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The Arts in New Orleans - Part II
By DesertMama | March 6, 2008
A few days ago I wrote The Arts in New Orleans - Part I, and as you can tell by the title I’m not done yet. My second day in New Orleans was spent wandering the elegant New Orleans Museum of Art. Visitors can easily spend hours appreciating all NOMA has to offer, including the five-acre outdoor Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden with 57 sculptures sitting among beautiful Louisiana landscape. While indoors Fabergé is one of the most popular exhibits (who doesn’t love Fabergé Easter Eggs?) 
one of my favorite exhibits just opened this January by a local New Orleans photographer. Living Color: Photographs by Judy Cooper holds around fifty photographs which were taken over twenty years. The photos are divided into four sections: Women in Red, Local Color, Twins, and New Orleans Sunday. The vividness and character of these photographs are etched in my mind. They are truly extraordinary.
Another exciting exhibit featuring local artist George Rodrigue’s Louisiana: Cajuns, Blue Dogs, and Beyond Katrina just opened at NOMA on March 1st for a three month stint. You might know George Rodrigue from his Blue Dog series. If fact, the very first of 
the Blue Dog paintings, Watchdog, will be featured during the exhibit. Rodrigue has four studios, one located on Royal Street in the New Orleans French Quarter and you will se his work on the walls of Harrah’s Besh Steakhouse. The other three studios are in Lafayette, Aspen, and Carmel. The NOMA Rodrigue exhibition admission for non-residents is $10.00, Louisiana adults are $5.00, with $1 off for all seniors and 18 and under are admitted free courtesy of The Helis Foundation - so bring the whole family!
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[...] by DesertMama on March 19, 2008 In my previous Arts in New Orleans I and II posts I wrote about the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and the New Orleans Museum of Art. Today’s post [...]