Contemporary Arts Center (New Orleans)

900 Camp St., Thursday through Sunday, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Admission is $5 adults, $3 for students and senior citizens. Children ages 15 and younger admitted free. (504) 528-3805.

“The Center Cannot Hold: Paintings and Drawings by Brooke Pickett. Monumental in scale, Pickett’s works include ready-made, often broken objects, fans, pieces of fabrics, houseplants, old mattresses and electrical cords, which she arranges and photographs and abstracts in her oil-based paintings.

“Patterns and Prototypes: Tina Girouard and Robert Gordy,” through Sept. 25. These two Louisiana artists were pioneers in the freeform P&D movement that took the New York art world by storm in the mid-1970s through the 1980s.

“Drip: The Music of Water in New Orleans” through Sept. 25. John Kleinschmidt and Andy Sternad created this sound installation. This four-channel sound piece pairs reactive light sensors with field recordings from more than 25 sites located on or near water in the Greater New Orleans area. Includes more than 150 sounds, stories and interviews from and about the area’s waterscape.