For centuries, Black communities in New Orleans have cultivated a tradition of assemblage, transforming everyday materials into sacred objects and spaces.
In Bey's latest photographs, five former plantations in Louisiana seem haunted by a history of violence against enslaved people—and by memories of their resistance.
Fifty years later, watching these movies can inspire a profound disappointment that all this artistic and political energy never found a way to convert itself into something more substantial.
Several works at Prospect explore the chronotope of the batture, the strip of land between river and levy that floods when the waters of the Mississippi Delta rise.
The Mexico-City-based conceptual artist Minerva Cuevas explores the ways in which seemingly banal items like fruit, chocolate, and water reflect the practices and ideology of global capitalism.
In 2016 we launched the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation/Art in America Arts Writing Fellowships, a joint project designed to foster art and culture writing in cities throughout the US. Fellowship recip…