Curators Picks: Meg Turner
Jordan Amirkhani on Meg Turner in New Orleans.
Louisiana (9)
Picturing Bvlbancha: An-My Lê’s Photographs of Coastal Louisiana
Simi Kang writes about accompanying the photographer An-My Lê as she documented the fisherfolk and coastal wetlands of the Mississippi Delta in the wake of the 2016 presidential election.
A Portrait of Time Collapsing at The Front, New Orleans
Nora Kovacs reviews new work by artists Rosalie Smith and Cheryl Hayes at The Front, New Orleans.
Landscapes and Videotapes
Artist Emmalea Russo lays bare the fuzzy, dreamy topographies of love and intimacy within Southern landscapes and Steven Soderbergh’s sex, lies, and videotape.
I Wanna Do Bad Things With You
Jasmine Amussen revisits the decadent Southern Gothic pleasures and rural realities of HBO’s True Blood.
Black Outdoors: Ruth Owens in Hammond, Louisiana
Kristina Kay Robinson reviews an exhibition by painter Ruth Owens exploring her individual and collective family memories as the daughter of a German mother and Black American serviceman.
Make America What America Must Become at CAC New Orleans
Nora Kovacs explores the broken promises of America in the group exhibition Make America What America Must Become at the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans.
Tina Freeman at the New Orleans Museum of Art
Burnaway takes a close look at a solo exhibition by photographer Tina Freeman at the New Orleans Museum of Art.
Keith Sonnier, 1941 – 2020
Emily Llamazales remembers the late artist Keith Sonnier, a key figure in postminimalism and a pioneer of neon and light art.
