The Undersung Histories of Mardi Gras’s Black Indians
The Undersung Histories of Mardi Gras’s Black Indians Video by Michael PietrzykText by Natelie Meadefor The New Yorker In the predawn, Demond Melancon threads a detailed mosaic made of a…
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Prospect.5 spotlights the intimate eye of George Dureau, photographer
By Dave Walker, communication strategist for The Historic New Orleans Collection Many of the subjects of George Dureau’s photographic portraits look directly at the camera’s lens. “I see you,” their…
New Orleans Museum of Art presents career retrospective for acclaimed New Orleans artist
from ArtDaily NEW ORLEANS, LA.- The New Orleans Museum of Art presents Dawn DeDeaux: The Space Between Worlds, the first comprehensive museum exhibition for the pioneering multimedia artist Dawn DeDeaux,…
Shattered glass, burned wood and a monstrous mummy: New NOMA show is a forbidding feast
BY DOUG MACCASH | FOR NOLA.COM Dawn DeDeaux is one of those something else artists. She came of age in the 1970s, and instead of spending the next 50 years making traditional…
Dawn DeDeaux Connects Social Justice and Environmentalism in a Retrospective at the New Orleans Museum of Art
In a retrospective on view at NOMA, Dawn DeDeaux: The Space Between Worlds demonstrates the artist’s longstanding concern with the most pressing issues of our time. by New Orleans Museum of Art…
Tim Francis Makes Curatorial Debut with Black Beauty Exhibition
for The New Orleans Tribune “For a viewer, it really is an extraordinary opportunity to see the journey of Black imagery by Black artists from the past and into the…
Black Beauty: An Exhibition Celebrating Artists of Color
by: Christopher Leach for WGNO NEW ORLEANS, La. (WGNO) —A new exhibition is on display at the Arthur Roger Gallery at 432 Julia St in New Orleans. The exhibition showcases the…
Perspectives: Comfort Zone
Multimedia artist Stephanie Patton is just getting started. by Jordan Lahaye Fontenot for Country Roads Magazine “Ladies and gentleman,” rings out the deep cowboy-voiced introduction to the “Lost in Love”…
Gene Koss
Exhibition review by Andrew Page in The UrbanGlass Art Quarterly ARTHUR ROGER GALLERYNEW ORLEANSJANUARY 9-APRIL 10, 2021 Toil (2019-2020), a monumental aluminum, steel, and glass construction that manages to be…
Big Chief Demond Melancon Is Rewriting the Definition of Contemporary Art Through Beads
Posted by Kelly Beall for Design Milk A needle and thread. Glass beads. Canvas. A whole lot of time. These are the tools and materials New Orleans-based artist Demond Melancon…