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Louis Armstrong in His Den, 1969. 5"x7" Photograph. Courtesy of the Louis Armstrong House Museum. PROSPECT.4: THE LOTUS IN SPITE OF THE SWAMP OPENS TO THE PUBLIC THIS SATURDAY Preview Weekend: November 16-19 Swamp Galaxy Gala: November 17 Open to the Public: November 18, 2017- February 25, 2018 NEW ORLEANS, LA —The fourth iteration of Prospect New Orleans ’ international contemporary art triennial, Prospect.4: The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp , opens to the public on Saturday, November 18, 2017 and runs through February 25, 2018 aligning with the City of New Orleans’s Tricentennial celebration. Led by Artistic Director Trevor Schoonmaker , Chief Curator of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Prospect.4: The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp brings together 73 artists from North America, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, Asia and the European powers that colonized New Orleans, addressing is