Incidents include a staffer being asked to cut their dreadlocks and the permanent installation of a plantation parlor against the advisement of Black staff.
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Mickalene Thomas Makes the White Cube a Domestic Oasis
Thomas’s Femmes Noires reframes the gallery space, allowing viewers to alter their behavior from what’s expected in an art institution.
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Marches Can Only Come and Go: The Reality of Dread Scott’s “Slave Rebellion”
In highlighting a neglected piece of history that struck fear in the hearts of white enslavers, Scott made a statement about who gets to mine our history, simultaneously prompting questions about intentions, impact, and praxis.
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Dread Scott’s “Slave Rebellion” Promises an Empowering Take on the Historical Reenactment Trope
In 1811, hundreds of enslaved people marched through Louisiana chanting “freedom or death.” While their oft-forgotten journey ended in massacre, artist Dread Scott spent six years organizing a reenactment to celebrate the legacy of their courage, to be staged November 8-9.
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Sadie Roberts-Joseph, Founder of Baton Rouge African-American Museum, Found Dead in Trunk of Car [UPDATED]
Baton Rouge police have arrested and charged Ronn Germaine Bell, a tenant in one of Roberts-Joseph’s rental properties, with first-degree murder.
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Initiative to Restore Black Churches Targeted by Racist Arsonist Reaches $1.3 Million
The crowdfunding campaign skyrocketed after the restoration of the Notre-Dame cathedral received $1 billion in public donations.
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Stark Photos of a Louisiana Prison that Was Once a Slave Plantation
Two photographers document the lives of incarcerated men at Angola, a former slave plantation that is now the largest maximum-security prison farm in the US.
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University Eliminates Two Scientific Collections to Make Way for Stadium Renovations
Two scientific collections at the University of Louisiana at Monroe (ULM) are being divested to make way for renovations of the campus track stadium.
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Louisiana Republicans Target State Spending on Public Art
Louisiana, like many states and municipalities in the US, has had a “Percent for Art” law on the books for years.
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Sea Changes: The Art Of Anastasia Pelias
The video opens with the sound of the tide, and a tight close-up of the artist bringing a stone from a shoreline to her mouth. She licks it slowly. The act, along with the sound of the sea, is both primal and sensual. The ritualized action is repeated, establishing a deep connection between the artist and the sea, as well as the viewer—it’s difficult not to imagine the sensation of the coolness of the smooth stone and the taste of salt in one’s mouth while watching it.
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From Louisiana With Love: The 2011 Southern Open (Part 2)
As I mentioned in the first part of this article, Amy Mackie—former curatorial associate of the New Museum in New York, now Director of Visual Arts for the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans—selected quite a few New Orleans artists for this year’s installment of the Southern Open at the Acadiana Center for the Arts in Lafayette, LA. While she may have stacked the deck, so to speak, she concisely provided audiences with some of the highest caliber art the exhibition has seen to date.
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Mack Attack! The 2011 Southern Open
New York, I feel your pain. You’re hemorrhaging under the weight of your artistic success and accomplishments, bleeding out talent like Jackson Pollock after the car crash. I know it’s hard to keep all your children around while the rents keep rising and the scene gets hyped into the next century while it struggles to hold on to what it had in the last. Times are tough! But your loss is Louisiana’s gain …