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"Husband and Wife, Sunday Morning." Gordan Parks. Courtesy of Howard Greenberg Gallery. KNOW // Fighting Racism with a Camera // Gordon Parks Sola Agustsson 3 days ago 2 What would be  Gordon Parks’  one hundredth birthday has spawned celebratory shows on view all over New York. One of the first black photographers for  LIFE  magazine,  Parks  became known for his provocative depictions of poverty, racism, and the Black Power movement. He says he pursued a photography career because, “I had known poverty firsthand, but there I learned how to fight its evil—along with the evil of racism—with a camera.” He took the famous photograph of Ella Watson, a government cleaning employee, holding a broom and a mop in front of a sideways American flag, paying homage to the iconic Grant Wood painting  American Gothic . He also took notable portraits of Muhammad Ali, Stokely Carmichael, Gloria Vanderbilt, Ingri...

Mo Teitelbaum   0 Avis Philip Wilson Publishers, 2011 - 260 pages Following a BA Hons degree in French and an MA in South Asian studies, Mo Teitelbaum found herself in Paris in the early 1970s, engaged in research for a PhD on the history of French Indochina. One single event then made her change focus as a historian - a meeting with Eileen Gray. The feature article she subsequently published in the Sunday Times Magazine on the ninety-six-year-old designer, was the very first to reach a mass readership. Major museum exhibitions on Eileen Gray followed. Concerned now that other extraordinary lives and talents may have been overlooked, and certainly never made available to such a readership, Mo Teitelbaum now dedicates herself to retrieving 'lost' histories to present to a wider public. Six years of research in South America have resulted in The Stylemakers - another history that was lost to a wider public. In Paris in the 1920's a new style was born, rejecting ...

SAVE THE DATE: OPENING June 18, 2009 at 6.30pm at Museum of Biblical Art (MOBIA) 1865 Broadway, 61st street New York RE… Re-Cycle, Re-Create, Re-Imagine An Exhibition by Vickie Frémont The exhibition will be visible, non-stop, to pedestrians of all ages, ethnicities, sexes, and economic levels 24hour/7days from June 18, through September 30, 2009. The project, which is sponsored by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the Museum of Biblical Art (MOBIA), will combine a series of recycling workshops and an art exhibition of puppets representing each African country. MOBIA is delighted to be the site of the exhibition and workshops. Since contemporary theological discourse touches upon the spiritual underpinnings of the ecological movement, namely that we, as stewards of God’s good creation, are morally bound to conserve and preserve our physical world in all its beauty much as we are bound to live reverently with one another, the RE… project is perfectly suited to MOBIA’s missio...