Join Tulane professor Mohan Ambikaipaker as he leads an exploration of some of the racially charged materials and objects on view from the turn of the century. This tour will address how the exhibition provokes discussion and continued research surrounding topics of racial identity in New Orleans.
Join us for a free screening of “All On A Mardi Gras Day,” directed by Royce Osborn, a prominent filmmaker known for his work chronicling African American cultural celebrations in New Orleans.
Artist Monique Verdin will discuss her artistic practice as it relates to displacement, EMPIRE, and the 300th anniversary of New Orleans and its colonial founding. Monique Verdin is a member of south Louisiana’s United Houma Nation Tribal Council and a part of the Another Gulf Is Possible Collaborative core leadership circle of brown (indigenous, latinx […]
Dr. James Louie will chronicle the lives and art of three inspiring artists: Pierre-Auguste Renoir with rheumatoid arthritis, Paul Klee with scleroderma, and Ruth Asawa who was inflicted with lupus. The talk will explore how these artists took charge of their respective diseases and continued to express themselves visually despite their medical and physical challenges. Dr. Louie […]
This program has been generously supported by the Dorothy Beckemeyer Skau Art and Music Fund at the Newcomb College Institute. Nicole Awai is known for her multi-media works that “ooze” and make use of non-traditional mediums such as melted vinyl, nail polish, nylon mesh, found doll parts, and synthetic paper. In this lecture, she will […]
Postcards From Over the Edge is an expedition through New Orleans’ complex relationship with prostitution, traveling from the middle of Storyville’s Mahogany Hall to the contemporary court case on “Crime Against Nature." A new theatrical work the performance will explore the court case on “Crime Against Nature” handled by local New Orleans attorneys including Bill […]
Postcards From Over the Edge is an expedition through New Orleans’ complex relationship with prostitution, traveling from the middle of Storyville’s Mahogany Hall to the contemporary court case on “Crime Against Nature." A new theatrical work the performance will explore the court case on “Crime Against Nature” handled by local New Orleans attorneys including Bill […]
Postcards From Over the Edge is an expedition through New Orleans’ complex relationship with prostitution, traveling from the middle of Storyville’s Mahogany Hall to the contemporary court case on “Crime Against Nature." A new theatrical work the performance will explore the court case on “Crime Against Nature” handled by local New Orleans attorneys including Bill […]
Drop by the Newcomb Art Museum on Second Saturdays this fall for guided exhibition tours focusing on different themes present in the current tricentennial show, EMPIRE, led by different faculty and staff from Tulane. On October 13, join Chloe Raub, Head of Archives and Special Collections at Newcomb College Institute, as she leads a guided […]
Join Newcomb Art Museum for Diasporic Conversation, the book launch of "“Political Blackness in Multiracial Britain." It will be an evening of music, reading, and commentary to launch Tulane professor Mohan Ambikaipaker's newly released book from the University of Pennsylvania Press. The evening will feature New Orleans jazz artist and Healing Room creator Michaela Harrison, […]
