Curator Jonathan Katz Talks About Some Of The Women Artist at Hide/Seek

“Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture” was on view at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, from October 30 through February 13, 2011. Jonathan Katz, co-curator of Hide/Seek talks about works by queer artists Catherine Opie, Lucas Samaras, Deborah Kass, and Christopher Makos.

Art Supports Life – Life Supports Art

Art is a catch-all phrase for intentional, non-linear expression and representation. It allows us share quieted and suppressed voices, sister secrets, and rages that might not be allowed in our geographic community, but slink past public scrutiny to whisper solidarity to another heart we’ve never met…

Queer Visual Arts In Sydney, Australia

Sydney Mardi Gras is back again. The Mardi Gras Gallery runs through March 5, 2011. It features a queer art show with by local and international artists. Kudos Gallery presents ‘Grace’ by Tina Fiveash.

GOWEST Contemporary Art Exhibition

We are not told to go to the wild American west, but to Altona, west of Melburne, Australia to see: GOWEST Contemporary Art Exhibition
Friday, 28th January to Sunday, 13th February 2011 at The Joel Gallery, Louis Joel Arts and Community Centre.

PopSex! Art, Culture, History, Science

Dear friends and colleagues,
If you’re in Calgary [Canada] in January, I would be charmed by your attendance in 2 new shows of my work, that I think will be really quite fun. …

Reflections On Censorship Of Queer Art in London

Today I have asked gay male artist Jason Woodson and queer designer and lesbian Jan Morley for their reaction to the censorship of their queer artworks at GFEST 2010 visual arts exhibition at InterChange Studios, Hampstead Town Hall in London

Censorship of Queer Art at GFEST in London

GFEST 2010 Visual Arts Exhibition (a censored group exhibition) presenting contemporary queer art held at InterChange Studios, Hampstead Town Hall, London, UK, Mon 8 to Fri 19 Nov 2010 was met with a team of second team censors at the town hall.

American Queer Art Censorship: What’s Up

A brief explanation of the cultural issues at play in the recent controversy over the queer Hide/Seek show at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C by Marlene Hoeber

Slideshow: ‘Hide/Seek’ at the National Portrait Gallery

David Ward, historian at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery Washington, DC, USA, describes the motivation behind a current exhibition called “Hide/Seek,” which examines modern American portraiture through the lens of gender and sexuality.

Queer portraits at the Smithsonian

The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in USA announces that ‘Hide/Seek’ – Difference and desire in American portraiture is the first museum exhibition to focus on sexual difference in the making of modern American portraiture.

Outburst Queer Arts Festival November 12 – 20 2010

Outbust Queer Arts Festival programme cover 2010; cover image ‘Ginger Queers’, baked with love by Cakesbyjames.co.uk Belfast’s annual lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender arts festival starts November 12th, with 8 days of theatre, film, music, art, workshops, performance, discussion and much much more. I have taken a look at the…

Martina Minette Dreier – Female World

Martina Minette Dreier has studied painting and illustration at Fachhochschule Bielefeld in 1988 – 1993. She is currently living and working in Berlin, Germany.