Select Gender at Farmani Gallery opens April 1. I wont be able to attend, but this exhibition is full of some very talented young photographers.

© Diane Russo

Photographs by Italian Francesco Giusti of purveyors of “le sape,” the fashion-obsessed La Societe des Ambianceurs et Personnes Elegantes, or the society of atmosphere setters and elegant people, something found among Congolese (both in France and Belgium and on both sides of the Congo River).

© Francesco Giusti

© Francesco Giusti

@ Rafal Milach, Taxidermist's workshop. Stuffed animals waiting for clients.

@ Rafal Milach, Taxidermist's workshop

Charles Moore passed away on March 15, 2010. His photographs played an important role in the Civil Rights movement.

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@ Charles Morre, Montgomery, ALA., 1958: The Tev. Dr. Marting Luther King Jr. was sprawled across a police desk as his wife looked on, stunned. He was arrested for loitering at the Montgomery Courthouse and released when his identity became known to the police.

Mark your calendars everyone! Opening reception for Adam Schreiber, at Sasha Wolf Gallery is March 11, 6-8pm.

I saw Nosferatu the other night with live piano accompaniment. It was amazing. "F. W." Murnau, you rule.

It's been a while, but I'm back.

Have you seen the William Kentridge show yet at MoMA? This is the best exhibition I have (I'm going to be bold and say it) ever seen before. There is a wonderful opera piece that he created with a puppet theater of sorts, that has me going back every day at lunch. I've spent over 6 hours in the last two weeks revisiting the exhibition, and I'm not tired yet. Basically, what I'm saying to you is, go to MoMA and see what William Kentridge is all about.

Dell buys Magnum's archived valued at 100 Million dollars! My goodness.

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A Queens Afair at Farmani tonight! Kris Graves and Eric Hairabedian. 111 Front St.

Also tonight at MoCADA, The Gentrefication of Brooklyn, The Pink Elephant Speaks, where my friend Adele Pham will be screening her documentary work about Fulton St.

©Eric Hairabedian
©Kris Graves

©Tim Okamura, Stay Strong, 2009. Oil, spray paint on canvas, 76 X 84 in

One of my favorite portraits by one of my favorite artists, and just my luck- it's on display at MoMA right now.

©Nadar (Gaspard-Felix Tournachon), Paul Chenavard

Come join me tonight for Amy Stein and Brian Ulrich's opening. It's sure to be a lovely time.

I started a small publishing company with a few close friends recently, and I am proud to announce that we are now accepting submissions. For more information on Trifecta, please go to

http://trifectapublishing.wordpress.com/

I get a lot of my insperation from the blog Africa is a Country. I wish I could take complete credit for all the African Photographers I post here, but I can't. He is on top of his game. I hear it from him before anyone else.

©Kwesi Abbensetts, from acrylic bLACK

The Vanitas series reminds me of a lot of other work out there, but there are certain images that I enjoy drawing connections to. In particular, the image above. Reyes claims that this series references the physical body and mortality.

© Justin Reyes, Vanitas - Still Life with Fish and Oranges

The series title sums up exactly what I experience when I look at Kaneko's work.

© Hiroyo Kaneko, from the series, Sentimental Education, 2005

Channeling Melissa Catanese today.

©Melissa Cantanese, from the series When the Bugs Come Back

Jeffrey Deitch was just appointed Director of LA MoCA today. Deitch Projects will be closing June 1. I hate to see it go.

SNOW GLOBE

An exhibition curated by Johalla Projects and guest curator Christopher Starbody

I will be in Chicago for this, so come hang out with me and check out Johalla Projects.

Opening Reception: Saturday, December 19, 2009, 7-10 pm

Beer provided by Grolsch, Supporter of the Arts

Exhibition runs from December 19-27

Gallery hours are Saturday 1-5 pm and by appointment during the week

© Momoko Seto, Video still from Planet A, 2009

In September this year over five days, Platon, the New Yorker staff photographer got many of the world’s leaders to sit for him while they were here for a meeting of the United Nations. You can check out all the portraits on the New Yorker’s website. Each photograph come with audio commentary by Platon.

© Platon, Robert Mugabe

© Platon, Jacob Zuma

I remember first seeing Leslie Hewitt's work at the 2008 Whitney Biennial (instillation shot above.) I honestly can't remember my first reaction when seeing this work, but it was the only work in the Biennial I came back to see again. There is something incredibly chalenging about Make it Plain that had me coming back to revisit the intillation.

Riffs on Real time, featured above can be seen at the New Photography 2009 exhibition at MOMA.

Hewitt studied at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, the Yale University School of Art, and at New York University, where she was a Clark Fellow in the Africana and Visual Culture Studies program.

© Leslie Hewitt, Make it Plain

© Leslie Hewitt, from Riffs on Real Time

© Leslie Hewitt, from Riffs on Real Time