Archive for the ‘Art’ Category
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… and it’s called “Say Uncle” — an image of the inimitable Uncle Lionel Batiste of the Tremé Brass Band, painted by Terrance Osborne. Osborne did the 2007 poster of Rebirth Brass Band’s Philip Frazier, and this one is done in the same vibrant style.
Here’s the link to Osborne’s gallery, and the link to pre-order a poster. Prices range from $69 (unsigned) to $329 (double-signed).
Thoughts, Gambiteers?
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Is it possible to take pictures from the top of the New Orleans World Trade Center Building? I’m not talking about shooting through a glass, is there like a terrace on top of it
I wanted to do some photography of Canal St. at twilight from the World Trade bld, is there a platform, terrace on th every top of the blgd or a balcony anywhere up there where you can shoot without having a glass window in front of you? Thanks!
If you are a New Orleans expert, answer Pompo WhoDat Bresciani’s question on Questionland.
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New Orleans Museum of Art curator Miranda Lash flitted around the crowded Frederick Weisman Galleries for Louisiana Contemporary Art like a sapphire pixie. Miss Pussycat kissed cheeks and played the role of hostess with aplomb. As for Quintron, he looked like the nervous, dutiful museum employee he was dressed up to be: moving and fiddling with his recording equipment; dragging out and setting up an elastic barrier when too many drunkies got too close to one of his “studio audience” oil portraits.
Friday’s opening of “Parallel Universe: Quintron and Miss Pussycat Live at City Park” was a smash — and better yet, a hell of a lot of fun. Hundreds of visitors, of all stripes, ages, and walks of New Orleans life, filtered in and out of NOMA to catch a glimpse of what’s sure to be the most unusual art happening of 2010. Here are some of the stories behind the Gambit cover story “Live From NOMA.” First up: Mr. Q.
On the exhibition’s origins:
They approached us. We were walking down the street and got a call from Miranda. She said, “This is the curator for the contemporary wing of the NOMA. Do you want to do something there?” That was the best call. We almost didn’t know if it was real. We’ve never been involved in the gallery scene here. I’ve never been an artist in the sense of the word that I’ve sought out that career.
When we were home, we called her and she explained that she wanted to do something with us, and was open to whatever we wanted to do in the space. She was familiar with us from Dallas. Then we started getting these ideas that began developing. I started thinking about my involvement in it. I’m not a painter, nothing like that — except for the Drum Buddies, very beautiful visual objects that I make the same thing over and over. So I knew that would be part of it.
The most interesting thing to me, if we’re going to do it, would be to make something out of it, go in there every day. She didn’t tell us, “We want you to do this.” She said, “We want to do something with Quintron and Miss Pussycat, whether it’s a retrospective of all the work you’ve done in your life, or whether you want to do new stuff.” It was almost a year ago. It was a secret for a long time. We didn’t tell anyone.
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Through his blog Modern Art Notes, Tyler Green instigated a betting match between the Superbowl-bound teams’ hometown museums: the Indianapolis Museum of Art and the New Orleans Museum of Art. What followed is the nerdiest trash talking seen this side of Spock vs. Skywalker.
IMA director Maxwell Anderson agreed, should the New Orleans Saints win the Superbowl, to loan this to NOMA for three months. Anderson didn’t think too much on the bet. (”We’re already spackling the wall where the NOMA loan will hang,” he tweeted.)
NOMA’s E. John Bullard raised the stakes — with a $4 million Renoir:
Max Anderson must not really believe the Colts can beat the Saints in the Super Bowl. Otherwise why would he bet such an insignificant work as the Ingrid Calame painting? Let’s up the ante. The New Orleans Museum of Art will bet the three-month loan of its $4 million Renoir painting, Seamstress at Window, circa 1908, which is currently in the big Renoir exhibition in Paris. What will Max wager of equal importance? Go Saints!
Anderson fired back, offering a Jean-Valentine Morel jeweled cup. Then Bullard hit back with this:
I am amused that Renoir is too sweet for Indianapolis. Does this mean that those Indiana corn farmers have simpler tastes? If so why would Max offer us that gaudy Chalice — just looks like another over-elaborate Victorian tchotchke. Let’s get serious. Each museum needs to offer an art work that they would really miss for three months. What would you like Max? A Monet, a Cassatt, a Picasso, a Miro? Sorry but we have no farm scenes or portraits of football players to send you.
