Author: David

  • “Sand, Ash, Heat: Glass at the New Orleans Museum of Art” 

    David

    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

  • “Creole Death & Mourning” Exhibit and “Spirited Salon” Tour

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    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

  • “Captive State: Louisiana and the Making of Mass Incarceration”

    David

    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

  • “The Natural Port: A Look at New Orleans Coffee Culture”

    David

    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

  • Museum Month

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    As noted in my August 4 piece for the New Orleans Advocate | The Times-Picayune (viewable online here), the geographical spread of cultural institutions participating in New Orleans Museum Month is pretty vast – intimidating maybe, in this heat. “The destinations range from the western edge of Orleans Parish to the 9th Ward, City Park… Read more

  • “Rebellious Spirits: Prohibition and Resistance in the South” 

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    The tidy New Orleans Museum of Art exhibit “Rebellious Spirits: Prohibition and Resistance in the South” is on view through January 5, 2025. To coincide with the start of Tales of the Cocktail, I wrote about it for the July 21 edition of the New Orleans Advocate | The Times-Picayune. Find the online version here. … Read more

  • “Our War Too: Women in Service”

    David

    The special exhibit “Our War Too: Women in Service” at the National WWII Museum through July 21, 2024, rewards patient and focused museumgoing. As I noted in a July 7 introduction to the exhibit in the New Orleans Times-Picayune newspaper, touches small and large in the exhibit underscore that the women participants in our great… Read more