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Jeanne's Take | July 24, 2026

Dear Crosstowners, One of the more rich human experiences is talking with someone of multidimensional characteristics that relate to your own. Felicita Felli Maynard is an extraordinarily multidimensional artist, photographer, world traveler, rich thinker and communicator. They are fearless in communicating one on one, and with communities. My husband Robert Tannen and I work in the arts, he is an artist and regional planner who invites communities to lead deliberations on community, regional and creative issues. I work on expanding potential and opportunities for creative workers' and like both Felli and Tannen, encourage communities to take the lead in planning their own communities for the future. I am in awe of the visual and other creative works of Felli and Tannen. My creative dance practice is mostly behind me, but I continue to support others' creativity. Please enjoy the conversation we had either now in the recorded conversation herein or on Saturday, at noon on WBOK 1230 AM radio. I would love to hear from others on your thoughts.

Jeanne Nathan Host and Executive Producer, Executive Director of Creative Alliance of New Orleans

Jeanne's guest on Saturday's show on WBOK 1230AM at noon.

Felicita Felli Maynard Felicita Felli Maynard is an interdisciplinary artist, archivist, and researcher. Maynard works across many forms of photography, sculpture, sound, and installation. Their work explores the techniques of survival and outcomes of prosperity that facilitate the lives of queer and trans descendants of the African diaspora. They are interested in the evidences of joy and prosperity that are created within complicated landscapes of societies governed by colonialism and capitalist structures. Maynard works between New Orleans and New York City. To learn more head to their website here.

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Newsletter Sections  It's Your Body | Art News | US News | Local Events

IT'S YOUR BODY

FDA: 19 Million Eggs Being Recalled

BY KATIE KINDELAN Midwest Poultry Services has voluntarily recalled nearly 1.6 million dozen eggs -- approximately 19 million individual eggs -- due to the potential for salmonella contamination, the company said in an announcement shared on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration website Wednesday. The white shell eggs and brown cage free shell eggs were produced in Texas and have "sell by" or "best by" dates between July 20, 2026, and Aug. 17, 2026, according to Midwest Poultry Services. The recalled eggs were available at Kroger locations in Texas and Louisiana; Brookshire Grocery stores in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, and Mississippi; and "other smaller retail outlets," the company said. Read the rest of the article here.

Cyclospora Cases Are Rising. Here’s What to Know.

BY ALICE CALLAHAN AND CAROLINE HOPKINS LEGASPI The United States is in the midst of its worst year yet for cyclosporiasis, an intestinal illness caused by a parasite transmitted through food or water contaminated with human feces. On Friday, Taylor Farms announced that it was recalling shredded iceberg lettuce products from 27 states, including Florida, Kentucky, North Carolina, New Jersey, Ohio and Texas. The products included salad mixes and blends that were marketed under several brand codes, though the company did not clarify what those codes stood for. Some of the products were distributed as recently as Thursday and had sell by dates through Aug. 3. In a statement issued on Friday, the company said that no Taylor Farms-branded salads or kits were associated with the outbreak, though it remained unclear how the affected lettuce had been distributed and labeled, and where it was sold. Taylor Farms, based in Salinas, Calif., is one of the largest producers of fresh vegetables and fruits in the country, and their products are sold in many U.S. supermarkets including Safeway, Whole Foods, Target and Walmart. Federal officials have linked at least 1,644 cases of the illness in five states — Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and West Virginia — to shredded iceberg lettuce served at Taco Bell. In a notice posted Thursday night, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned people not to eat lettuce from Taco Bell locations in those states. Read the rest of the article here.

