Canada: Exposure Queer Arts and Culture Festival 2011

Exposure Queer Arts and Culture Festival 2011 takes place in Edmonton, Canada October 21 – 23, 2011. Exposure uncovers, highlights and celebrates queer arts and culture. The festival exposes queer artists to new audiences, and exposes Edmonton audiences to new art. Exposure presents queer artists working in diverse media. By…

Homotopia 2011

Press release Homotopia – Cruising for Art 1-30 November 2011 Welcome to our 8th festival happening across Liverpool throughout November. This year’s festival theme is ‘Cruising For Art’ and we are thrilled that artist Sadie Lee’s iconic painting ‘Anderrida Shurville’ is the 2011 festival campaign which also forms part of…

Audience Award to Zanele Muholi’s Film Difficult Love

The Audience awards 2011 for the best short film of the AITP filmfestiv​al 2011 in Amsterdam went to: Documentary Difficult Love directed by Zanele Muholi + Peter Goldsmid (South Africa). With the prize comes 500 euro. Congratulations!!! to queer photographer and visual activist Zanele Muholi, South Africa and to director/producer…

Dispersed All Over The World – Jewish Women Artists

Painter and Jewish lesbian Liliana Kleiner invites you and your friends to the opening of an exceptional group exhibition: Dispersed All Over The World – Jewish Women Artists at Inselgalerie Berlin, Torstrasse 207, Berlin-Mitte, Germany October 26 – November 19, 2011 Opening: October 26, 2011 at 19:00 Liliana will be…

Pandora’s Book by Jan Morley

British artist Jan Morley will be presenting her artist book Pandora’s Book (handmade paper, 23 X 33 X 2 cm) at the GFEST 2011 Visual Arts Exhibition, which is coming up soon in London. GFEST 2011 Visual Arts Exhibition Dreamspace Gallery, 1-3 Dufferin Street, London, EC1Y 8NA, UK (press buzzer…

Artist Talk: Molly Landreth, USA

Queer Photographer Molly Landreth was interviewed about her exhibtion Embodiment: A Portrait of Queer Life in America at the Center for Fine Art Photography in Colorado, USA, September 2011. This summer Molly Landreth has launched a new website about the project Embodiment: A Portrait of Queer Life in America, which…

Artist Talk: Tejal Shah at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art Forum

In conjunction with the exhibition Global Feminisms, feminist artists from more than fifty countries discussed or performed their works in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art Forum. These artist talks took place during the Center’s opening weekend March 23-25, 2007. Video courtesy of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Foundation….

Kickstarter Queer Art Project: Building Our Own White Picket Fences

Kickstarter art project: Building Our Own Picket Fences, curated by Madison Young, San Francisco, USA Help Make Queer Art Happen Building Our Own Picket Fences is an interactive multi-media visual art exhibit in which artists explore the concept of queer family. This proposal requests $5,000 to support Building Our Own…

Tania Bruguera

Tatlin’s Whisper #5, 2007; Crowd control at Tate Modern, London, UK by Cuban visual artist Tania Bruguera. Performed live at Tate Modern on January 26-27, 2008 (Published by Tate in 2008). Related Link Tania Bruguera’s webpage

Photos: Collective Femininst Reading

Art performance in Aarhus, Denmark, September 13, 2011: Collective reading of ‘I want a president’ by Zoe Leonard, USA, 1992 On September 13, 2011, two days before the general election in Denmark, there were collective feminist readings held as political art performance in Copenhagen and Aarhus. We read aloud the famous statement ‘I want a…

Shana Tovah – Happy Jewish New Year 5772

Greetings from visual artist Liliana Kleiner, Israel dear friends, querid@s WISHING YOU A HAPPY NEW YEAR, FELIZ ANO NUEVO MAY WE ALL COME TOGETHER TO CELEBRATE QUE CELEBREMOS JUNTOS OUR ROOTS RAICES OUR BELIEFS FE OUR TENDER FEELINGS VULNERABILIDADES & OUR NEW YEAR VISION NUEVA VISION with LOVE, JOY and…

PRIDE PHOTO AWARD 2011

Exhibition of the winning photos of the Pride Photo Award 2011 are on view in Amsterdam. From Saturday the 3rd of September until Sunday the 2nd of October 2011 the exhibition Pride Photo Award 2011 is on view in Het Sieraad, Postjesweg 1 in Amsterdam, The Nederlands. Opening hours: daily…

GFEST 2011: CROSS-ARTS and CROSS-LONDON

Press release GFEST – Gaywise FESTival, ‘London’s LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender) and queer cross – art festival for all’, has announced 2011 programme that reflects high artistic quality. This year the festival will take place across various London venues including The Dreamspace Gallery, Prince Charles Cinema, The Cockpit…

British Painter Maggi Hambling

Maggie Hambling (born 1945) is a British painter, sculptor and queer woman. Maggi Hambling CBE discusses and reveals new work in this short documentary filmed in her London studio.