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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

The February 2 Museumgoer story in the New Orleans Advocate | The Times-Picayune (read it here) previews a free February 15 symposium at the National WWII Museum addressing African American experiences in World War II. The interview subject there is John H. Morrow. The symposium’s composition reaches back to World War I and beyond World… Read more

The January 19 Musemgoer story in the New Orleans Advocate | The Times-Picayune highlights a couple of the Historic New Orleans Collection’s contributions to the historic January 23 performance – a world premiere, actually – of Morgiane, the 1888 opera by New Orleans-born composer Edmond Dédé. Read all about it.  The free performance takes place… Read more

“Rodrigue: Before the Blue Dog,” on view at the Cabildo through September 28, 2025, assembles more than 50 paintings, only a few of which feature the bright-blue, yellow-eyed apparition that by popular demand became artist George Rodrigue’s heraldic hound. The ghosts of Rodrigue’s Acadiana childhood populate the pre-Blue Dog paintings that would one day bring… Read more

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