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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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Mel Chin: Rematch at The New Orleans Museum of Art
Published on Daily Serving on April 5, 2014 Mel Chin’s Rematch, now on view at the New Orleans Museum of Art, is the artist’s first retrospective, long overdue and particularly prescient this week as a new U.N. report highlights the dire conditions of the Earthcreated by pollution, energy, and population, among other factors. Chin, while making visually stunning work,…
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30 Americans at the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans
Published on Daily Serving on Feb. 25, 2014 In a nod to Linda Nochlin’s famous query, Michele Wallace asked, “Why are there no great black artists?”[1]30 Americans is the response to this question, a beautiful, rambunctious show that gathers the work of 31 African American artists. Unfortunately, 30 Americans, similar to Thelma Golden’s Freestyle in 2001, is not about a specific curatorial theory or…
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