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.
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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- 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 [...]