Prospect.5: Yesterday we said tomorrow
Claire E. Dempster visits Prospect.5 and considers the sprawling, entwined art across the city of New Orleans.
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Technically, Missing
Carley Rickles creates a study around dead ends, lost places, and memories of interstates for this final theme story around Nodes and Networks.
Ghost Orchid
Monica Uszerowicz meditates on the fates of orchids within the ecosystems of the Everglades through artist Cristina Molina’s Ghost Orchid: Fever Dream.
Picturing the South at 25
Rebecca Brantley reviews the 25th anniversary exhibition of the High Museum of Art’s photo anthology, Picturing the South.
Spinning Out: The Changing Frequencies of College Radio
Emily Llamazales recounts her years as a DJ at WUOG 90.5 FM, charting the impact of college radio culture through the archive of the University of Georgia’s historic student-run station.
Crisis Pictures
In this feature from Treasure, Elena Peterman considers the aesthetics of crisis pictures through the art of Anastasia Samoylova and Torkwase Dyson.
River of Grass, River of Stars
We are revisiting this feature from Laws of Salvage: The 2020 Burnaway Reader. Monica Uszerowicz explores the Florida Everglades with artist and activist Reverend Houston Cypress and filmmaker Sasha Wortzel.
Today, Your Native Hosts
In this essay republished from last year, Jasmine Amussen considers the work of Native artist Hock E Aye VI, or Edgar Heap of Birds, and the annual National Day of Mourning on the fourth Thursday in November.
On RaMell Ross
L. Kasimu Harris profiles artist and filmmaker RaMell Ross, whose documentary Hale County This Morning, This Evening offers lyrical new ways of portraying Black life in the rural South. Ross’ work around Hale County is the subject of his new solo exhibition at the Ogden Museum of Art, New Orleans.
