Author: David

The December 15 Museumgoer story in the New Orleans Advocate | The Times-Picayune visits the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience, 818 Howard Avenue in New Orleans, where I interviewed Kenneth Hoffman, executive director, about the new Southern Jewish Family Research Center. (Read the story here.) To the museum’s excellent main-floor galleries the research center… Read more

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… Read more

December 1 is Museum Store Sunday, an international promotion conceived to raise the profile of every museumgoer’s favorite kind of store. And also sell a few arts and crafts, garments, toys, books and the occasional shot glass. It falls in the sweet spot right in the middle of the annual shopping-season kickoff blitz, following Black… Read more

The November 3 Museumgoer story in The New Orleans Advocate | The Times-Picayune visits the new New Orleans Storyville Museum. Story here. Podcast here.  As noted in the column and accompanying audio, the story behind the Storyville Museum deserves its own explainer: Claus Sadlier, the museum’s creator pictured above in a photo supplied by the… Read more

The Sunday, October 20, Museumgoer column in the New Orleans Advocate | The Times-Picayune is a brisk and bodacious tip sheet for the Swifties coming to town for Taylor Swift’s multi-concert stand at Caesars Superdome. Read it online here.  In it, I recommend specific exhibits and whole museums that can provide an introductory overview to… Read more

I visited PT-305, a restored WWII-era combat veteran patrol torpedo boat, for my October 6 story in the New Orleans Advocate | The Times-Picayune. Read it here. Recently re-restored and returned to the National WWII Museum campus after a few years of offering rides and tours on Lake Pontchartrain, the boat is an awesome macro-artifact… Read more

The September 29 Museumgoer story in The New Orleans Advocate | The Times-Picayune visits “Sand, Ash, Heat: Glass at the New Orleans Museum of Art,” a compelling look inside NOMA’s glass collection that challenges visitors to see beyond the pretty. Read the story here. Listen to the podcast audio here (or just click on the… Read more

My September 15 story in The New Orleans Advocate | The Times-Picayune (read it here) splits its word count between two French Quarter Museum Association institutions. Gallier House, 1132 Royal, has been dressed to demonstrate “Creole Death & Mourning” through November 11. The New Orleans Pharmacy Museum, 514 Chartres, is preparing to stage “Spirited Salon”… Read more

The audio interview with co-curator Eric Seifert begins at the conclusion of “Captive State: Louisiana and the Making of Mass Incarceration,” on view at the Historic New Orleans Collection through January 19, 2025.  Listen here:    We started our conversation there then backtracked because of the unusual way the exhibit concludes. As I wrote in… Read more

I visited the Southern Food and Beverage Museum (SoFAB) for an August 18 piece (find it here) for the New Orleans Advocate | The Times-Picayune, for which I toured the new exhibition “The Natural Port: A Look at New Orleans Coffee Culture” with Liz Williams and Isabella Bentz. The audio recording of our walk-and-talk is… Read more