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Diamond Matters

Diamond Matters  by Kadir von Lohuizen  
$29.95   ISBN 978-1-884167-70-6

The world's most precious stone from the mines of Africa to the jewels of Bond Street- in a special velvet, diamond-studded edition!

YOU'RE INVITED! The award-winning exhibition opens in DUMBO, Brooklyn on October 30th, 81 Front Street 5-8 PM. Sparkling wine and a scintillating soundtrack, rsvp [email protected].

Panel discussion with NGOs, diamond industry experts, actors from the movie Blood Diamond, and artist Kadir von Lohuizen on the occasion of the European Union's United Nations conference on the Kimberly Accords, 6 pm, December 5th.

With the support of: Fatal Transactions, The European Union, Netherlands Institute for Southern Africa, Two Trees Management Co. LLC, The Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York, and Amnesty International.

Divided Portraits

It's Complicated: The American Teenager
$40.00   ISBN 978-1-884167-69-0

Robin Bowman's emotional and astonishing five-year journey into the hearts and minds of over 400 kids from 40 states: prom queens to drag queens, preacher boys to Amish farm girls, gang members to rock stars. A shocking journey
into what teenagers think and feel and fear and do and dream.

Traveling exhibition opens in Umbrage's new gallery at 111 Front Street January 15- through April 15, 2008

Dressed To Kill

Torrijos: The Man and the Myth
$40.00   ISBN 978-1-884167-68-3

Never-before-seen text and pictures by the Mexican photographic great Graciela Iturbide and Columbian Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez on Panama's former
leader--dictator to some, freedom fighter to others. A man ahead of his time, a dreamer, a lover, a mystery unraveled.

Traveling exhibition opens January 30th, 2008, 7:00PM through May 5th at the Americas Society, New York, 680 Park Avenue at 68th Street, Call for information  -
[email protected], 212-277-8359 and then moves to Panama City at the Museo de Bellas Artes, May-July 2008.







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