Topic: New Orleans
Feminists in the Visual Arts
Lynda Benglis created The Wave of the World when she won a contest sponsored by the 1984 World’s Fair in New Orleans. Owned by the city of Kenner, Louisiana, The Wave of the World sat in disrepair for years after Katrina until the Helis Foundation funded its restoration. The sculpture/fountain is now on display in a City Park lagoon by the New Orleans Museum of Art.
Bryan Batt: Actor & Author
Actor Bryan Batt (A&S ’87) knows that a career in show business can have as many twists and turns as a carnival ride.
Gridiron Glory in the Movies
As the regular college football season transitions into bowl season, and then into “Wait till next year!” mode, all the football fan can do is hope his/her team is going to a bowl game — or in desperation satisfy a craving by watching a favorite football movie or game replays.
Monique Cola: Scientist & Principal
Monique Cola (G ’04) trained as a neuroscientist, then pivoted to an academic career — for the love of research. Now, as principal of Sci High, she encourages high schoolers to be STEM-literate and to consider STEM careers.
Accidental City
Harvard University Press offers an audio interview with emeritus professor of history Larry Powell discussing his book, The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans. Powell’s book focuses on the founding of the city of New Orleans.https://tulane.it/powell-interview
Dining with Healthy Gusto
With Mardi Gras in the rearview mirror and Lent— generally appreciated even by non-Catholics — upon us in this very Catholic city, into my head popped a quirky question: What do people who eat for a living do during Lent?
Making the Invisible Visible
A song with simple yet powerful lyrics plays over the speakers in the galleries of the Newcomb Art Museum: You can’t keep a ray of light from creeping in your room / you can’t fix a lie from shining down the truth / I’m not invisible anymore. Musician Lynn Drury’s words sum up the essence of Newcomb Art Museum’s new exhibition in that one prevailing line — I’m not invisible anymore.
Skate Park Project
The national Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture named the School of Architecture’s Albert and Tina Small Center for Collaborative Design one of only four recipients of its Collaborative Practice Award for 2018–19.
The award highlights the Small Center’s 13 years of design-build projects and engagement programs, in particular the Parasite Skatepark project, a New Orleans park that officially opened in 2015 following years of efforts by local skaters to establish a recreation space.
http://tulane.it/skatepark-project
