The Art of Romaine Brooks

The Art of Romaine Brooks, 3rd floor North, Smithsonian American Art Museum, USA, June 17, 2016 – October 2, 2016.

Art Discussions: Romaine Brooks, a 20th-Century Woman

Press release courtesy of Cassandra Langer and SAAM Art Discussions: Romaine Brooks, a 20th-Century Woman Friday, June 17, 2016, 4 – 7pm Categories: After Five, Lectures & Discussions Location: Smithsonian American Art Museum, 8th and F Streets, NW Washington, DC 20004, USA Event Location: McEvoy Auditorium Cost: Free. Related Exhibition:…

Romaine Brooks: A Life – Speaking Event in New York

Romaine Brooks: A Life Speaking Event – New York, NY Fashion Institute of Technology When: April 7, 2016 Time: 6 pm Where: Katie Murphy Amphitheatre Fred P. Pomerantz Art and Design Center Register: http://www.fitnyc.edu/museum Art historian Cassandra Langer introduces her lively biography of expatriate American painter Romaine Brooks (1874–1970). Langer…

ROMAINE BROOKS Paintings, drawings, photographs

ROMAINE BROOKS Paintings, drawings, photographs December 19, 2015 – March 13, 2016 Venice, Palazzo Fortuny ROMAINE BROOKS Paintings, drawings, photographs is the first ever exhibtion with works by lesbain artist Romaine Brook (1874–1970) in Italy. Catalogue published by the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, edited by Daniela Ferretti and Jérome…

Romaine Brooks Panel at Leslie-Lohman Museum

Video (58:57): Romaine Brooks: A Life from Leslie-Lohman Museum on Vimeo. Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lebian Art writes: Cassandra Langer, the 21st century biographer of Romaine Brooks, is joined by art historian James Saslow and screenwriter/translator Suzanne Stroh on a panel as part of a book launch at the…

New York Book Launch: Romaine Brooks: A Life

Book Launch: Romaine Brooks: A Life by Cassandra Langer Panel: Jim Saslow, Cassandra Langer and Suzanne Strohe November 12, 6-8 pm at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, 26 Wooster Street, New York, NY 10013, USA The artistic achievements of Romaine Brooks (1874-1970), both as a major expatriate American…

Cassandra Langer Reading From Her Book on Romaine Brooks

Art historian and writer Cassandra Langer will be reading from her book, Romaine Brooks: A Life at Romany Kramoris Gallery, 41 Main St, Sag Harbor, NY 11963, USA over Columbus Day weekend (October 10 – 12, 2015). The artistic achievements of Romaine Brooks (1874–1970), both as a major expatriate American…

Book Release Party on Facebook – Romaine Brooks: A Life

American writer Cassandra Langer has announced that you are all welcome to join her celebrating the publication of her new book Romaine Brooks: A Life at a national-wide and international online release party at Facebook celebrating the publication of the new art book: Romaine Brooks: A Life Cassandra Langer Published…

Art Book: Romaine Brooks by Cassandra Langer

Romaine Brooks: A Life Langer, Cassandra (Author) Sep 2015. 290 p. Univ. of Wisconsin, hardcover, $26.95. (9780299298609). Univ. of Wisconsin, e-book, $15.95. (9780299298630). 759.13. [This new art book will available as of September 23, 2015 at Amazon and Barnes and Noble as well as on line from the University of…

Romaine Brooks: A Life by Cassandra Langer

Press release The Cover of Romaine Brooks a Life by Cassandra Langer (UW Press, September 2015) Romaine Brooks (1874–1970) The artistic achievements of Romaine Brooks (1874–1970), both as a major expatriate American painter and as a formative innovator in the decorative arts, have long been overshadowed by her fifty-year relationship…

The Romaine Brooks You Never Knew

Invitation from Dr. Cassandra Langer The Romaine Brooks You Never Knew Rediscovering America’s Elusive Modernist Painter   Please join me for A lunchtime talk at the Smithsonian Thursday, November 20th Noon Archives of American Art 750 9th Street NW, 2nd Floor Washington, USA Please present your ID to enter the…

Classical Nudes and the Making of Queer History

Press Release by Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art We are pleased to announce our upcoming exhibition: Classical Nudes and the Making of Queer History October 18, 2014 – January 4, 2015 Opening Reception: October 17, 6-8 pm Sponsored by the John Burton Harter Charitable Trust In perhaps its…

Kickstarter Project – A New Book About Romaine Brooks

A project by Cassandra Langer ‘All or Nothing: The Many Faces of Romaine Brooks is an exciting new reading of the oh-so glamorous life of one of the most transgressive sublimely opinionated gay figures of the 20th century. Think K.D. Lang meets I Kissed A Girl. The author [Cassandra Langer]…

Painter Romaine Brooks

Slideshow with paintings by Romaine Brooks Romaine Brooks Lesbian Art Herstory: American Painter Romaine Brooks (1874 – 1970) worked in Paris and on Capri in the 1920s. She best known for her images of women in androgynous or masculine dress having, and has among others painted a painting of a…

Hide/Seek Exhibition At The Smithsonian, USA

American art historian Cassandra Langer says about the Hide/Seek exhibition at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery:
‘Jonathan Katz and David Ward’s show at the National Portrait Gallery is open. Hide and Seek features Romaine Brook’s work and Jonathan Weinberg’s show at the archives also features a lovely Van Vechten photograph of her. Shows run through Feb. 2011…