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 [...]
check some sistas out
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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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€. […]