Creole New Orleans, Honey! The Art of Andrew LaMar Hopkins accompanies an exhibition of the same name on view at the Cabildo from November 22, 2022, through September 30, 2023. Published by the Louisiana Museum Foundation, the catalog features seventy of Hopkins’s unique paintings, as well as images of the Louisiana State Museum artifacts that inspired some of them. The catalog, edited by co-curator and Louisiana State Museum historian Joyce Miller, also includes five scholarly essays exploring nineteenth-century Creole culture in New Orleans.

Co-curator Polly Rolman-Smith’s essay provides an overview of Hopkins’s life and artistic background, while Shirley Elizabeth Thompson, associate professor of American studies and Black studies at the University of Texas at Austin, sheds light on the complex nature of Creole identity and changing definitions of the word “Creole.” Other contributors include culinary historian and cookbook author Jessica B. Harris, who considers Creole kitchens and cuisine, and William Keyse Rudolph, deputy director of curatorial affairs at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, who surveys fine and decorative arts in nineteenth-century Creole New Orleans.  Architect and architectural historian Robert Cangelosi Jr.’s discussion of Creole architecture in New Orleans brings the volume to a close.