Leonide Massine, Pablo Picasso, Erik Satie, Mercure, 1924 in "Tableau Vivant: A Wandering Retrospective," performed by the New Orleans Society for Tableau Vivant as part of Prospect1.5, 2010
New Orleans, god love it, is a city of hard luck. And so it goes for the nearly 40 artists whose invitations to participate in the second-annual New Orleans biennial, Prospect.2, Oct. 22, 2011-Jan. 29, 2012, were revoked after a series of fundraising defeats stripped the hotly anticipated exhibition down to the marrow.