The December 1 Museumgoer column in the New Orleans Advocate | The Times-Picayune visits the Cabildo and the exhibition “Botanica: Gardens, Landscapes, and Plant Medicines in South Louisiana,” which offers an organic retreat into “a world of plants, flowers, herbs, fungi, history, and culture,” I write (read it here). “Co-curated by Rachel Breunlin and Monique Verdin, and described in wall text as ‘collaborative ethnography,’ the exhibit connects the grown world to the communities who sow, reap, etc. — from indigenous peoples to colonizers and their descendants to the enslaved and theirs.”
A new episode of the Museumgoer Podcast contains the full interview with Breunlin (listen here).
And here are a few images that accompany the podcast interview:
“Botanica” is on view until May 10, 2026.
Special thanks to Rachel (pictured above, center) and to you for reading and maybe listening.
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