(spotted this at Treat, a great design blog):
Did you know that Jackie Ormes was the first African-American female cartoonist?
Ormes was born in Pittsburgh, PA as Zelda Maven Jackson August 1, 1911. She started her career as a Proofreader for the Pittsburgh Courier—a weekly black newspaper, and moved to Chicago in 1941 where she wrote [...]
seriously, mr. attention whore?
Nas’ upcoming album cover, at left;at right: Rear view of former slave revealing scars on his back from savage whipping, in photo taken after he escaped to become Union soldier during Civil War. National Archives / Time Life / Getty
I don’t care for this.
check out Professor’s Kim’s latest on BlogHer
(Kim had recently contact me regarding her discussion of an image of Michelle Obama, but she was also preparing this article on murdered South African athlete and lesbian Eudy Simelane, who I’d also heard about from Zanele Muholi.)
Up until the end of April this year, if you had run into former South African footballer Eudy [...]
UPDATED: save the date(s)!
(more to come; I am one of the artists in this show, curated by Lisa Henry, so most likely I’ll be there at the opening. There is also an artists’ salon moderated by yours truly at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, June 22–I’ll update with details and images as I get them)
Volume 13#1 comes out in [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]