One of the side benefits of the St. Claude Arts District's latest export, the hot new indie movie
Beasts of the Southern Wild,
is that it immerses viewers in the precariousness of life along
Louisiana's steadily sinking coastal wetlands. Further investigations
into this lacy, tattered patch of land also can be found in two
noteworthy museum shows. At the New Orleans Museum of Art, multimedia
artist Katie Holten created a series of very large drawings of the
rapidly eroding edges of marshes where grasses are consumed by the sea
at an alarming rate...
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