Ida Kohlmeyer continues to be an important part of NOMA’s history and art history in New Orleans; to honor her 100th anniversary, NOMA is presenting an exhibition of key pieces from the permanent collection, including a recent promised gift from Arthur Roger.
This fall the New Orleans Museum of Art is pleased to present a solo exhibition of work by Jim Richard. Jim Richard: Make Yourself at Home will be the artist’s first solo exhibition at NOMA since 1978.
John Kemp discusses Jacqueline Bishop’s exhibition “Against the Tide” at Arthur Roger Gallery on Steppin’ Out.
Ida Kohlmeyer continues to be an important part of NOMA’s history and art history in New Orleans; to honor her 100th anniversary, NOMA is presenting an exhibition of key pieces based on the permanent collection holdings. Ida Kohlmeyer: 100th Anniversary Highlights will be on view in the Weisman Galleries October 12, 2012 through February 10, 2013.
Jacqueline Bishop’s paintings, installations, and works on paper probe the complex relationship between ecologically fragile systems and humans. Similar in tenor to the poet and philosopher Ponge’s close examination of “things” her works are intimate observations of the world around us with strong political and social dimensions. Bishop’s depictions of nature and close analysis of flora and fauna recall 16th and 17th century Dutch and Flemish still life paintings with surrealistic and often exotic overtones.
Polidori has made a career out of photographing rooms that condense within four walls layers of memory, past and present.
“COMING out as a Barbra Streisand fan was way more embarrassing than coming out as a lesbian,” the painter Deborah Kass said on a recent morning in her Brooklyn studio.
Dill uses Morgan’s own words to great effect in the installation, varying between further themes of light (heaven) and darkness (hell) and creating an artistic swath that manages to encompass a broad spectrum of emotions and events.
By Robin Cembalest via artnews.com Artists and scholars are taking increasingly nuanced approaches to tracking the image–and influence–of Africans in Western art (excerpt) From Kongo to Tango And next year comes “Kongo across the Waters,” a collaboration between the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida and the Royal Museum for…
