Formerly the Marigny, the AllWays Theatre boasts a rich, decade-long history as New Orleans main space for LGBT theater. Now with a broadened but still queer-friendly mission under new management, it and the AllWays Lounge have established themselves as two of New Orleans' arts & entertainment hotspots, with exciting shows--music,… More >
The Alvar Street Branch of the New Orleans Public Library opened on November 7, 1940 following a formal dedication ceremony on November 6. Completion of the branch ended a long struggle by neighborhood groups and public officials to secure library facilities for the eastern section of the city. The building… More >
Antenna is operated by the artist-run 501c3 collective Press Street whose mission is to promote both art and literature in the community through dynamic projects, collaborations and publications. More >
One of Frenchmen Street's favorite jazz clubs, the cozy Apple Barrel Bar offers live music every night of the week. The bar's acoustics are so good that some local artists have actually recorded here. More >
Bacchanal is a wine retail shop, a wine bar, a live music venue, a New York style deli, an international bistro, and a regular shooting location for HBO's Treme. Bacchanal is a wine laboratory where food music and culture collude with Holy Vino to create the most unique evenings you… More >
Since 1978, Barrister's Gallery has shown ethnographic, and contemporary Louisiana folk and fine artists. Our newest location on St. Claude will continue our offerings of the best in African art and concentrate on displaying the work of artists struggling with mental illness. "...Barrister's has of late entered a Twilight Zone… More >
The award-winning Blue Nile Nightclub offers the best live music New Orleans has to offer, featuring a wide array of national and international acts in two rooms, with state of the art sound and lights. Live music is offered Tuesday through Saturday (weekdays vary). A jazzy blue and gold decor… More >
Byrdie's is the newest addition to the hip St. Claude area. If you love great art, enjoy excellent coffee and tea, or have ever had a hankering to play with clay, Byrdie's is the spot for you. The gallery side of Byrdie's has just been added to the fabulous list… More >
Located in the heart of the historic Bywater neighborhood, the Bywater Art Lofts is a new 37 loft apartment community that was renovated in 2008 at the site of a dilapidated and blighted former garment factory. The new one and two bedroom Lofts were constructed to be light and airy… More >
The musical home of cultural diversity - reggae, Latin, jazz, Klezmer - in New Orleans. Located in the Faubourg Marigny, just outside the French Quarter, between Esplanade Ave. and Elysian Fields at the corner of Frenchmen Street. Open late! Be sure to call to see if they are open! The… More >
Café Istanbul is a 3,800 square feet performance hall with a mission of fostering, encouraging and promoting performance art in New Orleans. The line up of events will include live music, dance, theatre, poetry, comedy, film and visual arts. Located at 2372 St Claude Ave, in the New Orleans Healing… More >
Tourists and locals love New Orleans for very different reasons; they occupy two separate worlds really and it isn’t often that those worlds meet. The city scenes captured by Christopher Porche-West's photography illustrate the New Orleans that locals love. Porche West is an award-winning photographer known for his portraits of… More >
The Cripple Creek Theatre Co. is a professional, nonprofit theatre incorporated in New Orleans, Louisiana dedicated to producing dramatic works of cultural, historical, and political relevance in order to provoke the general public into social action. It is devoted to high standards of production for a diverse audience. The purpose… More >
In the heart of the Frenchmen Street "music district," d.b.a. is a very hip-but not trendy-bar that offers off-the-cuff music geared towards local music lovers. The building dates back to the 1880's, & musicians say the all cypress wood music room is one of the warmest sounding rooms in New… More >
The Den of Muses is a huge warehouse where Mardi Gras floats are stored and made for the mythically outrageous Krewe du Vieux. The high ceilings and fantastical surroundings (colorful, off-color, themed floats line the walls) make it a truly fringe-y venue. The Den of Muses has a seating capacity… More >
Featuring live music most nights, The Dragons Den is a great place to hear a wide range of music. More >
“Real Food Done Real Good” was a slogan that was brought to Elizabeth’s with the First owner, Heidi Trull. I really liked this slogan and decided to keep it. My personal mission was to make everything from scratch. This means bringing in great product and treating it with the most… More >
Euclid Records has been doing worldwide mail order for more than 15 years and maintaining their website for the past 11 years, based out of St. Louis, MO. The New Orleans location of the store opened in 2010 and hosts live music events in addition to housing an extensive collection… More >
When Aurora and Anthony teamed up to form Fair Folks & a Goat in September of 2009, the idea that everything is designed by someone, somewhere was front and center in their minds. Wishing to reinvigorate the retail experience and inject it with personality and heart, they have united designers,… More >
Faubourg Marigny Art & Books is a well-stocked LGBT bookstore that also carries some local titles. It has a used section, CDs, posters, cards, and gifts (all with a more-or-less LGBT slant) and holds regular readings and signings. The staff makes this a fine resource center -- you can call… More >
