from Afterellen.com (thanks, Deb):
EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY, DON’T IT? Noted photographer Charzette Torrence’s exhibit Just as We Are, a collection of 36 black-and-white portraits of LGBT Americans of all walks of life that toured the country in 2006, is set to open again in Ferndale, [...]
Race Conference at Monmouth University, November 2008
For more information see: http://FutureofRace.googlepages.com/home
Seeking papers, panels, workshops, on race from multiple disciplines.
Contact hwilliam@monmouth.edu for questions.
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Shades of Love:
Black Homosexuality
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Shades of Love: Black Homosexuality is a trilogy of documentaries that express the experiences and problems of black homosexuals.
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Volume One
Volume one dispels the myth about the origin of homosexuality among those of African descent. It exposes the many [...]
upcoming exhibitions–UPDATED
I generally don’t do much self-promotion here, ironically, but since I have work in a show that just opened and one about to open I thought I ought to do my duty (and I finally updated this info on my site, too):
“Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body,” Hood Museum of Art [...]
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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 [...]