Category: Published Writing
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Against the Flow
The Lesson of the West Bay Sediment Diversion by Tori Bush • Photos by William Widmer Published in Louisiana Cultural Vistas • Spring 2018 Earl O. Armstrong’s airboat chugged out of Venice, Louisiana, and skated over winding bayous until finally, the boat went quiet near West Bay. Armstrong leaned over and said, “Look at those…
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An Archive Apart: The Royal D. Suttkus Fish Collection
Published Jan. 1, 2018 New Orleans Advocate Green bookshelves are stacked to the ceiling with a menagerie of preserved fish in large glass jars: a pocket shark from Florida, dogfish from Somalia, minnows from Pearl River and hammerhead sharks from Florida. Walking into the Royal D. Suttkus Fish Collection, the largest fish archive in…
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Beyond the Canvas: Contemporary Art from Puerto Rico at Newcomb Museum
Published May 24, 2017 Daily Serving Ni de aqui, ni de alla—neither from here or there. This is something you might hear on the streets of Puerto Rico as people consider what it means to be both citizens of the United States and colonized subjects of an antiquated political system. This year, Puerto Rico had…
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John Isiah Walton: Rodeo at The Front
Published February 26, 2016 dailyserving.com At first glance, John Isiah Walton’s exhibition Rodeo, now on view at The Front in New Orleans, seems innocuous, even playful, with paintings of bulls diving through Pepto-Bismol pink skies toward men, frozen in space. But after a closer look, a smiling cynicism arises from the works. We, the viewers, are implicated as voyeurs…
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An Interview with Nick Cave
Shreveport is a border town at the crossroads of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas. The city is known for its musical history—the term “Elvis has left the building” was coined there. But Shreveport also suffers from crippling issues of injustice. Shreveport prosecutors use peremptory challenges to bar people of color from juries, and juries in Caddo Parish…
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Three Katrinas
Published August 15, 2015 on Daily Serving / Art Practical http://dailyserving.com/2015/08/three-katrinas/ “Memorials are the way people make promises to the future about the past.” Alice Greenwald, director of the National 9/11 Memorial Museum, reminds us that a memorial is as much how we describe who we arenow as it is about a prior event. The 10th anniversary of…
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Two Approaches: Camille Henrot and Zarina Bhimji
Published January, 2015 Pelicanbomb.com In the beginning there was nothing; nothing at all. No light, no life, no movement, no breath. — Camille Henrot, Grosse Fatigue, 2013 Artist and musician Akwetey Orraca-Tetteh’s booming voice pounds through the monologue of Camille Henrot’s film Grosse Fatigue, now on view at Longue Vue House and Gardens for Prospect.3. A dense,…
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Totems Not Taboo at Newcomb Gallery
Published January 16, 2015 Dailyserving.com January 6 was the official start of the Carnival season in New Orleans. Totems Not Taboo, an exhibit at Newcomb Art Gallery as part of Prospect.3: Notes for Now, is an ode to Jermayne MacAgy’s 1959 exhibit of the same name at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. MacAgy assembled one of the…
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José Antonio Vega Macotela at Prospect.3
Published December 9, 2014 Dailyserving.com “My eternity has died and I am waking it.” –Violence of the Hours, Cesar Vallejo It sounds like a riddle: No one can buy more of it, and few have enough of it; it wears on the rich and poor equally; loss of it produces deep fear. Time’s ability to…
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