Le Salon Annex

"Tandem" copyright 2012 Kristin Fouquet "The New Orleans Museum of Art, in partnership with the  New Orleans Photo Alliance , is pleased to present PhotoNOMA, a photographers’ portfolio night at the museum. On Friday, May 11th from 5:30pm to 8:30 pm, 100 photographers, from beginners to the well established, will display their work for a community walk-through. Admission is $10 for the general public, $5 for Photo Alliance members and free to  NOMA  members. Photography enthusiasts and the public are encouraged to come out to see the wide range of work that will be on display and to take advantage of the wonderful opportunity to meet and engage with the artists." I'll be one in a hundred photographers on hand Friday night. I'll be showing and selling examples of my street photography and street portraits. Hope you can make it! PhotoNOMA

You may hear an audio recording of my short story, "Varietals," read by an actor at Short Story America here .

In the spring of 1990, a friend suggested if I liked J.D. Salinger, I should read Raymond Carver. It would seem this recommendation and my subsequent falling in love with Carver’s style would come a bit too late. My “discovery” of him came two years after his death. I read everything by Carver I could find. I even turned down plans with friends to stay home and read his stories. Years later, the controversy of Carver and his editor, Gordon Lish, became public and many voiced their thoughts on the process of such heavy editing of a writer’s work. I felt strangely betrayed. I wondered if I had read more Lish than Carver in all those stories. Yet, when I read what Tess Gallagher gave to The New Yorker as the first draft of “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love,” which Carver had titled “Beginners,” I could honestly say the story was better for the editing. I also found it intriguing an editor would suggest a longer title. In 2009, it was because of t...

ART FOR MUSIC'S SAKE THIS SUNDAY, MAY 6th BEYOND BAROQUE 681 VENICE BLVD., VENICE, CA 90291 3:00pm- 4:00pm Reception & Viewing Music by Ulrich Krieger 4:00pm - 5:30pm Auction 5:30pm Dedication of the Mike Kelley Gallery Event is free to all. On Sunday, May 6, 2012 at 3:00pm, Beyond Baroque will host its first art auction with works donated by over 25 artists, including Ed Ruscha, Ray Pettibon, Robbie Conal and Viggo Mortensen. The benefit will raise funds for Beyond Baroque’s Beyond Music program curated by Daniel Rothman, and will feature music performed by saxophonist Ulrich Krieger. Beyond Music is dedicated to bringing cutting edge, exciting music that often blurs the lines between sound, poetry and art. There wil...