Tag: Daily Serving
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José Antonio Vega Macotela at Prospect.3
Published December 9, 2014 Dailyserving.com “My eternity has died and I am waking it.” –Violence of the Hours, Cesar Vallejo It sounds like a riddle: No one can buy more of it, and few have enough of it; it wears on the rich and poor equally; loss of it produces deep fear. Time’s ability to…
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30 Americans at the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans
Published on Daily Serving on Feb. 25, 2014 In a nod to Linda Nochlin’s famous query, Michele Wallace asked, “Why are there no great black artists?”[1]30 Americans is the response to this question, a beautiful, rambunctious show that gathers the work of 31 African American artists. Unfortunately, 30 Americans, similar to Thelma Golden’s Freestyle in 2001, is not about a specific curatorial theory or…
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Camille Henrot: Cities of Ys at the New Orleans Museum of Art
October 22, 2013. Daily Serving.com French video artist Camille Henrot creates parallels between the mythical and the contemporary. In her first solo exhibition in the United States at the New Orleans Museum of Art, she investigates the legendary city of Ys in France and the vanishing coastal area of southern Louisiana that is occupied by the ancestral Houma…
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Post-Fordlândia: A Critical Look at a Failed Development
Published Daily Serving September 6, 2012 Megs Morley & Tom Flanagan, “Interior American Village Fordlândia”, Lamda print, 20×31, 2011 Post-Fordlândia, the new exhibit at Good Children Gallery, is a palimpsest for modern times: it calls from faded pasts to warn us of an ill-advised future. A series of high-def videos and large format photographs, taken…
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The Road To: An Interview with Franklin Sirmans
Published Daily Serving June 6, 2012 Issues of under-financing, administrative inadequacy and lack of community support are some of the problems that can be found currently in multiple organizations in New Orleans. Prospect New Orleans, a nascent biennial founded in 2008 has had its share of these issues. However, new leadership and the selection of…
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Unnatural Communities
Daily Serving. March 22, 2012 One of the most informative moments in SPACES, the latest exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans, is a timeline of the birth of the St. Claude art scene handwritten in black charcoal pencil on the wall. Born out of the reinvigoration of community action in post-Katrina New Orleans,…
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The Next Phase: An Interview with Dan Cameron
Daily Serving. December 22, 2011 Commonly founders of organizations are so caught up in the building, growing, and running of the organization that questions of the sustainability after said founder leaves are left unanswered. This is far from the truth for Curator Dan Cameron, the founder of Prospect New Orleans, an international art biennial in…
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