Copenhagen: FEMINISTS IN SPACE

Feminists in Space – International feminist qerformance art festival, November 9-13, 2011 at Warehouse 9, Copenhagen, Denmark. Curatorial Statement We are pleased to announce Feminists in Space – the first feminist performance festival ever to be held in Copenhagen. Feminists in Space was initially the title for a feminist blog…

Brooklyn Museum Focuses on Queer Sexuality and Gender

HIDE/SEEK: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, the first major museum exhibition in USA to explore how gender and sexual identity have shaped the creation of American portraiture, was originally organized by the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, and has been reorganized by the Brooklyn Museum and the Tacoma Art…

I Don’t Need Your Help

i don’t need your help from Manmeet Devgun on Vimeo November 18 – 25, 2011. The Nigah QueerFest ’11 is celebrating sexualities for the fifth time this year in New Delhi. The Solo Show Project presents: I Don’t Need Your Help By Manmeet Devgun, India Abadi Art Space F213/A First…

GFEST 2011 – 2 Minutes of Creativity: Bridget Orlando

GFEST 2011 – “2 Minutes of Creativity” chat with artist Bridget Orlando. Bridget Orland is talking with Artistic director of GFEST Niranjan Kamatkar Bridget Orlando is working on a body of work about the ways people present themselves and our assumptions as well. One of her paintings was selected for…

SOMArts Cultural Center: Man as Object: Reversing the Gaze

SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco presents Man as Object: Reversing the Gaze, November 4–30, 2011 Opening Reception with Artwork Dedication & Performance Friday, Nov 4 2011, 6–9 pm. Free Admission. Women Artists Look at Men and Masculinity – Art Exhibition Re-envisions Gender, Society and The Politics of Exposure San Francisco,…

Lover Other. The Story of Claude Cahun and Marcel More

Trailer: Lover Other: The Story of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore_barbarahammer.com from Barbara Hammer on Vimeo 1920’s Surrealist artists Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore come to life in this hybrid documentary. Lesbians and step-sisters, the gender-bending artists lived and worked together all their lives. Heroic resisters to the Nazis occupying…

Claude Cahun Retrospective in Barcelona

French lesbian photographer Claude Cahun’s surrealist works are growing more and more popular. Go see the latest retrospective of her works in Barcelona: Claude Cahun 28 October 2011 to 2 February 2012 at Centre de Imatge, Barcelona, Spain “After many years of relative obscurity, the photographs of Claude Cahun (born…

Installation by Dorothée Smith

C19H28O2 (Agnès) an installation made by queer photographer Dorothée Smith for her exhibition at Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains,Tourcoing, France, 2011.

Cape Town: Isilumo Siyaluma, a Queer Solo Show by Zanele Muholi

Isilumo siyaluma is a Zulu expression that can be loosely translated as “period pains/ periods pain”. Additionally, there is an added meaning in the translation that there is something secretive in and about this blood/“period in time.”
At one level, my project deals with my own menstrual blood, with that secretive, feminine time of the month that has been reduced within Western patriarchal culture as dirty.

Zanele Muholi: Isilumo Siyaluma – Periods of Pain

Isilumo siyaluma, zulu expression which means period pains, as we continue to live and survive in troubled times as black lesbians in South Africa and within the continent. Visual artist Zanele Muholi explains her queer art project “Isilumo siyaluma” to Toxic Lesbian, Madrid, Spain. Related Links Zanele Muholi’s online portfolio…

Pin Ups by Sadie Lee & Mathew Stradling

The show Pin Ups is a selection of new and existing portraits by both artists exploring the idea of queer icons and inspired by the eponymous David Bowie album.

Lesbian Art Herstory: Bernice Bing – a Chinese American Painter

Lenore Chinn on Bernice Bing from Rehistoricizing.org on Vimeo. Bernice Bing (1936-1998) a Chinese American Painter and Queer Artist Bernice Bing was a third-generation American Chinese born in Chinatown, San Francisco in 1936. In 1958, Bernice attended California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, but she soon transferred to…

Man As Object: Reversing the Gaze Art Exhibition

Video trailer about Man As Object: Reversing the Gaze Art Exhibition by SOMarts, San Francisco, USA Man As Object: Reversing the Gaze Art Exhibition November 4-30, 2011 Events include: peepshow drawing circle, performance, film screening, and featured artist panel Venue: SOMarts Cultural Center, 934 Brannan st. (Between 8th & 9th…

Dadaist Artist Hannah Höch

Art Herstory: German bisexual artist Hannah Höch (1889-1978) is best known for her photomontages, though she also made drawings and paintings. Between 1912 and 1920, she studied art at the Kunstgewerbeschule Charlottenburg (Charlottenburg School of Applied Arts) and the Unterrichtsanstalt des königlichen Kunstgewerbemuseums (School of the Royal Museum of Applied…

Exposure: Making It As An Artist: Career Tips & Tricks

Exposure – Edmonton’s Queer Arts and Culture Festival presents: Making It As An Artist: Career Tips & Tricks Featuring Kirsten McCrea & a Selected Panel of Successful Artists Date: October 23, 2011 Time: 5-7pm Venue: HIV Edmonton Gallery 9702 111 Ave. (Old Nina Haggerty Building) Edmonton, Canada A candid discussion…

Zanele Muholi – Solo Show in Las Palmas

Zanele Muholi has a solo show, accompanied by a new publication on her work, at Casa Africa in Las Palmas, Canary Islands, opening 19 October and running till 20 January. She also has work on Face of Our Time, travelling to the University of Michigan Museum of Art

Nigah QueerFest ’11: Call for Support

Help our friends in India. Queer male artist Sunil Gupta, organizer of Nigah QueerFest November 18 – 25, 2011 in New Delhi, India is calling out for donations. They hope to raise Rs. 1,70,000, which is 2,488 Euros / 3,417 US Dollars for the Nigah QueerFest’11. Press release The greatest success of every…

New York: Lesbians Seeing Lesbians

Press release from The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art Lesbians Seeing Lesbians Building Community in Early Feminist Photography Exhibition Ends October 22, 2011 at the Leslie-Lohman Gallery, 26 Wooster Street, NYC, USA Tee Corrine, Self-portrait, Gelatin silver print, 1980. Press photo courtesy of Leslie-Lohman Gallery. In the wake…

CABELLO / CARCELLER “Off escena: Si yo fuera…”

CABELLO / CARCELLER “Off escena: Si yo fuera…” (Off Escena: If I Were…) from Matadero Madrid on Vimeo. Art Project of view “Off Escena: Si yo fuera…”, Madrid 2011 : “A scaffold and wood structure inhabits the old cold storage of Matadero Madrid. A graffiti, “Ask and tell”, dominates a…