Letterproeftuin is a Rotterdam-based collective of designers that explore graphic techniques in site-specific self made laboratories created to challenge others and exchange expertise.
One of their recent projects entitled, Public Works, is a road workers spectacle in which residents of Hasselt are invited to view a large scale, exaggerated relief printing press, involving a steam roller.
Scenes from the South is a show at NY’s Howard Greenberg Gallery, featuring seventy-five years of photographs / thirty images taken by prominent photographers below the Mason-Dixon line from 1936 to 2012, and will be on view until June 1st.
above: Caroline Allison, TVA Kingston Fossil Plant, Kingston, TN, 2011 / Walker Evans, Houses and Billboards in Atlanta, Georgia, 1936.
Palefroi is an art-print collective initiated by Damien Tran and Marion Jdanoff with the support of Susann Poenisch. Based in Berlin, Germany, they focus mainly on silk screened art prints and music posters, as well as self-produced hand-crafted limited editions of books.
Moderated by Miranda Lash, (Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, NOMA), ArtSpeak is a series of discussions between artists and curators, taking place on May 21st at 7pm.
The CAC presents a panel discussion amongst experts in different areas of masking. NOMA Curator William Fagaly will discuss the significance of masking in various African cultures. LSM Curator Wayne Phillips will discuss the meaning of masking during New Orleans Mardi Gras, and Mardi Gras Indian Chief Victor Harris will discuss his own process of masking as Chief of the Mandingo Warriors and the Spirit of Fi Yi Yi.
above: Yinka Shonebare, Un Ballo in Maschera (A Masked Ball) (video still), 32 min. 2004.

Southerly Gold presents a meet and great with NYC-based photographer Melissa Cacciola who specializes in tintype and nineteenth-century photographic processes. Her series War and Peace has been receiving National accolades and awards; we want to welcome her to New Orleans right. Please join us at Aubrey Edwards’ home Thursday, May 23rd at 7pm. Refreshments will be provided. 1304 Marigny St.
For the kickoff of the International Journalism Festival and designed in collaboration with interactive designer Jonathan Chomko, the COLORS News Machine turns social media tweets into headlines, but only after they’ve been passed through many media filters and technological platforms that disseminate and distort the news today.