Exhibition
We reinstalled our permanent collection a little over a year ago. Since then, we’ve been listening to feedback from visitors about what artwork they want to see and the stories they think the art should tell.
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Read MoreTake a stroll through Exploring Photography as a few of our staff members explain their favorite pieces on display.
Read MoreThe Advocate's Robin Miller talks to curator Courtney Taylor about Contemporary Masters.
Read MoreWhy did we place photographs amongst Art in Louisiana: Views Into the Collection?
Read MoreThe Advocate's Robin Miller talks to curator Courtney Taylor about Julie Heffernan's work in "When the Water Rises."
Read MoreMany names in the exhibition hail from the state of Texas—where the museum that organized the exhibition is located—and a number of those artists are of Mexican-American descent or have ties with the Latino community. Issues particular to the Mexican-American community such as national identity, immigration, and social justice are present in a number of works in the exhibition.
Read More“Bayou Moderne,” the modern and contemporary section of Art in Louisiana, has recently been updated to shift some of your favorites while adding recent acquisitions and never before exhibited works.
Read MoreThe Daily Reveille's Ryan Thaxton talks to curator Courtney Taylor about "Contemporary Masters." (Photo by Jordan Marcell)
Read MoreThe Daily Reveille's Katie Gagliano talks to Executive Director Daniel E. Stetson about "Exploring Photography." (Photo by Chunfeng Lu)
Read MoreHeffernan uses a few visual motifs to signal themes of narratives in her tableaux that recur in several paintings.
Read MoreThe LSU Museum of Art has two works in its collection by Baton Rouge artist and teacher Emerson Bell that feature Prophet West, a local religious leader known for baptizing followers in the Mississippi River, passing in front of Baton Rouge downtown buildings that were sites of Civil Rights protests.
Read MoreWhile giving tours of Everlasting Calm: The Art of Elliott Daingerfield, I’ve asked groups how many of them have heard of tonalism. To this question there is silence; arms remain dangling at our visitors’ sides.
Read MoreIn honor of Women's History Month, several members of the LSU MOA staff provided some insight into their favorite pieces on display and/or in the permanent collection made by female artists.
Read More225 magazine's Kaci Yoder talks with LSU School of Art visiting artist Julie Heffernan in advance of her exhibition, "When the Water Rises."
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