Prospect 1

On my flight down to New Orleans on Friday, I just happened to read this review in the New Yorker about Prospect 1, a Biennial Exhibition in New Orleans. (Here's another great review.) My mom's friend who would be with her when she picked me up at the airport wanted to go down to the Ninth Ward anyway, so I convinced them to check out some of the new Prospect 1 installations while we were in the neighborhood. At the Hefler Warehouse (CBD), we picked up our admission cards and saw a few exhibits there:

Angel Delgado, "Water Up the Neck" (Con el agua al cuello)

Takashi Horisaki's casting of a Ninth Ward house, "Social Dress New Orleans":

Check out this Times-Picayune article for a little background on his project.

Then we headed to the Lower Ninth. Here are some installations there: Battle Ground Baptist Church, site of the "Diamond Gym" by Nari Ward.


The Arc by Mark Bradford:
"Mrs. Sarah's House" by Wangechi Mutu:

Me with Keith Calhoun, resident Ninth Ward photographer.

Keith and his wife Chandra have documented Ninth Ward and New Orleans life for decades. Their display had one side of the shotgun duplex with images ruined by Katrina, the other side had images that had survived. Check out their website here. Keith has a special interest in turning young kids on to art, and he wanted me to come down to talk about prison life (and how to avoid it). They had some amazing shots (and access) at Angola (not to mention all the rest), which I would have loved to purchase. But with patrons like Brad & Angelina, they weren't exactly in my budget!

M Belle, if you make it down to NOLA before January 18th, you will want to check this out!!