How Art and Design Changed AIDS

Video (1:46:49): A recording by The New School of the a panel discussion of arts activists including Avram Finkelstein, Joy Episalla, Nancy Brooks Brody, Luis Carle and Tony Whitfield discussing the future of AIDS advocacy. The event commemorates the 25th Anniversary of Day With(out) Art with a keynote lecture by…

Exhibition View: photos by Zanele Muholi

Zanele Muholi: Isibonelo/Evidence – Extended!

Press release by Brooklyn Museum Zanele Muholi (South African, born 1972). Faces and Phases installed at dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany, 2012. (Photo: © Anders Sune) Brooklyn Museum Extends Zanele Muholi: Isibonelo/Evidence “Identity was used as a weapon, a tool for subjugation and oppression. Apartheid left a searing impression on Muholi,…

Queer Art Bites

Queer Art Bites Salon

Queer Art Bites – a LGBTQIA+ Art and Culture Salon Using ‘queer’ as a term to focus attention on LGBTQIA+ art and culture, the Queer Art Bites salon will give insight to the infinite range of queer creative output. Queer Art Bites (QAB) – ‘RIP Pride special’ Wednesday, October 21,…

Photo by Zanele Muholi

Zanele Muholi’s Transformations

Look Again. Photograph from the series Somnyama Ngonyama. Credit: Zanele Muholi/Yancey Richardson Gallery/Stevenson Gallery. Zanele Muholi featured in The New York Times Magazine Zanele Muholi’s Transformations – A photographer known for taking striking portraits of members of the black queer community in South Africa turns the camera on herself. By…

Queer/Art/Mentorship Program 2015

Excerpt from Leslie-Lohman Museum’s newsletter Queer/Art/Mentorship Program 2015 Opening Reception: Friday, October 16, 6-8 pm Exhibition Dates: October 17-18 & 24-25, 12-6 pm Screening: Friday, October 23, 6-8pm Queer/Art/Mentorshipp announces its second Annual Exhibition, to be held at the Prince St. Project Space programming administered by the Leslie-Lohman Museum of…

Do Queer Feminist Interventions at Museums Work?

Funktionieren queerfeministische Interventionen im Museum? A conversation with the curators of the exhibition “Homosexuality_ies”, (June 26, 2015 – December 1, 2015 at Schwules Museum* and Deutschen Historischen Museum in Berlin Germany). Saturday, 17 October 2015, at 5.30 pm until 7 pm Venue: Heinrich Böll Stiftung Berlin, Schumannstraße 8, Berlin. 30…

Mary Coble 2015

Berlin: Mary Coble – Performing Queer Resistance

Press release by Schwules Museum* Artist Talk: Mary Coble – Performing Queer Resistance Saturday, November 14, 2015 at 19:00 Schwules Museum*, Berlin, Germany Mary Coble, artist and educator will discuss queer strategies of resistance through artistic practice and activism. Coble’s live work and multimedia installations revolve around queer politics, poetics…

Ruth Bernhard

Slideshow with nude photos by Ruth Bernhard (October 14, 1905 – December 18, 2006). Wikipedia reads about photographer Ruth Bernhard: “By the late-1920s, while living in Manhattan, Bernhard was heavily involved in the lesbian sub-culture of the artistic community, becoming friends with photographer Berenice Abbott and her lover, critic Elizabeth…