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A Life Exposed
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you know, i really think this speaks for itself
talk amongst yourselves
Is this creepy or hilariously dead-on? I can’t really decide, and usually I think this artist, 14, is very funny. And the celebrity-colored-child-adoption stuff is annoying. But does it take on a different meaning in the context of Lil’ Kim’s portrait by David LaChapelle (a.k.a. the nouveau Jean-Paul Goude, a moniker of which he’d no [...]
a reminder of how it is in this great land of freedom
A lawyer posted this to a listserv I’m on:
[...]Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination by covered employers on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.[...] But, sexual orientation discrimination is absent from Title VII’s list of bases upon which an employer cannot discriminate. This means that people [...]
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Caran Hartsfield, Tomoko Kana, Lucia Cedron, and Dagur Kari at the Sundance/NHK awards ceremony on Thursday in Park City. Photo by Brian Brooks/indieWIRE
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- Interesting powerHouse news March 12, 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 12, 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 12, 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€. […]