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From Abdul Hakim Onitolo:
I am engaged in a project using the Helen Bannerman story [Little Black Sambo] that requires as many responses as I can get at my website www.strangefruit.originationinsite.com . I do hope you would be interested in aiding me with this request. Please do not hesitate to get in touch and query [...]

www.odcap.comOpen Door Contemporary Art Projects
:::a content-oriented social-networking interactive collaborative site offering a novel approach to accessing art and culture:::

PORTLAND,OR - June 21, 2007 - This new web format is a result of your comments that have helped us to build a better site. We welcome collaborations and submissions. Look for new uploads each month…A reminder [...]

i want that poster!

Laylah Barrayn has created a slide show of images from day one of the B-Girl B Summit in Minneapolis and the opening reception of the exhibition “The Art of T&A” where some of her work was included. Check out the side show at Flickr, follow this link: http://www.flickr.com/gp/9459443@N03/868kq2

important work by an old, dear friend

We are pleased to announce the publication of FAZAL SHEIKH’s new book Ladli (Steidl 2007). The companion volumes Ladli and Moksha received the International Henri Cartier-Bresson Grand Prize in 2005 and are currently on view at the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation, Paris, May 10 – August 26, 2007.
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SAVE THE DATE “Aaron Douglas & the Arts of the Harlem Renaissance” An Interdisciplinary National Conference
Synopsis
The Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas invites you to”Aaron Douglas and [...]

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    • PITCH BLACKNESS BY HANK WILLIS THOMAS (APERTURE, 2008) December 8, 2008
      Pitch 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, 2008
      Check 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, 2008
      Poli-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, 2008
      Archeology 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, 2008
      I 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 [...]