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practicing the arts of cogitation since the late 1900s.

Autograph ABP presents Sunil Gupta’s Mr Malhotra’s Party (2007) – new online portfolio !

http://www.autograph-abp.co.ukSunil Gupta (born 1953, New Delhi, India) is an internationally-acclaimed artist, curator, writer and cultural activist. His photographs represent diasporic journeys through the personal and the political - since the early 1980s his work has been exhibited widely, including recent solo shows at the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Canada (2006), photo-london 2007 and [...]

if you’re in NY

(I once started to listen to him at a conference, and he was such a slow starter that I left, and later everyone raved about how great he’d been, so I’d recommend it!)

Conversations with Contemporary Artists Lectures & Gallery Talks Kerry James Marshall
Friday, September 14, 2007 6:30 p.m.
The Celeste Bartos Theater, mezzanine, [...]

where I’ve been

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WBRC-TV | Birmingham - Real Family Funeral Depicted as MasterCard ‘Priceless’ Ad

From a broadcast on the Fox affiliate in Birmingham: http://www.myfoxal.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=4013025&version=4&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=1.1.1
And Hank’s response in the Sunday, August 12, Birmingham News:
In July, Hank Willis Thomas’ Priceless #1 was installed on an exterior wall of the Birmingham Museum of Art in Birmingham, Alabama. The 2004 work, a recent acquisition by the museum, sparked immediate controversy, chiefly [...]

just because

This is my favorite photo of me, taken on a recent vacation. I just look happy and relaxed, which I was. I usually don’t post photos of myself here (though they’re certainly all over my website), but I just felt like it. And it’s the first time I can remember that I found a hat [...]

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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 [...]