New Orleans, Through Artists’ Eyes

The Times has a wonderful Op-Art feature (scroll down to “Op-Art: A Flood of Images”) commemorating the anniversary of Katrina. The Times asked artists who either lived in New Orleans or spent considerable time there to draw and write about places of particular importance to them in the city.

3 thoughts on New Orleans, Through Artists’ Eyes

Link doesn’t work. 🙁

Should be fixed, though you have to scroll down.

here’s the link: http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2006/08/28/opinion/20060829_FLOOD_SLIDESHOW_1.html

i just did a big ass search for it. it’s beautiful. when i went down there there was definitely art being done – a person was going around taking photographs of the waterlines around the city, and putting the photos up as a mural to form a long waterline around a church wall. It was an awful and awe-inspiring sight.

but then you had whack stuff like this certain nonprofit exec who went around pencil drawing portraits of lower-ninth ward residents, all of them definitively miserable looking, and looking the same, as if he saw them as a mass of pathetic people to be saved – ugh.

the art coming out of new orleans could be really good, but also really exploitative and bad. yup.

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