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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

Currently on view at the New Orleans Museum of Art, the photography exhibit “Dawoud Bey: Elegy” follows the movement of Africans into and out of American enslavement. In large-scale black-and-white landscape photos, Bey travels the Richmond (Va.) Slave Trail, Louisiana plantations, and the final miles of the Underground Railroad in Ohio – a story that Read more

The September 21 Museumgoer feature in the Times-Picayune | New Orleans Advocate checks out(!) three library-card programs that offer free admission to many great museums across New Orleans and around Louisiana. Read it here. Listen to a Museumgoer Podcast episode about the programs here. Some photos of the featured museums are below. From the story: Read more

The September 7 Museumgoer story in the Times-Picayune | New Orleans Advocate visits the Old Ursuline Convent Museum exhibit “Rooted in Faith: Pope Leo XIV’s Louisiana Lineage,” which includes a family tree and reproductions of the documents Sarah Waits, research archivist for the Office of Archives and Records at the Archdiocese of New Orleans, used Read more

After 15 years on view, the Presbytere exhibition “Living with Hurricanes: Katrina and Beyond” is undergoing renovations to update its multimedia displays (with the Solomon Group supporting staff curators) and to broaden and extend the city’s recovery timeline into the present. “We need to do the normal refresh you do from infrastructure aging over 15 years,” Read more

The July 20 Musemgoer story for the Times-Picayune | New Orleans Advocate visits the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience changing exhibit “Most Fortunate Unfortunates: The Jewish Orphans’ Home of New Orleans,” on view through January 25.  The exhibit’s timeline starts in 1855 in the wake of Yellow Fever, an indiscriminate orphan-maker. The institution defied Read more