Review: Make Yourself at Home
 

http://www.bestofneworleans.com/imag...6/b4dd/art.jpg D. Eric Bookhardt on Jim Richard's paintings at the New Orleans Museum of Art by D. Eric Bookhardt Art that refers to earlier art is nothing new ? artists have always been influenced by art history ? but longtime University of New Orleans art professor Jim Richard has taken a road less traveled, focusing on the sometimes uneasy relationship between art and interior decor. Devoid of human subjects, Richard's wry paintings of domestic living spaces tell us a lot about their owners' aesthetics and the times that shaped them, in much the way the ruins of Pompeii reveal how its inhabitants lived their lives.? [ Read more ]

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