(thanks, Rachel!)
A bill is being introduced into Congress which would allow artists todeduct the fair market value of any work donated to a non-profit. Atpresent, we can only deduct cost-basis. To send an email to yourrepresentative to support this bill, please go to:
http://www.capwiz.com/artsusa/issues/alert/?alertid=9521951&type=CO
It only takes a minute to fill in the form.
from Lorraine O’Grady
Last week I spoke at LA MOCA for the “WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution” show. Besides discussing my piece in the show, Mlle Bourgeoise Noire, I read a brief piece written in response to Marsha Meskimmon’s article in the WACK! catalogue. Meskimmon’s is the lead article and the best thing in the book, I [...]
(Alice’s my girl and about to be a mommy any minute now!)
Gente e Pietre at The Gallery at Tacoma Community College Tacoma , Wash.
Gente e Pietre Italy and the U.S. , A Closer Look, featuring photography by Kyle Dillehay and Alice Di Certo , will be on view March 26 through May 11 at The Gallery at Tacoma Community College .
Gallery hours are [...]
pet peeve #3
I have to post this, because it bugs me. Recently, a couple of people (strangers) have written to me asking for information about something–one was seeking information about a residency I’d been on but about which there is little published info; the other was seeking info on publishing. Now, I don’t respond to every E-mail [...]
foolish but fascinating and all over the Internet
Meet the Mandingos
They’re gentlemen in the street, thugs in the bedroom, and your wife’s steamiest fantasy. Read the article and then post your comments below.
-By Sanjiv Bhattacharya-Photograph by Dana Lixenberg (dang, I know Dana!)
Jeff didn’t always like black guys. He was prejudiced—he admits it. As one of the few white kids at [...]
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81 Press
- Interesting powerHouse news March 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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€. […]