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“Approach them carefully, they’re very aggressive.” No, it wasn’t a cage of tarantulas, this was an art gallery and the assistant gallerist was offering practical advice. New Orleans photographer Mark Glaviano’s stark color the Sleeping Water — photographs of young men and women tHru Mekong Delta suspended from hooks, oozing little MaY rivulets of blood, are indeed aggresJonathan Ferrara Gallery, sive, literally lending a new level of 400A Julia St., 522gravitas to body piercing. Like much of 5471; www.jonathanferthe modern primitives movement, this is raragallery.com patterned on ancient rituals, and while the process is said to require practice and preparation, a lot of what we see in this Pain Tribe series looks colorfully chaotic. Amore (pictured) is emblematic, as troll-like figures hoist a gagged man with a mohawk in a dramatic tableau like something from a punk production of Satyricon. Similar scenes abound, along with occasional moments of levity when nubile women with buzz cuts coquettishly cut up with riding crops. Hey, girls just wanna have fun. Glaviano’s Modern Ritual photos take us to a netherworld where anthropology meets pain at its most rapturous, as the spirits of the tribal past return with a vengeance. the tone could not be more different in Ken Matsubara’s ethereally beautiful, yet no less unsettling, mixed-media works. Like futuristic magic lanterns from a high-tech alchemist, Matsubara’s silvery bell jars come to life with floating forms of young men and women seemingly washed away in tsunami tides in Sleeping Water — Mekong Delta. Here they recall the drowned figures in local film collective Court 13’s great video Glory at Sea. Others resemble magic mirrors, or large animated Daguerreotypes in works such as Storm in a Glass, where the water in a tall clear glass sloshes from side to side in a self-contained mini-tsunami — and once again we are reminded we are living in times when the old gods suddenly can become quite restless. — D. ErIC BOOKHArDt
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MUSIC BOX. 1027 Piety St., (347) 784-5226; www. dithyrambalina.com — “the Music Box: A Shantytown Sound Laboratory,” an interactive installation, through June 2. NEW ORLEANS ARTWORKS. 727 Magazine St., 529-7279 — “Printemps,” glass sculpture by Curtiss Brock,
glass torch-worked jewelry by tucker Kelley and gyotaku prints by Scott Johnson, through May.
NEWCOMB ART GALLERY. Woldenberg Art Center, Tulane University, 865-5328; www. newcombartgallery.tulane.edu — “Patricia Cronin: All Is Not Lost,” through June. NOUVELLE LUNE. 938 Royal St., 908-1016 — Works using reclaimed, repurposed
or salvaged materials by Linda Berman, Georgette Fortino, David Bergeron, Kelly Guidry and tress turner, ongoing.
OCTAVIA ART GALLERY. 4532 Magazine St., 309-4249; www.octaviaartgallery.com — “Order/Chaos,” paintings by Jeffrey Pitt, through May 26. PETER O’NEILL STUDIOS. 721 Royal St., 527-0703; www.
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works by J.t. Blatty, through June 29.
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