TRIGGER: Drawing the Line in 2015

Excerpt from QAF’s website. TRIGGER: Drawing the Line in 2015, July 23 – August 7, curated by SD Holman, is the main exhibition of the Queer Arts Festival 2015 in Vancouver. Venue: Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre, 181 Roundhouse Mews (Corner of Davie & Pacific), Vancouver, British Columbia V6Z…

Germaine Krull at Jeu de Paume, Paris (2015)

Video (7:39): Michel Frizot, curator of the exhibition, talks about Germaine Krull, her life, her . works and her publications. Exhibition at Jeu de Paume from 02 June 2015 until 27 September 2015. Subtitles in English.

Laura Gilpin – one of the Great American Photographers (2011)

Photographer Laura Gilpin, (1891-1979) is best know for her landscapes of the Southwest and the Navajo. She also frequently photographed her partner Elizabeth W. Forster, however the art historians are often so busy establishing Laura Gilpin’s reputation as a Great American Photographer that they forget to mention her partner, when…

Living in Limbo: Lesbian Families in the Deep South

Artist Caroly Sherer introduces the exhibition, The Story of Living in Limbo: Lesbian Families of the Deep South. (2012). See the full exhibition summary at YouTube. Living in Limbo: Lesbian Families in the Deep South by Carolyn Sherer is a contemporary fine art photography exhibition honoring the current complexities of…

Romaine Brooks: A Life by Cassandra Langer

Press release The Cover of Romaine Brooks a Life by Cassandra Langer (UW Press, September 2015) Romaine Brooks (1874–1970) The artistic achievements of Romaine Brooks (1874–1970), both as a major expatriate American painter and as a formative innovator in the decorative arts, have long been overshadowed by her fifty-year relationship…

Frances Benjamin Johnston – A Pioneer Woman Photojournalist

Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864 – 1952), full-length [self-]portrait, seated in front of fireplace, facing left, holding cigarette in one hand and a beer stein in the other, in her Washington, D.C. studio, January 1, 1896. Related Link The Frances Benjamin Johnston Exhibit

Lotte Laserstein – a German painter

Lotte Laserstein (1898–1993) Born in Preussisch Holland, Lotte moved to Berlin to study at the prestigiouis Berlin Academy of Fine Arts as one of the women artists to study there in the period 1919 – 1925. She had her first solo exhibition in a Berlin gallery in 1930, but in…

Florine Stettheimer Retrospective in Munich

Panel debate about the Florine Stettheimer retrospective. Video by Art Basel Florine Stettheimer Retrospective in Munich Early American modernist painter, salonière, set designer and poet Florine Stettheimer(1871 – 1944) was living for a period of her life in Munich, Germany. The Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, Munich is now…

Gertrude Stein Bought A Painting by Marie Laurencin

American writer and art collector Gertrude Stein bought the first painting Marie Laurencin (1883 – 1956) ever sold as a professional artist, Group of Artists (1909), which is a group portrait of Laurencin, Apollinaire, Picasso and his mistress, Fernande Olivier. Musée Marie Laurencin (the Marie Laurencin Museum) in Japan is dedicated…

Agnes Noyes Goodsir (1864 – 1939) A Lesbian Painter

The Parisienne by Agnes Goodsir Painting by Agnes Goodsir Girl on couch by Agnes Goodsir, 1915 Agnes Noyes Goodsir (1864 – 1939) Agnes Noyes Goodsir, born in Australia was encouraged to go to Paris to study paintings in 1899 by her family. She remained there until 1905. Returning to Europe…

Grace Crowley ‘Abstract painting’ 1947

Video and text © National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 2010. Grace Crowley (1890 – 1979) Australian Artist and Modernist Painter ‘Grace Crowley, also known as ‘Smudge’, is believed to have been in a relationship with Anne Dangar between about 1915 and 1929. Anne Dangar studied and then taught at Julian…

Margaret Preston (1875–1963)

Slideshow with photos by Australian painter Margaret Preston. Margaret Preston (1875–1963) Margaret Rose McPherson (later Margaret Preston) was born in Adelaide, Australia in 1875. She studied art at the prestigious National Gallery of Victoria Art School in 1889. And then she went on to further her studies at Adelaide’s School…

After Our Bodies Meet: From Resistance to Potentiality

Becoming An Image Performance Still No. 1, (ONE National Archives, Transactivations, Los Angeles), 2012, C-print face mounted to Plexiglas, 45 x 30 in. Photo: Heather Cassils with Eric Charles. Courtesy of the artist and Ronald Feldman Fine Arts. Leslie-Lohman Museum presents an exhibition of queer feminist artists exploring the body…

Claude Cahun at Jeu de Paume 2011

Claude Cahun – video by Jeu de Paume, France, 2011 The exhibition of Claude Cahun’s photographs at Jeu de Paume in Paris, France in 2011, and later exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago in 2012 featured a wide selection of the artist’s works, some of which have seldom been…

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 film:…

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…

Twice Militant: Lorraine Hansberry’s Letters to “The Ladder”

Press Release by Brooklyn Museum Playwright Lorraine Hansberry’s Letters to The Ladder Focal Point of Exhibition in Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway Brooklyn NY 11238-6052 On View November 22, 2013 – March 16, 2014 A new exhibition, Twice Militant: Lorraine Hansberry’s Letters to…