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.
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Video: Modern Women: Barbara Hammer on Feminist film by MoMA Multimedia.
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.
The ‘Faces and Phases’ series of black and white portraits by Zanele Muholi focuses on the commemoration and celebration of black lesbians’ lives.
Lillian Kleiner will discuss the process of creating the art images for the sacred ancient book of ‘Shir HaShimrim, The Song of Songs at Sidney & Gertrude Zack Gallery, Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver, June 21 2010.
Photographers’ Gallery in London, 5 – 6 June 2010 11:00, a weekend showcase of 50 exceptional contemporary DIY photo books, selected by Bruno Ceschel. A talk, and signings throughtout the weekend, will provide an opportunity for art book lovers to discuss, admire and buy publications originating from around the world.
Alison Bechdel’s Big Kiss. Video part 1: Cartoonist Alison Bechdel interviewed by Michelle Paradise for Velvetpark.
Angela Jimenez is a queer photo journalist based in Brooklyn, New York. In August 2009 she published her first book: Welcome Home: Building the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival by photographer Angela Jimenez
Angela Jimenez is a freelance photo journalist based in Brooklyn, New York. She has published first book with photographs. It is titled WELCOME HOME: Building the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival.
Avantgarde lesbian filmmaker Barbara Hammer’s new book, a monography about her life and films has just come out. The title is ‘HAMMER!: Making Movies Out of Sex and Life’.
Now I have got my copy of American photographer Zoe Leonard’s new monograph: ‘Zoe Leonard Photographs’. The book was published in 2008, when she had her first mid-career retrospective show at Fotomuseum Winterthur in Austria.
Norwegian art historian Jorunn Veiteberg has written a biography about Norwegian artist Ambrosia Tønnesen (1859-1948). Ambrosia studied first in Berlin and later she lived and worked as a sculptor in Paris for more than 20 years. She had talent and was a successful artist.
‘Corpus Queer’ comes to Birmingham, UK, November 2009. The show spans over twenty five years of photographic exploration by Del LaGrace Volcano, a gender variant visual artist.
Barbara Hammer presents her latest project: a book about her life as a lesbian filmmaker, which is due to be published next spring (March 2010). Read the editorial review by Amazon on Feminine Moments queer art blog
‘The soul entering the universe for the first time’, painting by Jina Wallwork Jina Wallwork is a writer, artist and medium living in England. She has studied art and has a BA(hons) degree in fine art from Staffordshire University. Jina Wallwork has just released a book ‘The complete explanation of death…
Art Book. A new book “Unseen Mendieta: The Unpublished Works of Ana Mendieta” about the Cuban American performance artist Ana Mendieta.
This January Femina Potens, California, USA, is exploring identity through pop culture, comics and superheroes.
Skateboard decks by Marilyn Minter, sold by Supreme in New York, Los Angeles and Japan
Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer’s Life, 1990 – 2005 at the National Portrait Gallery in London presents over 150 images by one of the world’s best-known photographers.
If you are planning a trip to New York this autumn, I think that a visit to Catherine Opie’s exhibition “Catherine Opie: American Photographer” at the Guggenheim Museum is a must for any lesbian. Queer photographer Catherine Opie’s mid-career retrospective gathers works from many of Opie’s well known series, starting…