3-month citywide arts exhibit opens Sunday in New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS — Collages by jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong, three versions of a work by Yoko Ono, a dream-like video about jazz trumpeter Buddy Bolden, a steam calliope that plays African-American protest music, and a chunk of wall bearing a restored mural by graffiti artist Banksy are among hundreds of works to be shown as part of or during a citywide exhibit called Prospect.4.
Prospect.4 opens to the public Sunday and ends Feb. 25. It’s the fourth citywide Prospect New Orleans show, and includes photographs, sculptures, prints, videos and other work by 73 artists from around the world. The show commissioned new works by 32 of those artists.
Armstrong’s collages have never been shown in New Orleans before the current display in the New Orleans Jazz Museum at the Old U.S. Mint, said Trevor Schoonmaker, artistic director for Prospect.4.
Armstrong covered reel-to-reel tape boxes with photographs, cartoons, art and words from magazines, newspapers and other sources. A collage also covered his home studio walls, Schoonmaker said.