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Profligate Beauty
Trinity–Elvis and Jesus and Robert E. Lee by Claude Broadway, 1994. Gift of the Roger H. Ogden Collection. Exhibition Showcases Southern Story Telling by Miriam Taylor Profligate Beauty: Selections...
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To the “Bead” of a Different Drum
From Nick Cave to the Creole Wild West, Shreveport Embraces the Art of Beading Highlights of Creole Wild West Mardi Gras Indian Artist Residency: Exhibition Opening Friday, January 27, 2017 Creole...
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Shopping Crossroads
Women’s Fashion display window at D.H. Holmes, 1916. Courtesy of The Historic New Orleans Collection, by Charles L. Franck Photographers New Orleans’s retail history on Display in new exhibition by...
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The Power of Soul
Courtesy of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Archive Remembering drummer Idris Muhammed’s versatile, funkified and oft-sampled body of work by David Kunian Photos by Mark J. Sindler You or I or your...
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Between the Studio and the Bulldozer
(From left to right) Untitled, Red M, and Coin du Lestin by George Dunber. Images courtesy of New Orleans Museum of Art. Far right photo by Will Crocker. George Dunbar retrospective explores work of...
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Arbitrary Process
The struggle for federal recognition of Louisiana’s Indian tribes by Adam Crepelle Chitimacha weavers Christine and Pauline Paul with a rivercane mat, Little Trout design, ca. 1930. Courtesy of...
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Backwater: Photographs of the South Louisiana Landscape
By Virginia Hanusik Website: www.virginiahanusik.com Email: ginnyhanusik@gmail.com Instagram: @ginnyhanusik Southeast Louisiana is experiencing coastal erosion faster than anywhere in the world, losing...
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A Master of Place
Into the Wild Blue by James Michalopoulos, 2014, oil on canvas, collection of Michelle Gallagher. First Major Retrospective of Michalopoulos Opens at Ogden by Miriam Taylor Waltzing the Muse: The...
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Hard Scrabble, Hallelujah, and Everything in Between
A History of Terrebonne Parish, Inch by Inch by Benjamin Morris Editor’s Note: Hard Scrabble to Hallelujah will be honored for 2017 LEH Book of the Year on April 13, 2017 at the 2017 LEH Bright...
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The Goddesses at 100
The Rainbow, a costume sketch for the captain of the Krewe of Isis, by Carter Church, 1994. Courtesy of the Louisiana State Museum, gift of Carter Church. New Exhibition Celebrates Women’s Carnival...
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From Archives to Honky Tonks
Mahalia Jackson with Duke Ellington at the first New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, 1970. Courtesy of the Historic New Orleans Collection, photo by Michael P. Smith. New Releases Showcase Diverse...
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Memories from the Frontlines
New Documentary Chronicles AIDS Activism in Shreveport Editor’s Note: Small Town Rage: Fighting Back in the Deep South will be honored for 2017 LEH Documentary Film of the Year on April 13, 2017 at...
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Sinister Scenesters
Father Christian, aka Father Gabriel, reads the Holy Missal. From: Love, Sex, Fear, Death: The Inside Story of The Process Church of The Final Judgment. Between the late fifties and the mid-sixties,...
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Taking Care of History
The multifaceted work of author and archivist Susan Tucker by Susan Larson Editor’s Note: Susan Tucker will be honored for 2017 LEH Lifetime Achievement Award on April 13, 2017 at the 2017 LEH Bright...
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William D. Adams has served as Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities since 2014 I made my first visit to New Orleans as Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities in June...
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Eric Waters
Photographs of Reverence and Remembrance Introduction by Stanley Taylor Editor’s Note: Eric Waters will be honored for 2017 LEH Michael P. Smith Photographer of the Year on April 13, 2017 at the 2017...
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A Consequential Classic
John Barry Revisits ‘Rising Tide’ 20 Years Later by Michael Patrick Welch While locked out of New Orleans after the city filled with water, you would spot, wherever you were stuck—on a Houston city...
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A Louisiana Forte
Mapping Elevation in Flat Places by Richard Campanella A LIDAR digital elevation model of a ten-mile-by-ten-mile area of New Orleans, captured in 2000, shows above-sea-level areas in red and lower...
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Suburban Saga
A new history of Kenner chronicles the development of a diverse community Book review by Ricardo Coleman While we have a wealth of books dedicated to the history of New Orleans and her neighbor...
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Westgate Necromantic
The story of the New Orleans transplant who came to town on vacation and never left is a familiar one. The visitor just loved Jazz Fest, or Mardi Gras, or the smell of jasmine in the spring and sweet...
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