Monday, 23 July 2007

Feminist Fervor in Spain

A show of Carrie Mae Weems, Faith Ringgold, and Fatima Tuggar would be a brilliant accomplishment on its own. Each woman articulates a relationship to blackness and the

Thursday, 29 March 2007

Bodies Count

When Fox News asked then-U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld about the numbers of dead in Iraq, he told them "We don't do body counts on other people." Well

Monday, 26 March 2007

Postcards From the Edge

We only have a few clues to who this brotha is--his website is decidedly opaque on the matter, but we decided we'd go ahead and give him a

Thursday, 8 March 2007

Sweat It Out

Sweat: to manipulate or produce by hard work or drudgery, or to excrete moisture in visible quantities through the openings of the sweat glands. Or perhaps, the process,

Wednesday, 24 January 2007

Haven’t You Heard

This goes out to everyone who ever wondered, what the hell happened to BA&VCRS? Imagine our utter delight when we received the first installment of their quarterly e-newsletter

Tuesday, 7 November 2006

Painted Ladies

We've recently learned that our friend Wangechi Mutu is among the over one hundred women artists to be featured in the Brooklyn Museum's spring exhibition Global Feminisms, which

Tuesday, 12 September 2006

Woman of Culture

It hasn't escaped our notice that it can get a little... bachelor pad-ish around here. (After all, did you see where the "dat ass" thread in the forums

Wednesday, 30 August 2006

Blind Spots

New media and installation artist Stan Woodard is into numbers. When he describes his upcoming installation at Atlanta's Spruill Gallery, his speech is littered with figures: 100 images

Thursday, 24 August 2006

Dust Off

Roz Payne has more black historical documents stuffed under her bed than most of us will probably ever lay hands on, much less own. As a founding member

Monday, 21 August 2006

Fence Sitting

This one's been sitting around the Code Z office for weeks perched on the horns of a moral dilemma. How to discuss a new social networking site that's

Wednesday, 16 August 2006

The Return of Sex Choc

So I thought we would write a post about hip-hop expressionist painter Fahamu Pecou's new ventures in music production, but along the way we unpacked more than we

Tuesday, 15 August 2006

For the Cause

I've gotten swept up. I haven't seen the Oscars since 1999 and don't remember ever once seeing the Emmys, but I am keeping a close eye on The

Thursday, 10 August 2006

Viva Minneapolis

Bill Cottman is keeping up with artists half his age in incorporating new media and technology into his work. Scratch that: he's surpassing a good number of them.