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Press: A Kaleidoscopic Unfolding: Bowdoin Magazine, March 16, 2022 - By Wayne Curtis, Photographs By Damon Gardner

A Kaleidoscopic Unfolding: Bowdoin Magazine

March 16, 2022 - By Wayne Curtis, Photographs By Damon Gardner

“For me, this was all about that guy in the background,” says James Michalopoulos ’74. He’s paused in front of one of his own paintings, hung amid a sprawling and colorful retrospective of his work. The show occupies a large gallery on the second floor of the New Orleans Jazz Museum, which is set in an imposing former US Mint building constructed in the nineteenth century at the edge of the city’s French Quarter.

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Press: Living Artfully, March  1, 2022 - Leah Draffen: Inside New Orleans

Living Artfully

March 1, 2022 - Leah Draffen: Inside New Orleans

James Michalopoulos stated as we chatted the week before Hurricane Ida’s landfall. We were talking about his 35 years in New Orleans, but oh, how we can relate to this statement during hurricane recovery. A lot of our conversation was about the pandemic, the climate crisis, and how the two have affected the arts.

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Press: The Crazy Big, Insanely Colorful, Completely Far-Out Vision of James Michalopoulos, February  1, 2022 - Wayne Curtis, Garden & Gun Magazine, April/May 2019

The Crazy Big, Insanely Colorful, Completely Far-Out Vision of James Michalopoulos

February 1, 2022 - Wayne Curtis, Garden & Gun Magazine, April/May 2019

The most recognizable painter in New Orleans is on a mission: to make sure the City doesn’t forget the artists who keep it funky.

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Press: The Musical Musings of James Michalopoulos, January  1, 2022 - Cayman Clevenger

The Musical Musings of James Michalopoulos

January 1, 2022 - Cayman Clevenger

A FEW PRECARIOUSLY PLACED emerald green caskets seem an unlikely source of inspiration for an artist who paints the joyous revelry and movement of a city alive with character and characters. But artist James Michalopoulos has tapped into something that New Orleanians have known for a long time.

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Press: Louisiana's Van Gogh: The Illuminating Works of James Michalopoulos, November 26, 2019 - Cayman Clevenger, Bayou Brief

Louisiana's Van Gogh: The Illuminating Works of James Michalopoulos

November 26, 2019 - Cayman Clevenger, Bayou Brief

George Rodrigue is often referred to as Louisiana’s Henri Rousseau. If that is the case, James Michalopoulos must be Louisiana’s Vincent van Gogh, not just because his technique is similar. 

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Press: Artist James Michalopoulos Transforms an Older Brewery Space Into a Topsy-turvy Funhouse, January 26, 2019 - Keith Marshall, New Orleans Home & Garden, March 2017

Artist James Michalopoulos Transforms an Older Brewery Space Into a Topsy-turvy Funhouse

January 26, 2019 - Keith Marshall, New Orleans Home & Garden, March 2017

It's hard to miss the strikingly unconventional residence of artist James Michalopoulos. 

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Press: Review: Think You Know Michalopoulos? Ogden Retrospective Has Surprises in Store, March  9, 2017 - John D'Addario, The Advocate New Orleans

Review: Think You Know Michalopoulos? Ogden Retrospective Has Surprises in Store

March 9, 2017 - John D'Addario, The Advocate New Orleans

When you close your eyes and picture New Orleans in your imagination, there’s a good chance it looks like a painting by James Michalopoulos. 

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Press: 8 Cool Jobs, July  1, 2016 -  Morgan Packard, New Orleans Magazine

8 Cool Jobs

July 1, 2016 - Morgan Packard, New Orleans Magazine

While many of us sit at desks day after day, there are some who have jobs that take them to exciting places creating and performing while pursuing their dreams.

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Press: Artist in Residence, April  1, 2009 - Jackie Borchardt, New Orleans Homes at Lifestyles

Artist in Residence

April 1, 2009 - Jackie Borchardt, New Orleans Homes at Lifestyles

James Michalopoulos and his family thrive on the creative energy in their funky, livable, lovable home in Faubourg Marigny.

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Press: The Indescribable Wow, June 30, 2000 - Rich Collins, Gambit New Orleans July 1995

The Indescribable Wow

June 30, 2000 - Rich Collins, Gambit New Orleans July 1995

James Michalopoulos is seriously out of breath. It’s 5:30 p.m. on a Wednesday evening, and the painter is finally able to break away from the action at his Chartres Street studio for an interview. 

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