Meg Turner at Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans
Burnaway takes a Close Look at Meg Turner’s Here and Now at Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans.
Louisiana (9)
Tina Girouard, 1946 – 2020
Curator Daniel Fuller profiles the late artist Tina Girouard, a key figure in the 1970s New York art scene who later relocated to her native Louisiana.
German Coast Uprising, 1811 / 2019
Editor Logan Lockner introduces a series of stories responding to the Slave Rebellion Reenactment initiated by artist Dread Scott outside New Orleans last November.
Down River Road
Tracing a personal journey along the reenactors’ path, New Orleans editor-at-large Kristina Kay Robinson raises questions about how to make art that respects the lives—and deaths—of the enslaved.
Marching with the Ancestors
New Orleans-based artist Ron Bechet recounts his experiences participating in the Slave Rebellion Reenactment organized by Dread Scott in New Orleans late last year.
Playing as Rebels
Ra Malika Imhotep unpacks the ironies, limitations, and joys of playing a rebellious slave in Dread Scott’s Slave Rebellion Reenactment last fall.
Good Hair: Akosua Adoma Owusu at the CAC, New Orleans
Kristina Kay Robinson explores the “cinematic third space” developed by Ghanaian-American filmmaker Akosua Adoma Owusu in works on view in New Orleans.
Documenting Environmental Racism in Flint and New Orleans
Two exhibitions at Tulane’s Newcomb Art Museum draw connections between the adverse effects of environmental racism in Flint, Michigan, and Gordon Plaza in New Orleans.
Dispatches from New Orleans: Open Calls at the CAC and Ogden
Charlie Tatum, Nic Aziz, and Taylor Murrow report on the stand-out works in a pair of open call exhibitions in New Orleans.
