Sparking the imagination

Excuse the pun, please. But, the Louisiana Children's Museum on Julia Street in New Orleans is really a place to spark the imagination of kids of all ages. Our kids, grandkids, nieces, nephews, great nieces and nephews and any other kids we could borrow, have all, over the years, spent hours there letting their imaginations roam. So this electrostatic ball near the entrance is an excellent metaphor to greet you.
--steve buser

Childrens Museum, Arts District, New Orleans, Louisiana

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Anachrony reigns on Julia Street

Mondo Anachrony -- I missed the importance of the spelling the first time I saw it. Ana + Chrony like anarchy (which is about governments) this is ana chrony -- about time and specifically the art and meanings of images in history.

New Orleans Artist Robin Durand has this exhibit at the GSL Art Projects gallery on Julia Street in the Arts District of New Orleans. "I see myself if a great conversation with history," he told the Art Voices. This painting explores the importance of corn as a communal images through in our art and history. You need to get by and see the exhibit this week.

Hope you enjoyed our detour to Julia Street this weekend. Tomorrow we get back to shopping on Magazine Street.

Scintillating essence steal the show

Just one more look at the Keysook Geum exhibit on display at the Gallery Bienvenu, 518 Julia Street, in New Orleans. The paper covered iron wire figures make you feel a bit strange when no figure appears inside them. They seem to dance in space and the interplay of shadows feels the room.

This isn't a show that you just look at. This is a show that you "feel" and that redefines the space around you. You definitely would not be surprise to hear she has experience as a designer and a PhD in textile design.

I had a lot of fun photographing them. Wish I had enough space on the blog to show more.

I've got one more gallery to show you tomorrow and then we'll get back to Magazine Street. ...
come on back, we've got a pot of coffee brewing.

--steve buser

The lightness of non-being

I know I promised we would get right back to the shopping trip down Magazine Street, but while you were gone, I went down Julia Street. It was amazing -- I haven't been in the Arts District for a while so I wandered into a couple of galleries. I caught this piece by Keysook Geum at the Gallery Bienvenu. "Geum sculpts robes, waistcoats, dresses, and other symboloic garments, creating them out of paper covered iron wire," the show brochure notes. "That web of iron wire relates to the World Wide Web that has increasingly brought Western and Eastern cultures together for Seoul Korea-based Geum."

The show brochure goes on"suspended in by nearly invisible wires, the scultpures seem to defy gravity, floating like thistledown, despite the process-driven arduousness of their execution. ...They imply a human presence but are ghostly and cipher like. "

I know that photographing these works was a real pleasure and challenge. Every angle told a new visual story. Move up and inch and that etheral nothing disappeared. Move a foot this way and the shadow became more real that the art piece. Or was the shadow the art?

--steve buser

The white of night

White Linen Night brought out the crowds to Julia Street in the Arts District of New Orleans this weekend, and the weather cooperated -- it was a night for anything that wasn't light and built for heat. Even after the event was over the heat index at 10 p.m was 100 degrees.

The event features bands and open house about about 17 local galleries, although galleries on side streets opened to catch some of the crowd.

This event captures the essence of Southern culture.


--steve buser