OH SNAP.
Anderson’s latest wager? This guy.
Stay tuned to Green’s blog for any updates, though if Anderson goes any deeper, NOMA may as well occupy IMA’s entire collection.
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Thursday was Misunderstanding Day at the WWL-TV newsroom. First Misty Marshall and the Moonpie King performed, leading to this awkwardly revealing on-air exchange with Paulsen:
Eric: “Actually, Sally-Ann and I are former moonpie kings and queens …”
Band: “(Ba-dum-ch!) I never knew.”
Eric: “Settle down.”
Things only got worse when Paulsen and I were discussing the Over the Line Big Lebowski Party:
Me: “They’re having a dialogue contest, outfits, trivia, lots of Caucasians being drunk around the Rock ‘N’ Bowl …”
Eric: (Looking into camera and shaking head)
Only on Misunderstanding Day could “copious White Russians getting consumed” end up sounding like “a ton of boozed white folks acting the fool.” Although I’m sure the latter is also true.
MUSIC
FILM
STAGE
EVENTS
ART
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Add “a—hole” and “vagina” as the newest entries in the WWL-TV Eyewitness Morning News lexicon. And to think I nixed a mention of the Butthole Surfers back in September. At this rate, we’ll be casually parsing the merits of a F—k Buttons/F—ked Up/Holy F—k triple bill in no time. You can’t FCC me, Paulsen!
MUSIC
Why Are We Building Such a Big Ship? with Nana Grizol
10 p.m. Friday, AllWays Lounge
Gambit blog
Strange Bedfellows Series feat. Spickle, Giant Cloud, Metronome the City and White Colla Crimes
10 p.m. Saturday, One Eyed Jacks
Gambit feature
FILM
The Horse Boy
7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 5:30 p.m. Sunday, Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center
The Breakfast Club
Midnight Friday-Saturday, Prytania Theatre
STAGE
Jewtopia
8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 6 p.m. Sunday, Le Chat Noir
Gambit pick
The A—hole Monologues
8 p.m. and 10 p.m. Saturday, 6 p.m. Sunday, Hi-Ho Lounge
Gambit preview
EVENTS
Louisiana Museum Foundation Gala
6:30 p.m. Friday, The Cabildo
Gambit pick
Righteous Fur Nutria Design Challenge Fashion Show
8 p.m. Friday, AllWays Lounge
Gambit preview
ART
“Revival: Historical Processes in Contemporary Photography,” group show
Closes Friday, Homespace Gallery
“Aquiferious,” works by Margaret Ross Tolbert
Opening reception 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday, LeMieux Gallery
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New Orleans has ‘The Pie Man’, ‘The Special Man’, ‘The Beer Man’, and now… ‘The Picture Man’. And like all the other simply-named icons of New Orleans, what he brings to the table has a special flavor that causes him rise to the top in a town known for specializing in flavor.
You hear the call at the second line parades “Hey Picture Man! Picture Man!”, followed by club members striking regal, sexy or playa Mac poses. These moments are captured and memorialized in pictures saturated with the splendid color and raw energy that is characteristic of our Sunday rolling street party tradition.
The Picture Man is Conrad ‘Sam’ Wyre, a 34 year old native New Orleanian and self-taught photographer who started taking pictures at the age of 12. Granted he’s not the first Picture Man to cover the second lines but he’s certainly considered one of the best. Inspired by New Orleans culture and landscape, he shoots scenes at just the right moment and angle, capturing the very essence of what makes this city animated and magical. His images are at once haunting, fiery, whimsical and provocative.
Wyre began working professionally three years ago, going to second lines to photograph his childhood buddies from Uptown. “I started with Pigeon Town Steppers helping them build a library of pictures and realized ‘Damn…. I could make money doing this.’ I start liking it.”
Members of other social aid and pleasure clubs saw Wyre’s work with the Pigeon Town Steppers and began calling him to cover their parades. Shortly afterward, he began creating yearbooks for the clubs using pictures from their second lines as well as shots taken during the club’s traditional parade day breakfasts, fundraisers, road trips and parties. The books are beautiful hard-cover bound presentations of second line culture unlike anything produced in the mainstream publishing world. “Pigeon Town Steppers was first book I did,” he says. “Then I started shopping them to the other groups. [The clubs] never saw anything else like it. I’ve done books for West Bank steppers, YMO, Prince of Whales, Original Four. From brass bands to jazz funerals to parades to photo shoots, I do it all.”
