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Exhibitor Sign Up for Expo 2008

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:08:11 -0300

The Philadelphia International Art Expo Nov. 7, 8 & 9, 2008 Artist Signup

Phil Griffin goes to pieces over a mosaic which adds sparkle to East Manchester

Tue, 1 Jul 2008 14:20:26 -0300

Gorton is midway to a Tesco Extra. The new superstore, opposite the library and what used to be the Tubs (the swimming pool) rises out of the ground, white steel and glass, as Tescos do. A Tesco is allegedly a cut above Aldi and Asda. Your neighbourhood is blessed to have one. You might think that for once you’ve won the postcode lottery. And yet any excuse to erect sheds and pavilions in Albert Square seems to draw the crowds. The Christmas Market becomes an established tradition within a decade. Maybe that’s got more to do with beer and sausages than enthusiasm for banter and local produce. It’s weird that a nation that seems largely to shun local markets goes potty for imported ones.

Exceptional Contemporary African American Art on Sale at Christie's Open House

Tue, 1 Jul 2008 14:18:09 -0300

Christie's June 30 Open House sale features an exciting assortment of Post-War and Contemporary art works to match both new and established collectors’ tastes and budgets. Leading the sale are two exceptional collections of African American paintings, drawings, photography and sculpture. Works by modern masters such as Jacob Lawrence, Romare Bearden and Norman Lewis will be featured along side the next generation of creative minds including Carrie Mae Weems, Glenn Ligon and Michael Charles Ray. In addition to these offerings the sale features works by Robert Rauschenberg, Susan Rothenberg, Massimo Vitali and many more. With a total sale estimate of $2.8-4 million for 266 lots – the largest and most valuable to date – this June’s Open House sale is likely to build on the success established by the Post-War and Contemporary sales earlier this spring

Debate Over Moldy Cave Art Is a Tale of Human Missteps

Tue, 1 Jul 2008 14:17:05 -0300

The regal black bull painted by a Stone Age artist on a cave wall in southwestern France 17,000 years ago has survived millennia of war and pestilence just a few yards above its subterranean gallery. Today the prehistoric bovine could face annihilation by an army of encroaching black mold spots, the latest in a series of threats unwittingly brought in over the years by tourists, scientists and bureaucrats.

Nigeria: Gerard Chouin - An Artistic Testimony

Tue, 1 Jul 2008 14:15:10 -0300

I have never been so moved to understanding the meaning of the phrase; servant-leader until recently when I reluctantly agreed to go to Enugu to cover the just concluded Life in My City Arts Festival, which held at the prestigious Protea Hotel, Nike Lake Enugu. Prodded by an invitation from one of the vision fathers of the project, Kevin Ejiofor, former Director General at the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) to the editor of Vanguard, Gbenga Adefaye, I was asked to prepare and go to Enugu for a coverage of the programme.

Bridging the Gap, Building Bridges Across Continents

Tue, 1 Jul 2008 14:12:38 -0300

Africa is reported mainly in the western media as a continent of wars, famine and other catastrophes. Despite this stereotype, there is a conscious effort by one of its illustrious sons, Prince Tunde Adetunji, to present the true facts about Africa to the outside world. This is the vision behind Africa World Museum and Centre and its twin collaborator, The Africa Heritage Foundation. Godwin Haruna writes

Philadelphia International Art Expo 2008

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 23:03:05 -0300

Nation's Largest African American Art Expo The Philadelphia International Art Expo is an art expo of popular African American art like no other. It offers unique and unequaled opportunities to build a customer base, to network, to compare artistic talent and to engage in "the art of the deal".

Obama And The Gay Wedding Industry Owe TV A Gift Basket

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:05:23 -0300

When Bertolt Brecht said, "Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it," well, he was just being an egomaniacal auteur. But it's quite possible that he was right — if you're willing to classify network television as art, that is. Consider the case of two recent seemingly unthinkable societal shifts — Barack Obama's presidential nomination and the recent decision to legalize gay marriage in California starting today. Both were the plots of popular television shows before they actually happened. Could the paranoid social conservatives be right? Does what people see on TV actually change their opinions? Do Kiefer Sutherland's powers of persuasion extend beyond Defamer? Consider the evidence after the jump.

Just Asking . . . Andrew Ward

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:41:27 -0300

The historian and writer on his new Civil War book, 'The Slaves' War' For four years, U.S. slaves lived on the vast battlefield of the Civil War. Some welcomed the Yankees as liberators; others would die to save their masters' lives. A few joined the war as soldiers, but most had no choice but to keep working their plantation jobs while trying to stay out of the line of fire. In his new book, "The Slaves' War," Andrew Ward has collected slaves' experiences of the Civil War, narrated in their own words in archived oral interviews and depositions. We talked with Mr. Ward recently about oblivion, families and Barack Obama.

Obama as Father Figure

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:57:46 -0300

On Sunday morning in the South Side of Chicago, a man who never knew his own father, except through intermittent stories and recollections, and then through his own search to discover who this man was, addressed the nation as a dad. Labeled a Father's Day Speech, Sen. Barack Obama's words at the Apostolic Church of God were clearly meant to carry on past midnight of June 15, when all the ties and cards and tennis balls were put away, never to be seen again. It was really the Illinois senator's first step in trying to convince the nation whether, at the precocious age of 46, he was ready to restore the fatherly mantle to the office of the president of the United States.

