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MSJE’s Southern Jewish Family Research Center
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…
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“Botanica: Gardens, Landscapes, and Plant Medicines in South Louisiana”
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…
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Museum Store Sunday
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…
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The New Orleans Storyville Museum
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…
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Audubon’s “The Birds of America” at the Historic New Orleans Collection
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…
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PT-305 returns to the National WWII Museum
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…
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“Sand, Ash, Heat: Glass at the New Orleans Museum of Art”
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…
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“Creole Death & Mourning” Exhibit and “Spirited Salon” Tour
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”…
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“Captive State: Louisiana and the Making of Mass Incarceration”
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…
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“The Natural Port: A Look at New Orleans Coffee Culture”
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…