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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 [...]

Updated: Jason Hanasik: He Opened Up Somewhere Along the Eastern Shore

“He Opened Up…” has been given the honor of honorable mention in their 2009 Aperture Portfolio Prize.  Over 700 hundred portfolios were submitted.  One grand prize winner was chosen and five honorable mentions were named. There is going to be a slide presentation of the grand prize winner’s work on the 12th.
Congrats, Jason!!
We’re publishing Jason’s [...]

Kalia Brooks’s new show opening tomorrow in Brooklyn

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Kambui Olujimi: The Clouds Are After Me

“The Clouds Are After Me” explores the anxieties and phobias that permeate the public and private sectors of our lives and nation. Through a series wanted posters picturing clouds as their perpetrators, I draw parallels to the ‘elusive’, ‘ever present dangers’, which we are both running from and hunting for.”

10/6 Shawn Michelle Smith on Race & Erotics in the Photographs of F. Holland Day

(Okay, the book cover they attached doesn’t have anything to do with her lecture topic—I don’t think that book deals with Day at all—but I think it’s her most recent.)
THE POLITICS OF PICTORIALISM:  RACE AND EROTICS IN THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF F. HOLLAND DAY
a lecture by
SHAWN MICHELLE SMITH

October 6, 2009 at 6:30 p.m.
IRWAG Seminar Room [...]

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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€. […]