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Decades ago, Michael Burke and a companion were furnishing a Catskills house with “the country eclectic look … snooping around for small trinkets and gadgets and stuff for display purposes,” he said. “It would be some ‘tramp’ art, some popsicle-stick pieces, the safety pin  baskets, the tin-can art.” A 2016 exhibit at the New Orleans Read more

The National WWII Museum has announced via social media that the “D-Day Invasion of Normandy” exhibit will close for a major overhaul on February 24. This is significant to the museum and its visitors because the exhibit was the inaugural gallery when the D-Day Museum first opened in 2000, and remained an important link to Read more

The Presbytere’s new exhibit “Origins of New Orleans Black Carnival Society: The Story of the Illinois Clubs” will put the important social, cultural – and yes, Carnival – history it tells in front of a lot of tourists. But locals will benefit from the exhibit’s narrative as well. “Our approach was, we know that many Read more

The objects, images and garments on view in the exhibition “Cut from a Different Cloth: Fashion Selections from Tulane Special Collections” track the importance of apparel through many levels of the New Orleans community, from grand society dames and Carnival royalty to Black Masking Indians, college students and titans of world couture. “New Orleans is Read more

Romance isn’t quite the right word, but the romantic narrative is that jazz was born in Storyville, the French Quarter-adjacent designated sector for sin from 1897 to 1917. In the New Orleans Jazz Museum exhibit “The District: Music and Musicians in Storyville,” that narrative is corrected. “It was happening in Storyville as we know it, Read more

Gowns, gown designs rendered in watercolor and ephemera like ball invitations and favors add sparkle to the stories of the spotlighted individuals in the Presbytere exhibit “Pioneers of Women’s Carnival.” The marquee object in a display dedicated to parade throws doubles down on sparkle. Its origin was Nicola Wolf’s initiative for her first Krewe of Read more

The exhibit “New Orleans Musicians in Art: Selections from the Permanent Collection” is on view at the Historic New Orleans Collection through May 16, 2027. Admission is free. The exhibit’s 14 pieces, assembled from HNOC’s permanent holdings, focus primarily on traditional New Orleans jazz musicians, some captured decades ago. There are outliers in the show, Read more

The more than 60 paintings in the new Cabildo exhibition “Michalopoulos:  Mystical Expressionism” range throughout the artist James Michalopoulos’s 40-year professional career, all calling-card depictions of classic New Orleans vernacular architecture, most rendered in his quavering, paint-heavy, color-rich, dreamy, dramatic style, which he describes in exhibit wall text as “liberated engagement, not characterized by intellectual Read more

A dozen special-occasion outfits worn by Gayle Benson, owner of the New Orleans Saints and Pelicans and chairwoman of the St. Louis Cathedral restoration effort, form the central display of “Sunday Best: Faith, Family, and Fashion,” now on view at the Old Ursuline Convent Museum. Presented with the original concept of a fundraising display of Read more

The traveling exhibit “Indigeaux: Yes, Spirit. I’ll go …” recently arrived at the Whitney Plantation in Wallace. Created by Leia Lewis, an educator, artist, and self-described “light-bringer” and “cultural architect,” the exhibit features hand-dyed textiles and original artwork conceived as “an offering to the enslaved women whose hands were stained blue with indigo,” she says. Read more