Dan Cameron, Director and Chief Curator of Prospect.1 New Orleans, and Saskia Bos, Dean of the School of Art, The Cooper Union, invite you to a panel discussion on Prospect.1 New Orleans.
6:30PM Thursday May 15, 2008
The Great Hall at The Cooper Union, 7 East 7th Street at Third Avenue, New York, NY
This event is free and open to the public.
About the revitalization of New Orleans:
Prospect.1 New Orleans has been designed to help reinvigorate New Orleans following the human, civic, and economic devastation left by Katrina in 2005. The long-term primary goal of the biennial exhibition is to redefine the city as a cultural destination, where the visual arts are celebrated and can once again thrive. Prospect.1 New Orleans aspires to initiate a new category of cultural tourism for the city, on a scale normally seen during Mardi Gras and the city's celebrated Jazz-Fest.
Founding Director and Chief Curator:
Prospect.1 New Orleans will be directed by Dan Cameron, an internationally renowned contemporary curator who was recently appointed Director of Visual Arts of the Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) in New Orleans. Dan Cameron has organized numerous large-scale and international exhibitions, including Dirty Yoga: the 2006 Taipei Biennial; NY Interrupted (pkm Gallery, Beijing, 2006-07), Poetic Justice (the 8th International Istanbul Biennial, 2003), Cocido y Crudo (Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, 1994), and Art and its Double (Fundaçió La Caixa, Barcelona and Madrid, 1986-87), among others. While Senior Curator at the New Museum, he organized retrospective exhibitions on the work of Carolee Schneemann, Cildo Meireles, Faith Ringgold, David Wojnarowicz, Martin Wong, Pierre et Gilles, William Kentridge, Paul McCarthy, and Carroll Dunham, as well as acclaimed survey exhibitions like East Village USA (2004) and Living Inside the Grid (2003).
Participating Artists:
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