Vancouver: New Beginnings at Pride in Art

Press Release by QAF The Pride in Art Society is delighted to announce it has been approved for Operating Assistance in the Professional Arts Festivals program at the BC Arts Council. This is a milestone for the Pride in Art Society, and the promotion from project funding to operating funding…

Ariadne and Minotaur

Ariadne and Minotaur by Viola & Veronica, GendErotica 2013, Rome 31 May-2 June 2013 from Viola on Vimeo. Description: “What happens when Ariadne and (the) Minotaur – the secondary characters of an ancient Greek myth – meet each other in the labyrinth? The clip “Ariadne and Minotaur” is an exploration…

Berlin: re.act.feminism Book Launch

Press release by re.act.feminism Re.act.feminism #2 – A performing archive Editors: Bettina Knaup, Beatrice Ellen Stammer Publisher: Nürnberg: Verlag für moderne Kunst Content: 318 pages ISBN: 978-3-86984-460-2 Year: 2014 Published by Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg and Live Art Development Agency London   Berlin: re.act.feminism Book Launch Finally – after…

Jane Eaton Hamilton in Paris

The Lesbian Paintbrush

Essay by writer and visual artist Jane Eaton Hamilton, Canada I’ve been studying art in Paris museums further to my certificate work in painting from Emily Carr University in Vancouver, BC, Canada. I have investigated the collections at the Musée d’Orsay, Musée Marmottan Monet, Musée de Montmartre, Centre Pompidou and…

My Elvis + by Deborah Kass

Artist talk by Deborah Kass, 2013 My Elvis +, an exhibition of paintings by Deborah Kass at Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York. The exhibition features works from The Warhole Project, which she started working on back in 1992. My Elvis + follows Kass’s mid-career retrospective, Deborah Kass: Before and Happily…

Barbara Hammer as Claude Cahun

Barbara Hammer as Claude Cahun in A Gay Bar from barbara hammer on Vimeo. Barbara Hammer performed Claude Cahun, May 6 – 7, 2011 at The Kitchen, NYC, in Emily Roysdon’s A Gay Bar Called Everywhere (With Costumes and No Practice). Related Link Artist Statement by avant-garde filmmaker and lesbian…

Kisser by iO Tillett Wright

iO Tillett Wright – Kisser from Brian Paul Lamotte on Vimeo. The images for “Kisser” – “The Friday Night Throwdowns were a series of illegal boxing matches that took place in Manhattan in the winter of 2010-2011. They were nicknamed the ‘male model boxing’ ring because numerous high profile male…