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The Helis Foundation confirmed Monday (May 4) that it will pay to install, in New Orleans City Park, a Lynda Benglis sculpture that sat neglected for almost 30 years at Kenner’s former sewage treatment plant. “The Wave” is destined for the park’s Big Lake pond, along a bank that runs near Lelong Drive, said Andrew Freeman, a spokesperson for the foundation.
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After almost three decades in storage at Kenner’s former sewage treatment plant, an avant-garde sculpture by the world-renowned artist Lynda Benglis is going back on display. The 19-foot-tall bronze fountain, named “The Wave (The Wave of the World),” will be installed at City Park in New Orleans as early as June, a Kenner official said Friday (May 1).
“The Wave” debuted at the 1984 world’s fair in New Orleans. But after its extended showing there, it was left to deteriorate at the Kenner plant, open to the elements, its only admirers the municipal employees who passed by it to pick up equipment…
New Orleans Airlift, the group of artists behind The Music Box musical architecture installation, will take those musical structures to sites throughout New Orleans for performances, artist talks, workshops and other events. “The Roving Village Residencies” will feature all new musical houses from April 3 through May 10.
The first residency, “The Music Box Roving Village: City Park Presented by The Helis Foundation,” will feature an opening performance from free jazz artist William Parker, Alex Ebert of the Magnetic Zeros, Quintron, Leyla McCalla, Rob Cambre, Marion Tortorich of Sweet Crude, and Cooper Moore…
The Ogden Museum of Southern Art will offer free admission this Sunday, January 25th to celebrate the final day of the blockbuster show Basquiat and the Bayou presented by The Helis Foundation.
This is the public’s last chance to see the exhibit, organized by Prospect.3, which brings together important works by Jean-Michel Basquiat. Having never been displayed together publicly in the Unites States, this exhibition’s pieces consider the work of Basquiat and his relationship with the American South…