ON VIEW
TLDR list and links below
A Dream, and Lulu King Saxon, "Uptown Street" 1890 at the Ogden
Many years ago, after seeing the painting “Uptown Street” at the Ogden, I dreamed I was walking on Magazine Street near my old house, near Xavier Prep and the garage that is something else now. It was dark in the dream, not pre-electricity dark, but suburban or country dark. The air in the dream was summer air, but summer in the north or spring here.
The street in the painting is still there (here), but of course it doesn’t look the same: the road is paved(ish) and the live oaks are bigger now. The street now, is also different than it was when I moved here, when I lived just off Magazine. There are more cars, more traffic, the mattress store and other stores selling practical things are gone having given way to luxury things. And the man who used to pick up trash and say Hi hello how are you very good thank you who reminded me of Boo Radley, is gone too.
The painting is large and vertical, so standing in front of it sets you in the space of the Uptown Street. If you stay in front of it for a little while, it may be reconstructed in your dreams as well.
Jasmine Best, Screened In at Antenna Gallery
This show was full of details. My favorite was this little row of ants made of seed beads. I don’t really understand the expression “the devil’s in the details,” but the faith is also in the details of an installation like this. This is personal and the labor in the details make it feel this way.
Collectiva Manos, adentro, afuera: outside-and-in at Antenna.
I was thinking about the term “handmade” how funny it is that things are broken down into handmade, machine made…and what else? I was thinking about the term “hand made” because a lot of the work is not only handmade (most art is), but carries traditions of handcraft.
Collectiva Manos, a Latine Artists Collective in New Orleans is: Andrea Narno, Angel Perdomo, Arlyn Jiménez, Basqo Bim, Karla Rosas, Marcus Chapa, Maya Pen, Sydney Calderón, Tania Vidal.
Newcomb Art Museum at Tulane
I have to remind myself about the college and university galleries, not just here in New Orleans, but wherever. Wherever you live or go, if there’s a college or university, there’s some art in there. Which is cool. Going to these museums and galleries feels like visiting a relative you forgot you had, like staying at your aunt’s house in Norwich.
Kara Walker at Tulane ?!?!?
Im really interested in this, from a document posted next to this mural:
“Kara Walker's Pastoral was selected by Tulane students enrolled in "How to Acquire a Work of Art," offered jointly in the spring semester of 2018 by the Art Department and the School of Liberal Arts Management Minor (SLAMM). Its acquisition was made possible by the generosity of Sanford Heller, Class of 1994.”
How to acquire a work of art is an interesting inquiry. I’m equally or more interested in why to acquire a work of art? What changes with ownership? What happens when you look at, live with an artwork…?
Tiffany Smith, Back Home at 1019 Gallery
I love this photograph, the experience of looking at it. At first I think I know what I’m looking at and then more information and associations emerge. Mylar…conch…water that’s not water. The show plays with ideas of sets, travel, and personal geography.
Connections: Porches…
and Hands.
On View
An Old Painting at the Ogden
Jasmine Best, Screened In at Antenna Gallery. CLOSES JUNE 23
Angel Perdomo and Collectiva Manos adentro, afuera: outside-and-in at Antenna. CLOSES JUNE 23
Newcomb Art Museum at Tulane CLOSES JUNE 1
Tiffany Smith, Back Home at 1019 Gallery, ARTIST TALK JUNE 6 -7 pm. SHOW CLOSES JUNE 29
Still on View (see previous posts)
Jon Gott, Foreign Correspondent at Sibyl Gallery
Parlour Gallery (and Camp Street Studios), Sara Madandar Through the Window
Recess, Jeff Rinehart and Cheryl Hayes, at Good Children Gallery
Theophilus Nil Anum Sowah Ghanam, Incredible Hulk Lunchbox Fantasy Coffin (abeduu adekai) at NOMA
And this week on my other Substack, Village Disco, I posted a piece titled “The Edward Hopper Mug With No Handle.”