Prospect New Orleans
New Orleans triennial positions the city as a model for a precarious, adaptive future
The sixth edition of Prospect New Orleans, co-curated by Miranda Lash and Ebony G. Patterson, finds artists looking to the distant past, urgent present and possible futures for archetypes of resilience
US artist transforms former Confederate monument into heartfelt symbol
With a gesture of love, Raúl de Nieves has altered a New Orleans space once described as ‘the most racist’ in the city
Climate change, racial violence, systemic inequity: New Orleans triennial confronts many of society's biggest problems
The latest edition of Prospect looks at how the city has been a harbinger for different issues, such as the climate crisis and the traumas of racial violence
Sixth edition of Prospect New Orleans will feature 49 artists’ works throughout the city
Opening on 2 November, Prospect.6 will be the first edition of the triennial co-curated by an artist, with Ebony G. Patterson collaborating with Miranda Lash
Artist Ebony G. Patterson will co-curate next edition of New Orleans’s Prospect triennial
Patterson, whose work was featured in the triennial’s third edition in 2014-15, will co-curate the sixth edition with Miranda Lash
As a highway looming over a historic Black community in New Orleans faces renewal, artists evoke its history
The hulking Claiborne Expressway that bisects Tremé, a seat of New Orleans culture, has been a source of inspiration and concern—explicitly and implicitly—for generations of artists
Simone Leigh statue of African deity installed at former site of Confederate monument in New Orleans
Leigh’s sculpture was unveiled at the symbolically charged site in the city centre during the closing weekend of the fifth Prospect New Orleans triennial
Prospect New Orleans: how to stage a triennial in a city to which climate change poses an existential threat
The co-curators of the fifth edition of the event reflect on the exhibition's enduring relevance
Prospect triennial returns to New Orleans with majority Black artist roster
The city-wide exhibition features a sculpture by the artist Simone Leigh that will temporarily replace a former monument to Robert E. Lee