Tag: New Orleans
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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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Prospect.3 Opens in New Orleans
Published November 11, 2014 Daily Serving Honoré de Balzac wrote: “Ideas are a complete system within us, resembling a natural kingdom, a sort of flora, of which the iconography will one day be outlined by some man who will perhaps be accounted a madman.” This passage was included in Camille Henrot’s writings about her video Grosse…
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Sculpture to Honor Ruby Bridges
Published October, 2014 The Art Newspaper Six-year-old Ruby Bridges walked into her first day of school November 14, 1960 at William Franz Public School in New Orleans through a large crowd of screaming protesters. Ruby Bridges was one of the first African American students to attend an integrated school in the Southern United States. Bridges…
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Dread Scott’s Slave Uprising Reenactment
Published October 2014 The Art Newspaper The artist Dread Scott is planning to restage the largest slave rebellion in US history as a performance piece. The New York based artist is inviting hundreds of participants to wear period costumes and carry arms as they trace the steps of the German Coast Uprising of 1811, a…
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Meow Wolf: Moving Still at the Front
Published on Daily Serving July 25, 2014 Meow Wolf, a Santa Fe-based art collective, explores the persistence of collective memory in their deeply introspective exhibit, Moving Still, at the Front in New Orleans. A twelve-person-core collective of artists, Meow Wolf has developed a following around their sensorial and immersive installations that have previously taken the form…
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A Short Text on Will Ryman
Published October , 2014 Catalogue for Prospect.3 The New York–based sculptor Will Ryman (b. 1969) looks to the natural world as a theatrical set. In 2011, on the Park Avenue Mall in Midtown Manhattan, he installed forty massive fiberglass-and-steel roses. For Prospect.3, Ryman again explores this most fickle of flora. Ryman’s rose sculptures contain a…
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Loving and Loving; Mixed Messages.4 at Antenna Gallery
Published on Daily Serving July, 2014 Just over forty-seven years ago this month, it was illegal for interracial couples to marry in sixteen states throughout the United States. Richard and Mildred Loving, the serendipitously named couple, were married in 1958 and then promptly arrested under anti-miscegenation laws. The legacy of Loving v. Virginia, the landmark…
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Striving for the Divine
March, 2014 for Artvoices And how would such incomparable beauty not move us, seeing its beautiful face like unto perfect glass through which rays of Divinity were shining?-Sor Juana de la Cruz, Respuesta a Sor Filotea (Reply to Sister Philotea) What is holy? And how do you express it? For thousands of years there has…
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Camille Henrot: Cities of Ys at the New Orleans Museum of Art
October 22, 2013. Daily Serving.com French video artist Camille Henrot creates parallels between the mythical and the contemporary. In her first solo exhibition in the United States at the New Orleans Museum of Art, she investigates the legendary city of Ys in France and the vanishing coastal area of southern Louisiana that is occupied by the ancestral Houma…
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