Queer Abstraction
June 1 – September 8, 2019
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA.
Curated by Jared Ledesma.
About Face Symposium, May 22, 2019 at 659 Wrightwood, Chicago, USA.
‘About Face: Stonewall, Revolt and New Queer Art’ exhibition, May 22 – July 20, 2019. Curated by Jonathan David Katz.
Video (6:41): In Conversation With Monika Treut (2016) publihed by Another Gaze Journal.
Queer California: Untold Stories, April 13 – August 11, 2019 at Oakland Museum of California, USA. The exhibition aligns important milestones in LGBTQ+ culture with untold stories, focusing on the diversity of queer identities, civil rights, and resistance to oppression.
Video (3:21): Rosie Hastings Hannah Quinlan – Pink Rooms (2016), presented by Daata Editions.
Queer Spaces: London, 1980s – Today, April 2 – August 25, 2019 at Gallery 4, Whitechapel Gallery, London. And Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hasting performance/party at the ArtNight festival in London, Walthamstow Market June 22, 2019, 7pm-12am.
Video (10:20): We visit NYC based photographer Gail Thacker at the Gene Frankle Theatre about her prolific career behind the camera and cultivating LGBTQ culture throughout 40 years. And she shows us her latest book.
Video (approx. 1:25:00): New York–based artist Zoe Leonard discuss her expansive practice that brings together photography and sculpture to explore themes of loss, migration, gender, and sexuality in the urban landscape at the Wexner Center for the Arts (2019).
Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 Years After Stonewall, May 3 – December 8, 2019. Brooklyn Museum, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, 4th Floor, New York, USA. The exhibition presents works by emerging artists based in Brooklyn and New York.
Zoe Williams: Sunday Fantasy. Dates: May 25 – July 27, 2019. Venue: Mimosa House, London, UK. Opening: May 24, 2019
‘Art After Stonewall: 1969-1989’ is a two-part exhibition runing in New York until July 20, 2019. It is accompanied by a fully-illustrated 300-page catalogue (published by Rizzoli Electa) with essays by more than 20 established and emerging scholars and artists.
Queer feminist artist is Roxana Halls’ paintings are on display in the lower level gallery space. The gallery invites you to celebrate Birmingham Pride weekend with them where they will be serving champagne on Saturday and Sunday May 25-26 between 12-16.00 in the gallery.
South African visual activist Zanele Muholi talks about her 2017 exhibition Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness which was turned into a monograph last year.
Over 140 LGBTQ cartoonists, scholars, publishers, and librarians will participate on panel discussions in this amazing conference.
Michelle Handelman: LOVER HATER CUNTY INTELLECTUAL, April 18 – May 26, 2019 at Signs and Symbols, 102 Forsyth Street, New York, NY 10002, USA. OPENING: April 18, 6-8 PM
Video (7:37): TateShots’ video Agnes Martin – ‘Beauty is in Your Mind’ (2015) with video clips of Canadian-born American abstract painter Agnes Martin (1912-2004) in her studio in 1997.
This one-day international conference [organised by Cuntemporary.org] brings together artists, theorists and activists to cover topics ranging from non-human ethics to ecosexuality.
Caitlin Rose Sweet – Hag
March 29 – May 18, 2019
Empirical Nonsense, 87 Rivington Street, New York 10002, USA
March 23 – July 28, 2019 at MMCA, Seoul, Korea.
Finnish avant-garde filmmaker Mox Mäkelä’s film Strange (Vieras) premieres on May 15, 2019 at 18.30–21.00, Tate Modern, London, UK.