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NEW ORLEANS — Of all the stories about New Orleans, John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces is one of the most universally beloved. So an artist who attempts to engage it in a different medium has their work cut out for them from the get-go: anyone who's read Toole's posthumously published come
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Sophie Calle moves into New Orleans' 1850 House for her Prospect 2 installation and brings dozens of objects and stories with her — with mixed results.
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NEW ORLEANS — The Piazza d'Italia generally isn't high on many people's lists of Things To See And Do In New Orleans; in fact, I'd guess that most of the tourists who stumble across it do so while getting lost on their way to or from the nearby Harrah's casino or Hilton Riverfront. They probably no
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By the ordinary way of reckoning such things, there are considerably fewer artists participating in this year's Prospect.2 biennial in New Orleans than in the event's first iteration three years ago. But if artist and provocateur William Pope.L's piece for the exhibition turns out according to sched
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Fans of visual art in the Crescent City should rejoice that there's a new guide in town that will make things a little easier. Multi-disciplinary designer Erik Kiesewetter joined forces with three others to create a free printed bi-monthly gallery guide listing for the visual arts in New Orleans tha
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When Hyperallergic editor Hrag V. asked me to guest edit this site in his absence a few weeks ago and bring a little bit of the Crescent City to the Brooklyn-based blogazine scene, I thought it might be an uneasy fit: after all, as A.J. Liebling memorably said in "The Earl of Louisiana" (though perh
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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 arti
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As geopsychically wondrous [http://hyperallergic.com/29365/a-geopsychic-tour-of-new-orleans/] as New Orleans is, it's not exactly the most cutting edge of places; in fact, even in these days of instantaneous communication it sometimes takes ideas and trends a little longer to make their way down her
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"These phenomenona, these wonders of New Orleans, are for the most part simply not explainable in terms of history and culture alone. There is obviously another force at work here, another system, a world of secret realities which is continuously and quietly in confrontation with our own." In other
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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 wh
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Mention the name Kirsha Kaechele (assuming you can pronounce it) to folks in the New Orleans arts communities and you're likely to hear a wide range of opinions—and her story brings up a host of interesting questions regarding the complex and often conflicting mix of motivations, ego, and consequenc
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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