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Roz Payne has more black historical documents stuffed under her bed than most of us will probably ever lay hands on, much less own.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