Alexis Esquivel is a Cuban visual and performance artist whose work often explores themes of history, race, and identity, particularly in a Cuban cultural context. Esquivel presents the sharp perceptions of the black population's social reality in his paintings through his nonconformist readings of history. His work details historical figures past and present that are […]
Gallery walkthrough of Kate Clark exhibition with Professor Henry L. Bart Jr., Ph.D. Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Director, Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute, and Monica Ramirez-Montagut, museum director
This panel discussion is in conjunction with False Flags at Pelican Bomb’s Gallery X, a group exhibition curated by Noah Simblist that investigates contemporary notions of nationalism and the representation of imagined communities in the Middle East and the Americas. Moderated by Simblist, panelists will include Ruti Sela and Maayan Amir from the Tel Aviv-based […]
Elena Dorfman will discuss her project "Syria's Lost Generation" that will be on view at the museum on May 9th. For several months over the last two years, Elena covered the Syrian refugee crisis for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Of the millions of Syrians displaced by the ongoing civil war, Dorfman was drawn most strongly to the teenagers. “They seemed particularly shell-shocked and bereft,” she said. “They spoke to me of powerful longing and frustration.”
One of the leading political and performance artists of her generation, Tania Bruguera will speak about her projects: intensive interventions on the institutional structure of collective memory, education, and politics. Her work The Francis Effect is currently on view in New Orleans as part of False Flags, a group exhibition curated by Noah Simblist, at […]
Join us in celebrating the opening of First Folio! The Book That Gave Us Shakespeare with a jazz funeral for the Bard. Led by Dr. Michael White, this special parade will honor and remember the greatest playwright and poet the world has known. Celebrating life at the moment of death, the traditional New Orleans jazz […]
Join us in celebrating the opening of three exhibitions: - First Folio! The Book That Gave Us Shakespeare - Diana Al-Hadid - Elena Dorfman: Syria's Lost Generation Prior to the public reception, a jazz funeral for Shakespeare will be led by Dr. Michael White around the Newcomb Quad. Free and open to the public.
Diana Al-Hadid will discuss her upcoming NAM exhibition, which runs from May 9 – July 24, 2016. The works appear to be trapped in an eternal moment of precariousness and decay. Inspired by historical forms from art and architecture, Al-Hadid’s highly material sculptures and paintings are charged with drips, textures, patterns, and ornaments that recall […]
A reading of Shakespeare’s love poetry, on the site of the First Folio exhibition, will be hosted by Peter Cooley (Tulane Professor of English and Poet Laureate of the State of Louisiana).
Lecture given by Hillary Eklund, Associate Professor of English, Loyola University as part of the First Folio! event. The First Folio! exhibition at the Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane — part of the international events planned for 2016 in observance of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death — will feature a First Folio of Shakespeare open to the famous […]
