A new book takes readers into the eccentrically elegant home of a New Orleans antiques dealer and interior decorator.
Spirit Feel: A New Orleans Collection (From our Archives)
This is a house frequently visited by curators- more than thirty international institutions have borrowed objects from the Davis collection-but newcomers are excused if they double check the address upon arrival
Ralston Crawford’s visions of man and machine at the Nelson-Atkins
A pioneer of precisionist painting and geometric abstraction as well as a celebrated photographer, Ralston Crawford (1906–1978) was equally fascinated by mankind and the man-made. Both subjects—and a link between Crawford’s artistic practices—are explored in the exhibition Structured Visions: The Photographs of Ralston Crawford at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
Personal space
Coup de foudre: Why I’m restoring an ancestor’s Louisiana home
Ceramics dynamic
The only thing more remarkable than John Bullard’s studio pottery collection is how quickly he became a connoisseur of the field.
Neglected viewpoints at the National Gallery of Art
A body of work that has received scant attention from collectors is on view this spring at the National Gallery of Art.
Local color, global appeal
Three New Orleans museums and two community cultural institutions draw visitors from afar by keeping the focus on indigenous artistry. Detail of the feathers and beadwork on one of the many ornate Mardi Gras Indian suits on display at the Backstreet Cultural Museum in the Tremé neighborhood of New Orleans. Photograph courtesy of Meghan Henshaw and the Backstreet Cultural Museum. Visit …
Right place, right time: The Grigson-Didier house in New Orleans
To understand the world of James Donald Didier you should pay attention to his silence
Living with antiques, Beauregard House, a New Orleans “raised cottageâ€
By FRANCES PARKINSON KEYES; from The Magazine ANTIQUES, August 1980. I had not the slightest idea when I started, rather desperately, to look for a small apartment in New Orleans where I could spend a few days every month for a year or two, that I would end up with a main house containing twelve rooms; slave quarters containing six …
New Orleans landscape painting of the nineteenth century
By W. JOSEPH FULTON; from The Magazine ANTIQUE, August 1980. As in the rest of the United States, landscape painting as such seems to have received much slower acceptance in New Orleans than portrait painting; it was not really established here until the late 1860’s. We must speak with caution, however, since European artist-chroniclers accompanied expeditions to Louisiana …
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