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The Sunday (July 6) Museumgoer story in the New Orleans Advocate | The Times-Picayune visits the New Orleans Museum of Art to explore the photography exhibit “Nicolas Floc’h:  Fleuves-Océan, Mississippi Watershed,” which features images that offer an exploration of water, color, and environmental storytelling – all centered on and below the surface of the Mississippi River Read more

The new Historic New Orleans Collection exhibit “The Trail They Blazed” got its start about a decade ago with the inception of an oral history project called NOLA Resistance, an effort to record the voices of participants in the city’s mid-century contributions to the national Civil Rights Movement.  Those contributions were substantial; the oral histories, Read more

The decade-plus quest by Stephen E. Ambrose and Gordon H. “Nick” Mueller to navigate the National D-Day Museum, an inaugural incarnation, toward its opening 25 years ago next week was a story of tireless networking, courting of political support both locally and nationally, and fundraising, the retelling of which “gets boring to people,” Mueller said, Read more

The National WWII Museum exhibition “On American Shores: The Aleutian Islands Campaign,” on view through January 11, 2026, examines the important but little-known action that occurred from June 1942 to August 1943.  The Aleut peoples who inhabited the islands before the war are part of the exhibit’s story. They called their territory the “Cradle of Read more

In Vietnam, if children have extraordinary fingertip whorls they’re said to have Hoa Tay, or Flower Hands, a sign of artistic gifts. The exhibition “Hoa Tay (Flower Hands): Southern Artists of the Vietnamese Diaspora” is on view at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art through September 21, 2025.  The May 4 Museumgoer story in the Read more

The April 20 Museumgoer story in the Times-Picayune | New Orleans Advocate explores the New Orleans Museum of Art exhibit “New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations,” which features costumes and masks by four West African artists.  Says a title-wall explainer: “Broadly considered, the masquerades on view here are three-dimensional reflections of concepts or ideas Read more

The Museumgoer story in the April 6 edition of the Times-Picayune | New Orleans Advocate previews “Making It Home: From Vietnam to New Orleans,” a new exhibit on view at the Historic New Orleans Collection (HNOC) through October 5. The exhibit builds on about a decade of oral history interviews with members of the local Read more

The March 16 Museumgoer column in the New Orleans Advocate | The Times-Picayune visits the Newcomb Art Museum on the Tulane University campus to explore the traveling exhibit “If You Look Hard Enough, You Can See Our Future: Selections of Contemporary South African Art from the Nando’s Art Collection.”  The Nando’s fast-casual restaurant chain, founded Read more

A visit to “Battle of the Bands,” a new exhibit at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, is the March 2 Museumgoer story in the New Orleans Advocate | The Times-Picayune. Read it here. An in-gallery podcast interview with artist Keith Duncan and Bradley Sumrall, the Ogden’s curator of the collection, is here.  On view Read more

The February 16 Museumgoer story in the New Orleans Advocate | The Times-Picayune visits three different new(ish) exhibits at the New Orleans Jazz Museum: “It All Started in Jane Alley: Louis Armstrong in New Orleans,” “Shake Your Hips: Louisiana Blues,” and “Economy Hall: The Hidden History of a Free Black Brotherhood.” An accompanying Museumgoer podcast visits Read more