(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
- 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 [...]