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The catalog accompanying the must-see triennial exhibition based in New Orleans—opening in October 2021—that art-world insiders consider an essential platform to see the pressing art of our moment. \nProspect New Orleans is a citywide contemporary art triennial that was conceived in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Emphasizing collaborative partnerships and site-specificity, Prospect presents artwork by local, national, and international artists in both traditional and highly unexpected environments. In the 2021 iteration of this major exhibition, artistic directors Naima J. Keith and Diana Nawi bring together 51 artists to engage New Orleans as context as they reconsider the concept of history, both global and local. Through many artistic strategies, architectural interventions, and public activations, the exhibition explores current social and political conditions that ask for a reconsideration of the past.\nThe accompanying catalog—a rich collection of contributions from curators, poets, artists, and cultural critics—considers several key themes that animate the ambitious artist projects: history and haunting; landscape and the natural world; performance, ritual, and the public sphere; and intimacy, life, and death. The remarkable group of voices contributing to the catalogue includes:\nEssayists: Jeffery U. Darensbourg, Amber Rose Johnson and Meg Onli, Naima J. Keith, Thomas J. Lax, Diana Nawi, Kristina Kay Robinson. 
Photo Essayist: L. Kasimu Harris. 
Poet: Robin Coste Lewis. 
Contributors: Carlos Agredano, Taylor Renee Aldridge, Jordan Amirkhani, Bryan Barcena, Andrew Blackley, Jessica Bell Brown, Olivia Butera, Taylor Bythewood-Porter, Grace Deveney, Faye Gleisser, Ann Hackett, Essence Harden, Ryan Inouye, Andy Johnson, Bana Kattan, Dana Kopel, Simone Krug, Christy LeMaster, Nancy Lim, Lucia Olubunmi Momoh, fari nzinga, Ade J. Omotosho, Georgie Payne, Jared Quinton, Jared C. B. Richardson, Nicole Smythe-Johnson, Charlie Tatum, Susan Thompson, Emily Wilkerson, Allison Young\nReview 
"Best Design Books of Fall: Prospect.5, the New Orleans contemporary art triennial conceived in response to Hurricane Katrina, is celebrated in this catalog with essays by Naima J. Keith, Diana Nawi, and more." —ELLE DECOR 
 About the Author 
Naima J. Keith is vice president of education and public programs at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). 
Diana Nawi is an independent curator based in Los Angeles.

Prospect.5 New Orleans: Yesterday we said tomorrow

Arts & Photography

Nawi, Diana

Keith, Naima J.

History & Criticism

Rizzoli Electa

This catalog is the first monographic publication to survey the work of London-based artist John Akomfrah (born 1957) and accompanies his upcoming New Museum exhibition. Since the early 1980s, Akomfrah's moving image works have offered some of the most rigorous and expansive reflections on the culture of the black diaspora. Zoe Whitley and Aram Moshayedi survey Akomfrah's early work as part of Black Audio Film Collective. Tina Campt explores the sonic resonances of Akomfrah's installation The Unfinished Conversation (2012), which focuses on the life of cultural theorist Stuart Hall. Diana Nawi examines the recent work Transfigured Night (2013/2018), considering how Akomfrah continues to find new languages for film, representation and narrative. T.J. Demos and Okwui Enwezor look at Vertigo Sea (2015), Akomfrah's monumental work exploring the concept of the black Atlantic, using the work to articulate the visual and philosophical underpinnings of Akomfrah's work across his career.

John Akomfrah

ENWEZOR, Okwui

Whitley, Zoé

Carrion-Murayari, Gary

Moshayedi, Aram

Akomfrah, John

Campt, Tina

Demos, T.J.

Mopadevi, Srivinas Aditya

Individual Artists

New Museum

This book accompanies the largest exhibition to date of Nari Ward’s groundbreaking sculptures, videos, works on paper, and installations, which tackle themes of African- American history and culture, the dynamics of power and politics, and the Caribbean diaspora. Featuring work from the 1990s to today, this mid-career survey of Nari Ward explores the artist’s best-known work in assemblage and installation, as well as his multimedia investigations. Employing the detritus of modern life, Ward creates arresting narratives about migration, social justice, and cultural identity. His enormous pieces have tested the boundaries of installation art, often creating immersive experiences for the viewer. The book features essays that approach Ward’s work through the lenses of site-specificity and Caribbean art history, a reflection by Ralph Lemon on his collaborations with Ward, and an interview with Philippe Vergne that focuses on some of the artist’s major projects. The result is a visually and intellectually stimulating in-depth look at an artist whose deft use of found objects and persistent questioning of social structures, constructions of identity, and notions of place and belonging has earned him international accolades.

Nari Ward: Sun Splashed

Prestel

This monograph of the Jamaican self-taught artist John Dunkley offers a generously illustrated overview of his powerful work. Reproducing the intricate details and somber palette that characterize John Dunkley’s paintings, this book thoughtfully situates the artist’s oeuvre within its historical context. Working in a period that laid the foundation for Jamaica’s nationalist movement, Dunkley was a part of a generation of West Indian men who traveled abroad to work and returned home to contribute to the formation of an independent nation, Marcus Garvey being the most critical of such figures. Essays from David Boxer, the leading authority on Dunkley, and Olive Senior, a historian of West Indian culture, focus on the social importance of Dunkley’s paintings and sculptures. Paying tribute to an extraordinary artist, this book showcases his vivid and mysterious work.

John Dunkley: Neither Day nor Night

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