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Prospect.1 Turns New Orleans into The Big Easel

Gambit | October 29, 2008

Not the least of the unprecedented ideas behind Prospect.1, the international art biennial opening this week all across New Orleans, is that the United States' first such major exhibition is happening in a city brought to the edge of ruin just three years earlier.

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Tags: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, visual arts, art biennials, Prospect.1

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