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The Historic New Orleans Collection currently is showing The Eighteenth Star: Treasures from 200 Years of Louisiana Statehood. The show contains stories that have defined Louisiana since its entry into the Union on April 30, 1812, as the eighteenth state.
The show will stay up until January 29th.
above: Drinking water donated after Hurricane Katrina by Anheuser-Busch, Inc., 2005.
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The website, These Americans explores the vast records of American photographic archives. The archive content includes the Library of Congress, FSA and Documerica Archives along with many other City, State and Local archives.
Images from New Orleans section: Louisiana Collection: Cornelius Durkee Collection (1901)
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Bibliographic: 100 Classic Graphic Design Books is a unique, absorbing compilation of the best design books of the last 100 years. Covering a huge range of material – from historic titles by pioneering type foundries to the best of recent monographs from today’s leading studios – it provides a striking insight into the evolution of graphic design in the twentieth century.
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EMERGE: St. Claude Arts District and Beyond: 41 New Orleans Artists from “The Saratoga Collection” at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art.
This exhibition celebrates 41 emerging and mid-career artists who live and work in New Orleans. It documents and further validates the burgeoning contemporary art scene developing in the New Orleans St. Claude and Bywater arts districts, but more importantly, artists who have made a decision to live and work in New Orleans. The artists in this collection are relevant, coherent and offer a peek into the world of the new New Orleans contemporary art movement.The exhibition is curated by Terrance Sanders for architect/developer Marcel Wisznia. This exhibition is on view until Dec. 15, 2010.
The Saratoga Collection: Libbie Allen, Katrina Andry, James T Bonds, Blaine Capone, Anthony Carriere, Stephen Collier, Bruce Davenport Jr., Michael Dingler, Hannah Downey, Keith Duncan, Brad Dupuy, Robin Durand, Aubrey Edwards, Hayley Gaberlavage, Generic Art Solutions, Grissel Giuliano, Dave Greber, Nick Hasslock, Olivia Hill, Chris Jahncke, Kevin H. Jones, Bruce Keyes, Stephen Kwok, Miranda Lake, Barbie L’Hoste, Srdjan Loncar, Colin Meneghini, Layla Messkoub, Tony Nozero, Alex Podesta, Rajko Radovanovic, Rebecca Rebouche, Aaron Reichert, Terrence Sanders, Jim Sohr, Jameson Stokes, Dan Tague, Robert Tannen, Jonathan Traviesa, Miriam Waterman, and Paige Valente.
