BILOXI (AP).- He was known as Biloxi’s “Mad Potter,” a wild-haired man who spun curious creations on his pottery wheel at the turn of the 20th century. George E. Ohr was dismissed by local folks as an eccentric during his life, but his ceramics are considered to be the first of American abstract expressionism. Nearly 100 years after his death, Ohr’s art and the museum designed for it by Frank Gehry have become the latest post-Hurricane Katrina feat in a region still bearing scars from the killer storm. The $21 million first phase of the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art opened this month. The museum is signature Gehry — curving brick staircases, geometric roof lines and undulating buildings. Gehry’s Ohr pods — towering, twisted metal hulls jutting from the ground — are in stark architectural
Frank Gehry-Designed Mississippi Museum Highlights Sculptor George E. Ohr
BILOXI (AP).- He was known as Biloxi’s “Mad Potter,” a wild-haired man who spun curious creations on his pottery wheel at the turn of the 20th century. George E. Ohr was dismissed by local folks as an eccentric during his life, but his ceramics are considered to be the first of American abstract expressionism. Nearly 100 years after his death, Ohr’s art and the museum designed for it by Frank Gehry have become the latest post-Hurricane Katrina feat in a region still bearing scars from the killer storm. The $21 million first phase of the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art opened this month. The museum is signature Gehry — curving brick staircases, geometric roof lines and undulating buildings. Gehry’s Ohr pods — towering, twisted metal hulls jutting from the ground — are in stark architectural