Jefferson Davis’ historic home in Biloxi was “virtually demolished” by Hurricane Katrina, the New Orleans Art Museum lost one sculpture (a modernist work by Kenneth Snelson was “reduced to a twisted mess in the lagoon”), and an in-progress Frank Gehry-designed wing of Biloxi’s Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art was smashed by a runaway casino barge. The AAM runs down the status report on cultural institutions in the path of Katrina. Not on the list is New Orleans’ cultural treasure, Fats Domino: he’s safe.
(I wonder what happened to the home of NOLA outsider artists and post-flapper-era “international dancers” Nita & Zita.)
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