go zoe!
For those who live in Philly:
Dear Friends,I have a great need for volunteers on the day of May 6th.
There are 2 big jobs that aren’t covered…
I need folks who can help me sweep up potential puddles that form under the
highway around noon on the 6th. It looks like it might rain Thursday, Friday
and Saturday, [...]
don’t forget monday
A National Day Without an Immigrant
Do what you can.
I saw a really good documentary last night, Crossing Arizona. It was amazingly, to its credit, unbiased, though I have to say the lines of good and evil were nevertheless clearly drawn for me. I guess because I don’t own a television so don’t get to see [...]
if you live in n.j. (or n.y.)
Suzan-Lori Parks is brilliant and it certainly sounds topical, but I have to say it creeps me the fuck out to see the name Frist all over my alma mater. To see it anywhere, really.
The Black Arts Company: Drama proudly presents
The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World
A Showcase Performance
Written by [...]
this makes me sad
(all images by Bayeté Ross Smith)
Now that I work in San Francisco I rarely get in my car to go anywhere. I like taking public transportation, even when the escalators are broken for weeks or there are too few trains for passengers so if your sitting down your face is pressed up too close to [...]
sickening but not surprising
(I’m not sure what the original source is of this article for citation; there’s a related article at http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/4/18/104520/931
Also, a NY times (registration required) article:
http://tinyurl.com/na78q
Washington Post article:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/03/AR2006040301699.html
And on this page from the Smithsonian Institution, you can find a link
(dated 3/17)to the announcement press release.http://newsdesk.si.edu/
Go here to download a letter to send to Lawrence Small,
the Secretary [...]
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 [...]