Queer Feminist Art Worldwide
Press release by Brooklyn Museum Zanele Muholi (South African, born 1972). Faces and Phases installed at dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany, 2012. (Photo: © Anders Sune) Brooklyn Museum Extends Zanele Muholi: Isibonelo/Evidence “Identity was used as a weapon, a tool for subjugation and oppression. Apartheid left a searing impression on Muholi,…
Queer Art Bites – a LGBTQIA+ Art and Culture Salon Using ‘queer’ as a term to focus attention on LGBTQIA+ art and culture, the Queer Art Bites salon will give insight to the infinite range of queer creative output. Queer Art Bites (QAB) – ‘RIP Pride special’ Wednesday, October 21,…
Performance and artist talk by American/Canadian artist Shelley Stefan, at Cassero LGBT center, Bologna, Italy. Recorded in 2015. Related Link B is for Butch by Shelley Stefan (2010).
Look Again. Photograph from the series Somnyama Ngonyama. Credit: Zanele Muholi/Yancey Richardson Gallery/Stevenson Gallery. Zanele Muholi featured in The New York Times Magazine Zanele Muholi’s Transformations – A photographer known for taking striking portraits of members of the black queer community in South Africa turns the camera on herself. By…
Artist talk recorded by Yale University Art Gallery, USA in 2014. About the above video: ‘Zanele Muholi speaks about her photographs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in South Africa and her efforts to increase awareness of and provide services to this community. She is joined by Lebo Mashifane,…
Excerpt from Leslie-Lohman Museum’s newsletter Queer/Art/Mentorship Program 2015 Opening Reception: Friday, October 16, 6-8 pm Exhibition Dates: October 17-18 & 24-25, 12-6 pm Screening: Friday, October 23, 6-8pm Queer/Art/Mentorshipp announces its second Annual Exhibition, to be held at the Prince St. Project Space programming administered by the Leslie-Lohman Museum of…
ZANELE MUHOLI: VUKANI/RISE 18 SEPTEMBER – 29 NOVEMBER 2015 Open Eye Gallery 19 Mann Island Liverpool Waterfront, Liverpool, UK. Related Link Press release about the exhibition ZANELE MUHOLI: VUKANI/RISE
A slideshow with artworks by Jeanne Mammen (1890 – 1976). Related Link The official Jeanne Mammen website
Funktionieren queerfeministische Interventionen im Museum? A conversation with the curators of the exhibition “Homosexuality_ies”, (June 26, 2015 – December 1, 2015 at Schwules Museum* and Deutschen Historischen Museum in Berlin Germany). Saturday, 17 October 2015, at 5.30 pm until 7 pm Venue: Heinrich Böll Stiftung Berlin, Schumannstraße 8, Berlin. 30…
Press release by Schwules Museum* Artist Talk: Mary Coble – Performing Queer Resistance Saturday, November 14, 2015 at 19:00 Schwules Museum*, Berlin, Germany Mary Coble, artist and educator will discuss queer strategies of resistance through artistic practice and activism. Coble’s live work and multimedia installations revolve around queer politics, poetics…
Press release by Allyson Mitchell Photo couresy of Allyson Mitchell KillJoy’s Kastle: A Lesbian Feminist Haunted House October 16-30, 2015 Plummer Park, West Hollywood Long Hall 1200 North Vista Street West Hollywood, CA 90046 OPENING Friday, October 16, 2015, 5:30-9:30pm CONTINUES from 6:30-9:30pm Saturday and Sunday, October 17 & 18;…
Kathleen Eileen Moray Gray (August 9, 1878 – October 31, 1976) was an Irish furniture designer and architect and a pioneer of the Modern Movement in architecture.
Slideshow with nude photos by Ruth Bernhard (October 14, 1905 – December 18, 2006). Wikipedia reads about photographer Ruth Bernhard: “By the late-1920s, while living in Manhattan, Bernhard was heavily involved in the lesbian sub-culture of the artistic community, becoming friends with photographer Berenice Abbott and her lover, critic Elizabeth…
Collecting Light: The Photographs of Ruth Bernhard. Edited by James Alinder. Carmel, Calif.: Friends of Photography, 1979.
Lecture by Nancy Princenthal at Tate Modern, 2015. On Wednesday 15th July 2015, Nancy Princenthal discussed American Painter Agnes Martin’s formative experiences, the development of her work, her spirituality and the range of lively non-mainstream art communities in which she lived. Nancy Princenthal, author of Agnes Martin: Her Art and…
On the Domestic Front August 14 – October 25, 2015 Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art 26 Wooster Street New York, NY 10013, USA Guest docent tour: Carrie Moyer Sunday, October 11, 3pm Carrie Moyer is an artist and writer who co-founded one of the first lesbian public art…
Contemporary Talks: Deborah Kass (2014). Art Relish Atlanta Visual Art’s description of the above video reads: ‘Painter Deborah Kass uses appropriation as her primary mode of working. She is known for applying Andy Warhol’s technical and stylistic language to subjects that examine her own personal and cultural interests, including ethnicity,…
Press release (excerpt) from Leslie-Lohman’s Weekly eDigest We are proud to announce the upcoming schedule of events for the 2015-2016 the Leslie-Lohman Speakers Series. This ongoing series of lectures will focus on creating an environment and opportunity for studio based artists to interact with a public audience of diverse backgrounds,…
Artnet interview with Deborah Kass, 2014. In the interview they talk about Deborah Kass‘s career and creative practice, dealing with race, gender, feminism, queer and Jewishness and Deborah’s retrospective Deborah Kass: Before and Happily Ever After at The Andy Warhol Museum (2012), an exhibition, featuring approximately 75 works, which showcases…
Art historian and writer Cassandra Langer will be reading from her book, Romaine Brooks: A Life at Romany Kramoris Gallery, 41 Main St, Sag Harbor, NY 11963, USA over Columbus Day weekend (October 10 – 12, 2015). The artistic achievements of Romaine Brooks (1874–1970), both as a major expatriate American…