going to the college art conference in la?
Kalia Brooks
CAA Panel: My So Called Second Life
“Eracial”
Thursday 2:30 – 5:00 PM, February 26, 2009
LA Convention Centre, Room 515A
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology held a conference in 1998 to put forth the question of race and cyberspace. Its organizers and participants shared a common goal to “foreground the various ways that digital media are [...]
Good Hair?
(I’ve seen this in a couple places now & it looks interesting. Thanks, Stephanie!)
Good Hair
US Documentary Feature Films
U.S.A., 2009, 95 mins., color
When Chris Rock’s daughter, Lola, came up to him crying and asked, “Daddy, how come I don’t have good hair?” the bewildered comic committed himself to search the ends of the earth and the depths of [...]
I think I’m no longer okay with clothes that have photographs on them
(spotted at theybf.com)
Years ago I made a cyanotype dress because I was so enamored with the idea of wearing images, and I did wear it, but no more. This is too gruesome. Sigh. Mine was accidentally ruined, anyway.
corporate support of the arts?
This is not someone I usually include here, but I do love the thought of making museum professionals more mainstream, and you can’t get more mainstream than a huge corporate retailer, no? Museums are largely corporate benefactors; most exhibitions, particularly large scale ones, couldn’t happen without corporate support. Problematic but hardly news. Also includes photographer [...]
just because…
…I love the way her hips curve beyond the straight strip of fabric—so subtle, so stunning. It’s just one of those pictures, you know? This is Célia Faussart from Les Nubians as BlueNefertiti, a new cabaret act. I wish she were playing London or Paris while my sister and I are there!
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