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New Orleans contemporary art show postponed until 2012

Tom Hoepf
Tom Hoepf

NEW ORLEANS (AP) – The nation’s economic downturn has delayed the return of a citywide art exhibit originally planned to start in November.

Producer Dan Cameron says “2009 was really bad for fund-raising and 2010 didn’t look much better.” So the second Prospect New Orleans show will begin in November 2011 rather than November of this year.

In November, he had said he was scaling back the city’s foray into international contemporary art shows, called Prospect New Orleans.

Prospect.1, which was modeled on international art biennials, was the largest contemporary art exhibit in U.S. history. It also ran overbudget. Cameron says he thinks an extra year of fund-raising will let the second exhibit begin on a firm financial footing.

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Information from: The Times-Picayune, http://www.nola.com

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