festivalgirl
10-29-2008, 01:48 PM
From today's NY Times
NEW ORLEANS — Over the last few weeks more than a few locals have stopped by to inform a small construction crew in the Lower Ninth Ward here that it obviously does not know what it is doing.
Rachel Lucas, a design consultant from New York, working on a house created by the artist Wangechi Mutu as an art installation for the Prospect.1 biennial.
“The whole time we’ve been here, people have been like, ‘You know, that’s not the way to build a house,’ ” said Karen Del Aguila, laughing. “They’d be like, ‘Are you guys licensed?’ ”
Ms. Del Aguila, an assistant to the artist Wangechi Mutu, and her crew have been building the frame of a traditional shotgun house, not as a permanent dwelling but as part of Prospect.1 New Orleans, an ambitious new art biennial that is to open here on Saturday and continue through Jan. 18.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/29/arts/design/29pros.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=all
NEW ORLEANS — Over the last few weeks more than a few locals have stopped by to inform a small construction crew in the Lower Ninth Ward here that it obviously does not know what it is doing.
Rachel Lucas, a design consultant from New York, working on a house created by the artist Wangechi Mutu as an art installation for the Prospect.1 biennial.
“The whole time we’ve been here, people have been like, ‘You know, that’s not the way to build a house,’ ” said Karen Del Aguila, laughing. “They’d be like, ‘Are you guys licensed?’ ”
Ms. Del Aguila, an assistant to the artist Wangechi Mutu, and her crew have been building the frame of a traditional shotgun house, not as a permanent dwelling but as part of Prospect.1 New Orleans, an ambitious new art biennial that is to open here on Saturday and continue through Jan. 18.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/29/arts/design/29pros.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=all