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		<title>2011 News</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 2011 Diana M. had a solo show in Miami, Cosmic Sheness; contributed an essay, The Metaphysics of Lynching, to the University of San Diego Visual Studies art journal pros*;  and, co-curated an exhibition and programming for the Younity art collective, Sarah Lawrence College and the Yonkers Public Library.]]></description>
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		<title>2010 News</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 2010 Diana M. worked as a professional development consultant in the arts and continued art writing on DaWire.com. She was also a guest at the ARCO Madrid art fair, where she documented her trip in a piece for DaWire. Read it here.]]></description>
		<link>http://cultureserve.net/blog/2010/12/19/2010-news-2/</link>
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		<title>2009 News</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In January 2009 the Cultureserve.net blog was announced as a 2008 Finalist for a Creative-Capitol Warhol Foundation Arts Writers grant. Diana M. was also a member of the Curatorial Committee for Photo Miami, a contemporary art fair for photo-based art, video &#38; new media, and profiled Brooklyn artists in the Living Arts column for the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cultureserve.net/blog/2009/12/19/2009-news/</link>
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		<title>Featured Artist: Shizu Saldamando</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Precision. Clarity of line. Mood. All of these elements stand out in the portrait work of artist, Shizu Saldamando.  The intense dedication to detail and focused execution of personalities in the moment give each subject a de-objectified identity.  Even with this respect to individuality in her work there is a deep sense of the collective [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cultureserve.net/blog/2009/02/01/featured-artist-shizu-saldamando/</link>
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		<title>VIDEO: Rashaad Newsome &amp; Kalup Linzy at The Kitchen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On February 12th and 13th, 2009 curator Rashida Bumbray of NYC&#8217;s, The Kitchen, and artists Rashaad Newsome and Kalup Linzy, will be premiering new work that continues to explore the possibilities and intersection between video, performance and music. Newsome&#8217;s latest work, Shade Compositions, is a live performance featuring a chorus of more than twenty black women. Influenced by improvisatory orchestral music and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cultureserve.net/blog/2009/02/01/video-rashaad-newsome-kalup-linzy-at-the-kitchen/</link>
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		<title>FLAVOR: Michelle Obama</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Image: Lisa Marie Thalhammer, Michelle Obama, 2009, oil on canvas, 86 inches x 67 inches.) Like they say: Behind every good man, is a fantastic woman. In this case, beside. Nuff said. This work was part of the MANIFEST HOPE: DC Art Exhibit held on Inauguration weekend 2009 in Washington, DC.]]></description>
		<link>http://cultureserve.net/blog/2009/02/01/flavor-michelle-obama/</link>
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		<title>Art + Culture Diaries: Gold Rush Awards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brothers Russell, Danny and Joseph Simmons, founders of the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation, and Derrick Adams, Curatorial Director of Rush Arts Gallery, are at it again. The Gold Rush Awards, another star studded celebration of the arts is on tap for Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 in New York City.  Over the last decade the organizations [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cultureserve.net/blog/2009/02/01/art-culture-diaries-gold-rush-awards/</link>
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		<title>PUBLIC ART: Galeria de la Raza &#8211; San Francisco, CA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Located on the corner of Bryant Street and 24th Street in the Mission District of San Francisco, California, Galeria de la Raza, an interdisciplinary Chicano/Latino space for art, thought &#038; activism, has always been at the center of art as a tool for social justice, community building and celebration. Founded in 1970 by local artists [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cultureserve.net/blog/2009/02/01/public-art-galeria-de-la-raza-san-francisco-ca/</link>
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		<title>FEATURED ARTIST: Marthalicia Matarrita</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Marthalicia Matarrita is a brilliant painter.  Nothing else really needs to be said &#8211; although there is plenty to her story.  Her passion is sparked and sustained by the fundamentals of hip-hop and live painting. However, the depth of her work in texture, mood and content reveals much more. With a family background that includes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cultureserve.net/blog/2009/01/01/featured-artist-marthalicia-matarrita/</link>
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		<title>VIDEO: DANCE &#8212; MEMPHIS JOOK vs. SOUTH AFRICAN KWAITO</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Early 21st century African Diaspora inter-continental dance moves are mysteriously similar.  The Memphis (not Egypt, Tennessee) Jook and South African Kwaito styles need to battle it out on the global stage an show &#8216;em how it&#8217;s done.   Check it out&#8230;. Kwaito >>>>> watch! Memphis Jook >>>>> watch!]]></description>
		<link>http://cultureserve.net/blog/2009/01/01/video-dance-memphis-jook-vs-south-african-kwaito/</link>
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		<title>FLAVOR: SUPERFERTILE / HUNGER</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kali Arulpragasam/SUPERFERTILE has done it again. Another line of jewels that illuminate global issues through beauty and creativity.  Her latest line, HUNGER, highlights the global food crisis. Through the use of staple foods like wheat, chick peas, rice, beans and lentils, recreated in gold and silver, the HUNGER line highlights the priceless nature of essential [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cultureserve.net/blog/2009/01/01/flavor-superfertile-hunger-2/</link>
