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America: Now+Here 2009 Photography Portfolio

America: Now+Here 2009 Photography Portfolio Various Artists
16 Digital C-printsEach print approximately 20 x 24 in. Edition: 100 Each print signed and numberedPresented in a museum-quality box set which also includes a signed introductory essay by E.L. Doctorow$15,000 plus shipping and handling
The America: Now+Here 2009 Portfolio is a compilation of thirteen photographs by some of America’s most respected [...]

Watch the webcast: Photography and Diaspora – A Critical Discourse on Africa, Visual Culture & Modernity

March 9, 2010
Photography and Diaspora – A Critical Discourse on Africa, Visual Culture & Modernity

Watch online: http://dubois.fas.harvard.edu/video/photography-and-diaspora-critical-discourse-africa-visual-culture-modernity-moderated-renee-mu
Download: http://s3.amazonaws.com/media.dubois.org/PHOTGRAPHY_AND_AFRICA_20100309-iPhone.m4v

Tsai Auditorium, CGIS, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge MA
In conjunction with the the exhibit, “James Barnor: Ever Young” (on display in the Du Bois Institute’s Rudenstine Gallery during the spring 2010 academic term).
Moderated by Renee Mussai, Archive Project Manager, [...]

Lyle Ashton Harris: Ghana (hurry–closes next week)

Lyle Ashton Harris
“Ghana”

February 25, 2010 – April 3, 2010
CRG Gallery
535 West 22nd Street
New York, NY 10011
T – 212 229 2766
F – 212 229 2788
info@crggallery.com

Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 10am – 6pm

Venus 2010 @ NYU: Symposium (updated)

Venus 2010
March 27, 2010
New York University
721 Broadway, Riese Lounge

9:30 – Welcome
Deb Willis, Manthia Diawara
9:45 – Keynote: Elizabeth Alexander
10:15 –11:15: Sarah Baartman in Context
Presenters: Charmaine Nelson, Zine Magubane, and Carole Boyce Davies.
Moderator: Cheryl Finley
11:45-12:45: Sarah Baartman’s Legacy in Art and Art History
Presenters: Lisa Gail Collins, Cheryl Finley and Fo Wilson.

1:00 – 2:00: break, book signing
2:00-3:30: The [...]

Lyle Ashton Harris: Ghana

LYLE ASHTON HARRIS | Ghana
FEB 25 – APR 3, 2010
(opening reception: Thursday, February 25th, 6-8pm)
CRG presents a new body of work by Lyle Ashton Harris titled “Ghana” which has been inspired by the cultural space that is taking shape at the confluence of contemporary globalization and a rich cultural tradition haunted by the relics of [...]

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    • Darkroom: Photography and New Media in South Africa since 1950 (Virginia, 2009) September 9, 2010
      Darkroom: Photography and New Media in South Africa since 1950. Tosha Grantham, with a preface by Deborah Willis. Essays by Isolde Brielmaier and Tumelo Mosaka, University of Virginia Press, October 2009, 160 pages, 9 x 10, 110 color and b&w illustrations, Paper ISBN 978-0-917046-89-6, $35.00. From the publisher: Photography and video are powerful t […]
    • D.A.P. Fall 2010 catalog September 9, 2010
      I just went through the Distributed Art Publishers Fall 2010 New Books on Art and Culture. There are only a couple of titles by black photographers, but several that include black artists and curators. Here are the titles of interest: Aperture 200, Aperture, Fall 2010. Edited by Melissa Harris. Includes the feature Heroes of the Storm: [...] […]
    • Palimpsest: New Journal Announcement and CFP September 9, 2010
      Website and Submission Guidelines Information: www.vanderbilt.edu/aframst/palimpsest Inquiries: PalimpsestJournal@vanderbilt.edu Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender and the Black International is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes cutting edge interdisciplinary scholarship and creative work by and about women of the African Diaspora and their commu […]