UPDATED: Zoe Strauss’s Gulf Coast photos and update

UPDATE:
I’m going to be working on this project for the rest of July…
http://onthebeach-zs.blogspot.com/
I’m heading to New Orleans Tuesday for a month’s stay; like everyone, I’ve been very aware of the further assault upon the Gulf Coast by the BP oil spill. I got this email yesterday from the fabulous Zoe Strauss, and I wanted to [...]

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 [...]