The Midnight Hour Gallery

District

Uptown — Magazine Street

Type

Art gallery — front for [Josua Cambridge](/npcs/josua-cambridge/)'s Toreador work

Claimed By

[Marcel Guilbeau](/npcs/marcel-guilbeau/)

City

New Orleans

Function in Play

Marcel’s gallery fronting Josua Cambridge’s portrait work. The portraits were meant as a showcase — hyper-realistic renderings of New Orleans Kindred that Marcel could use as social currency with visiting vampires. Instead they became a hunting guide. Lanee Andrin used portraits exhibited here to identify and track Kindred. Two vampires are dead because of this gallery.

The gallery is currently active. The portraits are still on display. Marcel has not closed it — doing so would acknowledge the breach. This is pride operating against survival instinct.

Physical Read

A converted Magazine Street storefront — brick, high ceilings, track lighting. The portraits are large format: 40-by-30 inches minimum, hyperrealistic oil. Most subjects are anonymous to mortal viewers. To anyone who knows the local Kindred, the portraits are identification documents with names.

Magazine Street is mortal commercial territory — antique shops, galleries, restaurants. The street is active on weekends and draws tourists. A Kindred visiting the gallery blends in as a patron.