Out with the old, in with the new. With Prospect.3 drawing to a close on January 25, a reception was held last night at the Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) in New Orleans to raise a toast to outgoing artistic director Franklin Sirmans and to announce the incoming artistic director for Prospect.4, Trevor Schoonmaker. Since Prospect … Continued

Atlanta’s Craig Drennen and Garrett Bradley of New Orleans are among the 28 artists who have received a grant from Art Matters, the New York-based philanthropy that is “particularly interested in subversive or provocative content, and artistic practice that expands definitions of a traditional medium.” The grants range from $3,000 to 10,000 and are given for … Continued

Andrea Andersson has been appointed chief curator of visual arts at the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans, effective January 2015. The New Orleans-area native has been living in New York City since 2001, where she worked as an independent curator and taught at New York University and Barnard College. The 36-year-old attended Stanford and holds … Continued

Mónica Ramírez-Montagut is the new executive director of the Newcomb Art Gallery at Tulane University in New Orleans. With a BA in architecture from the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City and an MA and PhD in architecture from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Barcelona, she was most recently the associate director and senior curator at MACLA/Movimiento … Continued