Video (1:41:05): Susie Bright discusses her work as a photo editor, art director, and photography curator for over 30 years.
MICHELLE HANDELMAN is a filmmaker, visual artist and writer who makes confrontational works about sexuality, gender and desire. Her film BLOODSISTERS (1995) captures the gender nonconformity of the queer SMS scene and queer outlaws in a DIY fashion, just like the activism of the era.
Video (2:21): The trailer of the film BLOODSISTERS LEATHER, DYKES AND SADOMASOCHISM. Queer artist Michelle Handelman’s ground-breaking documentary on the San Francisco leather dyke scene is as vital as ever.
Video (1:37:53): In her masterclass at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema in Montreal, Canada, German filmmaker and multimedia artst Ulrike Ottinger presents excerpt of her film ‘Joan of Arc of Mongolia’ (1989) and answers questions.
Video (22:30): Teddy Award Interview with filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger who is the 2020 Teddy Award nominee for the Best Documentary Film with her film ‘Paris Calligrammes’ (2020).
Video (20:37): The Boy Mechanic San Diego, video installation by Kaucyila Brooke. This video documents one part of a multiple city historical archive about the history of lesbian bars.
Video (10:05): Mark Levengood talking with Andrea Reuter, Zaida Bergroth and Catharina Nyqvist-Ernrooth about the new feature film TOVE.
Video (1:14:15): lecture about the lesbian artist Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore with Jennifer Shaw and Tirza True Latimer.
Historic Richmond Town is excited to be partnering with art historian Dr. Bonnie Yochelson on a new book about photographer Alice Austen (1866-1952).
Video (6:47): GalleryBeat’s 1996 interview with Nicole Eisenman in a Soho gallery.
Call for materials. All lesbian, bisexual and queer women artists are welcome to send me materials for publication such as press releases, artist statements, photos of new works, videos, artist talks, lectures, etc.
The exhibition is on view at Columbus Museum of Art, USA, March 6, 2020 – May 31, 2020. NB. Due to public health concerns CMA are temporarily closing for 3 weeks starting March 15, 2020. Read the full press release about the queer art show here.
’50 Years of Pride’ opens Thursday, May 7 on the ground floor and North Light Court of San Francisco City Hall, San Francisco, California. The curators are artists Lenore Chinn and Pamela Peniston.
Video (3:01): Artist Gray Wielebinski on their site-specific work made for ‘Dark Air’ at SEAGER Gallery, an exhibition curated by Martin Mayorga and Vanessa Murrell (2019).
Video (5:29): Roni Horn talks about her glass sculptures for the collective exhibition “Luogo e Segni”, at Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy, March 24 – December 15, 2019.
Mickalene Thomas: découverte
December 26, 2019 – February 4, 2020 at the Baldwin Gallery, Colorado, USA. Opening reception: Thursday, December 26, 6-8 pm.
Mickalene Thomas: Femmes Noires. On View November 2, 2019 – June 14, 2020 at Contemporary Arts Center, 900 Camp Street. New Orleans, LA 70130-3908, USA.
Video (3:52): Art21, episode #263: Visual activist Zanele Muholi explains the impetus behind creating what they call “mobile studios” to photograph members of the LGBTI community in South Africa
Video (1:45): Patricia Cronin discusses her sculpture, ‘Memorial to a Marriage’ (modeled 2002, cast 2013) which was on display at the National Portrait Gallery, USA earlier this year.
Video (1:06:16): Nicole Eisenman inaugurates the Nasher Sculpture Center’s acquisition of her sculpture, ‘Sketch for a Fountain’, with an onsite lecture.