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Article: New Orleans' arts community showing significant signs of life.
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- Art Business News
- Article date:
- December 1, 2005
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NEW ORLEANS -- Traditionally, the first Saturday night of October is when gallery owners here launch the fall arts season with the fashionable annual event, Art for Art's Sake. It's a night when thousands of locals and tourists invade the Crescent City's numerous arts districts--from the French Quarter to Magazine Street--to check out the latest offerings from the city's painters, sculptors and photographers. This October, however, the gallery doors remained closed, and for a battered city just beginning to surface from the ruins of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the yearly event was almost forgotten.
Almost.
"I don't know if it was tenacity, stupidity or ...