Tents for Artists in Haiti
(I don’t know if the link below works, but here it is: http://act.pih.org/page/outreach/view/haitiearthquake/jennydubin)
Smithsonian.com’s biggest traffic day ever
Henrietta Lacks’ ‘Immortal’ Cells
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/Henrietta-Lacks-Immortal-Cells.html
Since yesterday afternoon, this one story has generated 4 million pageviews and 3 million uniques.
To put that in perspective, the entire site received just over 8 million uniques in all of 2009.
Support Arts in Los Angeles
Dear Friends and Supporters,
As you may already know, the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs is being threatened with catastrophic budget and staff cuts. Staff reductions of 24-48% have been proposed as well as the total elimination of grants that the Department awards annually. This includes grants that have been awarded for the [...]
In truth, I’m surprised these didn’t show up sooner
(thanks, Deb, for forwarding)
Colonial Hangover by Gail Smith (Gaily Fleur)
Sunday, January 17, 2010 at 4:23am
Last week I dragged two girlfriends to The Space, a trendy clothes emporium in Rosebank. We weren’t there to shop. We were there to do a reality check: was a replica of Sarah Baartman really on sale for R798?
My friends reacted [...]
Dreams Deferred: The Sakia Gunn Film Project
I’ve blogged about Sakia Gunn several times, so I was very interested to see this trailer today. You know, I’m sorry this film even exists but I’m glad someone made it. It’s screening as part of the upcoming New York African Diaspora Film Festival.
Check out http://sakiagunnfilmproject.com/
h/t Shadow and Act
81 Press
- Interesting powerHouse news March 12, 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 12, 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 12, 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€. […]