New art book: Sharon Hayes, Phaidon Press (November, 2018)
Category: Art Books
Posts about queer feminist art books, monographs, zines, graphic novels, etc. made by living artists and biographies about our queer feminist foremothers that have made it into our queer art history.
NB! The fact that an artist is mentioned in Feminine Moments’ bibliography it is of course no guaranty that she will be lesbian, bisexual or queer tomorrow, nor that the authors of the below books are “out and proud” in their writings…
Video (10:20): We visit NYC based photographer Gail Thacker at the Gene Frankle Theatre about her prolific career behind the camera and cultivating LGBTQ culture throughout 40 years. And she shows us her latest book.
South African visual activist Zanele Muholi talks about her 2017 exhibition Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness which was turned into a monograph last year.
Video (0:22): GUERRILLA GIRLS: GRÁFICA 1985-2017, the catalog for their exhibition September 2017 – March 2018 at Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), Brazil.
Video (2:06): Indira Allegra talks about her ‘Blackout’ art project (2016) which she published a book about in 2017.
Threesome is open at the Gallery, Liverpool, UK until December 2, 2018 – with full-colour catalogue available for the bargainous £15!
A number of new art books and biographies about Agnes Martin has been published in 2015 – 2018. The latest book promises to reveal some of the artists significant lesbian relationships.
Video (1:01:56): in her lecture Christina Rosenberger, author of Drawing the Line: The Early Work of Agnes Martin, examines the arc of Agnes Martin’s early career.
Video (3:00): look inside the photography book: Racing Age by Angela Jimenez
Video (3:39): look inside the art book ‘Olympic Portraits’ by Annie Leibovitz (Bulfinch Pr, 1996)
Video (1:00): Phaidon’s video about the photography book ‘Annie Leibovitz Portraits 2005-2016’ (Phaidon Press, 2017).
Video (10:47): about Annie Leibovitz’s photography book ‘A Photographers Life: 1990-2005’ and her life by Tedd Forbes/The Art of Photography.
Video (2:17): Zanele Muholi presents ‘Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness’ (Aperture, 2018).
Queer Ancestors Project Anthology Release Party + Closing Party!
May 19 at 19:00–21:50
Strut, 470 Castro St, San Francisco. USA
London College of Fashion is hosting a symposium about the new book Gluck: Art and Identity (Yale University Press, 2017) on February 7, 2018.
THE SONG OF INANNA by Liliana Kleiner
10 December, 2017, 3 pm.
Galleria 814, St. Clair Ave W, Toronto, Canada
JEANNE MAMMEN THE OBSERVER – Retrospective 1910–1975
Hirmer (2017)
I have updated Feminine Moments’ bibliography and given it a new format. I have also looked at the queer feminist art books on my bookshelf.
Video (1:31:30): Maura Reilly ‘Curatorial Activism: Towards an Ethics of Curating’, Australia (2014) – a book of the same name as this lecture will be published in 2018 .
After two weeks 54 friends have donated almost $6,000. I am so amazed and grateful.