The feminist group exhibition, WOMAN WHERE IS YOUR TOWER? is exploring the feminine. At the exhibition you can among other works see paintings by queer painter Henriette Hellstern-Kjøller.
Author: Havmoeller
American Art Quilter V Kingsley 11/11/1965 to 4/1/2011.
ArtGasm is a series of exhibits, live art making, performance art, and multi media art installations presented by Femina Potens Gallery, San Francisco, on a quarterly basis. April 2010: ArtGasm: Sadie Lune’s Biological Clock
Grace Moon, editor of Velvetpark talked with artist Michelle Handelman in her studio.
Make Out Magazine – also known as MOM – is a new bilingual Berlinternational publication with a focus on queer politics, feminism, art and culture. Contributors are welcome to get in touch – whether to write, contribute other creative work, or help with the organizational aspects.
Since the 1970’s, Friedrich’s skillful mix of experimental narrative and documentary forms, filled with provocative feminist and lesbian themes, has made her a groundbreaking member of the avant-garde film community and a pivotal force in the establishment of Queer Cinema. 13 of her films is now available on DVD.
The short film ‘Difficult Love’ is a portrait of visual activist Zanele Muholi from Sout Africa and her portfolios of fine art photography. – It is a highly personal take on the challenges facing Black lesbians in South Africa today that emerges through Muholi’s life, work, friends and her associates.
Zanele Muholi was in Stockholm, Sweden end of March 2010 to talk about her film about the challenges which Black lesbians faces every day in South Africa.
New book: Cultural Confluences: The Art of Lenore Chinn.
Art historian Cassandra Langer reviews the catalog/coffee table artbook ‘Frida Kahlo Retrospective’ at glreview.com, The Gay and Lesbian Review, a bimonthly Journal of History, Culture, and Politics.
Erotic Journaling Workshop w/Susie Bright at Femina Potens Gallery, San Francisco, USA. April 7th 2011, 7 – 8pm ($15)
All over the world, we meet lots of people – age 8 to 80 – who are unafraid to call themselves feminists, and who use feminism as a platform for art, activism and culture jamming. The “f” word lives!
Today I want to show you my home office. This is where I spend my morning updating Feminine Moments.
Youtube and nudity doesn’t go well together. I have corresponded with some out and proud artists, who unfortunately can’t share their explicit artworks at Youtube, because it is a family entertainment site.
‘Difficult Love’ is a highly personal take on the challenges facing Black lesbians in South Africa today emerges through the life, work, friends and associates of ‘visual activist’ and internationally celebrated photographer, Zanele Muholi.
Vernisage / opening March 17 at 19:00: Studio vortex 1 / Dorothée Smith / Tom Pope at Atelier de Visu, Marseille 6e, France.
Longtime visionary filmmaker Barbara Hammer, 70, won two Teddy Award in February 2011 – the prizes in the category for best short film, one for her own Maya Deren’s Sink and the other for Generations, which Hammer shares with co-director Gina Carducci.
Clothes make the man – but what about the child? Visual artist Heidi Lunabba’s series Twins investigates how clothes and other visual emblems are used to accentuate and define a child’s gender.
Artist statement by Jess Dobkin: I approach performance art as an inherently subversive practice. My performances challenge the status quo, transgress boundaries and envision alternate realities. …
An amazing T shirt collection containing 30 years of lesbian and feminist herstory is made into a very non traditional quilt titled “I am a Mermaid” by V Kingsley, USA
Text and artwork by Debbie McCarthy: Nearly a decade later, I look back on my time at Leeds with fond memories.(…) Looking at these drawings makes me realize that I didn’t simply arrive at the person I am today, it was a metamorphic struggle.
Debbie McCarthy