Eighteen venues, scattered around New Orleans. Huge distances between them. A rusty pedal brake cruiser bike. And two and a half days to see it all. This is now the third official Prospect New Orleans since the biennial was inaugurated in 2008. In actuality this is the fourth incarnation of the show I have seen and the second I have written about: there was a mini-version titled Prospect.1.5 that was held in a few venues in 2010. Do the math and you’ll immediately note that Prospect has never been a biennial—a chronically postponed event, it has always been, in fact, a triennial. Prospect staff fudged the books in a more significant way when, in self-congratulatory fashion, they announced at the exhibition’s press conference that Prospect.3 would be free and open to the public, except for entrance to venues—the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the Contemporary Arts Center (CAC), and the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA), among others—that charge general admission. According to the posted admission rates at these institutions, to see only these three main venues of Prospect would set back a single adult $30, and a whopping $82 for a family of two adults with two school-aged kids. Not free. Communication …