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Saturday, MARCH 1st - 5:30-7pm
Join us for an artist talk with Myra Greene & Sama Alshaibi
Free and opento the public!
WHERE:Peer Gallery526 West 26th Street, #209New York, NYwww.peergallery.com
Nueva Luz will be available for signing
Photo: Myra Greene
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Monday, MARCH 3rd, 6-8:00pm
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Video: Comcast tries to buy our silence
SavetheInternet.com just caught Comcast Corp. stacking a FCC hearing with paid (and apparently sleepy) seat-fillers.
The hearing was set up to investigate Comcast’s recent blocking of the Internet. But Comcast packed the room so that the public couldn’t get in to voice [...]
UPDATED: Swann Galleries African-American Fine Art auction
ANOTHER RECORD-SETTING AUCTION OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN FINE ART ATSWANN GALLERIES ON FEBRUARY 19
Artist Records Set for Aaron Douglas, Elizabeth Catlett, Beauford Delaney, Hale Woodruff andOther Well-Known Artists
New York—Swann Galleries’ third auction of African-American Fine Art on February 19 was their largest and highest-grossing sale of that category to date, bringing in more than $2.7 million. Once [...]
Open Door Contemporary Art Projects,Crossroads in the African and Black Diasporas
ANNIVERSARY ISSUEFebruary 22, 2008www.odcap.com
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It’s our one-year anniversary this month and in OD-CAP’s effort to explore themes that are valued by our contributors and users, this issue continues to consider works of art [...]
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 [...]