I’m drooling–updated with awful news
This was within the comment posted today to this post—I can’t believe it:
Peggy Cooper Cafritz’s mansion, on the 3000 block of Chain Bridge Road NW, was consumed last night by a massive fire, destroying much of her magnificent art collection. She was away in Nantucket at the time; neighbors rescued her pets. And, yet again, [...]
Call for participants: A Great Day in Watts
ARTISTS OF COLOR!
Join us in Watts on Sunday, August 16th for
“A GREAT DAY IN WATTS”
an event to photograph a show of unity amongst all artists of color.
On August 16th we will create a photographic document in the tradition of a “Great Day in Harlem”, the photograph taken by Bert Stern in the 50’s [...]
News from Karen Miranda Augustine
My regular update starts off with sad news as many may now know of the passing of Ayanna Black this week Tuesday. A co-founder of Tiger Lily journal – the first literary pubication for women of colour in Canada – as well as CAN:BAIA (Canadian Artists’ Network: Black Artists in Action) from the early ’90s, [...]
The Beauty of Now – New Works by Maya Freelon Asante
From the Baltimore Sun
http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/bal-al.ten-pg,0,4913018.photogallery?index= (Image 10 of 10)
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(Handout photo / July 27, 2009)
‘The Beauty of Now’ by Freelon Asante
This is one of your last weeks to catch an eclectic new show at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum. A former instructor at Morgan and [...]
Gestures 13: An Exhibition of Small Site-Specific Works
The thirteenth installment of Gestures: An Exhibition of Small Site-Specific Works opens with a public reception on July 24, 2009 from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM. $10 (MF Members and CMU Students FREE w/ I.D.)
The exhibition, showing in the Mattress Factory’s Gallery at 1414 Monterey Street, is guest-curated by Katherine Talcott and features artists Stephanie [...]
81 Press
- Haiku in my Neighborhood (M. Hanks Gallery, 2009) March 10, 2010Haiku 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 10, 2010The 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€. […]
- Angaza Afrika: African Art Now (Laurence King, 2009) March 10, 2010Angaza Afrika: African Art Now. Chris Spring, Laurence King, 350 colour illustrations,256 x 226mm, 336 pages, paperback, ISBN – 978 1 85669 548 0, £25. Angaza Afrika: African Art Now, by Chris Spring and published by Laurence King brings together more than 60 of Africa’s most creative contemporary artists, drawn from across the African continent as [.. […]