalist Walter Isaacson, former editor of Time magazine and biographer of Steve Jobs and Albert Einstein, comes to his love of New Orleans honestly: He was born and raised in the raucously omnivorous, ebullient…
Photos by Chris Granger for NOLA Adore. Demond N. Melancon Neighborhood: BYWATER BIG CHIEF OF THE YOUNG SEMINOLE HUNTERS AND CONTEMPORARY BEAD ARTIST WHAT YOU SEE AS OUR FUTURE 100 Black masking tribes on the streets. Mardi Gras with no Covid. Many more opportunities for youth in the arts in our city. DESCRIBE YOUR CHARITABLE WORK I currently serve…
Exhibitions, products and personalities. By Matt Shaw for The New York TimesPublished April 21, 2022 Updated April 22, 2022 This article is part of our latest Design special report, about new creative pathways shaped by the pandemic. Five years ago, when she chewed a piece of balsa wood into something resembling a small Giacometti, her owner, Joseph Havel, an artist based…
Houston sculptor Joseph Havel discovered he was living with a genius. “I thought, ‘Oh my God, my parrot can make Giacomettis.’ ” by Molly Glentzer for TexasMonthly The busiest artist in Texas has little to say when we meet, but she lets out a brief whistle. She quivers slightly as she sizes me up, gazing at…