Monroe native Frank Kelley Jr. and his arts are on a spiritual journey
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Billy Solitario, “Three Egrets;”
Over the last 25 years, the Louisiana art scene had grown and prospered in cities across the state, especially in south Louisiana. Hurricanes Katrina and Rita almost swept it away. Derelict buildings in rundown Main Streets and in dying urban commercial districts...
Read MoreJohn Darling Haynes and the Southern landscape by John R. Kemp
Like alchemists, artists use canvas and palette to create imagined or real images of the world, its beauty, drama or the play of light upon the land. Others paint to visualize the landscapes of their inner angst, while some put brush...
Read MoreCityscapes from the other side
by JOHN R. KEMP
New Orleans writer Andrei Codrescu describes the white-washed crypts and miniature temples of the city’s decaying above-ground cemeteries as “waiting rooms for the Day of Judgment” where the dead “rehearse the defense they...
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