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Call for Papers: Crisis, Chains, and Change: American Studies for the 21st Century

My favorite conference—American Studies Association always brings it. And they’re the best dressers of the academics.
Crisis, Chains, and Change: American Studies for the 21st Century
Nov 18-21, 2010, San Antonio, TX
Call for Proposals
http://www.theasa.net/annual_meeting/page/submitting_a_proposal/
The 2010 ASA Program Committee invites colleagues in American Studies and all related disciplines to submit proposals for individual papers, entire sessions, presentations, performances, [...]

An Interdisciplinary Symposium Celebrating the Life and Scholarship of Nathan I. Huggins (1927-1989)

The Department of African and African American Studies and the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University Present
An Interdisciplinary Symposium Celebrating the Life and Scholarship of Nathan I. Huggins (1927-1989)
Conference Date: Saturday, December 5, 2009 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge
10.00-11.30 Panel [...]

Diaspora Artists

diaspora-artists.net is an innovative online research and reference facility centred on visual arts practice by British or UK-based artists from a plurality of diasporic backgrounds. Initiated by Curator/Researcher Eddie Chambers the project has been produced in collaboration with Watershed and the Digital Cultures Research Centre at the University of the West of England, based in [...]

Javier Piñón, The Flight of Icarus
Paul Pretzer, Wild at Heart
LaToya Ruby Frazier, The Notion of Family
December 1, 2009- January 2, 2010
Reception December 5, 7-11 pm
David Castillo Gallery is proud to present three solo shows by Javier Piñón, Paul Pretzer, and LaToya Ruby Frazier. In the main gallery, Javier Piñón’s first solo show at the gallery The Flight [...]

Artist news from Gallery 138

ACCRA SHEPP has been commissioned by Studio, the magazine of the Studio Museum in Harlem, to extend The Islands Of New York, his waterfront project, to include Harlem. He also created a postcard for their Harlem Postcard project; it was on exhibition November 12.

TERRY BODDIE is directing Site Specific Projects, a series of long-term exhibition [...]

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    • Interesting powerHouse news March 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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€. […]