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August 19, 2010
New Orleans Film Society and the Contemporary Arts Center present THE GIANT WOMAN AND THE LIGHTNING MAN & MONEY MAN

A double feature with THE GIANT WOMAN AND THE LIGHTNING MAN, Philip Haas's eye-popping film on Australian Aboriginal art, takes us through the steps of preparing three ground paintings made by a group of desert tribesman and MONEY MAN about J.S.G. Boggs, an artist whose medium is money. Boggs' "dollars" have been confiscated as counterfeit by the U.S. Treasury Department.
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September 2, 2010
New Orleans Film Society and the Contemporary Arts Center present STRONGMAN

One of the most poignant and hauntingly original American documentaries in years, Strongman tells the up-close-and-personal story of Stanley "Stanless Steel" Pleskun, who can lift dump trucks and bend pennies with his bare hands, but who struggles to transcend his chaotic New Jersey home life and the toll of his slowly-but-surely advancing age.
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September 25, 2010 - February 19, 2011
The Contemporary Arts Center and Young Audiences present: Children's Theater Series

September 25, 2010
Frank Levy presents "Ali Baba & the Forty Thieves"

October 23, 2010
Calliope Puppet's presents "The Sorcerer's Apprentice"

January 22, 2011
Shoestring Players present "T-Boy and Marie"

February 19, 2011
MetroPelican Opera presents "Opera A La Carte"

Times: 10:30 am and Noon

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Saturday August 7, 2010
Whitney White Linen Night

Art Openings & Outdoor Celebration (6-9pm), Entertainment on Julia Street (6-9pm), CAC Celebration & After Party (9-11pm)

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On View through October 24, 2010

INTERPLAY

This exhibition presents recent work by four photographers based in the U.S. all of whom deal, to some degree, with conventions of portraiture. One, Phyllis Galembo, is a New York-based artist who has numerous museum exhibitions and publications to her credit. The other three -- Kevin Kline, Herman Mhire, and Sonja Rieger -- are based in New Orleans, Lafayette, and Birmingham, respectively, and their works are known primarily to a regional audience.

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On View through October 24, 2010

Thomas Woodruff's Freak Parade

Thomas Woodruff's Freak Parade is an ambitious and dazzling parade of images that celebrates beauty in aberrance. The Parade's hapless yet noble characters march gaily across a black expanse, each member on a different panel. This exhibition includes 34 large scale drawing/paintings, each of which is rendered in detail and delicately embellished with tiny rhinestones.

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Coming Soon in Our Galleries: November 6, 2010 - February 27, 2011

Frederick R. Weisman Art Collection

The collection includes works by European Modernists including Cezanne, Picasso, and Kandinsky and Surrealist works by Ernst, Miro, and Magritte. The holdings in postwar art include works by Giacometti, Noguchi, Calder, Rauschenberg, and Johns; Abstract Expressionist paintings by de Kooning, Francis, Still, and Rothko; Color-Field paintings by Frankenthaler, Louis, and Noland; and Pop Art by Warhol, Lichtenstein, Oldenburg, and Rosenquist. Contemporary California works include those by Ruscha and Goode, and Super Realist sculptures by Hanson and de Andrea. These holdings are part of a larger collection that Mr. Weisman established as the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation in 1982.

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