Prospect.4 Rises to the Occasion in New Orleans
As a former New Orleanian, our writer finds the tropes of Prospect.4 are tired for a local or regional audience, and tend to work best with out-of-towners who have superficial knowledge of the city.
As a former New Orleanian, our writer finds the tropes of Prospect.4 are tired for a local or regional audience, and tend to work best with out-of-towners who have superficial knowledge of the city.
Rebecca Lee Reynolds unpacks “Grace Notes,” a performance by Carrie Mae Weems.
To wrap up BURNAWAY’s Best, we asked our experts to tell us about what they are looking forward to in 2016. If you missed them, be sure to check out our Best Exhibitions of 2015, Favorite Reads, Cultural Experiences, and Movers & Shakers. Happy New Year! Erica Ciccarone (Nashville) Writer CAMPFIRE is a subgroup of the curatorial collective COOP that put together … Continued
BURNAWAY asked our experts to tell us about the most memorable highlights and significant news stories in their region. Making the list is Joe Nolan’s ongoing series about Nashville’s pikes for Nashville Public Radio, New Orleans’s 10-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, and the Atlanta Contemporary establishing free admission for visitors. (Don’t miss our Best Exhibitions of 2015, Favorite Reads, … Continued
BURNAWAY asked artists, writers, and curators from cities across the South to tell us about their favorite cultural experiences in 2015. Making the list was the Art Book Fair presented by Printed Matter in New York City, Patti Smith’s reading of M Train in Nashville, Andrea Fraser’s lectures at the Contemporary Art Center and UNO in New Orleans, … Continued
I first noticed Carl Joe Williams’s work at The Front, one of the artist collective galleries on St. Claude Avenue in New Orleans. He had designed an installation for the gallery’s backyard, and I was drawn to its use of color and pattern as well as its incorporation of audio and video. Williams later described it … Continued
If you thought that an exhibition about Carnival and contemporary art would be fun, well, you might be wrong. “En Mas’” is definitely about Carnival, yet it fails to razzle and dazzle. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. The recent Prospect.3 exhibition in New Orleans gave us Carnival as spectacle in such works as Monir … Continued
For the past five months, individuals driving, walking, and biking down St. Claude Avenue have been interacting with LINKED, an outdoor installation by New Orleans-based Sally Heller. One of her few public works, Heller developed this large-scale collage—measuring 20 feet high and 60 feet wide—to mask an empty, wooden wall connecting Melvin’s bar and Gene’s … Continued
The High Museum of Art has announced Katherine Jentleson as its new curator of folk and self-taught art, and the first to occupy the post since it became fully endowed last August with a $2.5-million gift from board member Dan Boone, and his late wife, Merrie. Jentleson is a PhD candidate in art history at … Continued