avid aeon: fierce pussy amplified, Chapter Nine by Nancy Brooks Brody (1962-2023), Joy Episalla, Zoe Leonard, Carrie Yamaoka and Jo-ey Tang (curator)
through August 30, 2026 at the Central Pavilion / Arsenale in Venice, Italy
Category: Lesbian art
Video (3:47): American photographer Donna Gottschalk, 76, has spent her life photographing the intimacy of those around her, expecially her lesbian friends.
Video (8:25): THE REINCARNATION (art video, 2022) by Lill-Ann Chepstow-Lusty is a tribute to Marie Høeg (1866-1949) and Bolette Berg (1872-1944), featuring Log Lady Lusty.
Lill-Ann Chepstow-Lusty: Tilbakeblikk, 7-22 February, 2026 at Camera Lucida, Porsgrunn, Norway.
Video (47:40): Gallery conversation between queer feminist painter Chloe Chiasson, curator Stamatina Gregory, Leslie Lohman Museum of Art, and art historian and critic Ksenia M. Soboleva on the occasion of Chiasson’s first solo exhibition in New York.
Video (22:42): Marie Laurencin painted a universe where men didn’t exist. Where women touched, gazed at each other. This video analyzes the Parisian artist’s visual language.
Video (1:46): Mickalene Thomas in her studio talking about her creative process.
Video (14:46): Mickalene Thomas: Je t’adore deux at Galerie Nathalie Obadia in Paris. The show with Mickalene Thomas’ exotic black nudes runs through 24 January 2006.
Video (58:54): Dr Tilly Scantlebury explores the history and influence of queer artist Catherine Opie, Tammy Rae Carland and Mickalene Thomas.
Video (39:33): ‘Toulouse-Lautrec and Queer Montmatre’ is a rich presentation of Toulouse-Lautrec’s lesbian models and other queer women in Montmatre during La Belle Époque by Maria Norrman.
Jess Dobkin and Lisa DeBoer on the “Lesbian Time-Out Kiss-In,” Lesbian Avengers and queer visibility
Video (1:00:47): Podcast interview with Jess Dobkin and Lisa DeBoer on the “Lesbian Time-Out Kiss-In,” Lesbian Avengers and queer visibility.
Video (13:16): Pamela Sneed responds to Zoe Leonard’s “I want a president” (1992). Introduction by Sharon Hayes.
Video (13:36): Take a tour of the traveling exhibition, Mickalene Thomas: All About Love with presenter Lea Ogunlami and editor-in-chief of Polyester zine Ione Gamble.
Video (19:10): Solo Creatives of The Berkshires, Episode 119: Rachel Kaufmann, a queer painter..
The Maria Lassnig Foundation has awarded their 2025 Prize to Carrie Yamaoka. She will receive €50,000 and an exhibition at the Hamburger Kunsthalle
Burning down the Patriarchy. The Berlin women and lesbians’ scene photographed by Petra Gall
at Schwules Museum, Berlin
July 4, 2025 – February 23, 2026
Video (1:01:15): Presentations by artists Perrin Ireland and Allyson Mitchell, moderated by Dr. Julia Smith.
Video (2:38): The Queer Feminist Art Exhibition “We are here, we are queer” was opened at Some Space Gallery in Chiang Mai, Thailand on June 1. The exhibition runs through June 15, 2025.
Joan Cox: My work opens up a dialogue about the increasingly open presence of lesbian couples in contemporary society.
Joan Cox: Side by Side, June 13 – July 12, 2025 at CENTER FOR THE ARTS GALLERY at Towson University in Maryland, USA.