New Orleans
Marking Time: Willie Birch’s The Roofers
Willie Birch, The Roofers, 2022, triptych, 84 x 60 inches [© Willie Birch; courtesy of the artist] The figures in...
What Cannot Be Held—Malcolm Peacock’s We Served … and they felt tiny bursts along the horizon
In a shotgun house in the Irish Channel neighborhood of New Orleans, I anxiously waited for 2 pm. I had...
Dread Scott: Beyond History
Reporting as a performance observer and implicated participant.
Imagine New Monuments
Emily Wilkerson offers a case study of the New Orleans collective Paper Monuments.
Cultural Militancy: New Orleans Art After Katrina
Eric Bookhardt reports on the New Orleans art scene after Katrina, and discusses its resurgent militancy.
Captives
I went back to Charleston, SC, for a wedding recently, and of all the port cities I have visited, lived in, or loved, Charleston is the worst.
Prospect.4:
The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp
When the first in November 2008, it premiered as a large-scale event in the tradition of the São Paulo or...
Claire Tancons
Curator Claire Tancons talks with D. Eric Bookhardt in New Orleans, the “northernmost city of the Caribbean.”