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Stella Jones Gallery. Place St. Charles, 201 St. Charles Ave., Suite 132, (504) 568-9050; www.stellajonesgallery.com — “Evolution of a Warrior: Elizabeth Catlett in New Orleans,” through July 30.
Rock ’n’ Roll,” music artifacts curated in partnership with the Ponderosa Stomp Foundation, through Sunday; “From ‘Dirty Shirts’ to Buccaneers,” art, artifacts and documents from the Battle of New Orleans, through Jan. 8, 2016.
Steve Martin Studios. 624 Julia St., (504) 566-1390; www. stevemartinfineart.com — “Artisan Juncture,” group show featuring Gustavo Duque, Travis Linde, Amy Boudreaux, Jose Luis Rodriguez, Jedd Haas, Steven Soltis and others, ongoing. Studio Inferno. 6601 St. Claude Ave., (504) 945-1878; www.facebook.com/infernonola — “East Meets West,” glass sculpture by Hiroshi Yamano, through June. Ten Gallery. 4432 Magazine St., (504) 333-1414; www.tengallerynola.com — “HairBall,” drawings by Harriet Burbeck, through Sunday. Three Rivers Gallery. 333 E. Boston St., Covington, (985) 892-2811; www.threeriversgallery.com — “The Art of the Bayou,” paintings by Carol Hallock, through Saturday.
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United Bakery. 1325 St. Bernard Ave., (504) 495-6863 — Group exhibition featuring Ben Aleshire, Will Brown, Liam Conway, Sarah Davis, Liz Grandsaert and others, through June 12.
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UNO-St. Claude Gallery. 2429 St. Claude Ave., (504) 280-6493; www.pelicanbomb. com/programs/roving-exhibitions — “(De)tangled: A Living Salon,” interactive exhibition about hair presented by Pelican Bomb, through June 7. Vieux Carre Gallery. 507 St. Ann St., (504) 522-2900; www. vieuxcarregallery.com — Work by Sarah Stiehl, ongoing. Whisnant Galleries. 343 Royal St., (504) 524-9766; www. whisnantgalleries.com — Ethnic, religious and antique art, sculpture, textiles and porcelain, ongoing.
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Ashe Cultural Arts Center. 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., (504) 569-9070; www. ashecac.org — “Side By Side Wetlands Art Tour Exhibition,” art and installation about environmental justice curated by Myesha Francis Agwe, through June 11. Contemporary Arts Center. 900 Camp St., (504) 528-3800; www.cacno.org — “En Mas: Carnival and Performance Art of the Caribbean,” traveling exhibition of art influenced by Carnival traditions; “Pulp Fictions,” group exhibition of work using handmade paper featuring Dan Tague; “Radcliffe Bailey: Recent Works,” installations
Louisiana State Museum Presbytere. 751 Chartres St., (504) 568-6968; www. lsm.crt.state.la.us — “From the Big Apple to the Big Easy,” Carnival costume designs by Helen Clark Warren and John C. Scheffler, through Dec. 4, 2016.
