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practicing the arts of cogitation since the late 1900s.

Updates from Simone Leigh

Archeology of Wonder
curated by Kristina Newman-Scott
REAL ART WAYS
October 4, 2008 —January 4, 2009
Opening reception: Saturday, October 4, 2008, 4-7PM
Performance by Valerie Garlick, 4:30PM
Closing reception: Sunday, January 4, 2009, 3-5PM
56 Arbor St
Hartford CT 06106
860 232 1006
www.realartways.org
Archaeology of Wonder brings together two disparate approaches to the past - archaeology with its meticulous discipline, and wonder with its [...]

Pecha Kucha Night Oakland

EastSide Arts Alliance, Samurai Graphix, and Hard Knock Radio Present:
PECHA KUCHA NIGHT OAKLAND
10 ARTISTS 20 SLIDES 20 SECONDS

PECHA KUCHA NIGHT OAKLAND
FRIDAY OCT 17, 2008 8PM
EASTSIDE CULTURAL CENTER
2277 INTERNATIONAL BLVD @23RD AVE
OAKLAND
On Friday Night Oct 17 8pm, 10 Bay Area Artists will gather at the EastSide Cultural Center to share their unique visions on the meaning [...]

Teenie Harris Civil Rights photographs
are now part of the Civil Rights Digital Library
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania… Charles “Teenie” Harris was a photographer for the Pittsburgh Courier, one of the nation’s oldest and most influential Black newspapers. From 1936 to 1975, Harris photographed historic events and daily life in Pittsburgh’s African American community. His photographs documenting the [...]

HarryAllen: Media Assassin

Check out Harry Allen’s blog Media Assassin at http://harryallen.info/ I can see I have another site to bookmark and visit on the daily…

Charles “Teenie” Harris, Self Portrait of Charles “Teenie” Harris, in Harris studio, c. 1940

July 2, 2008 marks 100th birthday of
Charles “Teenie” Harris, prolific Pittsburgh photographer

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania…Noted Pittsburgh photographer, Charles “Teenie” Harris, who created an incomparable record of historic events and daily life in Pittsburgh’s African [...]

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    • Books in editorial layouts October 27, 2008
      I’ll never forget how excited I was years ago when a book I co-authored (the purple one) was used in this display in a Restoration Hardware catalog to sell these book-ends. At the time it had long been and idle pastime of mine–checking the art book titles that set directors and designers use in [...]
    • New Contributors October 15, 2008
      Photographer and writer Danielle Scruggs and artist Myra Greene are the newest contributors to 81Press.net. Check out their bios here.
    • Lyle Ashton Harris - Excessive Exposure: The Complete Chocolate Portraits (Gregory R. Miller & Co., 2009) October 15, 2008
      Excessive Exposure: The Complete Chocolate Portraits. Lyle Ashton Harris, Gregory R. Miller & Co., 2009. In 2009, Gregory R. Miller & Co. will publish a major work documenting all of Lyle Ashton Harris’s portraits made with the large format (20 x 24 inches) Polaroid camera over the last eight years. This series of beautiful chocolate-colored paired [...]

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    • Updates from Simone Leigh November 7, 2008
      Archeology of Wonder curated by Kristina Newman-Scott REAL ART WAYS October 4, 2008 —January 4, 2009 Opening reception: Saturday, October 4, 2008, 4-7PM Performance by Valerie Garlick, 4:30PM Closing reception: Sunday, January 4, 2009, 3-5PM 56 Arbor St Hartford CT 06106 860 232 1006 www.realartways.org Archaeology of Wonder brings together two disparate approaches to the past - archaeology with its meticulous discipline, and wonder with [...]
    • Fall Exhibitions: ?Evocations? at Rose Issa Projects, London? Kala Fellowship Exhibition, Berkeley November 7, 2008
      I have a few projects coming up to share with you.  I will be at Kala’s opening this Thursday, October 9, in Berkeley, and on October 20 at the artist reception for my first exhibition in London.  Presented by Rose Issa, I will be exhibiting works from a number of series including The Alphabet of Silence, Most Wanted [...]