art in public spaces
Hank Willis Thomas’ work “Priceless,” a photograph created in response to his cousin Songha’s murder using a photograph from his funeral overlaid with text derived from the MasterCard advertising campaign of the same name, has been reproduced as a banner outside of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco (http://www.ybca.org/b_ybca.html) as part [...]
brilliant
Thanks to Myra for calling my attention to this Cliff’s Notes version of R. Kelly’s Trapped in the Closet (click above on the post title). You can watch “the entire saga” at http://www.r-kelly.com/index_main.html; they’re so awful they’re magnificent.
I haven’t really blogged since I got home from Taos a little more than a month ago. I [...]
81 Press
- Interesting powerHouse news March 13, 2010Dear powerHouse follower— You are, with any luck, a retailer, a reviewer, a promoter, or just someone vigorously involved in the visual arts, and have been following us through our varied publications over the years and the copious press we made with them, and perhaps recall the risks, the successes, maybe even the élan to which [...] […]
- Haiku in my Neighborhood (M. Hanks Gallery, 2009) March 13, 2010Haiku in my Neighborhood. Poems by Dee Dee McNeil, photographs by Roland Charles, M. Hanks Gallery, 2009, ISBN 978-0-9821810-1-0, $25.00. (Pages from the book are viewable at Google Books online.) Haiku in my Neighborhood – a coffee table book of 50 haiku poems written by jazz singer/songwriter Dee Dee McNeil with photographs by noted photographer-ar […]
- The Erotic Diary of a Lumberjack by Barthélémy Toguo (Michael Woolworth Editions, Paris, 2010) March 13, 2010The Erotic Diary of a Lumberjack” (”Le Journal Érotique d’un Bûcheron”). artist’s book by Barthélémy Toguo with 12 linocuts and texts, 38 x 26.5 cm, Michael Woolworth Editions, Paris, 1000€. […]