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Arts on the Gulfnew
Silvery, coppery structures twist among old live oak trees near the shore of the Mississippi Sound, close to where the Biloxi SchoonÂer docks. This is the site of the Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art, a complex of buildings that includes four metallic pods that torque like ancient, hurricane-battered trees.
Jackson Free Press |
Valerie Wells |
05-24-2012 |
Art
Prospect.1 Turns New Orleans into The Big Easelnew
Not the least of the unprecedented ideas behind Prospect.1, the international art biennial opening this week all across New Orleans, is that the United States' first such major exhibition is happening in a city brought to the edge of ruin just three years earlier.
One Artist's Leap Of Faith on the Post-Katrina Gulf Coastnew
Mississippi artist H.C. Porter documented two years of life on the post-Hurricane Katrina Gulf Coast, culminating in more than 50 mixed-media paintings rendering real Mississippians and their struggles.
Jackson Free Press |
Terri Cowart |
05-07-2008 |
Art
