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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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 [...]