Tonight’s Screening at NOCCA Will Go On! Saturday Screenings Cancelled
NOCCA is going on with the screening tonight to commemorate the 3rd year post-Katrina anniversary. Co-directors, Dawn Logsdon and Lolis Eric Elie, along with producer Lucie Faulknor will be in attendance for a Q&A . Following the Q&A, June Bug Productions, John O’Neil’s groundbreaking African American theater troupe, will be coordinating story circles where people [...]
Creative Time partners with MTV
MEDIA ALERT (August 26, 2008 New York, NY)
NYC NONPROFIT CREATIVE TIME PARTNERS WITH MTV
Bringing video art to New York’s media mecca
Photo: Mark Tribe, Port Huron Project 4: We Are Also Responsible, 2008. Photo: Davis Jung.
MTV 44 1/2, the outdoor, gilded screen located in the heart of New York City’s Times Square, will feature a [...]
Updated: Aperture West Book Prize
The Aperture West Book Prize was generated as an opportunity to to highlight artists living and working west of the Mississippi. An esteemed group of tastemakers in the west each nominated up to five artists who they thought would be worthy of an Aperture publication. Those 103 nominees were invited to submit work; over [...]
Read Qiana Mestrich’s guest blog post on Black Star Rising
Teachers, assign this to your first-year students who want to “photograph the homeless.”
Hello Friends,
Founded in 1935 by German Jews fleeing Nazi Germany, the Black Star photography agency has represented legendary photographers like Robert Capa and “introduced modern European photojournalism to the United States.”
A few weeks ago, the editor of the agency’s blog, Black Star [...]
New Black Feminist Criticism, 1985 - 2000
New Black Feminist Criticism, 1985-2000
BARBARA CHRISTIAN
Edited by Gloria Bowles, M. Giulia Fabi, and Arlene R. Keizer
A passionate and celebrated pioneer in her own words New Black Feminist Criticism, 1985-2000 collects a selection of essays and reviews from Barbara Christian, one of the founding voices in [...]
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 [...]