Press release From the Washing Line by Ilar Gunilla Persson Washing Line in the Colors of the Rainbow, Nordic Tour Starts at Sápmi Pride in Karasjok, Norway, June 29-31, 2015 Statements against homophobia are needed as the political discussion is getting more aggressive. Washing Line is a community art project…
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Article by Lerato Dumse Tick Tock for Deutsche Börse 2015 Prize With less than a week remaining before we are introduced to the winner of the renowned Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2015. Predictions are still pouring in and opinions are shared from far and wide. Everyone wants to see their…
TERESA INANNA Art and Video: Liliana Kleiner Editing: Claudia Medina Music: “Song of Genesis” by Ruth Weider Mangan and Mark Eliyahu Lamamc’e: Marc Eliyahu Voice and Text: Ruth Weider Magan, based on Jewish mystical writings. The video was published in May 2015. Liliana Kleiner says, I showed it in Europe…
Press release by Michèle Pearson Clarke Photograph from Parade of Champions by Michele Pearson Clarke, 2015. About the Exhibition Parade of Champions explores the grief experiences of three black queer people, following the deaths of their mothers. Although grief is borne from loss of any kind, for an adult child,…
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…
GendErotica 2015 is the necessary and inevitable step after GendErotica 2013: Fem. The visions, contradictions and imaginary that came out from last edition have defined the topics of the coming edition of the festival. It’s clear from the community response related to Queer Feminity is difficult, especially as long as…
“Lesbian artists generally had three main options in regards to how they presented — or hid — their sexuality. The first option was to keep their orientation private and compete with male artists using subject matter that did not relate to their sexuality. The next was to participate in the…
Excerpt from newsletter by RED BIND AKA Gilivanka Kedzior and Barbara Friedman New performance by RED BIND aka Gilivanka Kedzior and Barbara Friedman: [DOUBLE BIND #4: Mother] DUOS May 28, 2015, 18:00 – 22:00 at SOMA Art Gallery, Liegnitzer str 34, 10999 Berlin, Germany “‘Duos’ is the long-term curatorial project…
Trailer of ‘I’D RATHER BE A GODDESS THAN A CYBORG’, a feminist queer art festival, May 2015. COVEN BERLIN presents ‘I’D RATHER BE A GODDESS THAN A CYBORG’, a feminist queer art festival that will present the work of artists of various disciplines with a common focus on feminism and…
Women Art Revolution, a documentary by Lynn Hershman Leeson (2010).
The panelists are: associate curator of photography at the Art Gallery of Ontario Sophie Hackett; and artists K8 Hardy and Lyle Ashton Harris.
The Guerrilla Girls’ presentation of their retrospective exhibition in Bilbao, Spain, with 28 years of creative artworks and activism.
Interview with Frida Kahlo and Käthe Kollwitz, co-founders of The Guerilla Girls. Published at Youtube, February 2015. It’s Even Worse In Europe.
Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864–1952) self-portraits.
“States of Visual Activism” talk with Staceyann Chin, Tatyana Fazlalizadeh and Zanele Muholi at Brooklyn Museum.
Catherine Lord gave her “Ink on Paper” lecture on April 20, 2015. Catherine Lord is an artist, writer, and curator whose work addresses issues of queer theory, feminism and colonialism. With Richard Meyer, she is the author of the survey history “Art and Queer Culture”. Catherine Lord is an Emerita…
Queers & Comics LGBT Cartoonists’ Conference May 7-8, 2015 Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS) The Graduate Center, CUNY 365 Fifth Avenue, NYC Keynote speakers: Howard Cruse and Alison Bechdel Queers & Comics celebrates, explores and analyzes queer cartoonists and their work. It will offer LGBT cartoonists, comics writers…
Press release by Brooklyn Museum Zanele Muholi (South African, born 1972). Faces and Phases installed at dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany, 2012. (Photo: © Anders Sune Berg) Brooklyn Museum Presents Zanele Muholi: Isibonelo/Evidence The largest U.S. Museum Exhibition of the South African Photographer’s Work, May 1, 2015, through November 1, 2015….
Exhibition view; snapshot by Feminine Moments Zanele Muholi at The Photographers Gallery in London The Photographers’ Gallery showcase of Muholi’s work is part of a broader exhibition presenting the works of the four shortlistees of the prestigious Deutsche Borse Photography Prize. Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2015 17 April until 7…
Magic Mirror: Exhibition of works by Claude Cahun and Sarah Pucill Date: Friday, April 17, 2015 to Sunday, June 14, 2015 Opening Hours: Tuesday – Sunday 10am-5pm Address: Nunnery Gallery, 181 Bow Road, London E3 2SJ, UK While I was visiting London art writer and editor Anna McNay invited me…