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  • “Creole Death & Mourning” Exhibit and “Spirited Salon” Tour

    David

    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” Read more

  • “Captive State: Louisiana and the Making of Mass Incarceration”

    David

    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 Read more

  • “The Natural Port: A Look at New Orleans Coffee Culture”

    David

    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 Read more

  • Museum Month

    David

    As noted in my August 4 piece for the New Orleans Advocate | The Times-Picayune (viewable online here), the geographical spread of cultural institutions participating in New Orleans Museum Month is pretty vast – intimidating maybe, in this heat. “The destinations range from the western edge of Orleans Parish to the 9th Ward, City Park Read more

  • “Rebellious Spirits: Prohibition and Resistance in the South” 

    David

    The tidy New Orleans Museum of Art exhibit “Rebellious Spirits: Prohibition and Resistance in the South” is on view through January 5, 2025. To coincide with the start of Tales of the Cocktail, I wrote about it for the July 21 edition of the New Orleans Advocate | The Times-Picayune. Find the online version here.  Read more

  • “Our War Too: Women in Service”

    David

    The special exhibit “Our War Too: Women in Service” at the National WWII Museum through July 21, 2024, rewards patient and focused museumgoing. As I noted in a July 7 introduction to the exhibit in the New Orleans Times-Picayune newspaper, touches small and large in the exhibit underscore that the women participants in our great Read more