New Orleans sometimes is described as a city of relics, a place where the past is never past because so much of it lives on in structures and objects, large and small. Old buildings can subtly resonate a sense of their former inhabitants. Lost or orphaned objects have more intimate second li… Read moreReview: 'Reliquaries' at Soren Christensen Gallery features art made from lost objects

After moving to New York as a teenager in 1960, Azaceta was inspired by the city's Kafka-esque anarchy to become a leading figure in 1980s neo-expressionism.  Read moreReview: Luis Cruz Azaceta's ‘Between the Lines’ and Brian Guidry's ‘Parallel Earth’ at Arthur Roger Gallery

In his “Enigmatic Stream: Industrial Landscapes of the Lower Mississippi River” exhibit of nearly 100 black-and-white photographs, Richard Sexton has tackled perhaps his most challenging project to date. The vast petrochemical corridor that extends from Baton Rouge past New Orleans is one of… Read moreRichard Sexton explores the petrochemical corridor in his ‘Enigmatic Stream' photo exhibit

This show, like many at St. Claude Avenue galleries, seems experimental and offhand, with a grab bag quality about it. Read moreReview" 'Now that I am a woman, everything is strange' at Good Children Gallery

Unlike massive wildfires or cataclysmic oil spills, some environmental disasters are silent killers. Flint, Michigan's poisoned tap water crisis falls into the latter category, as does the ongoing toxic soil disaster at New Orleans’ Gordon Plaza. Two exhibitions at the Newcomb Art Museum exp… Read moreReview: Two Tulane exhibits explore the personal impacts of environmental disasters

Psychologists long have suggested that dreams are a way our subconscious minds reorder everyday events into more symbolic narratives. Some artists and poets use dream imagery to suggest heightened awareness. Even so, it may seem surprising that so many dreamy images appear in Jonathan Ferrar… Read moreReview: 'No Dead Artists' exhibit by emerging artists offers dreamy visions ripe with social comment

Historic black figures ranging from Marie Laveau to Malcolm X have been depicted frequently in art, but in this "Ain't I America" expo of mixed-media work at Stella Jones Gallery, Epaul Julien and Matthew Rosenbeck find new ways to see them. Read moreReview: 'Ain't I America' explores being black in America at mixed-media show

To approach Key-Sook Geum's extravagantly ethereal dress sculptures involves confronting mysteries within familiar forms. Read moreReview: Key-Soon Geum's sculptures are a magical mystery tour of humans' relationship with clothes

Arthur Roger Gallery has assembled an unusual exhibition. Three of its artists — Leonard Galmon, Amer Kobaslija and Demond Melancon — are portraitists, and artist and ex-football player Brandon Surtain paints urban scenes that function as portraits of the city. All have local roots except Ko… Read moreUnusual exhibition by three portraitists and ex-LSU footballer Brandon Surtain united by flair for local color

Jessica Strahan won the top award, the Helis Foundation Art Prize, for her painting, “Survived” (pictured), which depicts a black woman who may have seen too much too quickly and reads like an icon of our times. Read moreReview: Divergent visions of contemporary Louisiana art united into coherent expo at the Ogden

Regina Scully's flair for fusing arcane metaphysics and modern abstraction in ethereal paintings appears in her “The House I Live In” expo at Octavia Art Gallery. Read moreReview: Artist Regina Scully explores cosmos, human form, and everything in-between in 'The House I Live In'

The histories of jazz and graphic art aren’t similar, but the two come together in the work of Tony Dagradi. Best known as the founder of the group Astral Project, Dagradi's smooth saxophone playing weaves in and out of the sounds of his fellow instrumentalists in what may be the closest thi… Read moreHistories of jazz and graphic art blend into 'Diffusion' expo of 44 book sculptures

The expo incorporates an array of events including performances, film screenings and talks.  Read moreHow is identity formed? It's not just DNA -- at NOMA's 'Bodies of Knowledge,' it's also language and culture

Billed as the first “multi-mural exhibition of large-scale artwork” in the CBD, "Unframed" suggests a new status for street art in New Orleans. Read moreWith 'Unframed' street mural series, CBD gets its first multi-mural expo of large-scale artwork

NOMA acquires French painting with a local connection Read moreLeopold Burthe's painting infused with Ingres' influence 'Angelique' purchased by NOMA

"Art of the City: Postmodern to Post-Katrina" is the Historic New Orleans Collection's (HNOC) first major exhibition of contemporary art. It’s also the inaugural show at HNOC’s newly renovated Seignouret-Brulatour building at 520 Royal St. Read moreTake a trip through New Orleans urban mileu from '70s through Katrina in ‘Art of the City’ expo

Photographer Josephine Sacabo has maintained a relationship with the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts’ (NOCCA) writing program. Although words and images usually are considered totally different forms of expression, the truth is more nuanced. Read moreWhat's ekphrastic writing? At NOCCA expo, students pair vivid, poetic text with Sacabo's photos

After a long absence from the New Orleans gallery scene, Louis St. Lewis, the acclaimed pop art provocateur of Raleigh, North Carolina, and former "court painter” to the late King Kigeli V of Rwanda, has returned to the city he cites as an inspiration. Read morePop art provocateur Louis St. Lewis returns to New Orleans with colorful mixed media expo

One day while I was strolling through the French Quarter, an inebriated panhandler requested a handout with an unusual greeting: “Welcome to New Orleans, land of the living dark.” That stuck with me and came to mind while viewing Kaori Maeyama's latest paintings at Staple Goods. Read morePainter Kaori Maeyama reveals the visual secrets of New Orleans after dark, Akihiko Sugiura explores fluid energy fields

You can learn a lot about people by running errands with them. Read moreMary McCartney's photos, displayed in New Orleans, show character, vision of parents Paul and Linda McCartney

Now that her children have grown up and moved out of her house, doctor-turned-artist Ruth Owens has been feeling reflective. Read moreArtist Ruth Owens reflects on racial, cultural meanings of phrase 'good family' in her paintings

In his novel “The Moviegoer,” Walker Percy wrote that if a person “sees a movie which shows his very neighborhood, it becomes possible for him to live ... as a person who is Somewhere and not Anywhere.” Read more'You are Here' photo expo at NOMA explores how place mediates experiences of world, people

Dusti Bonge holds the unlikely distinction of being Mississippi's first prominent modern artist. Read moreReview: Mississippi's first modern artist, Dusti Bonge, at Ogden Museum of Southern Art