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practicing the arts of cogitation since the late 1900s.

bigger isn’t always better

This weekend I FINALLY got to upload/update photographs on the site. Of course, working on my laptop at home the images seemed really small (maybe because I was working on half the screen and watching Law & Order: SVU reruns on the other) so I enlarged them. Now, looking at them on a regular desktop [...]

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I have studiously stayed out of the politics discussion this election season, being so bone-wearied of it and cynical myself, and, frankly, appalled that anyone has to beg/remind Americans to even register, let alone vote (there are ZERO excuses) but Afrobella sums it up nicely in this post: http://afrobella.com/2008/09/29/vote-now/

Zoe Strauss updates

I couldn’t be more excited for this publication! I can’t think of anyone more brilliant and deserving.
America: We Love Having You Here

November 22, 2008- January 10, 2009
Opening Saturday, November 22 6PM-8PM

http://zoestrauss.blogspot.com/
At Bruce Silverstein Photography
535 West 24th Street
New York, NY 10011

Special Guest on November 22- DJ Cosmo Baker.
http://silversteinphotography.com/index.php
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The New York Times reviews Lorraine O’Grady

We are pleased to share Holland Cotter’s review of the Lorraine O’Grady exhibition at Alexander Gray Associates in today’s New York Times. We are also delighted to congratulate O’Grady on receiving a 2008 Anonymous Was A Woman grant.
Read the review
Lorraine O’Grady: Miscegenated Family Album is on view at Alexander Gray Associates through October [...]

20 Years Ago Today: Supporting Visual Artists in L.A.

Oct 4, 2008 – Jan 4, 2009
Japanese American National Museum
369 East First Street, Los Angeles, CA

http://www.janm.org/exhibits/20years/

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    • Interesting powerHouse news March 13, 2010
      Dear powerHouse follower— You are, with any luck, a retailer, a reviewer, a promoter, or just someone vigorously involved in the visual arts, and have been following us through our varied publications over the years and the copious press we made with them, and perhaps recall the risks, the successes, maybe even the élan to which [...] […]
    • Haiku in my Neighborhood (M. Hanks Gallery, 2009) March 13, 2010
      Haiku in my Neighborhood. Poems by Dee Dee McNeil, photographs by Roland Charles,  M. Hanks Gallery, 2009, ISBN 978-0-9821810-1-0, $25.00. (Pages from the book are viewable at Google Books online.) Haiku in my Neighborhood – a coffee table book of 50 haiku poems written by jazz singer/songwriter Dee Dee McNeil with photographs by noted photographer-ar […]
    • The Erotic Diary of a Lumberjack by Barthélémy Toguo (Michael Woolworth Editions, Paris, 2010) March 13, 2010
      The Erotic Diary of a Lumberjack” (”Le Journal Érotique d’un Bûcheron”). artist’s book by Barthélémy Toguo with 12 linocuts and texts, 38 x 26.5 cm, Michael Woolworth Editions, Paris, 1000€. […]