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04/23/2021
NEW ORLEANS (press release) – The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) announces the opening of the Lapis Center for the Arts. The newly renovated cultural space will serve multiple functions, including film screenings, lectures, theater and dance performances, and much more. The renovation, begun in January 2020, features state-of-the-art surround sound and theatrical lighting, and accommodates seating for up to 360 people. Advancing the museum’s aspirations as a nexus for the arts in New Orleans, the Lapis Center will serve as a platform for interdisciplinary arts experiences and provide opportunities for expanded as well as new community partnerships.
The New Orleans Museum has completed a renovation of a cultural space called the Lapis Center for the Arts.
The renovation began in January 2020. The space will serve film screenings, lectures, theater and dance performances and more. It features surround sound, theatrical lighting and accommodates seating for up to 360 people.
The renovation was funded mostly by the Zemurray Foundation which has supported many of the museum’s operations and projects. NOMA director Susan Taylor said the space will provide opportunities for the visual and performing arts and allow the museum to expand its offerings.
On the walls of the Lapis Center is Enrique Alférez’s monumental plaster relief mural, “Symbols of Communication.” Alférez completed the mural in 1967 for the lobby of the Times-Picayune building. It was given to NOMA by investors and developers Joe Jaeger, Barry Kern, Michael White and Arnold Kirschman, who are turning the site of the building into a Drive Shack golf en
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04/16/2021
NEW ORLEANS (press release) – For 75 years Brennan’s has remained at the center of the culinary and cocktail culture of New Orleans – and, CBS This Morning: Saturday agrees! Reporting from Brennan’s, catch Ralph Brennan, a third generation scion of the family whose name is synonymous with New Orleans restaurants, share the incredible traditions and stories behind this iconic French Quarter dining institution. CBS This Morning: Saturday correspondent Jamie Wax and Ralph Brennan will be joined by Haley Bittermann – Executive Chef of Ralph Brennan Restaurant Group [RBRG], whose been with the company for 25 years; Titus Perkins an Executive Kitchen Manager and 20 year veteran of RBRG; and Ryan Hacker, Executive Chef of Brennan’s, who made history as the youngest chef to ever lead this esteemed restaurant kitchen.