Video (2:56): A brief introduction to Alice Austen (1866 – 1952). A groundbreaking queer photographer from Victorian-era New York.
Category: Lesbian art herstory
Video (3:15): a short film about the Heresies magazine and the founders of the magazine by On This Spot NYC (2024). Heresies was a feminist publication on arts and politics run by artists and writers in SoHo, New York, from 1977 to 1993.
Video (8:00): The Color of Light: Nell Blaine, a short documentary about the life of American abstract painter Nell Blaine (1922-1996).
Video (33:39): Caroline Giepert discusses the American Dada Art Movement and the role of Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1894-1927).
Video (43:23): A podcast about Dada artist Elsa Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven (1894-1927) by Paris Lesbo (June 2022).
Video (15:30): A film on the artist Leonor Fini by Eo Omwake.
Video (1:01:26): Edmonia Lewis sold a set of works festuring plaster medalions and busts to abolisionist patrons and as a result she was able to move to Italy and further her career. Caitlin Beach, Assistant Professor of Art History presents these and other rarely shown works by artist and activist Edmonia Lewis (1843-1911).
Harmony Hammond in Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing at the Whitney Museum of Art, New York. Opening: March 20, 2024.
Illustration: Self-portrait by Christiane Schreiber circa 1870.
Video (1:00:43): Co-curators Simonetta Fraquelli and Cindy Kang discuss Laurencin’s life and work on opening day of ‘Marie Laurencin: Sapphic Paris’ at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia from 10/22/23 – 1/21/24.
Video (47:47): Anna O. Marley, Ksenia M. Soboleva and Jonathan D. Katz discus how Queer Identities and Histories have been encoded in American Art.
Video (3:49): Jenny Anger, Grinnell College Museum of Art, Iowa, USA, talks about two works by Swiss-American artist Sonja Sekula (1918-1963).
Video (1:45) A short biography about the life of Germaine Krull (1897–1985), bisexual woman, artist photographer, hotellier and buddhist.
Louise Catherine Breslau (1856–1927) was a German-born Swiss lesbian painter. Her partner was French artist, writer, decorator and painter Madeleine Zillhardt (1863-1950).
Video (1:13): Curator Meg Slater talks about a work by bisexual French modernist painter Marie Laurencin whose life and oeuvre now is explored from feminist and queer perspectives.
Chanson de Bilitis (1905) by Marie Laurencin.
Mariette Lydis (1887–1970) (born Marietta Ronsperger) was an Austrian-Argentine painter and illustrator famous for her lesbian litographs.
Photos by Bolette Berg (1872–1944) from the box labeled ‘private’ with glas negatives of the couple Marie Høeg (1866–1949) and Bolette Berg. The images are from ca. 1895-1903 all taken in their studio.
Video (1:09:46): Sarah-Joy Ford and Veronica Slater discuss the history queer art and their own queer feminist art projects.
Video (26:19): Tony Guida’s NY is a talk show illuminating the colorful corners of New York. His guest is Bonnie Yochelson, Art Historian and author of a coming book about the photographer and lesbian Alice Austen (1866 – 1952).