Philip Denman: Rooftop Scene, French Quarter and Bridge

Philip M. Denman: New Orleans French Quarter Circa 1970

December 3, 2011 – April 3, 2012

504 Fitness
2600 Gravier Street
New Orleans, LA 70117
504-373-6611
Hours: Mon-Fri 5:30am-9:30pm, Sat 7am-7pm, Sun 7am-3pm

This exhibition features black and white photographs of New Orleans’ French Quarter, taken by Philip M. Denman from the years 1969 to 1973. Images include roof top scenes of Mississippi River with one bridge, snow in the winter of 1973, Brocato’s, Decatur Street, Chartres Street, Jewel’s Tavern, and others reminiscent of the French Quarter that was.

Summers on Lake Pontchartrain by George Long

George Long: American Landscapes

December 1-31, 2010

Clever Wine Bar
3700 Orleans Ave.
New Orleans, LA 70119
504-483-6360
Hours: Tue–Sat 5-midnight

A preview of the exhibition is available here.

Bernard Faucon

Bernard Faucon: The Most Beautiful Day of My Youth

November 14, 2010 – March 13, 2011

New Orleans Museum of Art
1 Collins Diboll Circle, City Park
New Orleans, LA 70179
504-658-4100
Hours: Wed 12-8; Thur-Sun 10-5
Artist talk: Sunday, Nov 14, 12pm

From 1997 to 2005, the Provence-born artist Bernard Faucon produced an unprecedented new series of photographic works: The Most Beautiful Day of My Youth.
Whereas Faucon’s initial post-existential photographic vision was highly poetic, arcane, and always on an intimate scale, it became, in The Most Beautiful Day of My Youth, expansive, collaborative, cinematic, and ubiquitous. It is a primer for the future use of the medium.

Bernard Faucon will personally lead a walk-through of his exhibition on Sunday, November 14 at noon.

Lady Bartender by Diane Arbus

Residents and Visitors:
Twentieth-Century Photographs of Louisiana

October 2, 2010 – February 1, 2011

New Orleans Museum of Art
1 Collins Diboll Circle, City Park
New Orleans, LA 70179
504-658-4100
Hours: Wed 12-8; Thur-Sun 10-5
Curator’s Talk: Wednesday, Dec 1, 6-8pm

Residents and Visitors: Twentieth-Century Photographs of Louisiana is the eighth collaborative exhibition drawn from the collections of the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) and The Historic New Orleans Collection (THNOC), and the first to be based solely on institutional photographic holdings. Curators for this exhibition are E. John Bullard (NOMA), and John H. Lawrence and Jude Solomon (THNOC).

With over one hundred examples by eighty-two photographers on view, the exhibition offers not only glimpses of Louisiana and its people throughout the twentieth century—primarily in and around New Orleans—but also hints at the depth and breadth of each museum’s photography collection. The premise for the exhibition, photographs made by those who live or lived in Louisiana for their professional lives and those made by men and women just passing through, might seem to portend pictures splitting along certain lines. One might wonder how those who spend relative moments of time in a place hope to make pictures as thoughtful as those photographers steeped for decades in the culture, the architecture, the humidity of Louisiana. A short answer might be that the visitors’ pictures are meaningful and thoughtful in ways that suit photographers rather than an art-viewing public, or the specifics of geography. The inability to offer a neatly packaged answer is part of the question’s mystery and attraction, and central to this exhibition.

The exhibition includes works by Edward Weston, Diane Arbus, Clarence John Laughlin, Michael P. Smith, A. J. Meek, Ralston Crawford, Wallace Merritt, Richard Misrach, Michael A. Smith, William Greiner, Allen Hess, Charles Franck and Ernest J. Bellocq, among others.

Join John Lawrence, Director of Museum Programs at the Historic New Orleans Collection (HNOC), for a guided tour of Residents and Visitors: 20th-Century Photographs of Louisiana, on Wednesday Dec 1, beginning at 6pm. This event is free and open to the public.

Exhibition dates:

Nov 24 – Dec 31, 2009

Location:

The Bean Gallery
637 N. Carrollton Ave
New Orleans, LA 70119
504-324-8161

Location:

New Orleans Museum of Art
1 Collins Diboll Circle
New Orleans, LA 70179
Wed 12-8, Thur-Sun 10-5
504-658-4100

Exhibition Dates:

June1 – Dec 13, 2009

Large-scale contemporary photography, including works from the permanent collection

Popp’s Fountain in City Park
Marconi Drive and Zachary Taylor Drive
New Orleans, LA 70119
10-5 Daily
504-482-4888

Exhibition Dates:

Ongoing through 2010

Fragile Land Rotunda is a large-scale outdoor installation commissioned by the Arts Council of New Orleans on behalf of the Joan Mitchell Foundation, which is to remain on loan to the City of New Orleans until 2010. The site I chose, “Popp’s Fountain”, is a Works Progress site in New Orleans’ City Park that had largely been forgotten by the city’s residents and lay in total disrepair. Thirty large-scale translucent photographic scrims are woven into the existing colonnade and move with the breeze re-animating the site.