African tales for American kids

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:53:57 -0300

If you're a kid who likes stories with lots of action and adventure, then you'd love the ones told by Won-Ldy Paye (pronounced Von De Pay-ee), a storyteller from the West African country of Liberia. He uses masks, dolls, and colorful backdrops to make traditional Liberian tales come alive for young audiences in schools and libraries across the United States. At a performance in Federal Way, Wash., kids were captivated by his story about a group of children who find a doll in a West African village. "Minutes become hours, hours become days, days become months, months become years, and the kids play with the doll, [but then] they abandon it behind somebody's backyard. 'Wwwwaaaaaah,' the doll cries, and so would I if I were left alone like that," Mr. Paye exclaimed.

Summer Music Fest ‘08 in Bahia August 16th thru the 22nd

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 07:44:28 -0300

If you’ve ever wanted to visit Bahia this may be a perfect time to go. Talk to your friends, get a group together and go. This is a great way to experience Bahia.

Black art legends’ brush with fame

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:22:47 -0300

This moment may not be repeated soon: Two major Washington museums give us the chance to watch two founding fathers of black art work their way through blackness, and art. One of them struggles to find a place in the mainstream of the avant-garde while also making pictures that resist a main-stream that excluded black Americans. The other helps us see what a challenge that balance could be: He wore resistance on his sleeve, but his art almost never managed to embody it.

Art and artifacts of black experience come to Norton

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:15:38 -0300

For years, the children descended into the space under the house, 800 square feet that had been conceived as a wine cellar. There, in the humidified darkness, they hovered over dozens and dozens of pieces of art and artifacts offering chapters of the black narrative, of the rise from ruins. The collection, heartbreaking and hopeful, sweeps in a long arc from slave documents to brilliant abstract paintings. ''We would take our son's friends downstairs into the gallery, and they were amazed. It's like the spirits talk to you down there and commune with you and tell you wonderful stories about black people,'' says Bernard Kinsey, 64, art collector, philanthropist and West Palm Beach native. ``We share all this because we want people to know how we became who we are.''

AFRICAN AMERICAN LEADERS JOIN CDC TO TACKLE HIV/AIDS EPIDEMIC

Thu, 5 Jun 2008 13:18:46 -0300

An actor pledges to use his name recognition to fight a public health crisis. A pastor promises to weave in a message of prevention with the Word. A journalist commits to increasing coverage of an epidemic, and a musician writes lyrics to help save lives. These are a few of the public promises made at a major meeting of African American leaders who have joined forces to collectively fight HIV in their communities. Organized by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the two-day meeting in Atlanta was a critical part of the broader “Heightened National Response” to combat HIV in black America.

Live Master Class in Visual Art , thru —June 12, 2008

Mon, 12 May 2008 12:26:05 -0300

Our unusual Live Master Class in painting will be given to our guests with the purpose of letting them step inside the world of an artist, to watch Masters at work producing new paintings inspired on the same object. With a unique approach and vision three masters will paint the same live model at the same time, each of them with his unique and original technique. This is an exceptionally rare and exclusive opportunity to witness the creation of a painting by well-known masters. In this special step-by-step presentation, the legendary artists will guide you from sketch to completion revealing their secrets of painting along the way

Radcliffe Fellows include scholars, artists to work on range of projects

Fri, 30 May 2008 12:30:33 -0300

The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University has announced the names of 34 women and 18 men selected to be Radcliffe Fellows during the 2008–09 academic year. These 52 fellows include 16 humanists, 14 scientists, 12 creative artists, and 10 social scientists. Selected for the quality of their scholarship, research, or artistic work and the expected long-term impact of their projects, the fellows include the poet laureate of Wales who plans to compose an epic poem about the journey of a patient and caregiver; a social scientist who will investigate how U.S. politicians and policymakers have grappled with the energy crisis since the 1970s; and an astronomer who will search for transiting extrasolar planets in multiple systems throughout the universe.

African Rhythms: Afro-Centric Homages to a Spiritual Homeland

Tue, 27 May 2008 13:12:21 -0300

One of four themed, double-CD compilations from the Blue Note vaults released in the same month—the others are New York Is Our Home (dealing with emergent hard bop), The Funk Jazz Brothers (early 1970s funk-jazz) and On The Corner (early 1970s fusion)—African Rhythms brings together 17 tracks recorded by Blue Note artists between 1957-70 which paid homage to Africa.

How can I win?

Sat, 10 May 2008 13:29:55 -0300

Gift Card to Home Depot will be awarded to one random participant.

Festival of the Boa Morte, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:18:27 -0300

Boa Morte: Travel with us as we visit the Bahian town of Cachoeira. Festival of the Boa Morte, The Good Death, takes place each year, in August. A sisterhood of women descended from African slaves, put on their finest ceremonial clothes and jewelry to participate in three days of Masses, parades, public feasts and dancing in honor of the Virgin Mary and the memory of slaves who managed to become free during their lifetimes. Diga Brazil delivers a fun, safe, authentic Brazilian vacation using Bed and Breakfast style accommodations. Join Us !!!!

"Little Rock Nine - 50 Years"

Tue, 8 Apr 2008 14:52:36 -0400

By Charly Palmer Limited Edition Giclee Image Size: 22" x 44" Edition Size: 275 plus proofing Retail Price: $750 Call for Details: 215 279-9186