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The 8th GFEST – Gaywise FESTival runs Monday 9 – Saturday 21 November 2015 at venues across London. The festival is an annual platform for LGBTQI (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersex) artists and organisations. The GFEST 2015 programme was launched at K&L Gates office in Central London on…
Text and artworks by Anastasia Kuba Photograph from the series ‘Nothing But Light’ by Anastasia Kuba, 2015 Artist Statement by Anastasia Kuba Anastasia Kuba: ‘“Nothing But Light” explores concepts of boundaries,vulnerability, and consent. We all experience the world through our bodies. The body is the easiest target for disrespect, worship,…
Honey Lee Cottrell talking with Brenda Marston. September 6, 2015. Honey Lee Cottrell talking about her vision for the first issue of On Our Backs and the psycho-sexual subway map of urban lesbian life she created, as we look at the photographs and files she is sending to be preserved…
Media release distributed by Gerard Koskovich, San Francisco, Sept. 24, 2015. Below: Honey Lee Cottrell. Photo courtesy of Brenda J. Marston. Honey Lee Cottrell (1946–2015): Lesbian Photographer, Filmmaker and Pioneer of Women’s Erotica, Dies at Age 69 Honey Lee Cottrell, a visionary photographer and filmmaker who pioneered lesbian erotica in…
American writer Cassandra Langer has announced that you are all welcome to join her celebrating the publication of her new book Romaine Brooks: A Life at a national-wide and international online release party at Facebook celebrating the publication of the new art book: Romaine Brooks: A Life Cassandra Langer Published…
Flesh Fold #1. 2014. Oil and mixed media on canvas. 90.5 x 73″. Courtesy the Harmony Hammond and Alexander Gray Associates, New York. Art©HarmonyHammond/Licensed by VAGA, New York Harmony Hammond and Francis Cape: Angle of Repose Until October 4, 2015 SITE Santa Fe Santa Fe, NM, USA Harmony Hammond and…
Dear Nemesis, Nicole Eisenman 1993-2013 (Jan 24, 2014 – Apr 13, 2014) is organized for the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis by Kelly Shindler, associate curator. Accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue. Organised at Institute of Contemporary Art University of Pennsylvania by assistant curator Kate Kraczon: Nicole Eisenman: Dear Nemesis:…
Readykeulous by Ridykeulous: This is What Liberation Feels Like™ at Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (2014).
Video (1:18:25) recorded at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston on Saturday, September 13, 2015. The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston’s introduction of the video: ‘A.L. Steiner utilizes constructions of photography, video, installation, collage, collaboration, performance, lecturing, writing and curatorial work as seductive tropes channeled through the sensibility of a skeptical queer…
Video interview with A.L. Steiner and A.K. Burns filmed Thursday, June 6, 2013. Community Action Center, a film by A.L. Steiner + A.K. Burns (2010) In this episode gallery director, Heyd Fontenot, speaks with the artists A. L. Steiner and A. K. Burns about their film, Community Action Center. In…
Michelle Handelman is a Brooklyn-based artist and Associate Professor in the Film and Media department at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York.
Excerpt from Leslie-Lohman Museum’s newsletter AK BURNS: A SMEARY SPOT Sept 13-Oct 18 Participant Inc. 253 E Houston St, USA From September 13 – October 18, 2015, PARTICIPANT INC is proud to present A Smeary Spot, a solo exhibition by A.K. Burns including sculptural works and a multi-channel video installation…
Untitled 1, 1969. Courtesy of Barbara Hammer and Company Gallery. Barbara Hammer Lesbian Whale: Early Drawings and Paintings September 13 – October 11, 2015 Opening Reception: September 13, 6-8 pm Company Gallery 88 Eldridge Street, 5th Floor, New York, New York 10002, USA Barbara Hammer’s Lesbian Whale: Early Drawings and…
Text: excerpt from Angela Jimenez’ newsletter Kickstarter project Racing Age by Angela Jimenez (2015) Racing Age is a documentary photography book about masters track & field athletes of retirement age and older. Angela Jimenez: ‘I’m working on my second book, Racing Age, a documentary series on fierce and amazing masters…
The 12th edition of AVANT goes natural and approaches nature in various ways. Presenting three filmmakers poetic and or political take on Nature, environmental issues and our connection with Nature. Among the featured artists are Mox Mäkelä (Finland) who is primarily known as a conceptual artist, has for several years…
Cross posting press release from Queer Cultural Center, California, USA First National Queer Performing Arts Summit in August of 2016 Co-presented by the Queer Cultural Center, California LGBT Arts Alliance, City of Oakland and Oakland School for the Arts. Lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the National…
Romaine Brooks: A Life Langer, Cassandra (Author) Sep 2015. 290 p. Univ. of Wisconsin, hardcover, $26.95. (9780299298609). Univ. of Wisconsin, e-book, $15.95. (9780299298630). 759.13. [This new art book will available as of September 23, 2015 at Amazon and Barnes and Noble as well as on line from the University of…
Press release by Open Eye Gallery Lebo Leptie Phume Daveyton Johannesburg 2013 © Zanele Muholi. Courtesy of Stevenson, Cape Town/Johannesburg and Yancey Richardson, New York. ZANELE MUHOLI: VUKANI/RISE 18 SEPTEMBER – 29 NOVEMBER 2015 Open Eye Gallery 19 Mann Island Liverpool Waterfront, Liverpool, UK Artist Talk: Tuesday 15 September, 6-8pm…
Press release by Light Work Join us for an artist talk by current Light Work Artist-in-Residence Zanele Muholi Thursday, August 27, 2015 at 7:30pm Light Work / Watson Theater, Robert B. Menschel Media Center, Syracuse University, NY, USA. A self-described “visual activist,” South African artist Zanele Muholi, has dedicated her…