Mining Meaning: Jamilah Sabur at Nina Johnson
Jamilah Sabur's photographic, sculptural works explore how military, colonial, and industrial forces have linked Jamaica and Louisiana.
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Assemblage and Inheritance
For centuries, Black communities in New Orleans have cultivated a tradition of assemblage, transforming everyday materials into sacred objects and spaces.
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Cherice Harrison-Nelson on her Mardi Gras Indian Suits and Family Traditions
A fifth generation mask maker shares some behind-the-scenes details of her most meaningful designs.
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Plantation Landscapes and Murky Water: Dawoud Bey at Sean Kelly
In Bey's latest photographs, five former plantations in Louisiana seem haunted by a history of violence against enslaved people—and by memories of their resistance.
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One Work: Rosalie Smith’s “My Mother’s Last Garden”
Rooted in personal loss, Rosalie Smith's installation marks a devastating year—and points to the myth of American exceptionalism.
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Songs of Innocence and Experience: Rock Movies at Anthology Film Archives
Fifty years later, watching these movies can inspire a profound disappointment that all this artistic and political energy never found a way to convert itself into something more substantial.
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Touching the Art: Vanessa Centeno’s Sociable Sculpture
Vanessa Centeno conceived her latest show there as a reaction to the need for touch in today's political climate of sensationalism and fear.
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Prospect.4
Several works at Prospect explore the chronotope of the batture, the strip of land between river and levy that floods when the waters of the Mississippi Delta rise.
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Igniting the Archive
The Mexico-City-based conceptual artist Minerva Cuevas explores the ways in which seemingly banal items like fruit, chocolate, and water reflect the practices and ideology of global capitalism.
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Up Close 2016: New Orleans
In 2016 we launched the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation/Art in America Arts Writing Fellowships, a joint project designed to foster art and culture writing in cities throughout the US. Fellowship recip…
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