ART NEWS

How Jewish Women Helped Shape Modern Design

Felice Rix-Ueno, Purpurnelke (textile sample) (August 1924). Photo: MAK/Branislav Djordjevic. Courtesy of MAK Museum of Applied Arts, Viena. BY ARTNET GALLERY NETWORK While early 20th-century Viennese art and design conjures images of Art Nouveau paintings and architecture and radical breaks from academic historicism, many of the individual creatives who contributed to this era of artistic evolution have been overlooked. A sweeping survey exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York seeks to rectify that. “Modernity and Opulence: Women of the Wiener Werkstätte,” on view through November 15, 2026, brings sharp focus on the influence and importance of Jewish women as artists, designers, and patrons of the period, and the indelible mark they left on the burgeoning modernist aesthetics both in early 20th-century Vienna and, subsequently, international artistic movements. Presented in cooperation with the MAK—Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, the exhibition brings attention to the critical yet historically overlooked role women played not only as artists and designers but also as patrons who supported their work. Bringing together a diverse range of media—from fashion and ceramics to graphic design and decorative arts—what is revealed is a significant contribution to the way modernist design developed through the lens of the “Wiener Werkstätte,” or Vienna Workshop. The Wiener Werkstätte (active between 1903-1932) was founded by architect Josef Hoffmann, artist Koloman Moser, and art collector Fritz Waerndorfer. Operating as both a commercial enterprise and multidisciplinary collective, the endeavor embodied the concept of gesamtkunstwerk, a term translating to “total work of art,” which championed the unification of art and life. Recent scholarship has identified roughly a quarter of the nearly 200 women artists and artisans who worked for the Wiener Werkstätte as being of Jewish descent or from Jewish families. Click here to read the rest of the article.

Warhol & Lichtenstein: Prints by Pop Art Titans For Sale

Roy Lichtenstein, Reverie (from 11 Pop Artists, Volume II), 1965 Est. $80,000–$120,000  Pop Art defined the 20th century, and its two seminal artists were Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. Warhol was introduced to Lichtenstein’s work in 1961 at his show with the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York, where he exhibited his now-iconic Look Mickey—leaving Warhol jealous that Lichtenstein had “gotten to Mickey first.” Warhol later returned the favor, taking several Polaroids of Lichtenstein and turning his likeness into a Warhol piece in its own right. The duo maintained a friendly rivalry, each collecting the other’s work throughout his own career.   Today, their legacy remains very much alive: a major Pop Art survey is on view at New York’s Guggenheim Museum.    Artnet Auctions is pleased to present a curated selection of prints by the titans of Pop Art. Though their subjects rarely overlapped—Warhol’s world of celebrity, consumer goods, and mass media set against Lichtenstein’s comic-strip style—both shared an early and enduring devotion to printmaking. Printmaking reflected the commercial source of much of their inspiration and, particularly for Warhol, helped democratize and disseminate their work.    This selection spans three decades of both artists’ printmaking practices, from a historic 1965 group portfolio to a diamond-dusted royal portrait. Click here to browse the sale.

US NEWS

How GE CEO Larry Culp pulled off the turnaround of the century

BY SHAWN TULLY When Larry Culp first saw Plant One in Lynn, Mass., back in 2018, it was, in short, a mess. The burly, six-two Culp, now 63, proudly points to a hulking yellow machine about the size of a TSA baggage scanner that mills the teeth on turbine disks. “The machine was such a disaster when I first saw it,” says Culp. It continually turned out faulty parts that the turbine blades couldn’t fit into. “A lot of people said we should close it,” he recalls of the cavernous complex, nearly three football fields long, that makes engine parts for Black Hawk helicopters and F-16 fighter jets. “It was like something from another age. They said it was old, dirty, that the union was too tough. But it had great bones.” At the time, the same could be said of GE. When Culp took the helm in 2018, the colossal conglomerate that Jack Welch built into the most valuable and admired enterprise in America teetered on the brink of collapse. The sprawling business model that competitors once envied had become a liability—unwieldy, capital-intensive, and increasingly unable to compete in focused, fast-moving markets. Culp first shrank a crushing debt load and radically retooled operations to remake GE as a durable profit-spinner, then orchestrated a split into three publicly traded players that started via the spinoff of GE HealthCare in early 2023, and culminated in the separation of power franchise GE Vernova and GE Aerospace in April 2024. Culp went from running the whole show to piloting GE's longtime crown jewel, the jet-engine maker. Read the rest of the article here. #crosstownconversations#fineartmagazineblog.blogspot.com#sunstormfineartmagazine.com#artfuntalk #artfunconversatio#artfundiversity#artfunnow