Like most folks that follow the local parade scene, Wyre is drawn to “the colors, the dancing, the bands, the culture… Where else in the world can you go and see stuff like this? I’m just trying to capture it and put it out there so the world can see.”
If New Orleans brass bands and second line culture moves you, check out Sam The Picture Man’s work at the La Belle Galerie at 319 Royal street in the French Quarter. Or online at www.Nawlinsimages.com
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How do you start some smack in the WWL-TV studio? Just ask them which Christmas film is the G.O.A.T. The question, it turns out, is WWL’s current Web query, and this morning, Eric and Sally-Ann — and meteorologist Laura Buchtel, several cameramen, a New Orleans Junior Leaguer and the O. Perry Walker choir — almost went to blows over the relative merits of It’s a Wonderful Life versus The Christmas Story. I’m afraid I’ve got your back here, Paulsen: Jimmy Stewart takes out that precocious little four-eyes every day of the week (and twice next Friday).
MUSIC
Judith Owen and Harry Shearer’s Holiday Sing-Along
8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, CAC
Gambit feature
Forgetters
7 p.m. Saturday, Nowe Miasto
Gambit preview
FILM
It’s a Wonderful Life
Noon Saturday-Sunday, Prytania Theatre
Vieux Carre Matinees
11:30 a.m. Saturday, Le Petit Theatre
STAGE
A Christmas Carol
7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Teatro Wego
Silver Knife Society
10 p.m. Saturday, Backyard Ballroom
EVENTS
Bywater Art Market
9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Markey Park
Elysian Fleas Holiday Market
11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Elysian Fields Avenue at Chartres Street
ART
“Blind Prom,” photographs by Sarah Wilson
New Orleans Photo Alliance
Gambit review
“Within Shadows,” photographs by Susan Burnstine
Canary Gallery
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After a brief respite last week (a guy’s gotta eat turkey), the blogged summaries of my misadventures in TV land continue. Stumbling into the WWL studio every Thursday morning feels like the continuation of a dream — and not just because I’m bleary-eyed and usually still half asleep. There’s something comically nightmarish about a morning news set. First off, the glaring lights and broad grins are straight out of Soundgarden’s “Black Hole Sun” video. Then there’s the gaggle of oddly costumed performers that are always warming up for a spot. I’ll never forget wandering into a group of uniformed baseball players gathered in a corner reciting lines — the cast of Damn Yankees, it turned out, but just another predawn hallucination as far as I was concerned. This week, the trancelike sounds of Rachel Van Voorhies’ harp were a pleasantly new-age background soundtrack to Cajun chef Emile Stieffel’s turkey-gumbo tips. And then my alarm went off.
MUSIC
New Orleans Songwriters Festival
Friday-Saturday, various venues
Gambit preview
Antenna Inn with Micah McKee
10 p.m. Saturday, One Eyed Jacks
Gambit pick
FILM
Bicycle Film Festival
Friday-Saturday, Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center
Gambit preview
Global Lens triple feature
1 p.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, NOCCA|Riverfront
STAGE
Silent Night of the Lambs
8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 6 p.m. Sunday, Le Chat Noir
Gambit feature
The SantaLand Diaries
9:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, Actor’s Theatre of New Orleans
Gambit pick
EVENTS
Holiday on the Boulevard
Noon to 10 p.m. Saturday, 1:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Sunday, Ashé Cultural Arts Center
PhotoNOLA kickoff signing and lecture
Saturday-Sunday, New Orleans Photo Alliance
ART
“Warriors of the Apocalypse,” works by Minka Stoyanova
Closes Saturday, Barrister’s Gallery
“Signs of the City,” works by Shirley Rabe Masinter
Opening reception 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday, LeMieux Galleries
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Photograph by Greg Rhoades
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Bacchanal will be hosting it’s last night of their “An Adventure Every Day” exhibit with photographs by Greg Rhoades. It was supposed to last just two weeks and now, six months from the exhibition’s launch, it’s finally coming to an end with a closing party on Thursday, December 3rd.
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There will be food, drinks, music, photography for sale and just another reason to love New Orleans starting at 7 p.m.
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