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An Evening in 3rd Rate Heaven
Oct. 2nd, 2004 10:16 pmArt For Art Sake, major art gallery openings night in New Orleans, is a delight.
This is the first time in a few years that I've been free to waunder (up & down Magazine street this year, never got as far as Julia); the last few years I'd been playing at a gallery.
In a properly designed Heaven, no doubt the most select of the Saints would earn a level or two where the quality of art, free wine, food, and music, was higher. But the openings on Magazine Street were damn fine.
Highlights included the Accademy (as expected), "Blue Frog Chocolates" with gourmet chocolate samples and a Barbershop Quartette, and the Jean Bragg Gallery with local stuff from c. 1900- 1930, including a delightful sample of drawings from Newcomb College Students of local artist Woodward in the 1910s and 1920s.
This is the first time in a few years that I've been free to waunder (up & down Magazine street this year, never got as far as Julia); the last few years I'd been playing at a gallery.
In a properly designed Heaven, no doubt the most select of the Saints would earn a level or two where the quality of art, free wine, food, and music, was higher. But the openings on Magazine Street were damn fine.
Highlights included the Accademy (as expected), "Blue Frog Chocolates" with gourmet chocolate samples and a Barbershop Quartette, and the Jean Bragg Gallery with local stuff from c. 1900- 1930, including a delightful sample of drawings from Newcomb College Students of local artist Woodward in the 1910s and 1920s.
