Berlin: Barbara Hammer Has Won Two Teddy Awards

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.

Heidi Lunabba: “Twins”

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.

Jess Dobkin – A Loud & Proud Performance Artist

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. …

Stories Untold: Drawings from my time at Leeds

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

Queer Visual Arts In Sydney, Australia

Sydney Mardi Gras is back again. The Mardi Gras Gallery runs through March 5, 2011. It features a queer art show with by local and international artists. Kudos Gallery presents ‘Grace’ by Tina Fiveash.

L-CALENDAR 2011

L for Lesbian – this is THE calendar for gay women. Belgian photographer Cristina de la Madera (born in 1982) is tea author of this fine calendar with sensual black/white photos of real lesbian or bisexual coples in everyday situations.

No Celluloid Closet any more

This video describes what readers can expect from Blood Moon’s 2010 book release: FIFTY YEARS OF QUEER CINEMA, 500 of the Best GLBTQ Films Ever Made.

More Feel Good Paintings by Deborah Kass

Grace Moon interviewed Deborah Kass about “More Feel Good Paintings for Feel Bad Times.” A Deborah Kass solo show at Paul Kasmin Gallery, September 2010.

Portraits Of The Survivors – A History Of The Rromas

Portraits de Survivants : Histoire d’une déportation rrom – a photography exhibition by Ana Dumitrescu The above exhibition by photographer Ana Dumitrescu is about the survivors of the holocaust in Romania, where Rromas (Gypsies) was sent to the concentration camps during the Second World War.  The show runs February 8 – 25, 2011 in Paris. Ana tells:…

Lesbian Art Herstory: The Lesbian Art Project and GALAS

I have been looking back at lesbian art projects and exhibitions in the late 1970s, when lesbian artists began to fight for their seat in history and took the first steps on the way to raising public awareness of lesbian art as something more than a hidden subcultural phenomenon.

Local Histories: The Ground We Walk On

María DeGúzman invites anyone in the Raleigh-Durham area, North Carolina, or with friends and colleagues in and around RDU to join her at the opening of Local Histories: The Ground We Walk On. February 11, 5-9 pm. 523 East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC 27514 USA (formerly the Chapel Hill Museum)

Work in Progress – Photography by Birthe Havmoeller

My life is quest for a connection with my spiritual roots and a wish to raise my spiritual awareness. I took up photography 20+ years ago as a creative tool. My latest exhibition ‘Work in Progress’ features five black & white works from my series ‘Land Art’ made in 1999-2001 and three color works made in 2009-2010. The show runs through January 31, 2011 in Aarhus, Denmark.

Photographs by Dorothée Smith

Dorothée Smith exhibition at la galerie du Château d’eau, Toulouse, France, January 26 – March 6 2011. The show features the photography series Löyly (2009) + Sub Limis (2010).

Brighton: 18th Annual Lesbian Lives Conference

18th Annual Lesbian Lives Conference. Theme:’Revolting: Bodies, Politics & Genders’, 11-12 February 2011. The Lesbian Lives Conference has been organised by the Women’s Studies Centre at University College Dublin for the past seventeen years and in 2011 it celebrates its 18th birthday in Brighton.