NP - "Prospect.1" Biennale in New Orleans

[David Morris]

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/artworld/2008/11/24/081124craw_artworld_schjeldahl

"I went to review "Prospect.1," the inaugural New Orleans Biennial,
which represents eighty-one artists from thirty-four countries in
about thirty ad-hoc locations, and which took the whole of a three-day
sojourn to explore in full. (A car is essential.)  Some of the
offerings are keenly rewarding, but the best thing about the show is
the sprawl, which affords a wide and deep immersion in the city's
complicated charms.  Be it ever so small and poor, and despite
catastrophic displacements, New Orleans can't help but remain New
Orleans, which is to other cities what a poem is to prose.  The
phantasmagoria of high and vernacular architecture, polyglot flavors,
omnipresent music, exuberant cemeteries, and geographical
unlikelihood, of a seaport largely below sea level, stokes continual
wonderment."