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 [...]