Every weekend this fall brings your choice of festivals. Start the weekend with Gentilly Fest, then head over to Beignet Fest on Saturday. Follow the crowd from Magazine Street to downtown for Art for Art’s Sake. Ponderosa Stomp returns this weekend after two years, bringing all the music you could ask for in a series of performances at the Orpheum Theater. Oktoberfest kicks off Friday for the first of three weekends of German food and culture. The Gleason Classic offers much more than just a 5k…
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This free workshop is the perfect opportunity for caregivers to integrate purposeful activities into their child’s playtime that support their cognitive, physical, and social development. Research shows, and parents confirm, that multi-sensory approaches to learning help young children create deeper, more meaningful connections with the world around them. Baby Artsplay!™ will engage children and their caregivers in joyful and easy to replicate multisensory experiences that help children reach developmental milestones, while immersed in New Orleans’ art and cultural institutions. While the program is ideal for 1-2 years of age, children a bit younger and a bit older can benefit as well….
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This summer, the artist Kara Walker created a stir on the Internet when she disseminated a provocative announcement of her fall show at the Sikkema Jenkins gallery in New York. Written in wry carnival barker-ese, Walker’s press release anticipated the controversies that would inevitably arise in the exhibition’s wake, and in her audacious, bombastic diction, even seemed to invite them. In a subsequent artist’s statement, she struck a more deflated tone. “I know what you all expect from me and I have complied up to a point,” Walker wrote wearily…
Each spring and fall, thousands of art and music lovers enjoy food, drinks, and live music in the beautiful grounds of The Helis Foundation Enrique Alférez Sculpture Garden. By popular demand, New Orleans Botanical Garden has reprised the event series and will extend its hours to 8 p.m. every Wednesday during the month of October beginning Wednesday, October 4th, to celebrate “Evenings with Enrique,” with free admission courtesy of The Helis Foundation.
Throughout the year, every Wednesday is free to Louisiana residents, courtesy of The Helis Foundation. ..
This week on Inside the Arts, Black artists and history are the focus of a gallery talk in conjunction with the nationally touring exhibit, Solidary & Solitary: The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection, opening this week at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. We talk with curator Katy Siegel.
Then, classical concert pianist Justin Snyder explores music for piano and electronics in SYNTHESIS.
And, Jazz historian Bruce Raeburn revisits the Storyville diaspora with a lecture in conjunction with The Historic New Orleans Collection’s exhibit, Storyville: Madams and Music…
“Black Artists/New Histories: A Conversation with Christopher Bedford, Courtney J. Martin & Katy Siegel” was held on Saturday, September 30, 3-4 p.m. in the Patrick F. Taylor Library in conjunction with Solidary & Solitary: The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection, Presented by The Helis Foundation.
The conversation, excerpted below, encompassed a spectrum of questions and possibilities around black artists and history. How have black artists been written into history, and even more, how have they changed history?
Panelists include the curators of the exhibition Christopher Bedford, Dorothy Wagner Wallis Director of The Baltimore Museum of Art; Katy Siegel, Senior Curator for Research and Programming at The Baltimore Museum of Art, as well as Courtney J…