Zanele Muholi at Williamstown College

Photographer and visual activist Zanele Muholi will show new photographs and a new video produced in Durban as a part of a presetation exploring Black Frees (the generation born post-apartheid South Africa: known as Mandela’s great-grandchildren), and how each person expresses him/herself queerly at the time of troubling hate crimes…

Dear Internet Discussion Forum by Mox Mäkelä

Dear Internet Discussion Forum, 2013 Script, video, editing: Mox Mäkelä This shortfilm is a part of Finish avant-garde filmmaker Mox’ Story Ambient art project. See the Story Ambient website. Related Links Mox’ videostream The filmmaker’s artist statement: Finnish Avant-garde Filmmaker

Femina Potens’ Askew Film and Performance Festival

Femina Potens’ Askew Film and Performance Festival Feb 6 – 8 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 701 Mission Street, SF, California, USA Admission (per screening): $10 YBCA Member, senior, teacher, student: $8 Femina Potens Art Gallery’s Live Art Movement presents the 2nd annual ASKEW Experimental Film and Performance Festival,…

Call for Submissions

Feminine Moments – Call for Submissions I am looking for contributions to Feminine Moments’ art blog and newsletter about contemporary art made by lesbians and queer women artists. Submissions for Feminine Moments’ Art Blog Feminine Moments promote out women artists/ lesbian artists/ queer women artists, their works and arts related…

The Worlds of Bernice Bing – Lenore Chinn Interview

 The Worlds of Bernice Bing – Lenore Chinn Interview, 2013 In the above interview San Francisco Artist Lenore Chinn discusses the life of artist and lesbian activist Bernice Bing. THE WORLDS OF BERNICE BING Documentary 34 minutes, color, 2013 DVD available for purchase online at http://www.aawaa.net/ Aawaa.net about the…

Tamara de Lempicka’s ‘Le Rêve (Rafaëla sur fond vert)’

Video (2011) by Sothersby’s TV Elizabeth Gorayeb, Vice President, Impressionist & Modern Art, explores one of Tamara de Lempicka’s “quintessentially seductive compositions” — ‘Le Rêve (Rafaëla sur fond vert)’. The sale of Tamara de Lempicka’s ‘Le rêve (Rafaëla sur fond vert)’ at Sothersby, 2011. Video: Tamara de Lempicka, Portrait de…

Graphic Art in Weimar Berlin: The Case of Jeanne Mammen

This dissertation is on my reading list: GRAPHIC ART IN WEIMAR BERLIN:THE CASE OF JEANNE MAMMEN by Suzanne Nicole Royal A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, USA Published: 2007 You can view the text online or download it as a pdf. Suzanne…

Spectographies by Dorothée Smith

Press photo courteey of Dorothée Smith, 2014. SPECTROGRAPHIES Solo Show by Dorothée Smith 26 January 2014, at 20h00 Cinema, Petite Salle – Centre Pompidou, Paris Do You Believe in Ghosts? Spectrographies is Smith’s photographic, cinematographic and philosophic research explores different definitions and representations of ghosts, through the notion of “haunting”….

Lesbian Art at CAA in Chicago

CAA returns to Chicago in 2014 for its 102nd Annual Conference. The conference will be held at the Hilton Chicago from Wednesday, February 12 to Saturday, February 15. I have surfed the programme and will higlight a couple of lesbian art events. Committee on Women in the Arts: Always Causing…

Creating a Pipeline for a Queer Arts Festival

Video: ‘Creating Queer Community Worksample 1’ by Rudy Lempke, 2012 Description of the video: ‘Jeff Jones, Development Director of Qcc explains the Creating Queer Community Workshop process. Jaime Cortez discusses the importance of the CQC Workshops. Celest Chen and Kali Boyce discuss their participation as CQC grantees. Caitlin Sweet discusses…

Queer and Trans Art-iculations: Collaborative Art for Social Change

Press release Queer and Trans Art-iculations: Collaborative Art for Social Change Zanele Muholi and Gabrielle Le Roux [at WITS ART MUSEUM, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa] Opening Wed 29 January 18h00 for 18h30. Exhibition dates: January 30 – March 30, 2014 Wits Art Museum, in partnership with Wits…

Melbourne: The Comfort Zone

‘Flocking to Buddha’, Amanda Krantz. Kim Leutwyler invites you to go see the queer group exhibition titled The Comfort Zone in the Foyer & Angela Robarts – Bird Galleries, Australia. The Comfort Zone is a specially curated, group exhibition where selected GLBTIQ artists will be exhibiting one or two pieces…

Berenice Abbott at Jeu De Paume, 2012

Video by Jeu De Paume, Paris. Subtitles in English. BERENICE ABBOTT (1898 – 1991) Photographies at Jeu De Paume, Paris, France 21.02.2012 – 29.04.2012. This solo show gave for the first time a presentation of works selected from all the of the different parts of American photographer Berenice Abbott’s long…

Dorothée Smith in Helsinki

Press release via facebook Dorothée Smith The Finnish Museum of Photography / Suomen valokuvataiteen museo in Helsinki 15.1–9.3.2014 Press Briefing on Tuesday 14st January 11 am. Opening on Tuesday 14st January from 6pm to 8pm. The artist will be present at both events. Welcome! The photographs of the French artist…

Suggestions of a Life Being Lived

Suggestions of a Life Being Lived. 2010 The exhibition Suggestions of a Life Being Lived at the SF Camerawork gallery in San Francisco, September 2010 was co-curated by Adrienne Skye Roberts and Danny Orendorff. In this video Adrienne takes us on a walk through the exhibition. Catalogue The exhibition was…

New York – Queer Threads: Crafting Identity & Community

Excerpt from Weekly eDigest | January 7, 2014 by Leslie & Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art Maria E. Piñeres, Bona Fide! (In Good Faith!), 2013. Cotton floss on plastic mounted on wood panel, 24 x 22 in. Courtesy of the Artist and DCKT Contemporary, New York Queer Threads:…

Latest Works by Kim Leutwyler

Painting by Kim Leutwyler, 2013 Inquisitarium – A Queer Art Group Exhibition Queer painter Kim Leutwyler will take part in the Midsumma-curated group exhibition Inquisitarium. Go meet Kim Leutwyler at the opening: January 14, 2014, 5 – 7pm in Melbourne, Australia. Inquisitarium runs: January 15 – 31; Mon – Fri…