Alva Review-Courier -

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The year 2020 has been a tangle of medical, political, social, economic and ecological trouble. There's no getting around it. But down on Julia Street, the group exhibit "Art in the Time of Empathy" at Arthur Roger Gallery brings a touch of solace to the situation with poignancy, humor and visual pop.

It's the most crowded exhibit in the gallery's history, as tightly packed as Gertrude Stein's apartment ever was. The individual artworks are so close together that they all sort of blend into a blur, which is perfectly appropriate in an era when a hurricane can blow through in...