Between the Waves by Tejal Shah

Barbara Gross Gallerie in Munich, Germany is the second solo exhibition of Indian artist Tejal Shah. Titled Between the Waves, the video and installation project premiered at dOCUMENTA art festival last year under the curatorial rubric of Collapse and Recovery of artistic director Carolyn Christov Bakargiev. Between the Waves runs…

American Craftswoman Caitlin R. Sweet

Artist statement and photos by Caitlin Rose Sweet Gay Cave, mixed media, 15’x6’, by Caitlin R. Sweet, 2012. Photo by Ty August Chance Caitlin R. Sweet: I am a conceptual craftswoman who uses the connotations of the handmade as a platform to explore our relationship to the body, sexuality, utopian…

Hear Us Marching Up Slowly by Dorothée Smith

Thinkinghands wrote on 04/27/2013: “Arles: A French School Daily through May 26 Time:10 :30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Location: 798 Space Address: Dashanzi Art District, 4 Jiuxianqiao Lu, Beijing, China Arles: A French School Description A selection of works by artists who graduated from Europe’s most prestigious photography school will…

Birthe’s World

A self portrait by Birthe Havmoeller, independent editor of Feminine Moments Recently one of my readers realized that I am not based in Copenhagen, but am living in a village near Aarhus, she asked: Do you live in the country? Is it peaceful there? It is a town? …  and…

EARTHY – an Ecosex Boot Camp

San Francisco, CA. May 18, 2013: Press Release from Annie Sprinkle, Beth Stephens and Femina Potens EARTHY — AN ECOSEX BOOT CAMP AIMS TO MAKE ECO-ACTIVSM MORE SEXY, FUN AND DIVERSE Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle aim to get an ‘E’ added to the ‘GLBTQI’ moniker. E is for ecosexual….

Polaroid Girl by April Maxey

Polaroid Girl Teaser from April Maxey on Vimeo. Teaser: Polaroid Girl by April Maxey Film screening: May 24, 2013 Kashish Mumbai International Queer Film Festival, INDIA Read more about Polaroid Girl

San Francisco: DEAR MAMMARIES…

Press release by Madison Young / Femina Potens Art Gallery DEAR MAMMARIES… INTERACTIVE VISUAL ART EXPLORATION AND INNOVATIVE CONVERSATION ON OUR TABOO TOPOGRAPHY SAN FRANCISCO, CA – JUNE 6-9, 2013 @ 43 DORE ST. Femina Potens Art Gallery presents a weekend long interactive visual art exploration and innovative conversation on…

GendErotica 2013 – Programme is Online Now

Press release by Eyeswilddrag.it GendErotica 2013 contamination of queer art Fem! Rome, Italy, May 31st – June 2nd at Nuovo Cinema Palazzo and at Teatro Valle Occupato The most international, dissacrating, activist edition of GendErotica. Femme Power and Queer Femininity are the tools that women have for the appropriatation of…

Workshop by Dorothée Smith at Les Rencontres d’Arles Photographie

Workshop: Dorothée Smith – The invisible side of things From 8 to 13 July 2013, at the international photography festival Les Rencontres d’Arles Photographie in the south of France. The workshop is bilingual English – French. Participants will experiment with different technical and aesthetic decisions each day in order to…

Canadian Heritage restores Queer Arts Festival funding after public outcry

Press release by PiA, Canada Vancouver, BC – May 8, 2013 The Pride in Art Society (PiA) is thrilled to announce that Canadian Heritage has restored partial funding for this year’s Queer Arts Festival (QAF). In April, PiA received word that Canadian Heritage was withdrawing its funding for QAF. This…

Art Catalog – Portraits by Juliette Gorges Coppens

Portraits by Juliette Gorges Coppens Published by www.thebookedition.com (2013) This new catalog (right: the cover of the catalog) by French painter Juliette Gorges Coppens presents 32 portraits of women. Juliette’s series of paintings – oil on canvas and oil on paper – are sensual and erotic portraits of women and…

Julia Kunin at COLLECTIVE.1

Hello all, Blue gorilla hand, ceramic sculpture by Julia Kunin I have work in the new design fair “COLLECTIVE.1” at pier 57, at Todd Merrill Gallery. Meanwhile I’m having an amazing time making work in Pecs, Hungary, on my Fulbright [grant]. All my best, Julia COLLECTIVE.1: Pier 57, at 15th…

San Francisco: Art Brigade & Volunteer PICNIC potluck!

Press release from Coral Aorta / Femina Potens Art Gallery Femina Potens would like to invite all of our past, present and future volunteers, interns, FP friends, family and allies to our May Picnic Potluck in Dolores Park. We had a great time at our last FP Potluck, and are…

Art in Progress – Patricia Cronin

Short film (27 min.) about lesbian artist Patricia Cronin, Art in Progress, Reserve Channel, 2012 Art in Progess: “Patricia Cronin is known for her beautiful equestrian themed paintings. However, she also has a niche for creating artistically sexual paintings and sculptures. Using herself and her partner as the subject, Patricia…

Artist talk – Deborah Kass

Video published by Halston Heritage, 2013 HALSTON sits down with the artist Deborah Kass to talk about her work, pop art’s place in pop culture and her retrospective October 26, 2012 – January 6, 2013 at The Andy Warhol Museum. Related Links Deborah Kass at Paul Kasmin Gallery

Archiving Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival

Gender Studies and Body Politics Session 2 | published by The New School, Nyc. USA, 2010 Ann Cvetkovich, Professor of English and Professor of Womens and Gender Studies, University of Texas at Austin. Prof. Cvetkovich discusses the problems of continuity/discontinuity across feminist generations. What turns have we taken, and how…

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A new era of theory has recently emerged – we might call it “wild theory” – within which thinkers, scholars, and artists take a break from orthodoxy and experiment with knowledge, art, and the imagination, even as they remain all too aware of the constraints under which all three operate….

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]…