Moving in Colors, Korean artist’s Key Sook Geum latest exhibition, we get a dose of a matriarchial dress society with absent bodies. Beautifully created dresses floating seamlessly to conture the female form in all its glory. The absence of a real body makes the sculptures even more interensting and somewhat delicate. The wirey adaptations of beautiful gowns have an energy flowing through them that, I think, Geum inteneded on showing …more…
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Faubourg Quartet to play Dankner, Beethoven
January 20, 2012 by
One of the great losses to the New Orleans classical music world in the wake of Hurricane Katrina was the move of composer Stephen Dankner to a northern clime. Dankner was chairman of the music department of the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts (NOCCA) and was also a member of the faculty at Loyola University’s Department of Musicprior to the devastation that wreaked havoc on the city from …more…
‘Live and Let Die’ at LPO tonight
January 7, 2012 by
This week George Martin, better known as “the Fifth Beatle,” a record producer with long ties and associations with the classical and opera world, celebrated his 86th birthday. That may be especially appropriate because the classical and pop worlds will collide in a good way – much as it did when Martin became the Fab Four’s producer for some of their best known work such as “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s …more…
Suzaune McKamey to appear at J. W. Marriott
December 28, 2011 by
Suzaune McKamey is one of those local performers who could probably succeed as a major star in any other small town. That she chooses to live in New Orleans with its limited offerings for a strong cabaret and nightclub performer is unfortunate. She could no doubt do much better elsewhere, but dang it all, she loves her hometown and won’t hear anything of moving elsewhere. ...more...
The NOLA Holiday Theatre Wrap Up.
December 24, 2011 by
Tis absolutely the season to have been seeing theatre in New Orleans.
The month of December had many amazing things to offer to people in town for the holidays.
Over at the newest venue in town, Mid City Theatre, run by Mr. Fred Nuccio, they had two holiday shows to offer. A.J. Allegra had brought back his perennial favorite, The Santaland Diaries. Allegra had done the show once already at the now, …more…
New Orleans Museum of Art turns 100 with a party
December 15, 2011 by
In most any other major North American city an art museum would commemorate an anniversary with a dry, stuffy affair consisting of a string quartet quietly playing Haydn or Brahms while hor d’oeuvres would be passed along to attendees by a wait staff in thick-starched black and white uniforms.
New Orleans Museum of Art (Photo courtesy of NOCVB)
But this is New Orleans and when the New Orleans Museum of Art …more…
Holiday classics are here
December 13, 2011 by
What would the Christmas season be without Handel’s “Messiah” or a solid work by Johann Sebastian Bach? As always, the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra(LPO) is standing ready with a holiday program that has always proven to be one of its most popular offerings. For the first of two successive nights this Thursday and Friday, the LPO will present a program consisting of the Bach “Magnificat” (BWV 243) as well as two …more…
Art is Woman
December 4, 2011 by
Francesco Vezzoli’s sculpture of Sophia Loren is part of the amazing visual art project in New Orleans, Prospect.2.
It’s displayed in the Piazza d’italia, a prime example of postmodern architecture nestled in the Warehouse District, honoring the New Orleans’ Italian community and the cinematic bombshell of the 60′s and 70′s. ...more...
Michael Wolff proves you can come home again
November 22, 2011 by
Unlike legendary New Orleans jazz musicians such as Louis Armstrong, who left their hometown to achieve fame and rarely ever came back home, pianist and composer Michael Wolff has proven to be an exception. Raised as a youngster in New Orleans, he has returned to what he regards as his hometown yearly and has camped out at Snug Harbor, the city’s premiere jazz club, for most of the past five …more…
Verdi’s ‘Un Ballo’ a stunner for New Orleans
November 19, 2011 by
When Giuseppe Verdi composed “Un Ballo in Maschera,” the political climate was rife with Italian nationalism and those in the various provinces made calls for Victor Emmanuel II, the king of Sardinia, to be named the first king of a united Italy. Indeed, the composer’s very name was used as an acrostic by the angry mobs chanting “V.E.R.D.I.!” The acrostic stood for “Victor Emmanuel, Rei di Italia, or Victor Emmanuel, …more…
Verdi’s ‘A Masked Ball’ reset at Mardi Gras
November 16, 2011 by
Giuseppe Verdi never made it to the New Orleans Mardi Gras in his lifetime, but thanks to the efforts of New Orleans Opera Association (NOOA) artistic director Robert Lyall, his music will make the trip and opera enthusiasts cannot long endure the wait. Maestro Lyall will be on hand leading his orchestra this weekend as the NOOA reimagines Un Ballo in Maschera (A Masked Ball), a Verdi thriller of intrigue loosely based on the historical assassination of King Gustav III of Sweden. ...more...
Expose at NOLA’s Contemporary Arts Center
November 14, 2011 by
The Contemporary Arts Center project Expose is a must see for any aspiring artist who stomps the ground in The Big Easy. Curated by a group of interns in the Visual Arts Department and overseen by the director of Visual Arts, Expose is a work of art that is the result of many conversations about the limitations and possibilities of curatorial practice. The role of the curator often isn’t seen, …more…
The Fringe is Upon Us!
November 11, 2011 by
This month, the New Orleans 2011 Fringe Festival will commence.
The NOLA Fringe is in its third year of operation and this year’s festival is offering the city nothing short of awesome greatness.
The festival is housing 70 different performance groups with over 200 shows at a multitude of venues across the city.
The Fringe Festival chooses 24 performances to showcase at 6 different spaces around town. In addition to the …more…
JPAS event tonight features ‘Phantom’
November 9, 2011 by
Brad Little, a man who made his mark playing the title role of the “Phantom of the Opera” on the national tour returns to New Orleans tonight with the first of two fundraiser events for the Jefferson Performing Arts Society (JPAS). Tonight’s event at Tulane’s Dixon Hall also stars local cabaret and musical theatre star Leslie Castay and nationally prominent operatic tenor Juan Carlos Valls.
Brad Little stars in events tonight, Friday …more…
Gluzman, LPO to play Prokofiev Violin Con. 2
November 5, 2011 by
Acclaimed Israeli violinist virtuosoVadim Gluzman, a performer who has played with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) three times in as many years, is ready to perform the Prokofiev Violin Concert No. 2 tonight for the second time in as many nights. Guzman performed the piece last night as part of the LPO’s Northshore series along with the Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5 played last week at the Mahalia Jackson Theatre for the …more…
LPO’s world premiere of Zwilich’s ‘Shadows’
October 31, 2011 by
Ellen Taaffee Zwilich has had many firsts in her life. She was the first woman to receive a Doctor of Musical Arts (in composition) from the Julliard School of music and was one of the first women to serve in a major symphony orchestra.
Composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich at LPO event on Oct. 28 in New Orleans. ©Alan Smason
She was the first woman to receive a Pulitzer Prize in …more…
Prospect.2 New Orleans
October 23, 2011 by
Founded by curator Dan Cameron, Prospect New Orleans is one of the leading contemporary biennials featuring local and international art and artists. Prospect New Orleans showcases new visual contemporary art that contributes to bustling tourism and culture of the Louisiana Gulf. The first installment attracted 42,000 individual visitors and generated over 23 million in economic activity. The relaunch of this must see art experience begins October 21st and will last …more…
