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• Mickalene Thomas: ‘A black woman’s existence on this planet is a revolutionary act’

  15-10-2016 23:00
  Mickalene Thomas: Do I Look Like a Lady?, a show of new and recent work by the New York-based artist that opens this month at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, is named after a two-channel video that meshes footage of African-American women performers of the 20th and 21st centuries. The exhibition also includes a new series of silk-screen portraits of the actresses Diahann Carroll and Pam Grier, among others, installed in a room styled like a 1970s domestic interior. We spoke to Th
  
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• Gregory Halpern's ZZYZX – in pictures

  15-10-2016 19:12
  
  Gregory Halpern’s new work explores the surreal and the strange in Los Angeles and its environs. Here we show a selection, with comments by the photographer, from his remarkable book, ZZYZX, published by Mack Gregory Halpern interviewed by Sean O’Hagan
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• Bare Confession

  15-10-2016 18:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A Confession ScreenBare Confession
  My Lord has given me a little bitof this world, a little bitI do not have. The little bitHe gives me is sufficient for me and ican’t be thankful enough for it.The bit of this world thati haven’t goti can’t care less for that.I am completely aware of my worthlessnessand completely satisfied in it.I have been accepting itsince the day I decidedto drop my degree,since the day she decidedI wasn’t worth her time,since the day I stopped appea
  
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• Claim: 90 Percent Of Movies Made Before 1914 Are Lost

  15-10-2016 00:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We estimate that in the U.S. 90% of movies made before 1914 have disappeared,” Nicolas Seydoux cautioned. “In France we don’t know the amount we’ve lost, but I think the fact we can reproduce them [digitally] gives us new hope,” he added. French film journalist Fabrice Leclerc in a presentation noted that, by his count, “one fourth of America’s cinematic heritage is now preserved outside the U.S.”
  
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