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| New Orleans' arts community showing significant signs of life |
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Art Business News, Dec, 2005 by Beth Bingham
NEW ORLEANS -- Traditionally, the first Saturday night of October is when gallery owners here launch the fall arts season with the fashionable annual event, Art for Art's Sake. It's a night when thousands of locals and tourists invade the Crescent City's numerous arts districts--from the French Quarter to Magazine Street--to check out the latest offerings from the city's painters, sculptors and photographers. This October, however, the gallery doors remained closed, and for a battered city just beginning to surface from the ruins of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the yearly event was almost forgotten.
"I don't know if it was tenacity, stupidity or what ... but we opened that day" laughs Andy Antippas, owner of Barrister's Gallery. Located in New Orleans' Central City neighborhood, Barrister's was the only gallery to host an opening for Art for Art's Sake this year. Ironically, the group show planned for the event was called Spirit of Place, an intended collaboration of local artists expressing their connection to the city of New Orleans. In that last week of September, a new show had to be curated due to the evacuation of so many of these artists. "It is unfortunate that, at this time, it is the place that overtook the artists, and not the other way around," says Antippas.
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