In the summer of 1979, a cafe named "Feelings" opened on Royal Street. After its successful first year, it moved to its present historic location, part of the first plantation land granted for private ownership by the first New Orleans settlers. Research uncovered that in 1795, Nicholas D'Aunoy purchased the… More >
The Freda Lupin Memorial Hall is located within the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. The Hall is used for student, local theatre and dance performances. The New Orleans Center for Creative Arts is a regional, pre-professional arts training center that offers secondary school-age children intensive instruction in dance, media… More >
The Good Children Gallery is a collectively-organized artist-run space that aims to enhance the contemporary art landscape of New Orleans. The gallery is a gateway gallery that offers exposure to emerging talent, and introduces established national and international artists to our community. More >
The Hi-Ho is evolving to be one of the hipper little clubs in town. Their live acts include everything from blues to funk to jazz to indie rock. More >
Founded by long-time recording engineer, Andrew Gilchrist, in a residential neighborhood in New Orleans' historic Bywater district, House of 1000Hz creates a comfortable and creative environment for making records, balancing the technical needs of a recording studio, with the pressure-free vibe of a place where you would actually want to… More >
The Iron Rail Book Collective is a non-profit reading room, lending library, and bookshop located in the New Orleans Marigny neighborhood. Their library contains over 5,000 titles and their bookshop offers books from presses such as Verso, South End Press, Last Gasp, AK Press and many others. The Iron Rail… More >
Known for its huge steak and seafood dinners! Seafood is usually fried or broiled and is quite the local favorite. More >
Mademoiselle Dwyn's School of Dance (MDSD) opened in 1997 through the partnership of professional dancers Dwyn and Wendy Turner. MDSD offers classes in ballet, tap, modern, jazz, liturgical, acrobatics, baton twirling, and dance terminology. The Turners have been trained by such dance legends such as Frank Hatchett, Art Stone, Danny… More >
The Marigny Brasserie anchors the Frenchmen Street dining scene with their impressive cuisine. The chic interior, with windows looking out to Royal Street and Frenchmen Street, add to ambience of the dining experience. The inviting palette of colors beckons you to relax and enjoy the urbane and consistently delicious food.… More >
The self-proclaimed "Purveyors of Robust Cuisine," Maurepas Foods opened for business on January 22, 2012, in the Bywater. The restaurant offers a diverse menu of fresh, robust foods with a local twist at an affordable price. The full menu is available at the bar, and the food menu is available… More >
James Michalopoulos is a celebrated New Orleans based artist. He is a contemporary of Julian Schnabel, David Salle, Eric Fischl and a school of painters that prevailed in the 1980s who glorified the representational image. He is an artist who refreshes the familiar with colors that dance vividly in and… More >
The vibe at Mimi's in the Marigny is more house party than hotspot and the reasons the bar rates No. 1 in the city are as diverse as the regulars who make it so. open 7 days a week...kitchen CLOSED MONDAYS (snacks available) tapas served sunday thru thursday 6pm till… More >
The Musée Rosette Rochon is projected to be a major historic house museum and a vital educational center for Marigny and the adjacent French Quarter, Tremé, and Bywater neighborhoods. It is an early antebellum home built for Rosette Rochon, a free businesswoman of color who amassed wealth and lived to… More >
The New Orleans Healing Center grew out of a salon think tank, whose members met to explore creative solutions to New Orleans’ vast recovery challenges following Hurricane Katrina. We recognize that healing must occur holistically and synergistically on the energetic, physical, environmental, economic, intellectual, emotional, social, cultural, and spiritual levels… More >
The New Orleans School of Art & Craft is the latest venture of art entrepreneur Blake Vonder Haar, the founder and director of The New Orleans Conservation Guild (opened in 1997), the Antique Frame Gallery (2001), New Orleans Art Supply (2005), as well as the hugely popular Bywater Art Market… More >
The NOLA Candle Factory is a converted warehouse that houses artist workshops and a large performance space. With exposed brick walls and wood beams, it has a raw, industrial feel. The Nola Candle Factory hosts underground art shows and performances. More >
Old New Orleans Rum was born in the back streets of New Orleansí 9th Ward. This stepchild of the spirits world was conceived by a band of artists and musicians better known for consumption than fabrication. By dint of perseverance and their love of the good life, they managed to… More >
Piety Street has combined the best of all possible audio worlds so as to have a great place to work without leaving town doing this in 2001 might have pleased Pangloss, but that’s what Piety Street did. 8 years later and the studio is still here - and it's 10… More >
The Praline Connection began as a home delivery service targeting career women who were too busy to prepare home cooked meals for their families. Cecil and Curtis opened their first location on Frenchman Street in 1990 and the rest has been culinary history. The Praline Connection serves "down-home" cajun-creole style… More >
3319 Rosalie Alley (dirt alley, off of N. Rampart, between Piety and Desire, in Bywater.) More >
