Jefferson Davis’ historic home in Biloxi was “virtually demolished” by Hurricane Katrina, the New Orleans Art Museum lost one sculpture (a modernist work by Kenneth Snelson was “reduced to a twisted mess in the lagoon”), and an in-progress Frank Gehry-designed wing of Biloxi’s Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art was smashed by a runaway casino barge. The AAM runs down the status report on cultural institutions in the path of Katrina. Not on the list is New Orleans’ cultural treasure, Fats Domino: he’s safe.
(I wonder what happened to the home of NOLA outsider artists and post-flapper-era “international dancers” Nita & Zita.)
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More on Katrina and the arts at ArtsJournal and MAN.
hello nita and zita house on dauphine street in nola made it through katrina pretty well! it is my fashion design studio at this moment xo mo
Comment by morris raven — 11/28/2005 @ 8:22 pm