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The exhibit “The First Piano Professors and Lost Music of Early New Orleans” is now on view at the New Orleans Jazz Museum. Co-curated by musician and archivist John Davis and the museum’s music curator David Kunian, the exhibit fills two big rooms with a story driven largely by sheet music.  In the days before Read more

Located in a historic neighborhood and sharing an entrance atrium with the American Jazz Museum, the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Missouri,  tells the stories of its neighborhood (in introductory displays in the atrium), its city (home of the Monarchs), and the ballplayers across the country who labored under segregation but still found Read more

The new History Channel documentary miniseries World War II with Tom Hanks launches with three back-to-back episodes at 7 p.m. (Central) on May 25, Memorial Day. The National WWII Museum in New Orleans, which collaborated with the network on the series, hosted an advance screening and panel discussion May 20 that offered a sneak peek Read more

“Amongst Ourselves: Resisting Slavery at Whitney Plantation,” with wonderful graphic illustrations by Langston Allston, is a collaboration between the Whitney and Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies at the University of New Orleans faculty, students, and graduate students. “Amongst Ourselves” also draws on “Freedom on the Move,” a digital database of fugitives from North American Read more

A photograph from 1952, displayed in a section of the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience’s permanent galleries, shows a group of people posing on the front steps of the New Orleans Jewish Community Center. They are members of the New Americans Social Club — European Holocaust survivors who’d made their way to new lives Read more

A heavy cruiser, the USS New Orleans participated in nearly every major World War II battle in the Pacific. As demonstrated in the new changing exhibition “Come Back Fighting: USS New Orleans at War” at the National WWII Museum, her combat history tells just part of the story. Christened in 1933 at Brooklyn Navy Yard Read more

During a recent family visit to Phoenix, I stopped by the Phoenix Art Museum to see “Ed Mell: In the Studio.” Mell, who died in 2024, was appropriately renowned for vibrant, angular landscapes of desert mesas, canyons, flowers, and awesome, abstract skies. I had a personal, distant connection to the exhibit’s theme, which is a Read more

“American Revolution: The Augmented Exhibition” has opened at the Historic New Orleans Collection and will remain on view through January 17, 2027. From the French technology company Histovery, the exhibition uses hand-held tablet computers to open up 360-degree views of the sites, events, and historical figures who fought for America’s independence 250 years ago.  The Read more

Told through text, multimedia screens, re-created period garments, old and newly rendered artwork, and historical objects such as maps, documents and guns, the new Cabildo exhibit “Gálvez and Louisiana in the American Revolution,” is intended to offer a comprehensive overview of our regional piece of the larger story. “I do feel strongly that there’s a Read more

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