Ummeli by Zanele Muholi,2011

Cape Town: Isilumo Siyaluma, a Queer Solo Show by Zanele Muholi

Isilumo siyaluma is a Zulu expression that can be loosely translated as “period pains/ periods pain”. Additionally, there is an added meaning in the translation that there is something secretive in and about this blood/“period in time.”
At one level, my project deals with my own menstrual blood, with that secretive, feminine time of the month that has been reduced within Western patriarchal culture as dirty.

Dadaist Artist Hannah Höch

Video (7:32): Slideshow with works by Hanna Höch. [The copyright of the video above remains with the original holder and it is used here for the purpose of education, comparison and criticism only.] Art Herstory: German bisexual artist Hannah Höch (1889-1978) is best known for her photomontages, though she also…

Self-portrait by Tee Corrine, 1980

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…

Homotopia 2011

Press release Homotopia – Cruising for Art 1-30 November 2011 Welcome to our 8th festival happening across Liverpool throughout November. This year’s festival theme is ‘Cruising For Art’ and we are thrilled that artist Sadie Lee’s iconic painting ‘Anderrida Shurville’ is the 2011 festival campaign which also forms part of…