Secret Love: China’s Leading Queer Artists Secret Love is the world’s first large contemporary queer art exhibition from mainland China presenting app. 150 works of art about homosexuality, identity and norms by 28 artists. The exhibition, which premiered 21 September 2012 till 31 March 2013 at the Museum of Far…
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Press release by the Guerrilla Girls, USA Top: Entry to exhibiiton with Code of Ethics poster / room 2 installation view. Middle: Room 3 installation view / one of 13 tables of ephemera / room 1 interactive wall. Bottom: Hate Speech, Estrogen Bomb projects / street banner on Alhóndiga ¡HOLA…
Press Release by Brooklyn Museum Playwright Lorraine Hansberry’s Letters to The Ladder Focal Point of Exhibition in Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway Brooklyn NY 11238-6052 On View November 22, 2013 – March 16, 2014 A new exhibition, Twice Militant: Lorraine Hansberry’s Letters to…
Press release by Alexander Gray Associates Rib, 2013, detail, oil and mixed media on canvas by Harmony Hammond. Courtesy of Alexander Gray Associates and Harmony Hammond Harmony Hammond Opening Reception Wednesday, October 23, 2013, 6:00 – 8:00 pm Alexander Gray Associates 508 West 26 Street #215 New York NY 10001…
[Sorry, the video has been taken down] Lola Becky Boston’s description of her video: ‘Lola is a 3 minute video, a random compilation of clips taken over a few months, of moments with my girlfriend Lola. Nothing is staged or planned I just went though a stage of constantly bringing…
Text and images: Melisa Ljubovich Pastuvka in Zürich (Bosnian female horse in Zürich), a self portrait by Melisa ‘Mel’ Ljubovich Artist Statement by Melisa ‘Mel’ Ljubovich Mel Ljubovich: In major parts of the Balkans being transparent and queer, despite your work and other activities, are not getting on well…
Text by Birthe Havmoeller / Feminine Moments Sif Itona Westerberg, photo by Birthe Havmoeller Danish art student Sif Itona Westerberg (above) is interested in rites and systems that create and uphold social and historical power structures. I met her at her latest exhibition Remains of Eternity in Copenhagen a few…
Video (19:59): Laurie Toby Edison – Women En Large and Familiar Men (2001) is available on Vimeo. In this film Laurie Toby Edison talks about her photography projects and books, ‘Women En Large: Images of Fat Nudes’ and ‘Familiar Men: A Book of Nudes’.
2004 documentary by Pablo Helguera on the life and work of XIXth century Staten Island photographer Alice Austen. One book has been published about photographer Alice Austen: Alice’s World : The Life and Photography of an American Original, Alice Austen, 1866-1952 Authored by lesbian photo researcher Ann Novotny Devin-Adair Pub;…
This lecture by Richard Meyer, titled “Quarantined: Alice Austen and the Secret History of Photography,” took place on Wednesday, September 9, 2011 in Steinberg Auditorium at Washington University. Art historian Richard Meyer talks the works of American photographer Alice Austen, and lesbian visibility. He also mentions the book, which he…
Laura Gilpin (1891 – 1979) was an American photographer known for her photographs of Native Americans, particularly the Navajo and Pueblo, and her Southwestern landscapes. She also frequently photographed her partner Elizabeth ‘Betsy’ Forster. However, those photos are not included in this slideshow. Related links Article: Laura Gilpin and the…
Feminine Moments went to see ‘Frida Kahlo – A Live In Art’ at Arken Museum of Modern Art in Copenhagen. The exhibition claimed the bisexual artist as a heterosexual painter.
Janet Scudder, ca. 1920 / unidentified photographer. Macbeth Gallery records, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Photo courtesy of The Commons at Flickr.com and Archives of American Art, USA. Janet Scudder (1869? – 1940) American artist Janet Scudder (1869? – 1940) was a sculptor, feminist, expatriate suffragette, who “frequently marched…
SoG indiClip720p from Beldan Sezen on Vimeo. Beldan Sezen is a graphic artist, who makes comic-strips and graphic novels. She has given workshops and master classes, participated in comic jams and exhibited her works in Amsterdam, London, Berlin, Wiesbaden, Beirut and Aleppo. Riot of Colours GFEST 2013 presents Riot of…
Becky Boston, UK.
Kickstarter Project by Kim Leutwyler Become a backer and get original art & cool stuff by Kim Leutwyler. Free Shipping around the world. Congratulations to Kim Leutwyler. This project is 100% funded! The Project After moving to Australia, my work caught the eye of two amazing galleries that would…
Paintings by Frances Hodgkins Frances Hodgkins (1869 – 1947) There is speculation that New Zealand watercolorist and painter Frances Hodgkins in fact was a closeted bisexual woman. She never married. In 1903 she met Dorothy Kate Richmond (1861-1935), an artist from Auckland with whom she travelled in France and Italy…
Agnes Noyes Goodsir (1864 – 1939) Agnes Noyes Goodsir was born in Australia. From 1912 – 1920 she lived in Paris and London, before she finally settled in Paris with her companion Rachel Dunn. She has made several paintings of Rachel such as A letter from the Front / Girl on…
Undocumented Bill of Rights © 2011 by María DeGuzmán, Camera Query. Of Mannequins and Minikins An art exhibit by professor and artist María DeGuzmán in collaboration with Jill H. Casid and Carisa Showden September 16 – 25, 2013 Exhibit Gallery, 2nd Floor Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina,…
Interview with Janet Cooling (2010) by ArtasAuthority at YouTube. About Janet Cooling Janet Cooling ‘received her B.F.A. from Pratt Institute (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and her M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is currently a professor in the School of Art, Design, and Art History at San…