Susan Meiselas & Alfredo Jaar (In Conversation)
Susan Meiselas and Alfredo Jaar (In Conversation)
New York, New York
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
6:30 p.m.
Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 4th floor
New York, New York
(212) 505-5555
Join Aperture for a special evening of conversation between photojournalist Susan Meiselas and artist Alfredo Jaar.
Meiselas joined Magnum Photos in 1976 and is renowned for her coverage of the insurrection in Nicaragua [...]
Camión de Carga / Cargo Truck
2006, Juan Sebastián Jácome
Short Film (9 Mins.)
Click here to see the short film in its entirety
Despite her own illness, a Central American single mother risks her life to give her son a better future in the United States.
“…powerful performance…it will leave you speechless… – SOLAS Latin American and Iberian Institute
About Juan Sebastián Jácome
Ecuadorian filmmaker Juan [...]
Brooklyn Museum Gilbert & George Exhibition and Artist’s Talk
Brooklyn Museum – Brooklyn, New York Gilbert & George Exhibition
On view: Friday, October 03, 2008 — Sunday, January 11, 2009
Brooklyn Museum of Art
200 Eastern Parkway Brooklyn, New York
(414) 224-3200
The Brooklyn Museum is the final venue of an international tour of the first retrospective in more than twenty years of work by the internationally acclaimed [...]
Samantha Power Among Esquire’s Most Influential People of the 21st Century
Esquire Magazine named genocide scholar Samantha Power one of the most influential people of the 21st century – citing her critical involvement in the Save Darfur movement and a 2003 Pulitzer prize for her book A Problem from Hell.
What Norman Podhoretz is to the neocon movement Power is to this as-yet-unnamed force. (Neo-internationalism? Moral interventionism? [...]
La Americana
From People’s Television…Nicholas Bruckman
La Americana took the best documentary prize at the Urbanworld Film Festival in New York City, and received a special jury mention for Best Documentary at the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival.
“After a rousing screening in Kansas City I’m currently showing the film in Birmingham, Alabama, at the Sidewalk Moving Picture [...]