Another new black woman artist, courtesy of Bitch magazine: Wanda Ewing, http://www.wandaewing.com. Maybe folks already know about her and I’m late to the game. Her work looks pretty provocative and interesting–check her out. She studied at San Francisco Art Institute–I wonder with whom?–and now works in Nebraska.
I’m intrigued that there is a shopping cart on [...]
ABOUT BEAUTY
Exhibition Opening Thursday 13 December at 18:00 and closes 5 January 2007
GOODMAN GALLERY CAPE is proud to present our end-of-year exhibition featuring the work of Frances Goodman, Joy Gregory, Robert Hodgins, William Kentridge, Vivienne Koorland, Penny Siopis, Kathryn Smith, Nontsikelelo Veleko and Sue Williamson. Exploring the complex mythology surrounding [...]
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(thanks, Deb)
Friday, December 14, 2007ArtsMuseum and Gallery Listings
SHEILA PREE BRIGHT: ‘SUBURBIA’ In a show intended as an alternativeview of contemporary African-American life, Sheila Pree Bright turnsfrom images of street culture to those of upper-middle-classdomesticity as reached by commuter train. Some of the elegantinteriors have a self-aware black identity built into their décor,through faux leopard skin [...]
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(thanks, Deb)Clinging to Mammy: The Faithful Slave in Twentieth-Century AmericaMicki McElya
2007 Myers Outstanding Book Award, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights
When Aunt Jemima beamed at Americans from the pancake mix box on grocery shelves, many felt reassured by her broad smile that she and her product were dependable. She was [...]
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In just five days, the Federal Communications Commission plans to open the floodgates of further media consolidation across America.
If FCC Chairman Kevin Martin gets his way, your community will be inundated with even more mass-produced celebrity gossip and infotainment, and less local [...]
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 [...]
cadre $10 artist grant
- 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 [...]