Jannis Varelas will be showcasing his work during Prospect.1. He tells about his work and involvement in the biennial below.
[...]Jannis Varelas will be showcasing his work during Prospect.1. He tells about his work and involvement in the biennial below.
[...]Check out this week’s selections from Nolaphile friends, Basin Street Records. This week we get to share work from artists Melena, Jon Cleary, and Kermit Ruffins.
[...]Takashi Horisaki will be showcasing his work during Prospect.1. He tells about his work and involvement in the biennial below.
[...]I was first introduced to zines while taking a class in college, a young, anxious upstart with a zeal for self-expression. My professor was typically shaggy and erudite. He showed us documentaries on grits and garlic. We read strange pamphlets and sat in the dark, surrounded by the splendor of [...]
Xavier Veilhan will be showcasing his work during Prospect.1. He tells about his work and involvement in the biennial below.
[...]A girl walks into a bar with Jacques Cousteau’s grandson and the heir to the Johnson and Johnson fortune. The bar happens to be a chic lounge in the Marigny and the girl happens to be me. The time happens to be last Saturday, and the lesson is [...]
On November 1, 2008, Prospect.1 New Orleans, the largest biennial of international contemporary art ever organized in the United States, will open to the public in museums, historic buildings, and found sites throughout New Orleans. Our goal is to bring more attention to all of the incredible artists that [...]
Check out this week’s selections from Nolaphile friends, Basin Street Records. This week we get to share work from artists Henry Butler, Jon Cleary, and Kermit Ruffins.
[...]Feeling nostalgic for those Mister Rodgers days? Want to relax with some felt-covered friends? This Halloween, put on your best outfit and join DJ Quintron and Miss Pussycat for their latest psychedelic installment of outsider art – a collaboration of electronic music, odd outfits, and puppets, of course!
[...]Check out this week’s selections from Nolaphile friends, Basin Street Records. This week we get to share work from artists Henry Butler, Jon Cleary, and Kermit Ruffins.
[...]On Piety is a collective of New Orleans visual and performing artists mounting work in a Prospect.1 parallel venue.
“Like Katrina, On Piety takes you to a world where all the arbitrary rules and straight lines have been erased.” – Curator, Jana Napoli
On Piety opens with a reception [...]
Get ready for the Tenth Ritual with these three songs from Basin Street featuring Henry Butler, Dr. Michael White and Irvin Mayfield.
[...]On November 1, 2008, Prospect.1 New Orleans, the largest biennial of international contemporary art ever organized in the United States, will open to the public in museums, historic buildings, and found sites throughout New Orleans. Prospect.1 New Orleans has been conceived in the tradition of the great international biennials, [...]
Well, I must admit that as I write this, I’m far afield. I’ve left the city for a minute (or a month, rather) to finish a book – a project that I’ve been working on for some time now, and that needs to be completed. Not that New Orleans doesn’t [...]
Nolaphile reader Susan Prevost sent us her interpretation of New orleans in six images and we are thrilled to share them with you here.
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Check out this week’s selections from Nolaphile friends, Basin Street Records. This week we get to share work from artists Kermit Ruffins, Henry Butler, and Jon Cleary.
[...]Perhaps it’s some kind of irony that the HALIFAX Theater Company’s Bayou Playhouse, a new theater space in Lockport, LA, was forced to delay its opening, originally scheduled on the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, because of another storm. The Playhouse, brainchild of New Orleans Director, Perry Martin, Producing Managing [...]
Check out this week’s selections from Nolaphile friends, Basin Street Records. This week we get to share work from artists Kermit Ruffins, Theresa Andersson, and Jon Cleary.
[...]Our Nolaphile mannequin is in search of an identity. Send us your suggestions for a name.
Keep an eye out for him at arts events around town. This Saturday evening he’ll be at La Cote Brasserie celebrating Arts for Arts Sake. And he’ll have a limited number of nolaphile shirts to [...]
There’s something both familiar and utterly fresh about the latest group of paintings by New Orleans artist, Robin Durand. And that’s the point. Taking on masterpieces from the past, Durand has re-envisioned works by greats like Goya and Klimt for his upcoming solo show, Mondo Anachrony, scheduled [...]
Comme Ci Comme Ca
Dr. Michael White: Blue Crescent
A Smile in a While
Jon Cleary: Pin Your Spin
Skokiaan
Kermit Ruffins: Live at Vaughan’s
Are you secretly tinkering with an amazing project you’re just dying to share? Let us know. Do you have something to say about the way the arts are run in NOLA? Sound off! Make a comment, write an article, and send in some photos. We want to know your take [...]
Like a Star
Irvin Mayfield: Love Songs, Standards and Ballads
North American Idiosyncrasies
Henry Butler: PiaNOLA Live
Crescent City Calypso
Dr. Michael White:Blue Crescent
The current show at BECA Gallery is all about context, whether decontexualized, recontextualized, or somewhere in between. The name of the gallery is an acronym for “Bridge for Emerging Contemporary Art,” and their mission of representing lesser-known local artists, international artists, and artwork that is atypical for the New Orleans [...]