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		<title>Art + Culture Diaries: 30 Americans &#8211; The Rubell Family Collection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Rubell Family Collection&#8217;s most recent exhibition, 30 Americans, offers an inter-generational survey of African American art collected over several decades by the Rubells.  The show articulates a dialogue between multiple generations of African American artists and the influence one has on the next.  For example the influence of Barkley L. Hendricks in the work [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cultureserve.net/blog/2009/01/01/art-culture-diaries-30-americans-the-rubell-family-collection/</link>
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		<title>Public Art: GALERIA DEL BARRIO &#8211; MIAMI</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In an effort to democratize art making and give longtime residents of Miami&#8217;s Wynwood District an opportunity to respond to the arts scene flourishing in their own hood, the Miami Workers Center partnered with photographer Noelle Theard to create Galeria del Barrio, a photo exhibit that explores the boundaries of displacement and resistance. (Installation Galeria [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cultureserve.net/blog/2009/01/01/public-art-galeria-del-barrio-miami/</link>
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		<title>Featured Artist: Kimsooja</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kimsooja&#8217;s breathtakingly beautiful photo, video and installation work bring movement to meditation and meditation to daily life.  Grounded in a nomadic work philosophy based on life experience, her work reflects a Buddhist way of life - &#8221;detachment from both affection and materialism.&#8221;  However, her work also reflects a unique sensuality. The detachment of the enlightened mind of the Buddha loses none of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cultureserve.net/blog/2008/12/01/featured-artist-kimsooja/</link>
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		<title>Video: Sven Van Hees &#8211; Emotional Rehabilitation [Live on my MC-909]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Music&#8230;art&#8230;sound&#8230;perhaps?  Electronic music composer, Sven Van Hees hears color &#8211; a condition known as Synesthesia that effects 1 in 25,000 people (mostly women and those with left handed persuasions).  Van Hees sees instruments as colors (strings/yellow, bass/red) and creates sonic color paintings as a result.  Turns out this YouTube video riff by Bergen1982, of one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cultureserve.net/blog/2008/12/01/video-sven-van-hees-emotional-rehabilitation-live-on-my-mc-909/</link>
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		<title>FLAVOR: BLACK MILK</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Image, concept and design: Black Milk-Tronic, album cover art by Fatbeats A&#038;R Bill Sharp, Black Milk and Skinny Boys Graphix.) What ever happened to album art? It&#8217;s around, but goes mostly unnoticed.  Not only is the new Black Milk album, Tronic, a contender for the transformation of new millenium hip-hop to higher ground &#8211; its [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cultureserve.net/blog/2008/12/01/flavor-black-milk/</link>
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		<title>Art + Culture Diaries: A Subjective Atlas of Palestine  / Graffiti Lives</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Its been said before history is often his story.  Those who control the means of production get to create the master narrative.  As the democratization of media unfolds in the 21st century more and more stories are accessible to larger and larger audiences.  Two stories with rich local histories, global implications and misrepresentation in mainstream [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cultureserve.net/blog/2008/12/01/art-culture-diaries-a-subjective-atlas-of-palestine-graffiti-lives/</link>
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		<title>Public Art: The PERFECT8 Magazine Stand Project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 2008 artist Diana Schmertz, founder of PERFECT8 magazine, launched the PERFECT8 Magazine Stand Project. PERFECT8 magazine is dedicated to the de-objectification of human beings and seeks to replace objectification with a pardigm of empathy. During a one year period throughout 2008-9 the PERFECT8 Stand will be appearing on the streets of New York City [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cultureserve.net/blog/2008/12/01/public-art-the-perfect8-magazine-stand-project/</link>
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		<title>FEATURED ARTIST: KRISTA FRANKLIN</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Through the poems that I write, I seek to forge a path in the wilderness of the human experience&#8230;&#8221;  &#8211; Krista Franklin Poet and visual artist Krista Franklin&#8217;s work openly reveals the subjectivity of the processing of human experience.  In some ways it highlights the relevance of the creative process that takes place within all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cultureserve.net/blog/2008/11/01/featured-artist-krista-franklin/</link>
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		<title>VIDEO: Ecatepec, Mexico/Cultural Mobilization</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The city of Ecatepec, Mexico, the most populated and industrialized city in Latin America, recently celebrated its first mass celebration of art + culture in the region, Festival International de los Nuevos Vientos (International Festival of New Winds).  The festival&#8217;s mission includes developing Ecatepec as a center of creative expression that celebrates both local and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cultureserve.net/blog/2008/11/01/video-ecatepec-mexicocultural-mobilization/</link>
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