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The Problem We All Live With is a 1964 painting by Norman Rockwell that is considered an iconic image of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. [2] It depicts Ruby Bridges, a six-year-old African-American girl, on her way to William Frantz Elementary School, an all-white public school, on November 14, 1960, during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis.
The 1984 Louisiana World Exposition was a world's fair held in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. It was held 100 years after the city's earlier world's fair, the World Cotton Centennial in 1884. The fair was held from May 12 to November 11, 1984, and adopted the theme "The World of Rivers: Fresh Water as a Source of Life," showcasing the ...
The New Orleans Museum of Art (or NOMA) is the oldest fine arts museum in the city of New Orleans. It is situated within City Park, a short distance from the intersection of Carrollton Avenue and Esplanade Avenue, and near the terminus of the "Canal Street - City Park" streetcar line. It was established in 1911 as the Delgado Museum of Art. [1]
The first two New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festivals in 1970 and 1971 were held in Louis Armstrong Park, then known as Beauregard Square, in the area of the park known to be the historic Congo Square and the adjoining New Orleans Municipal Auditorium. Artist Noel Rockmore and Bruce Brice did posters for the first New Orleans Jazz & Heritage ...
Edward Bruski, center, gets emotional at the scene where a vehicle drove into a crowd on New Orleans' Canal and Bourbon streets on Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Among the items loaned by New Orleans entrepreneur and collector Gaspar Cusachs, who contributed a number of paintings, artifacts, and curios to the new museum, was an oil painting recorded as "Portrait, Marie Laveau, by C. Catlin, 1833, 18×25" . [4]
Artist Becky Fos is giving away two art pieces in honor of Taylor Swift being in New Orleans for three shows as part of her "Eras" tour in her "Love Story of a Giveaway."
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