Artist statement by Jan Morley, UK. I have been designing for the tableware industry for about 15 years and I also own and run an online gift store.
Author: Havmoeller
Gay Artist = Gay Art? a panel debate with gay artists and designers at V&A in London.
Dutch artist Corinne Bot
Outbust Queer Arts Festival programme cover 2010; cover image ‘Ginger Queers’, baked with love by Cakesbyjames.co.uk Belfast’s annual lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender arts festival starts November 12th, with 8 days of theatre, film, music, art, workshops, performance, discussion and much much more. I have taken a look at the…
The Out In Africa Film Festival will be screening a film, commissioned by the SABC and co-directed by Peter Goldsmid and Zanele Muholi, called ‘Difficult Love’. It is a portrait of queer visual artist Zanele, and her work.
CINEFFABLE 2010, launches its 22nd International Lesbian & Feminist Film Festival in Paris November 1 – November 2 2010. This year the festival celebrates the 40th anniversary of the French Women’s Liberation Movement with a focus on lesbians contribution to feminism.
The landmark publication ‘Modern Women: Women Artists at The Museum of Modern Art’, in which the museum now openly discusses gender issues, and how instrumental women have been in advancing the arts to where they are today, is the greatest piece of art news, which I have heard in 2010.
Video: Modern Women: Barbara Hammer on Feminist film by MoMA Multimedia.
GFEST 2010 Visual Arts Exhibition Mon 8 to Fri 19 Nov 2010 at Hampstead Town Hall / InterChange Studios, The Atrium, Hampstead Town Hall, 213 Haverstock Hill, London NW3 4QP, UK. Free entrance.
Assume Nothing is a book, an exhibition by gay visual artist Rebecca Swan, New Zealand and a series of video portraits about Rebecca’s sitters by filmmaker Kristy McDonald.
Purple Wedding to the Moon performance by Annie Sprinkle and Elizabeth Stephens is on. The Purple wedding team has won the right to continue with their plans. Today they have announced that the LA Parks and Rec Department has withdrawn its cancellation of Annie Sprinkle and Elizabeth Stephens wedding performance in LA, USA.
Frank Pictures Gallery is proud to present renowned photographer Stefanie Schneider’s show “Instant Dreams” from October 16 to November 11, with an artist’s reception on Sunday, October 24, 2010.
Homotopia queer art festival, November 1st-30th 2010
This year the title of the British Homotopia queer art festival is ‘Love Conquers All’.
On Friday Oct 8th, well known performance artist Annie Sprinkle received a call from LA County Parks & Recreation Deputy Director, Kathleen Ritner, informing her that her rental contract for her wedding at the Farnsworth Amphitheatre in Altadena had been canceled due to “unsafe conditions” created by the public announcement of the wedding inviting people to witness their “eco-sexual” wedding.
November 8 – 21, 2010 London celebrates the 4th annual GFEST with Visual Arts exhibitions , performances, film screening programme, workshops and parties.
QWOCMAP began in 2000, and has been training filmmakers and presenting films by queer women of color since then! QWOCMAP is celebrating their 10th anniversary this month.
Annie M. Sprinkle and Elizabeth M. Stephens say: ‘We have committed our lives to engaging environmental issues by changing the metaphor of Earth as mother, to Earth as LOVER, and to making environmentalism more sexy and fun through ART.’ And they invite you to be one of their collaborators or patrons of their wedding art performance on October 23, 2010.
Queer artist Rebecca Swan from Aotearoa / New Zealand will go to New York to launch ‘Assume Nothing’ – her beautiful coffee table book about gender diversity on October 29 2010.
gender_gap, paintings by Martina Minette Dreier (Berlin) and Sadie Lee (London) at Schwules Museum in Berlin, October 5 – November 22 2010.
Don’t miss the Retrospective Screening of Barbara Hammer’s films at the MoMA September 15 – October 13. 2010, if you are in New York.