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Dec 9

Dec 9 CORNERSTONE: RICHARD 'DICKIE' LANDRY: ‘A LIFE WELL LIVED’

Terrence Sanders-Smith

Contemporary Art

“Landry has performed alongside the likes of Bob Dylan, Clifton Chenier, Phillip Glass, and Laurie Anderson at venues like the Menil Collection, Museo Tamayo, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Leo Castelli Gallery.”

It is eleven a.m. when we meet at his eight-room loft in downtown Lafayette; I come bearing the last of the morning’s frozen boudin from Rabideaux’s Sausage Kitchen in Iowa, Louisiana. Dickie Landry has already traveled to and from Cecilia to tend to the pecan trees and livestock he cares for on the sixty-acre farm his parents purchased nearly a century ago. The artist and musician says of the past eighty-six years in rural Acadiana: “Nothing has changed.” And perhaps not: in Cecilia, the small town where he grew up, there are still just two churches, a service station, a grocery, a convenience store, a Dollar General, and a junior and senior high. “And that’s it. That’s Cecilia. If you blink your eyes, you’ll run through.”

Read Full ARTICLE by Lauren Stroh in the WINTER issue.

Street Date: Tuesday December 9th 2025