Booksigning and conversation with Deborah Willis in Los Angeles this weekend
Deborah Willis
POSING BEAUTY
Conversation with the author and book signing
Saturday, October 10, 2009
4pm
ROBERTS & TILTON
5801 Washington Boulevard
Culver City, CA 90232
T 323 549 0223
F 323 549 0224
www.robertsandtilton.com
info@robertsandtilton.com
Posing Beauty explores the contested ways in which African and African American beauty have been represented in historical and contemporary contexts through a diverse range of media including photography, film, video, [...]
Fantastic elastic
Fantastic elastic
Web only
Published online 23 Sep 09
Andy Warhol was never one to shy away from kinkiness, so it comes as rather fitting to see an exhibition entitled “Unnatural Rubber” opening at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh this month. For the show, sponsor Lanxess Corporation, a leading manufacturer of synthetic rubber, invited 15 artists to [...]
Posing Beauty @ NYU
**Media are invited to the opening reception and book signing on October 8, 2009 from 6-8 p.m.**
NYU Photography & Imaging Department Announces The Opening of
Posing Beauty
Exhibition Dates: September 1st, 2009 through October 18th, 2009
The exhibition will be on view in the Gulf + Western Gallery and in the 8th floor gallery of the [...]
Opening this weekend — Progeny: Hank Willis Thomas and Deborah Willis (in Sacramento)
Hank Willis Thomas press
Hank Willis Thomas
Images change (or do they?) in time
Los Angeles Times
Leah Ollman
June 26,
2009, page D19
Stepping into the project room at Roberts & Tilton is like entering a time capsule. The walls are papered from floor to ceiling with reproductions of Jet magazine’s “Beauty of the Week” feature, dating from the early 1950s nearly to the [...]
81 Press
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