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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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    • Haiku in my Neighborhood (M. Hanks Gallery, 2009) March 10, 2010
      Haiku 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 10, 2010
      The 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€. […]
    • Angaza Afrika: African Art Now (Laurence King, 2009) March 10, 2010
      Angaza Afrika: African Art Now. Chris Spring, Laurence King, 350 colour illustrations,256 x 226mm, 336 pages, paperback, ISBN – 978 1 85669 548 0, £25. Angaza Afrika: African Art Now, by Chris Spring and published by Laurence King brings together more than 60 of Africa’s most creative contemporary artists, drawn from across the African continent as [.. […]