Controversy and censorship of lesbian artists in South Africa
Female artists snubbed by Arts and Culture Minister Lulu Xingwana at an exhibition last year have called her response homophobic and unconstitutional, despite the minister’s protests to the contrary, the Mail & Guardian heard on Thursday.
The incident occurred in August last year at the debut of the Innovative Women exhibition in Johannesburg, but only came [...]
Press: Lorraine O’Grady in Art in America; Deb Willis in Huffington Post
http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-opinion/finer-things/2010-02-23/whitney-biennial-lorraine-ogrady/
A Portrait of Deborah Willis
More press for Posing Beauty:
Beauty and the Face of Change
New artist – Ananias Leki Dago
Ananias Leki Dago is from the Ivory Coast; I’m not sure but I think this work is from the series Identité? (Identity?), for which Léki Dago won the first Prize of PhotoAfrica (I have no idea what this organization is, though, as a search on the name brings up wildlife photography sites) in Spain in [...]
New artist – Hew Locke
http://www.hewlocke.net
The images are from his series ‘How do You Want Me?’ – Below is an artist’s statement about them.
He has also worked with photography in other ways – working on them with paint, collage, and taking them into the third dimension – you can see work in these series ‘Restoration’ and ‘ Natives and Colonials’ [...]
New artist – Burroughs Lamar
Harlem documentary photographer @ www.burroughslamarphotography.com
There’s no bio on the site; just a series of galleries. Check it out.
81 Press
- Interesting powerHouse news March 14, 2010Dear 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 14, 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 14, 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€. […]