So the world still hasn’t named you its next Picasso, hasn’t showered you with Pulitzer’s, NEA Grants, or MacArthur Genius Awards. Being a starved and unrecognized talent is the lot of so many artists. But one can’t give up. Rather, get out there and show your work to the world. [...]
In the third video blog installment of “The Art of the Cocktail”, favorite New Orleans bartender Chris McMillan mixes his business with our pleasure in the form of a delicious and sophisticated Ginger Manhattan.
Listen to this weeks musical recommendations from our friend’s at Basin Street.
My One and Only Love
Irvin Mayfield: Love Songs, Standards and Ballads
Penelope
Jason Marsalis: The Year of the Drummer
Hi – Low
Theresa Andersson: I the River
“This city is a treasure trove of stories and story-tellers. It’s really an embarrassment of riches.”
After taking on retail giant Wal-mart and working on films with big name stars in exotic locales, Brazilian Luisa Dantas brought her production company, Jolu Productions, to New Orleans to make a documentary [...]
In the second video blog installment of “The Art of the Cocktail”, famed New Orleans bartender Chris McMillan presents the perfect Pimm’s Cup.
I love modern dance and often miss New York’s glut of opportunities to see artists who use physical narrative (that is, dancers and choreographers) showcase their work on a regular basis. But New Orleans has its own groove, and this week provides a number of ways to watch, learn, and [...]
In our next series of video blog entries, master New Orleans bartender Chris McMillian discusses the colorful stories behind four of our city’s favorite drinks, and demonstrates the art of the cocktail by creating them before your eyes at the Pere Marquette hotel. First on the list is the [...]
Only in New Orleans would the combination of pretentiousness and earnest enthusiasm meet so solidly with nonchalance. Only in New Orleans could children on BMX bikes screech through the scene with mouths stained with the flavored dye of frozen popsicles. Only in New Orleans would there be so many destroyed [...]
Here in New Orleans, we’re no strangers to passion or to the mingling of genres. Our city is colorful, casual, a little bit insane, the perfect environment to inspire a story or two. So my proposal is this: Why not New Orleans in six or less? But not just words. [...]
Although it’s only been in business for 11 years, Basin Street Records has achieved the status of top dog for discovering and nurturing some of New Orleans most talented musicians. The first project for the label was a live recording of Kermit Ruffins and the Barbeque Swingers [...]
My mother gave me a deck of Healing Wisdom Cards one year for Christmas. Tucked among the canisters of cinnamon and rolls of aluminum foil and exercise clothes that are her usual offerings, the cards offered meditations on things like Letting Go or Seeing the Humor in All Things. Mainly, [...]
“St. Claude is a great street to live and work on. Pres Kabakoff has made the case that St. Claude has all the potential of Magazine Street 25 years ago. Except, because of its magnitude, its architecture, its glorious, un-obliterable Marxian classlessness, it can never end up the congested and [...]
New Orleans Boasts Winner of the First Annual Amazon Novel Breakthrough Award
Proving once again that New Orleans’ pool of artistic talent runs deep, New Orleans writer and bartender, Bill Loehfelm was named the winner of the First Annual Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. Loehfelm bested 5000 other manuscripts through a system [...]
Orleans Inspiration
Henry Butler: PiaNola Live
If You Want me to Stay
Kermit Ruffins: Live at Vaughn’s
Treme Second Line
Kermit Ruffins: Live at Vaughn’s
Nancy Sin is a series of paintings started in 2005 and can currently be seen at Vintage above Savvy Gourmet . Each painting has it’s own story and is available upon request. However Nancy Sin believes a picture speaks a thousand words.
[...]Every artist needs a sidekick. Mick has Keith, Anais had Henry, and Picasso had Matisse. Artists can feed off one another?s energy, critique one another?s work, and contribute to the genesis of new ideas. My favorite New Orleans sidekick moved out of town last year, but this week, she?s coming [...]
Featuring authors, artists, and thespians from around the country, the Saints and Sinners Literary Festival kicks off this Friday, May 9 in the French Quarter and includes three days of Master classes, panel discussions, parties, and theater performances.
[...]Here’s what our friends at Basin Street Records are listening to this week.
Romeo and Juliet
Irvin Mayfield with Ellis Marsalis: Love Songs, Ballads and Standards
Can’t Take My Baby Nowhere
Kermit Ruffins: Live at Vaughn’s
Mother in Law
Henry Butler: PiaNOLA Live
Leonardo Da Vinci said “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” That truth resonated with Dan Tague’s exhibition, Cash Rules Everything Around Me, at the Jonathan Ferrara Gallery.
[...]Jazz Fest always provides the biggest and most talented names in the biz. But what about those unknown talents that go unnoticed? For example, the reggae recommendation I came across from New Orleans voices or Ponderosa Stomp
which promotes the unsung heroes of the music world.
Peter Anderson: I’m assuming most people in New Orleans know who you are and about your work as a poet, novelist, NPR radio commentator and editor of Exquisite Corpse. However, for those who don’t, could you supply a brief biographical sketch?
Andrei Codrescu: I was born in Sibiu, Romania, a [...]
New Orleans has an elevated sensitivity and exposure when it comes to the culinary arts as well as music, but does visual art get the same notice?
[...]Barbie has it all. Everything a materialistic world requires along with an image that commands attention. Well, almost everything.
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