From nola.com
by Keith I. Marszalek
Royal Street artists and merchants have announced that this year's 8th Annual Dirty Linen Night will be held on Saturday, August 8, 2009.
Join the celebration on Royal Street from the 200 block of Royal to the 1000 block ending at Ursulines Street, from 6 - 9 p.m
For more, click here.
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Tulane School of Architecture's Preservation Studies students are learning the dying art of touching up New Orleans' tombs
From The Times-Picayune
by Molly Reid
The Taylor family residence on Washington Avenue was crumbling. Plaster was missing, a brick wall had collapsed and daily visitors only promised more damage.
The Taylors are in no position to make repairs: Their centuries-old bones lay in a tomb in Lafayette Cemetery No. 1, where tourists, weather and the tests of time have taken their toll on the family's final resting place.
So sprucing up the Taylors' tomb is in the hands of skilled preservationists and students of the art. To them, upkeep is a tribute both to the dead and to traditional building arts.
For more, click here.
by Molly Reid
The Taylor family residence on Washington Avenue was crumbling. Plaster was missing, a brick wall had collapsed and daily visitors only promised more damage.
The Taylors are in no position to make repairs: Their centuries-old bones lay in a tomb in Lafayette Cemetery No. 1, where tourists, weather and the tests of time have taken their toll on the family's final resting place.
So sprucing up the Taylors' tomb is in the hands of skilled preservationists and students of the art. To them, upkeep is a tribute both to the dead and to traditional building arts.
For more, click here.
Monday, July 27, 2009
New Orleans gets OK to enforce ban on selling art prints in Jackson Square
From The Times-Picayune
by Bruce Eggler, The Times-Picayune
A federal judge has cleared the way for New Orleans to enforce its law banning artists from selling prints on the sidewalks around Jackson Square.
U.S. District Judge Ivan Lemelle said the city is within its rights in permitting the display and sale only of works that "have been accomplished essentially by hand" and without the use of "any mechanical or duplicative process."
Although Lemelle had suggested three years ago that the city should adopt a "more narrowly tailored ordinance" than a total ban on prints, the City Council refused to go along with his idea.
by Bruce Eggler, The Times-Picayune
A federal judge has cleared the way for New Orleans to enforce its law banning artists from selling prints on the sidewalks around Jackson Square.
U.S. District Judge Ivan Lemelle said the city is within its rights in permitting the display and sale only of works that "have been accomplished essentially by hand" and without the use of "any mechanical or duplicative process."
Although Lemelle had suggested three years ago that the city should adopt a "more narrowly tailored ordinance" than a total ban on prints, the City Council refused to go along with his idea.
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Thibodaux artist hopes new gallery boosts other artists
From The Daily Comet. For more information, visit http://www.dailycomet.com/article/20090724/ARTICLES/907229890/1275?Title=Thibodaux-artist-hopes-new-gallery-boosts-other-artists
THIBODAUX — The detailed pen-and-ink drawings of local landmarks and wildlife drew interest for years but the artwork received a major boost in attention with its debut at an upscale home-furnishings store.
Brady Bullock of Chackbay, started displaying his drawings at Kenla Designs on Canal Boulevard about a year ago, hoping that customers might like images of plantations and alligators with their new sofas and drapes.
The 35-year-old Thibodaux native opened BB Gallery, named after his initials, in May, following several months of remodeling the roughly 600-square-feet space at 408 W. 4th St. in downtown Thibodaux.
Most of Bullock’s customers live in the Houma-Thibodaux area, but he also has created work for residents of Mississippi and Tennessee.
THIBODAUX — The detailed pen-and-ink drawings of local landmarks and wildlife drew interest for years but the artwork received a major boost in attention with its debut at an upscale home-furnishings store.
Brady Bullock of Chackbay, started displaying his drawings at Kenla Designs on Canal Boulevard about a year ago, hoping that customers might like images of plantations and alligators with their new sofas and drapes.
The 35-year-old Thibodaux native opened BB Gallery, named after his initials, in May, following several months of remodeling the roughly 600-square-feet space at 408 W. 4th St. in downtown Thibodaux.
Most of Bullock’s customers live in the Houma-Thibodaux area, but he also has created work for residents of Mississippi and Tennessee.
The gallery includes paintings, drawings and mixed-media pieces by 17 artists, most from Houma-Thibodaux. A lot of the work stems from newfound artist friends Bullock met through art shows.
“I wanted to keep it Louisiana,” Bullock said.
The gallery includes Bullock’s own work, mostly pen-and-ink drawings of bayou wildlife like alligators and local landmarks like Laura Plantation, St. Joseph Co-Cathedral, the Olde Icehouse and the Lafourche Parish Courthouse.
Bullock sometimes dabbles in painting and color pencil, so gallery visitors also can find two acrylic paintings created by Bullock within the last month or so as well as a pen-and-ink drawing filled in with color pencil.
Bullock said the gallery has received a warm welcome, with its May grand opening, attended by more than 80 people.
Customers bought two of Bullock’s paintings the day the gallery opened, and visitors have scooped up work by renowned Donaldsonville folk artist Alvin Batiste, he said.
Bullock plans to promote the arts by holding pen-and-ink classes for children and featuring a different artist every other month.
Batiste serves as the gallery’s first featured artist, which means his work sits in the gallery’s display window and another room to the side. A meet-and-greet with Batiste is scheduled for 4 p.m. July 25 at the gallery.
For information, call BB Gallery at 447-3640 or e-mail Bradybgallery@yahoo.com.
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