It is worth to check out this great article by Peter Schjeldahl published in New Yorker on Nov 24, 2008.

“Come On Down. The New Orleans Biennial beckons.”

Seen from the historical perspective of a FULL week later, the long weekend of October 30-November 2 certainly ranks as one of the happiest of my life.  After nearly three years of pushing, shaping, struggling, finessing, pleading, bargaining, and cajoling, Prospect.1 New Orleans finally took flight, with some 7,500 attendees taking part in Opening Weekend festivities spread all over the city. At least half of these viewers were in from out of town, as evidenced by the clusters of people roaming the streets of CBD with maps, or tooling around the Lower 9th Ward on bicycles or in cars. Many of them were stunned by the ambition of the exhibition and by the sheer beauty of the city – it was an absolutely flawless weekend – and literally hundreds of people came up to me during the four days, effusive with the most heartfelt compliments about everything we’d accomplished.

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Please follow the ongoing activitities through biennial’s Events page: http://www.prospectneworleans.org/hear.html