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Prospect New Orleands

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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

Photo Focus Symposium: Second Centry

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  Available Today! FotoFocus Symposium: Second Century: Photography, Feminism, Politics Six New Videos ft. Tabitha Soren, Justine Kurland, Aruna D'Souza, Laura Gómez, Natalie Bookchin, Nora Khan, the FemFour, and many more Shooting America   Keynote address with Tabitha Soren (Photographer) and Justine Kurland (Photographer). Pictured above. Woman with a Camera   Panel moderated by Prudence Peiffer (Senior Editor at  Artforum ) with Makeda Best (Curator of Photography for Harvard Art Museums), Carmen Winant (Artist and Writer, Assistant Professor of Visual Studies and Contemporary Art History at CCAD and Dean at SSPS), Claire Lehmann (Artist, Writer, Curator). Women of Latin American Film   Panel moderated by Michelle Farrell (Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Fairfield University) with Diana Vargas (Artistic Director of Havana Film Festival New York), Laura Gómez (Director and Actor), and Ana Katz (Writer, Director, Actor)

Reyes Projects and Bridget Finn

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FOUNDER OF CLEOPATRA’S AND DIRECTOR OF MITCHELL-INNES & NASH RETURNS TO DETROIT —Bridget Finn Joins Reyes Projects as Managing Director— Bridget Finn; Photo credit: Dustin Aksland (NEW YORK, NY & BIRMINGHAM, MI –October 30, 2017) –  Reyes Projects  is pleased to announce that  Bridget Finn will join its team as Managing Director. After more than a decade of curatorial and directorial achievements in New York City, Finn returns to her hometown in Michigan. Finn will assume her position at Reyes Projects in November of 2017. “We are thrilled to bring Bridget Finn’s creative dynamism and expertise to the gallery,” says Reyes Projects founder,  Terese Reyes . “She has extensive experience working with both emerging and established artists, and is committed to making art accessible and participatory.” Finn led the contemporary arm of Mitchell-Innes & Nash as Director for the last five years, where she established programm