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powerHouse Books tag sale

Written by Carla on June 7, 2010 — Leave a Comment

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Interesting powerHouse news

Written by Carla on March 2, 2010 — Leave a Comment

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 [...]

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The NY Art Book Fair 2009 review

Written by Carla on October 2, 2009 — Leave a Comment

I came to New York City this weekend to attend the 4th annual NY Art Book Fair, presented by Printed Matter, which previewed last night and is open for free to the public today and tomorrow from 11 – 7 and Sunday 11 – 5 at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in Queens. According to their [...]

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The powerHouse Submissions Programme

Written by Carla on September 25, 2008 — Leave a Comment

I saw this today and checked it out; powerHouse Books, “the future beyond art books,” as their site intriguingly says, has published all four of Jamel Shabazz’s books and quite a few black authors including photographer Lauri Lyons (as author). In fact, their overall author list is rather impressive if celebrity-heavy. They also publish lots [...]

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  • Call for Papers on the Intellectual History of Black Women July 30, 2010
    The Black Women’s Intellectual and Cultural History Collective (BWICH) is seeking paper submissions for a broad-ranging conference on black women’s contributions to black thought, political mobilization, creative work and gender theory. We are interested in work on any time period that explores black women as intellectuals across a broad geography inclu […]
  • How Howard Got His History Back July 30, 2010
    A young DJ stumbled on a warehouse cache and reunited a barrier-breaking photographer with some 500 lost works. Read the story here: http://www.chicagoreader.com/gyrobase/howard-simmons-photographer-dave-mata-found-photos/Content?oid=1770313&storyPage=1#mce_temp_url# […]
  • Only 40 (or so) hours to go…UPDATED July 30, 2010
    Thanks again to all of my backers! By Delphine Fawundu-Buford In order for this project to be successful, we have to raise $3,830. in 40 hrs. I noticed that we have very few backers on the 5 and 10 dollar levels – of course the higher levels are driving the donations but I think that a mixture [...] […]