Reflections On Censorship Of Queer Art in London

Today I have asked gay male artist Jason Woodson and queer designer and lesbian Jan Morley for their reaction to the censorship of their queer artworks at GFEST 2010 visual arts exhibition at InterChange Studios, Hampstead Town Hall in London

Censorship of Queer Art at GFEST in London

GFEST 2010 Visual Arts Exhibition (a censored group exhibition) presenting contemporary queer art held at InterChange Studios, Hampstead Town Hall, London, UK, Mon 8 to Fri 19 Nov 2010 was met with a team of second team censors at the town hall.

American Queer Art Censorship: What’s Up

A brief explanation of the cultural issues at play in the recent controversy over the queer Hide/Seek show at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C by Marlene Hoeber

Slideshow: ‘Hide/Seek’ at the National Portrait Gallery

David Ward, historian at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery Washington, DC, USA, describes the motivation behind a current exhibition called “Hide/Seek,” which examines modern American portraiture through the lens of gender and sexuality.

Memorial To A Marriage

Video: VelvetPark’s editor Grace Moon interviews queer artist Patricia Cronin at her studio in New York.

Collier Schorr About Her Photography

Queer photographer Collier Schorr talks to Art:21 about how she works with one of her young models, a young man whom she has asked to copy poses as a woman.

2011 Midsumma Festival

Midsumma, Melbourne’s annual Queer Celebration, is a federation of arts and cultural events spread over 70 different venues throughout Melbourne, Australia.

Garbo, The Icon

A special group exhibition event at the ABC Treehouse in Amsterdam, Holland will be celebrating the winter holidays and the return of the popularity of handmade gift-giving. The exhibition is titled ‘A Handmade Holiday’. Among the artists presented at this exhibition is queer sculptor Chantz Perkins.

Zanele Muholi A Visual Artist and Activist

A Feminine Moments review of the art book ‘Faces and Phases’ by queer photographer Zanele Muholi from South Africa and the short film ‘Difficult Love’ about Zanele and her photography, directed by Peter Goldsmid.

Beata Kosc Photography

Photos and Artist Statement by Beata Kosc: ‘The “Certain Body” is a series of self-portraits. It is focusing on gender as a layer of identity attributed to the body…

The National LGBT Visual Documentation Project

Freedom is a concept that has particular resonance for my family. My great-grandparents fled the political turmoil of Spain for Cuba. A few decades later, there was a second family exodus…

Hide/Seek Exhibition At The Smithsonian, USA

American art historian Cassandra Langer says about the Hide/Seek exhibition at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery:
‘Jonathan Katz and David Ward’s show at the National Portrait Gallery is open. Hide and Seek features Romaine Brook’s work and Jonathan Weinberg’s show at the archives also features a lovely Van Vechten photograph of her. Shows run through Feb. 2011…

Queer portraits at the Smithsonian

The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in USA announces that ‘Hide/Seek’ – Difference and desire in American portraiture is the first museum exhibition to focus on sexual difference in the making of modern American portraiture.