Also known as Trinity Church, this gorgeous building is a beautiful raw performance space with stunning natural acoustics. The space will be inverted for the 2010 Fringe, so that the audience is raised on the altar and the steps in front, while performers dance in the marley-covered nave. More >
Founded in 1960, Saturn Bar has secured it's "only in New Orleans" venue status. Since the passing of original owner O'Neil Broyard, family members have removed some of the clutter that defined this iconic location, but have brought in a semi-regular lineup of music acts and art shows. Still a… More >
The Skull Club is a locally famous gallery, performance space and party venue in the New Orleans underground. It has a decadent feel, with audience seating in velvet couches under the 16 foot ceilings of a 19th century textile factory converted to artist loft. This space has also hosted fashion… More >
Snug Harbor is a restaurant, bar, and music club featuring world class jazz music every night of the week. Please note that Snug Harbor is not a dinner theater; the dining room is separate from the music club. All ages are welcome, including quiet children (please use good judgment in… More >
Hot spot in the Marigny/ Bywater neighborhood, traditional cafe and often location for impromptu jam sessions. More >
Staple Goods is a newly formed collective of artists with a gallery in the St. Claude Arts District. Our diverse membership includes painters, sculptors, ceramic artists, photographers, printmakers, videographers and an architect, dedicated to innovative programming of contemporary art. In addition to showing our members’ work, we showcase selected artists… More >
Studio Inferno is known for their glass studio in the Bywater area of New Orleans. Started by glass artist Mitchell Gaudet, the building houses multiple artist workspaces, glassblowing studio and a gift shop which features the studios New Orleans-inspired designs including water meters, fleur de lis and voodoo dolls in… More >
New Orleans' Hottest Thai Cuisine in the heart of the Marigny triangle. More >
The Edgar Degas House is the only home or studio of Degas anywhere in the world that is open to the public, beautifully restored and located on majestic Esplanade Avenue just eleven blocks from the famous New Orleans French quarter. The Edgar Degas House was the New Orleans’ home to… More >
A black box performance space, featuring theatrical confections great and small & progressive performance to transfix and edify! The Mudlark, owned and operated by Pandora Gastelum, consistently brings some of the best and edgiest performers from around the country all year. More >
The Porch is a community-based organization that is using the arts to affect social change. A grassroots organization instigated, post-Katrina, in New Orleans’ 7th Ward, the Porch serves the community bounded by St. Bernard Avenue, N. Claiborne Avenue, Elysian Fields Avenue and St. Claude Avenues. The Porch builds on cultural… More >
"Three Muses brings together professionals in culinary, hospitality, and music to create a chic, unique environment committed to quality and verve." More >
A favorite among locals and tourists, Tomatillo's is how New Orleans does Latin food in the French Quarter & Marigny! Chef Richard Gonzalez has brought a new Latin flare to New Orleans dining with cuisines from Brazil, Argentina, Cuba, Chile, & many other Latin countries. All ingredients are fresh!!! Pet-friendly… More >
MISSION Trouser House is a non-profit contemporary art + urban farming initiative. The two-fold project promotes a model of sustainability defined by community involvement and public education. As a catalyst for social change, Trouser House advocates food activism and contemporary art as vehicles for improving public health and personal well-being.… More >
The UNO St. Claude Gallery is an exhibition space dedicated to showing the work of University of New Orleans M.F.A. candidates and faculty, as well as exhibitions in conjunction with district and community events. Monthly exhibitions are celebrated with an opening reception on the second Saturday of every month from… More >
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Tucked deep in the Bywater section of New Orleans, Vaughan's Lounge is way down-home -- as in, it's in a residential neighborhood and feels almost as though you're in someone's house. The long bar takes up so much room that people almost fall over the band at the end of… More >
Venusian Gardens is a newly renovated 150 year-old historic church in New Orleans that serves as an art gallery upstairs and an art studio downstairs. The art gallery is divided into two separate but adjoining spaces a large Venusian Garden art installation and a more formally composed exhibition space for… More >
"Paul Webb, who has been grinding it out in awesome band after band...known to the New Orleans music community as a workhorse musician" opened the doors of his Bywater Music store in summer 2009. Situated in an area bustling with musicians and artists, Bywater Music was "needed this for the… More >
Yuki Izakaya is a Japanese-style tavern on Frenchmen Street in New Orleans. We specialize in Japanese homestyle tapas, traditionally a procession of small plates to share at your table, accompanied by sake, shochu or beer. As in Japan, our menu changes with the seasons, ensuring the best flavor of fresh… More >
Art is everywhere in New Orleans and our cultural venues are as varied as you would expect from a nearly 300 year-old city. From neighborhood music clubs, contemporary art galleries, alternative arts spaces, fine dining restaurants, to cozy corner bookshops search ArtsNewOrleans to discover your favorite place to experience our creative culture.
Arts Council Of New Orleans
935 Gravier Street, Suite 850
New Orleans, LA 70112
(504) 523-1465