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I’ve forsaken Fridays on the Square. Last Summer, I used to make art on Thursdays outside, then spend Friday, Saturday and Sunday also outside selling the art in sweltering, humid conditions. Mondays would find a weakened and weary Varg watching DVDs of The Wire with all the curtains drawn and the AC blasting. Any thought…

How’s this for curating the culture of New Orleans? It’s a lady pushing a silver mannequin wearing what looks like a Mardi Gras Indian suit around Jackson Square in a wheelchair. I am assuming this is for tips. It could be just a feathery costume. If anyone can confirm or deny it’s an Indian suit,…

I woke up at around 4 a.m. this morning and couldn’t get back to sleep so I figured I’d head over to the Square and reserve myself a good spot. I have often described this time as an ecotone, a layering between two different social and emotional environments. One is the still awake, still spirited…

What’s funny is that this is from 1975 and much of what is discussed is still the same… D. Nick: Fireman, Family Man, Artists’ Chairman Particularly this paragraph… Richard “Dick” Nick has to explain to artists such things as why they cannot hang their paintings over the storefront windows of the Pontalba Buildings, or why…

I have to get up at the bullshit hour of 4 a.m. to reserve my place at St. Ann and Decatur on Jackson Square every Saturday. Which means for the most part my presence on Friday nights is pretty scarce. There is not a lot going on at that hour but some nights, As I…

A few notes from this weekend at the Square… Protest V Protest Saturday afternoon there was a protest in front of the cathedral by the one-and-only Westboro Baptist Church. They had their “God Hates Fags” signs out and everything. There were about six of them. Next to them was a counter protest of maybe 12…

Remnants of the previous night bleed through on Jackson Square Sunday morning… Images by Stuart South.

“For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring” – Benvolio, Romeo and Juliet Act III Scene 1 Sept. 12 This past Sunday was a hard day. And I have the heat and humidity to blame for it. The mules got called in. This happens when temperatures reach 95 and conditions are too hot…

By my fellow Jackson Square arts Laura ‘Larry’ Welter. Holla back for details. 36″x48″ Oil $400