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practicing the arts of cogitation since the late 1900s.

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Penelope Green wrote a piece about my kitchen in the Times today (photo by Chester Higgins, Jr.).
Also,our show called DEFENSIVE MECHANISMS within a show called INTERSECTIONS [recently opened] at henry street settlement. It is a collaborative installation with Heather Hart, Roberto Visani and myself with inoperative hand made guns, dsyfunctionalized and protected black nationalism and [...]

lots of great shows; for the folks in luxembourg

sonsereé gibson exhibition in austin, tx

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If you’re in Texas, please check out Sonsereé’s show. Works from her series “Lets Discuss the Word ‘Nigger’” are in the show–four pieces plus audio. Congrats on the show, Sonsereé!

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