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You won’t find Zarouhie Abdalian’s new art installation in the French Quarter by looking for it. Instead, you’ll have to listen carefully.
Titled “Recitations (…pour le triomphe de la liberté et de l’égalité…)”, Abdalian’s piece consists of five bells installed on balconies and rooftops in a section of the Quarter bounded by Chartres, St. Louis, Toulouse and Royal streets. The title of the work is derived from a 1791 letter written by Toussaint L’Ouverture, leader of the Haitian revolution, who Abdalian identified as one of the inspirations for the piece…
NEW ORLEANS — If you are in the French Quarter and you begin to hear bells, you are not hearing them from the local cathedral.
No, you are not losing your mind, either.
A new contemporary sound installation has officially debuted at the Historic New Orleans Collection on Tuesday.
Recitations, pour le triomphe de la liberté et de l’égalité, is an instillation on sound by Zarouhie Abdalian.
These are a set of five different bells that sit on rooftops throughout the French Quarter and play at different times of the day with different sets of sounds…
Opinion by Katie Bowler Young
Art critic Doug MacCash recently posed an important question in his article, “Will the Enrique Alferez murals in the former Times-Picayune building survive?” Those in position to decide the fate of Alferez’s “Symbols of Communication” panels at the newspaper’s former headquarters on Howard Avenue must embrace their roles as stewards of a historically significant work of art.
The panels are not only characteristically representative of Alferez’s views as an individual and artist, they are also an important part of The Times-Picayune’s history and a celebration of the multicultural influences in New Orleans…