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ON VIEW
EXHIBITION
The Katrina Decade: Images of an Altered City
Through January 9, 2016
Laura Simon Nelson Galleries, 400 Chartres Street
Free
EXHIBITION
Rolland Golden's Hurricane Katrina Series: A Selection
Through January 16, 2016
Williams Research Center,
410 Chartres Street
Free
Disaster Response
Two shows at The Collection capture artistic and documentary views of the 2005 levee breaches’ aftermath.
As New Orleans and the Gulf region observed, in August, the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and the floods that followed, The Collection mounted two exhibitions that examine the aftermath of the disaster in strikingly different ways. The Katrina Decade: Images of an Altered City features stark black-and-white photographs, by David
G.	Spielman, of houses, lots, and structures affected by the storm. Rolland Golden’s Hurricane Katrina Series: A Selection presents colorful, expressive artworks from one of the region’s most acclaimed contemporary painters. Whereas Spielman strives for objectivity and verisimilitude in his images, Golden’s paintings mine the teeming pathos and vulnerability of the city as it struggled to recover.
“They’re both based on observation, but David’s work is, certainly by perception and by his own statements, designed to be neutral,” said John H. Lawrence, director of museum programs. “Rolland Golden’s pictures put you in the scene, as it were. Golden was almost like a painting machine following Hurricane Katrina. The subject and the
2 The Historic New Orleans Collection Quarterly