Art
Although it's currently one of New Orleans' most happening neighborhoods, it's easy for me to take the centuries-old Faubourg Marigny for granted since I've lived here ever since moving to New Orleans nearly fourteen years ago. I went for a walk today to remind myself how visually rich it is, and th
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Community is enough to make Google+ worth a whirl, but what exactly does the site provide for artists? Conversely, what is it missing? A few initial thoughts based on a week’s worth of use.
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It only takes one look at the cover of the debut issue of Lucky Peach to realize that this isn’t your typical food ‘zine. No glossy photo of an impeccably styled dish here; instead, there’s a dead chicken being held unceremoniously upside down by its feet, its pale,
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150 years after the conflict began, the Civil War provides the subject matter for a group show at the Good Children Gallery in New Orleans. But far from being a mere exercise in nostalgia,"Grant v. Lee", curated by Sophie Lvoff, gave artists the opportunity to "gently and subtly evoke the times and
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The boys had their turn traipsing down the runways of Paris and Milan last month for the major fashion houses’ offerings at the Spring 2012 Menswear collections. And the more one looks at the clothes, the more they can be seen in relation to another medium: sculpture.
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The idea behind "Dear Photograph" is simple: "Take a picture of a picture from the past in the present." But the results are anything but.
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Following the passage of the same-sex marriage bill in New York and a recent weekend of LGBT pride, it just felt right to attend curator Bradford Nordeen’s “Dirty Looks.” The series is a monthly platform for experimental queer film and video that Nordeen affectionately describes as “roaming”—June’s
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In a project that was either a canny statement about surveillance and consumer culture or just plain creepy [http://theatlantic.tumblr.com/post/7302392496/file-this-art-project-under-things-that-are-creepy], artist Kyle Macdonald staged a "photographic intervention" on public computers in Apple stor
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For more than three decades, Shelby Lee Adams has photographed families living the Appalachian hollers of Kentucky. Adams sees himself as a documentarian and observing participant in the communities he works in, developing close friendships with his subjects and allowing them to shape his photograph
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You may know Qatar as the home of Al Jazeera but this small kingdom in the Persian Gulf is proving itself a major contemporary art buyer, according to the Art Newspaper.
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New Orleans artist Dave Greber's video work addresses issues of optical phenomena and universal spirituality. It's also a hell of a lot of fun to watch.
Opinion
Critic Paddy Johnson just penned a column for L Magazine about something she terms "Twitter art," by which she means (I assume) art that uses Twitter. I often enjoy her take on new media but in regards to her treatment of Twitter-related art, I think she misses the mark. Here's why.