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A photo of the Elvis Presley and James Burton statues

Elvis Presley and James Burton statues are back on Elvis Presley Boulevard

Photo: The bronze statues of Elvis Presley and James Burton are back on Elvis Presley Boulevard and will be uncovered on Saturday, Aug. 23, 2014. Before I started by job at the Shreveport-Bossier Convention and Tourist Bureau (who, as I occasionally point out, make this blog possible), I would never …

A photo of Buck Winn's WPA-era mural in Shreveport's CNB building.

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I hold this truth to be self-evident: there is no such thing as bad public art. On the history of a certain public art genre — murals — Lincoln Kirstein wrote in 1932, “The decoration of walls by means of mural painting is as old as the stupendous bison in …

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January 7, 2014 Ursula Brantley
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