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Prospect.3 at the New Orleans Museum of Art

by Corinna Kirsch on November 4, 2014

A lot to say about Prospect at the New Orleans Museum of Art.

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Looking Back at Prospect: Prospect 1 New Orleans, the Antidote to Miami

by Paddy Johnson on October 23, 2014

Right now, Art F City is in New Orleans to see Prospect.3. Before we begin to contemplate this biennial, we thought it’d be timely to look back at Paddy’s report from the first Prospect, held in 2008.

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Belt Tightened, Prospect.2 Releases Pared-Down Artist List for Second New Orleans Biennial – ARTINFO.com

by Paddy Johnson on June 23, 2011

Belt Tightened, Prospect.2 Releases Pared-Down Artist List for Second New Orleans Biennial – ARTINFO.com – AFC Alumn Julia Halperin talks to Dan Cameron about Prospect 2 in New Orleans. Paired back from its original incarnation, the biennial will launch October 22.

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Prospect 1 New Orleans: Photo Essay Part 2

by Art Fag City on December 26, 2008

Tatsuo Miyajima, Pile Up Life (2008), Installation view, Charles J. Colton School Prospect.1 New Orleans I wasn’t able to take pictures in the New Orleans Contemporary Art Center which limits my reporting but then so do holiday obligations. The second part of my Prospect 1 New Orleans Biennial photo essay to follow with brief commentary. […]

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The New Orleans Prospect 1 Photo Essay, Part 1

by Art Fag City on December 22, 2008

Mark Bradford, Mithra (2008), Caffin Avenue at N. Miro Street, Lower 9th Ward, All photographs AFC Here’s a nice surprise: My photographs tell me the art work at the New Orleans Prospect 1 Biennial is even better than I remembered. I hadn’t recalled being overly excited about Mark Bradford’s Arc for example, but the image […]

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Prospect 1 New Orleans: The Antidote To Miami

by Art Fag City on December 11, 2008

When people say “The party’s over” they literally mean it. There weren’t as many visitors in Miami this year, and the ones who came were stressed out. I always like writing about the fairs, but I can’t say I enjoyed myself as much as I have in past years; pointing out needlessly lavish art is far more fun than discussing why a fair is conservative and boring.

I’d probably be a lot more cranky right now if I hadn’t just spent a few days in New Orleans visiting Prospect 1., curator Dan Cameron’s Biennial brainchild, and the literal antidote to art fair malaise.

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Halloween Special: New Orleans, Prospect 1

by Art Fag City on October 31, 2008

Kay Rosen, Blurred, 2008, Image via: The Times Picayune Looking for someone to scare this Halloween? Art nerds might consider a trip to Prospect 1, New Orleans, as what may be one of the largest art events of the year opens tonight. I say this because I’ve been receiving tips and press releases virtually by […]

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Prospect.4 Artists Announced

by Paddy Johnson on May 23, 2017

Prospect, the New Orleans biennial conceived and founded by curator Dan Cameron, now transformed into a triennial has announced its artist list for Prospect.4 2017. The list, put together by Artistic Director Trevor Schoonmaker, (of the Nasher Museum in Durham North Carolina), includes 73 artists from North America, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, Asia and the European powers that colonized New Orleans, and will address themes of identity, displacement and cultural hybridity. It will be called “The Lotus In Spite of the Swamp.”

This sounds a bit like every show ever, so we’ll be curious to see how Schoonmaker distinguishes his exhibition.

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