Following the physical devastation of New Orleans triggered by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, curator Dan Cameron responded by organizing a citywide initiative that would attract thousands of art-loving visitors to south Louisiana, many for the first time. Prospect.1 New Orleans inaugurates what is planned to be a biennial tradition, joining JazzFest and Mardi Gras as one of the city’s important cultural celebrations. For Prospect.1, eighty-one artists have come together from thirty-eight countries to present their work in twenty different locations throughout the city, transforming New Orleans into an expansive showcase for new art. This publication accompanying the landmark exhibition celebrates the unique history, culture, architecture, art, and music of New Orleans through illustrated entries on each participating artist and essays by Dan Cameron, art historian Barbara Bloemink, journalist Lolis Eric Elie, and curator Claire Tancons. An omnibus of contemporary global art, the book is also an indispensable record of the role of the contemporary art world in the cultural rebuilding of one of the world’s most beloved cities.

The artists are:

ALLORA & CALZADILLA, GHADA AMER, EL ANATSUI, JANINE ANTONI, ALEXANDRE ARRECHEA, LUIS CRUZ AZACETA, JOHN BARNES, JR., SANFORD BIGGERS, WILLIE BIRCH, MONICA BONVICINI, MARK BRADFORD, CANDICE BREITZ, CAI GUO-QIANG, CAO FEI & MAP OFFICE, FRANCIS CAPE, CHEN CHIEH-JEN, ADAM CVIJANOVIC, JOSÉ DAMASCENO, ANNE DELEPORTE, LEANDRO ERLICH, SKYLAR FEIN, ROY FERDINAND, JR., TONY FITZPATRICK, GAJIN FUJITA, RICO GATSON, KATHARINA GROSSE, TRENTON DOYLE HANCOCK, VICTOR HARRIS & FI-YI-YI, ARTURO HERRERA, TAKASHI HORISAKI, JACQUELINE HUMPHRIES, ISAAC JULIEN, WILLIAM KENTRIDGE, LEE BUL, KALUP LINZY, SRDJAN LONCAR, RAFAEL LOZANO-HEMMER, DEBORAH LUSTER, JORGE MACCHI & EDGARDO RUDNITZKY, SHAWNE MAJOR, NALINI MALANI, McCALLUM & TARRY, DAVE McKENZIE, JOSEPHINE MECKSEPER, JULIE MEHRETU, AERNOUT MIK, BEATRIZ MILHAZES, TATSUO MIYAJIMA, YASUMASA MORIMURA, ZWELETHU MTHETHWA, WANGECHI MUTU, NAVIN PARTY, SHIRIN NESHAT, MARCEL ODENBACH, KAZ OSHIRO, MIGUEL PALMA, PEREJAUME, PIERRE et GILLES, JOHN PILSON, SEBASTIÁN PREECE,
ROSÂNGELA RENNÓ, PEDRO REYES, ROBIN RHODE, STEPHEN G. RHODES, NADINE ROBINSON, CLARE E. ROJAS, KAY ROSEN, MALICK SIDIBÉ, AMY SILLMAN, NEDKO SOLAKOV, JACKIE SUMELL & HERMAN WALLACE, SUPERFLEX, FIONA TAN, PASCALE MARTHINE TAYOU, FRED TOMASELLI, JANNIS VARELAS, XAVIER VEILHAN, PAUL VILLINSKI, NARI WARD, XU BING, HAEGUE YANG