At 6:00 pm on Thursday, September 15th, join the New Orleans Jazz Museum for a final viewing of From the Fat Man to Mahalia: James Michalopoulos’ Music Paintings. Event details will be announced soon.

James Michalopoulos, New Orleans’ most recognized living artist, conjures the moods and syncopation of jazz in an exhibition at the New Orleans Jazz Museum. This retrospective will span the artist’s most recent paintings of street musicians to rarely seen works, loaned from private collections across the United States–including the original painting for the Jazz Fest poster of Louis Armstrong, which hasn’t been in Louisiana in over 20 years. The exhibition pairs his music-themed paintings with instruments and other objects from our collections, exploring connections between the visual arts and music and illuminating the vibrant music scene in the lower French Quarter, a vibrancy that will return in time.