Amistad to Publish Photo Book of Obama’s Campaign*
By Lynn Andriani
HarperCollins’s Amistad imprint announced today it will publish Obama: The HistoricCampaign in Photos on October 28 with a 250,000-copy first printing. The book willcover Barack Obama’s campaign from its beginning through June, and will includemore than 150 full color and b&w photographs plus an introductory essay.
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These photos are from the opening and panel discussion for Double Exposure: African Americans Before and Behind the Camera at MoAD from their Flickr group. So cute, Kesha (top) and April & Amanda (bottom), all in front of their works! Check out the whole group. The artists and work in this show are lovely and [...]
Culture Project invites you to special preview performances Expatriate!
EXPATRIATE is an electrifying exploration of black womanhood, sexuality, art and addiction, celebrating characters in the spirit of Nina Simone, Josephine Baker and the Hottentot Venus. A new play that combines poetic dialogue with realistic scenes and concert numbers, this all-vocal dramatic musical tells the story [...]
Ramekon O’Arwisters
“Everyone is afraid to taste the flavor of my existence.” -Ramekon O’Arwisters
A new artist (to me, and, seriously, one of the best names ever [formerly Tim Taylor]). Check out his Flickr photostream (from where this image comes) athttp://www.flickr.com/photos/ramekon
and some bio info and a brief statement at ArtSlant.
“Transformations: Black Power Salute in Confederate Drag”
Ramekon O’Arwisters “SuperART [...]
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ART CHURCH
and Closing of 100% Other: Artists and Psycho-Demographic Transitions
and “Rich” by Kyungmi Shin
Gallery Walk-through 6:00pm with Curator Tyler Stallings
Art Church 7:30pm
Friday, June 27, 2008
18th Street Arts Center
1639 18th Street, Santa Monica, CA
18th Street Arts Center and host, Kyungmi Shin, are proud to present an evening of performance art. Todd Gray will facilitate the [...]
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 [...]