Simone Leigh
Installed at WILD GIRLS, Exit Art through August 26th
www.exitart.org
Lazarine, terracotta, graphite and platinum luster
if you don’t know, now you know
Here are 2005 Census stats for what college educated, 25 years and older Americans who work year round make.
White men 100%Asian men 92%Hispanic men 77%Black men 76%Asian women 74%White women 70%Black women 62%Hispanic women 61%
Here is what Americans 25 years or older with a high school diploma or less working year round make.
White men [...]
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Terry Howcott, “a social commentator, willing dissident, community educator, a (lightly) seasoned professional and recovering-flautist,” has a new, incredibly comprehensive site, Broad and Black. If you, like me, have an abundant amount of time to spend reading and looking in cyberspace, spend some time here.
Also, artist Sonseree’ Gibson has a new site with her stunning [...]
um, could it be because we keep Israel awash in money and weaponry?
I saw this cover on the newsstand today and the prejudicial language of it really got to me (though certainly didn’t surprise me). Check out two great articles on BlackCommentator.com this week: “Israel’s Terror” and “Israeli Apartheid.”
New Mel Gibson Urban Drama to Be Spoken in Ebonics
That one made me smile and it wasn’t even The Onion. Don’t rule it out.
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- 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 [...]
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- 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 [...]