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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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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.
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New Orleans is a city of excess: we eat more good food, show more skin (at least during Carnival season), and have more fun than just about any other city in the United States, or anywhere. And when the Prospect.1 art biennial rolled into town in the fall of 2008, we could add "see more great art" t
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There's more compelling art being produced in the Crescent City these days than at any point in its history. And there may be no better place to start looking at it this summer than the Great Hall of the New Orleans Museum of Art.
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Starting Wednesday, July 6, Hyperallergic will be heading to the land of Creoles and Cajuns for two weeks by Lake Pontchartrain. During the period, we'll be handing over the reigns of the publication to veteran blogger John D'Addario. You're in for a treat!
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Starting Wednesday, July 6, Hyperallergic will be heading to the land of Creoles and Cajuns for two weeks by Lake Pontchartrain. During the period, we'll be handing over the reigns of the publication to veteran blogger John D'Addario. You're in for a treat!
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World-renowned street artist Swoon is installing her newest work in the central hall of the New Orleans Museum of Art and photographer and art historian John D'Addario was there to capture a glimpse for Hyperallergic readers.
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This week … what makes an artist a professional, taking Rirkrit Tiravanija's relational aesthetics for a joyride, Jan Gossaert at the Nat'l Gallery, post-Katrina New Orleans, a history of title design in cinema, stereoscopic pics as GIFs, Eli Broad's art collection, Google Street View as art & in Ch
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Photographer and art historian John D'Addario [jonnodotcom.tumblr.com] has been capturing images of the new Swoon pieces going up in the Crescent City. Judging by the designs she has big plans for the city, oh right, she's planning an art house [http://www.nola.com/arts/index.ssf/2010/11/street_arti
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New Orleans — The captain’s flight-deck announcement that we were now making our final descent towards New Orleans jolted me from a very uneasy sleep. The three-hour flight was my first prolonged opportunity to get prolonged (i.e. 3-hours rest) after a late night train ride, to a later night Long Is
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My journey took me from midtown Manhattan to the steel mills surrounding Pittsburgh, then the museums in our nation’s capital, down the Appalachian mountains to the bayous of the Gulf Coast and brass bands of New Orleans, up to the soaring towers of Chicago, the urban ruins of Detroit, the vineyards
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Louise Bourgeois’s “Eye Benches IV” (2001) was loaned to the city of New Orleans in 2007 as a gesture of post-Katrina goodwill and the elderly artist had covered the $45,000 in shipping and installation costs, but sadly the sculptures were vandalized last month and now, according to the Times-Picayu