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Happy Dogs: Photographs by J.T. Blatty Martine Chaisson Gallery, 727 Camp St. (504) 302-7942 www.martinechaissongallery.com
Who doesn’t love dogs? They are the MAY only creatures who actually seem to like Earth’s most deadly predators: humans. We, in turn, treat them like family and artists including George Rodrigue and William Wegman celebrate them in art. Add West Point graduate, Iraq War veteran and local photographer J.T. Blatty to the list of dog watchers. This show features Etchynpufe: New THRU her dog, Cuba, whose “love of life” work by Andrew MAY inspires her to produce twilight Schrock, Hugo Girl, landscapes like Waking the Dead Sarrah Danziger and (pictured), in which an illuminated Spring Sandstorm canine in motion appears as a colorful abstraction of light rays The Foundation Galin a cemetery. I love animals but lery, 1109 Royal St. often find dog art baffling, and here (504) 568-0955 I thought of Voodoo spirits (though www.foundationcats, not dogs, ordinarily double as Voodoo spirits), but let’s take Blatty’s gallerynola.com word that these images reflect “the freedom within all of us.” Note also that basset hound and German shepherd rescue missions receive 10 percent of sales proceeds. The Foundation Gallery has a dual mission to promote innovative art and support social activism with proceeds from its sales. This charmingly quirky Etchynpufe show curated by What Editions features copperplate etchings by four artists including Music Box collaborator Andrew Schrock, who makes sculptures from those same copper etching plates, welding the seams and inflating them with compressed air so they puff like pillows. Here an etching by Hugo Girl of a demonic flip phone encircled by a serpent is echoed by Schrock’s puffed copper sculpture Hydroform 2. Other works, like Schrock’s etching of gesturing hands with cryptically tattooed fingers, or Summer Sandstorm’s hallucinogenic, glitter-speckled etching of a pensive woman morphing into a diabolical clown, are no less intriguing. Perhaps most surprising is Sarrah Danziger’s stony-textured series of stricken, slack-jawed female facial expressions and osseous-looking male body parts. Etchynpufe is a wonderfully surprising show, and 25 percent of proceeds go to the New Orleans Community Print Shop’s excellent youth program. — D. ERIC BOOKHARDT
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and sculpture by the artist; all through June 7. George & Leah McKenna Museum of African American Art. 2003 Carondelet St., (504) 586-7432; www.theycallmebabydoll.org — “Contemporary Artists Respond to the New Orleans Baby Dolls,” group exhibition of new work inspired by Baby Doll masking traditions, through Saturday.
The Historic New Orleans Collection. 533 Royal St., (504) 523-4662; www.hnoc.org — “From Winnfield to Washington: The Life and Career of Huey P. Long,” exhibition of documents, photographs and audiovisual records, through Oct. 11. Laura Simon Nelson Galleries for Louisiana Art. The Historic New Orleans Collection, 400
Chartres St., (504) 523-4662; www.hnoc.org/nelson-galleries — “Visions of a City: Printed Views of 19th-Century New Orleans,” antique lithographs and engravings, through Aug. 15. Louisiana State Museum Cabildo. 701 Chartres St., (504) 568-6968; www.lsm.crt.state. la.us — “Unsung Heroes: The Secret History of Louisiana
New Orleans Museum of Art. City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, (504) 658-4100; www.noma.org — “Self/ Reflection,” group exhibition of photography from the permanent collection, through Aug. 9; “Forever,” mural by Odili Donald Odita, through December; “Orientalism: Taking and Making,” European and American art influenced by Middle Eastern, North African and East Asian cultures, through December 2016. Newcomb Art Gallery. Woldenberg Art Center, (504) 314-2406; www. newcombartgallery.tulane. edu — “First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare,” touring exhibition, through Sunday. Ogden Museum of Southern Art. 925 Camp St., (504) 539-9600; www.ogdenmuseum.org — “Tennessee Williams: The Playwright and Painter,” paintings by the writer, through Sunday; “Jim Roche: Cultural Mechanic,” drawings, sculpture and installation by Jim Roche; “Tina Freeman: Artist Spaces,” photographs of local artists’ work spaces; both through July 12; Old U.S. Mint. 400 Esplanade Ave., (504) 568-6993; www.louisianastatemuseum.org/museums/the-oldus-mint — “Keeping Time,” photographs of Louisiana’s musical history, through Jan. 1, 2016. Southern Food & Beverage Museum. 1504 Oretha C. Haley Blvd., (504) 569-0405; www.southernfood.org — “Antoine’s Restaurant: Celebrating 175 Years,” through June; culinary photography by Sam Hanna, ongoing. Williams Research Center. The Historic New Orleans Collection, 410 Chartres St., (504) 523-4662; www. hnoc.org — “Purchased Lives: New Orleans and the Domestic Slave Trade,” manuscripts, photographs, oral histories and artifacts relating to slavery, through July 18.