Home New Orleans Events Airport & Transportation Getting Around Green Traveler Maps Weather New Orleans FAQ's About New Orleans Restaurants What To Do Family Fun Voluntourism & Donations Photo and Video Gallery New Orleans In The News What's New in New Orleans Ask the Experts Testimonials New Orleans Recipes New Orleans Music Brochures/Coupons Your Current Itinerary Print Itinerary Email Itinerary Calendar of Events Gallery Bienvenu Presents - Artist: Sibylle Peretti "The Unusual Kind" October 6, 2009 - November 28, 2009 Times: Tuesday - Saturday 10:00 am - 5:00 pm Location:  Gallery Bienvenu, 518 Julia Street Phone:  (504) 525-0518 German-born artist Sibylle Peretti conjures visions of childhood and childhood lost. In Perettis works, children are often grouped in pairs, conversing wordlessly with one another or with birds, water, or flowers, as if immersed in a mystical union with nature. Her ethereal imagery and haunting thematic subtexts captivate the viewers imagination.   Perettis exhibition at Gallery Bienvenu features porcelain sculptures and mixed-media works on panel, which incorporate myriad layers of paper, oil paint, and watercolor on either side of Plexiglas panels. Her unique techniques impart a texture that complements the works conceptual nuance. Collectors and museum curators around the world have responded to Peretti's vision, which hovers between fairy tale, dream, and historic fact. The current series was inspired by a growing fascination with children raised with little or no exposure to human beings. With their immaculate innocence, such children have intrigued storytellers and researchers for ages from Romulus and Remus, the legendary founders of Rome, who are said to have been nursed by a wolf to Victor of Aveyron, made famous by Truffault's film, The Wild Child to Genie, a feral child whose discovery made headlines in the 1970s.   These children live in a kind of private, untouchable world, the artist says, in which their honesty and purity opens doors of fantasies and dreams. With Peretti's imagery as a springboard, viewers may project themselves into the children's archaic, pre-verbal world. The works reconnect us to dormant memories or emotions, inducing free associations that encourage the mind to skim and skip where rationality alone could not lead. It is this freeing of the imagination, coupled with the rigors she lavishes on composition and surface, that so eloquently distinguishes her work. Remove 'Congo Square Rhythms' Exhibit October 12, 2009 - November 20, 2009 Times: Monday - Friday 9:30 am - 4:30 pm Location:  The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation, Inc. Phone:  (504) 558-6100 Admission:  Free The Jazz & Heritage Gallery is pleased to announce "Congo Square Rhythms," an exhibit of paintings and mixed media works by Louisiana artists. The exhibit, will feature works by more than 25 local artists, each representing or inspired by the cultural legacy of Congo Square. Artists featured in the "Congo Square Rhythms" exhibit include: Ulrick Jean-Pierre, Shakor, Haitham Eid, Nat Williams, Sheila Phipps, Cecelia Tapplette-Pedescleaux, Bruce Brice, Larry Daniel Nevil, Michelle Levine, Ronald Jones, E. E. Williams, Michelle Lavigne, Eric Waters, Charles Simms, Ashton Ramsey, Jim Belfon, Alton Osborne, Cherice Harrison-Nelson and Latanya Clark, and others. Remove Nightlife Preservation Hall 726 St. Peter New Orleans, LA 70116 Toll-Free: () Phone: (504) 522-2841 Fax: (504) 558-9192 Website: www.preservationhall.com E-Mail: debbie@preservationhall.com Remove Restaurants Acme Oyster House 724 Iberville St. New Orleans, LA 70130 Toll-Free: (877) 815-6412 Phone: (504) 522-5973 Fax: (504) 524-1595 Website: www.acmeoyster.com E-Mail: melissav@acmeoyster.com Remove Attiki Bar & Grill 230 Decatur Street New Orleans, LA 70130 Phone: (504) 587-3756 Fax: (504) 587-3756 Website: www.attikineworleans.com E-Mail: attikimed@yahoo.com Remove BACCO 310 Chartres Street New Orleans, LA 70130 Phone: (504) 539-5510 Fax: (504) 539-5538 Website: www.bacco.com E-Mail: abernard@neworleans-food.com Remove What To Do Hermann-Grima/Gallier Historic Houses 820 St. Louis Street New Orleans, LA 70112-3416 Phone: (504) 525-5661 Fax: (504) 568-9735 Website: www.hgghh.org E-Mail: hgrimagallier@aol.com Remove Print Itinerary Email Itinerary