sharon olds is my new hero
So this is a week or so old, but it’s great: http://www.poetsagainstthewar.org/sharonolds.asp
We went to the anti-war protest in San Francisco yesterday; you know, it always seems important to be counted. I have to say it was disappointing, lackluster even. It was the same old choir of Bay Area lefties trading flyers for mostly the same [...]
damn spam
Okay, so I notice I got some spam here in the comments so I’ve instituted word verification for posts. I hope that stops it.
Fazal Sheikh–2005 MacArthur Fellow
Could I be more happy? Another of my beautiful, dear friends gets his genius props! Maybe 2005 hasn’t been a total waste. Congrats, Fazal!
and now for something completely different…
I’m announcing the re-release of a t-shirt first designed in conjunction with my graduate thesis project, the reinvention of a children’s playground in Santa Ana, CA. I’ve gotten so many inquiries about the t-shirt since, that it’s coming out again, thanks to the print-on-demand possibilities of cafepress.com.
Above is the design on the front. The t-shirt [...]
Rep McKinney Special Order Censored?
http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=8235
by Rep Cynthia McKinney
I mentioned the word impeachment on the House Floor Thursday late afternoon, but I don’t see it in the official Congressional Record transcript. I was chided by the Speaker that it was out of order to question the President’s motives. I didn’t question motives, I questioned actions: from lack of actions on [...]
81 Press
- PITCH BLACKNESS BY HANK WILLIS THOMAS (APERTURE, 2008) December 8, 2008Pitch Blackness. Hank Willis Thomas, Aperture, October 2008, 128 Pages, ca. 125 four-color images, 8×10 inches (20×25 cm), ISBN: 978-1-59711-072-3, Hardcover, $35 On February 2, 2000, Songha Thomas Willis was shot to death outside a Philadelphia nightclub. He was 27 years old. The takeaway? A $400 gold chain. It’s the story [...]
- Hank Willis Thomas interview December 4, 2008Check out this interview with Hank Willis Thomas in PhotoEye magazine online, http://www.photoeye.com/magazine/features/2008/12_03_Hank_Willis_Thomas.cfm, in which he talks about his monograph Pitch Blackness.
- Obama at #15 November 24, 2008Poli-Book Best Seller List Based on sales for weeks ending Oct. 25 through Nov. 15, 2008 15. Obama, by Deborah Willis and Kevin Merida. (Amistad, $26.95.) Photographs capturing Obama’s 18-month campaign to the presidency. Rankings reflect aggregated sales for the weeks ending October 25 through November 15, 2008 at many thousands of venues where a wide range of [...]
cadre $10 artist grant
- Updates from Simone Leigh November 7, 2008Archeology of Wonder curated by Kristina Newman-Scott REAL ART WAYS October 4, 2008 —January 4, 2009 Opening reception: Saturday, October 4, 2008, 4-7PM Performance by Valerie Garlick, 4:30PM Closing reception: Sunday, January 4, 2009, 3-5PM 56 Arbor St Hartford CT 06106 860 232 1006 www.realartways.org Archaeology of Wonder brings together two disparate approaches to the past - archaeology with its meticulous discipline, and wonder with [...]
- Fall Exhibitions: ?Evocations? at Rose Issa Projects, London? Kala Fellowship Exhibition, Berkeley November 7, 2008I have a few projects coming up to share with you. I will be at Kala’s opening this Thursday, October 9, in Berkeley, and on October 20 at the artist reception for my first exhibition in London. Presented by Rose Issa, I will be exhibiting works from a number of series including The Alphabet of Silence, Most Wanted [...]