Add to it the cultural-preserving ethos of much of New Orleans, and Carey Font may be the result of a truly one-of-a-kind combo of location, art, era, and method.

Saturday from 2 to 4 is the perfect time to visit "Self-Taught, Outsider and Visionary Art from the Collection of Alexa Kleinbard and Jim Roche," the 283-piece folk art feast ...

Two hours into the party, Alfred "Big Al" Taplet finally started to dance. He knew the band, a New Orleans jazz trio, from the French Quarter in the years before Hurricane Katrina when the Hot ...

New Orleans artists love Cornell. ... Someone told me that there was a New Orleans folk artist out there somewhere, who made odd little crawfish scenes inside bottles.

Andrew LaMar Hopkins celebrates the rich contributions of 19th-Century New Orleans in his folk art style (and drag). By Elizabeth Pochoda NEW ORLEANS — Dressed as his alter ego, the modish ...

NEW ORLEANS — He’s the Frenchman who came to our city with a dream of being a chef, but destiny had another idea.According to the artist Simon Hardeveld, “I’m the chef who never cooks, you ...

Dapper Bruce Lafitte’s folk art honors a New Orleans tradition. His Atlanta Contemporary show features 30 18-by-24-inch drawings, which fit together to present one massive marching band. By.

Some are home to eccentric New Orleans folk artists like Dr. Bob. It amazes us how so many people go to New Orleans and never leave the French Quarter.

A new festival is coming to New Orleans this weekend.The Black Americana Fest will take over the Broadside on Saturday, Sept. 28, from 2-8 p.m.The first-of-its-kind festival aims to promote black ...

The New Orleans Museum of Art has sparked outrage over its decision to hire a white woman as its new curator of African art -- citing her “breadth of experience” in the field -- rather than a ...