Mark Bradford's Mithra. Photo / Frank Rodriguez
On Saturday, we hopped in the car and went for a self-guided tour of Prospect.1 projects in the Lower Ninth Ward. (The biennial offered a shuttle bus for visitors throughout the day, but our experience trying to catch it the day before at 40-minute intervals was something we decided we could live without.) Armed with the official Prospect.1 map, we drove around the alternately devastated/deserted and resurgent neighborhood until we saw a(nother) cluster of white folks snapping photographs of something— and then we began to look for the art.
This article appears in Jan 14-20, 2009.