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HELP SAVE LORRAINE HANSBERRY THEATRE: Our 620 Sutter Street home is being threatened by new landlord Academy of Art [...]

hated it

I don’t generally review things here, but we went to see this documentary, Black, White & Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe last week as part of Frameline, and I was moved to, um, speak on it.
We hemmed and hawed, as we always do at the prospect of actually leaving the house, [...]

overdue

Please see the above announcement for a symposium in October about Judith Wilson’s scholarship. Papers will be presented by Renee Ater, Huey Copeland, Cheryl Finley, Jacqueline Francis, Juergen Heinrichs, and Charmaine Nelson.

last 3 days

San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery Announcement

Bayeté Ross Smith
Bayeté Ross Smith

The San Francisco Arts Commission Galleryand PhotoAlliance present:Lens on LifeApril 12 – June 22, 2007
Please Join Us!Artists’ Reception: May 23, 5:30 – 7:30 pmCity Hall, Ground Floor
The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, in a programmatic partnership with PhotoAlliance, presents Lens on Life; [...]

news from Lorraine O’Grady

Dear Friends,
Greetings from San Antonio. It’s the first day of my two-month residency at Artpace.
Just wanted to let you know that MOCA has put my audio for the WACK! cellphone tour online. It’s in a group of four with those of Orlan, Marina Abramovic, and Yvonne Rainer. In the audio, I read a three-minute text [...]

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    • Palimpsest: New Journal Announcement and CFP September 2, 2010
      Website and Submission Guidelines Information: www.vanderbilt.edu/aframst/palimpsest Inquiries: PalimpsestJournal@vanderbilt.edu Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender and the Black International is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes cutting edge interdisciplinary scholarship and creative work by and about women of the African Diaspora and their commu […]
    • CFS: Photobook!! The Photographer and the Self-Published Book September 2, 2010
      I’m writing to request you spread the word regarding our November 18 – December 19 exhibition, PHOTOBOOK!! It’s our first annual juried photobooks show. I’m a true believer in the photobook to bring one’s work to the attention of the public. I think it’s a natural for the end of the [...] […]
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