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Reviews of Venus and Posing Beauty in the IRAAA

Written by Carla on October 4, 2010 — Leave a Comment

Obviously, once I commence the reviews on this site I cannot review any projects to which I’ve contributed, but I can point to reviews elsewhere. The current issue of the International Review of African American Art (23:2, 2010) includes reviews of Deborah Willis’ Posing Beauty and Black Venus 2010: They Called Her Hottentot, as well [...]

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Darkroom: Photography and New Media in South Africa since 1950 (Virginia, 2009)

Written by Carla on September 3, 2010 — Leave a Comment

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 tools for shaping perception and effecting change, as is [...]

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Embodying Black Experience: Stillness, Critical Memory, and the Black Body by Harvey Young (Michigan, 2010)

Written by Carla on July 18, 2010 — Leave a Comment

“Embodying Black Experience: Stillness, Critical Memory, and the Black Body” was just published by the University of Michigan Press. For more information, you can visit Michigan’s website (http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=235634). You can save 30% if your order it from Michigan and enter “YOUNG10″ in the shopping cart under Promotional Code.

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Waiting for Godot in New Orleans: A Field Guide by Paul Chan

Written by Carla on July 11, 2010 — Leave a Comment

Waiting for Godot in New Orleans: A Field Guide, edited by Paul Chan, was three years in the making and is a complete summation of the producing of this play in two acts and project in three parts. The book is available for sale at creativetime.org/store and in bookstores worldwide—but if you can’t wait long enough [...]

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Aperture Book Sale through 8.3.10

Written by Carla on July 4, 2010 — Leave a Comment

(Aperture publishes Zwelethu Mthethwa, Hank Willis Thomas, and Dawoud Bey)

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  • Taking a Break May 18, 2012
    Site visitors will probably notice that I haven’t updated here frequently. I am taking a break from my site(s) for at least the summer. I’ve been working in this field for 25 years and I’m burned out on photography and art, the site(s) are in need of major updates/ revamping/ retooling, social media is exhausting, [...] […]
  • What if there were no more art galleries? May 18, 2012
    6×6 – An Art Version of a Music Festival ABOUT THIS PROJECT What is 6×6? Beginning on September 8, 2011, our roaming gallery Baang and Burne Contemporary will present 6×6, (six by six) a series of six, back to back, one week only art exhibitions in New York City. 6×6 was created by artists, for artists. Essentially 6×6, is [.. […]
  • The Stoop Gallery Call for Submissions May 18, 2012
    The Stoop Gallery is currently accepting submissions for the upcoming show date and theme: Art. Science. Body: How art and science merge to create identity narratives. July 30, 2011 This week, Psychology Today published an article focusing on why African American women are less physically attractive than other women. The methodology of the research was not m […]