Painter Tamara de Lempicka

Tamara de Lempicka at Pinacothèque de Paris Pinacothèque 2 8, rue Vignon 75009 Paris, France Through September 8, 2013 This exhibition presents some of Tamara de Lempicka’s finest works from the period 1925 – 1935. About Tamara de Lempicka Polish born painter and bisexual woman Tamara de Lempicka (1989 –…

Archiving Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival

Gender Studies and Body Politics Session 2 | published by The New School, Nyc. USA, 2010 Ann Cvetkovich, Professor of English and Professor of Womens and Gender Studies, University of Texas at Austin. Prof. Cvetkovich discusses the problems of continuity/discontinuity across feminist generations. What turns have we taken, and how…

Art Herstory – Marie Laurencin

Marie Laurencin (1883 – 1956) was a French painter who became a member of Natalie Clifford Barney’s salon in Paris in the 1920s.

Lesbians Seeing Lesbians – Artist & Curator Panel Discussion

Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art has launched a videostream at Vimeo and I would like to recommend their videos documenting a panel debate held alongside the museum’s inaugural show in 2011: Lesbians Seeing Lesbians – Artist & Curator Panel Discussion (part 1) and part 2 of the panel debate….

Painter Romaine Brooks

Slideshow with paintings by Romaine Brooks Romaine Brooks Lesbian Art Herstory: American Painter Romaine Brooks (1874 – 1970) worked in Paris and on Capri in the 1920s. She best known for her images of women in androgynous or masculine dress having, and has among others painted a painting of a…

Clarity Haynes – The Breast Portrait Project

Sorry the pomotional fundraising video for the Breast Portrait Project by Artist Clarity Haynes published by Martha Shane on Vimeo (2011) has been deleted by the owner. This project was successfully funded a year ago. Making Herstory Sorry, this video has also been deleted. Video description: Clarity Haynes discusses her…

Lesbian Art Herstory: Frances Loring and Florence Wyle

A Young Girl by Wyle from E. Sweeney on Vimeo. “I love it” ~ Charlie Hill, Curator of Canadian Art,  National Gallery of Canada. Lesbian Art Herstory: Frances Loring and Florence Wyle Frances Loring (1881?-1968) and Florence Wyle (ca 1887-1968) artists and American bohemians living and working together in Toronto,…

Lesbian Art Herstory – Jeanne Mammen

Weimar – Jeanne Mammen by f.fiorellino Jeanne Mammen (1890-1976) watercolorist, painter, printmaker was born in Berlin, grew up in Paris where she got her fine arts education, and she lived most of her adult life in Berlin. “Working in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s, Jeanne Mammen (1890-1976) produced graphics,…

Claude Cahun Retrospective in Barcelona

French lesbian photographer Claude Cahun’s surrealist works are growing more and more popular. Go see the latest retrospective of her works in Barcelona: Claude Cahun 28 October 2011 to 2 February 2012 at Centre de Imatge, Barcelona, Spain “After many years of relative obscurity, the photographs of Claude Cahun (born…

Lesbian Art Herstory: Bernice Bing – a Chinese American Painter

Lenore Chinn on Bernice Bing from Rehistoricizing.org on Vimeo. Bernice Bing (1936-1998) a Chinese American Painter and Queer Artist Bernice Bing was a third-generation American Chinese born in Chinatown, San Francisco in 1936. In 1958, Bernice attended California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, but she soon transferred to…

Dadaist Artist Hannah Höch

Art Herstory: German bisexual artist Hannah Höch (1889-1978) is best known for her photomontages, though she also made drawings and paintings. Between 1912 and 1920, she studied art at the Kunstgewerbeschule Charlottenburg (Charlottenburg School of Applied Arts) and the Unterrichtsanstalt des königlichen Kunstgewerbemuseums (School of the Royal Museum of Applied…

New York: Lesbians Seeing Lesbians

Press release from The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art Lesbians Seeing Lesbians Building Community in Early Feminist Photography Exhibition Ends October 22, 2011 at the Leslie-Lohman Gallery, 26 Wooster Street, NYC, USA Tee Corrine, Self-portrait, Gelatin silver print, 1980. Press photo courtesy of Leslie-Lohman Gallery. In the wake…

Exhibition About The Woman’s Building and A Feminist Art Herstory Project

The Woman’s Building was a renown non-profit arts and education Centre located in Los Angeles, Calfornia, USA. The Woman’s Building was open from 1973 until 1991. It served as a venue for the women’s movement and focused on feminist art. The Woman’s Building was funded by artist Judy Chicago, graphic designer…