Biography: Finnish graphic artist, illustrator and professor Tuulikki “Tooti” Pietilä (1917–2009).
Category: Lesbian art herstory
Video (1:03:27): A discussion reflecting on “Je tu il elle”, Chantal Akerman’s most explicitly queer film. After a short introduction in French the event continues in English.
Video (1:00:43):Documentary artist and activist JEB (Joan E. Biren) took part in a conversation with Stonewall National Museum & Archives Executive Director Hunter O’Hanian on Thursday March 18, 2021.
Avant-garde artist and educator Marta Hoepffner (1912–2000) – a biography by Dr. Birgit Bosold.
Grace of Desire – Rebellion, Surrealism, Photography – Claude Cahun, Marta Hoeppffner, Florence Henri, Krista Beinstein
01.05. 2025 – 08.06.2025
at Kunstraum Scherben
Scherben e.V.
Leipziger Str. 61, 10117 Berlin, Germany
Avant-garde photographer Florence Henri – a biography by Dr. Birgit Bosold.
Video (4:07): Cory Yoesting (he/him) educating us about LGBTQ history and culture. This episode of his podcast is about French lesbian artist Claude Cahun.
Video (2:51): The exhibition MANIFEST Yourself! (2023) retraces the development of (queer) feminist manifestos through a selection of statements issued by women*, trans and non-binary people around the world.
Video (36:21): BBC Radio’s Sue Lawley interviews lesbian painter Maggi Hambling about her life and favourite music.
Video (3:10): Artist Joan Snyder reflects on Florine Stettheimer’s “Cathedrals” paintings in this episode of The Artist Project (2016).
The Kunstraum Scherben Berlin presents Lesbian Legacies, a three-part exhibition series offering a fascinating perspective on art history and the overlooked lesbian artists.
Video (56:40): Scholar Julia Voss presents her new biography of Hilma af Klint, published by University of Chicago Press (2022).
Video (1:04.14): The Curator’s Virtual Lounge Series invites you to join them for a conversation between Curatorial Assistant Jessica Rosen and Scholar Terri Weissman to uncover hidden stories about photographer Berenice Abbott and her lifelong romantic and intellectual partner, art-critic Elizabeth McCausland.
Video (8:52):: curator and author Gemma Rolls-Bentley as she explores the secret artistic collaboration and lifelong romantic partnership of artists Dorothy Hepworth and Patricia Preece.
Video (44:21): Queer art historian Helen Molesworth has made an episode of her podcast on the art and life of Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) featuring art historian Briony Fer and af Klint’s biographer, Julia Voss.
Betty Parsons: Reverberation
at Alexander Gray Associates, New York
February 14 – March 15, 2025
Video (1:31:05): A paper by art historian Amelia Jones about lesbian and queer artists as a disorienting element in the 20th century society.
Video (36:32): the Podcast Marie Laurencin: Avante-garde Painter of Paris by STUFF YOU MISSED IN HISTORY CLASS.
Illustration: 1923, Portrait de Mademoiselle Chanel [referring to Coco Chanel], oil on canvas by Marie Laurencin
Lecture in French about the artist duo and queer couple Cahun/Moore by American art historian and queer woman Tirza True Latimer.
Video (9:44): Tamara de Lempicka, a short documentary.