Essay by Birthe Havmoeller, June 30, 2009.
Clifford Chance, one of the world’s leading law firms, is celebrating Gay Pride and marking the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots in New York with a joint art exhibition in its New York and London offices.
Ana Dumitrescu is Franco-Romanian photographer. She works mostly with documentary photography and has made assignments for National Geographic, Playboy, Gamma Agency, Mediafax Agency, but for the last couple of years she has also worked together Accept, the only association in Romania that advocates for human rights and gay rights, and…
Lost and found – Queerying the Archive, an international exhibition of queer art curated by Jane Rowley & Louise Wolthers. It is an exibition with film, installation art and photography private memories and experiences that surpass the usual barriers of gender and sexuality. The exhibition is about how history is…
Danish painter and video artist Henriette Hellstern-Kjøller has returned from sunny California with some photos from the current art exhibition ‘Threads’ at the Somart Gallery. ‘Threads’ is curated by a team of curators of the Queer Cultural Centre in San Francisco. Read my recent post: Queer ‘Threads’ at Somarts Gallery, San Francisco for…
Queer Cultural Center has invited an amazing international group of talented visual/media artists for the queer arts exhibition of the 12th Annual National Queer Arts Festival in California USA. The title of the exhibition is ‘Threads’. Threads is not just about fashion and costume, but also how queerness weaves the…
Painter Lupe Ficara
These artists will manipulate the meanings of masturbation through drawing, sculpture, installation, performance, and engineering.
Aalborg Queer Festival, Denmark, August 11-15 2009, is a DIY (do-it-yourself!) and non-profit event. It is a non-sexist and non-racist festival. It is about making a space for creativity and critical thoughts. A way of challenging mainstream culture and gender stereotypes. We welcome transsexuals, transgenders, homosexuals, bisexuals, androgynous people, butches,…
Lill-Ann Chepstow-Lusty was born in England, has studied at Eastbourne College of Art and design in Sussex and is now working at The Museum of Cultural History at The University of Oslo.
I mentioned Annie Leibovitz’s exhibition A Photographer’s Life 1990 – 2005 when it opened in London. After being in London and Paris the show is now in Berlin, Germany.
Aurora Reinhard, Finland.
Text: Liz Ashburn, Sydney, Australia
A free event in California, USA: A Conversation in Re-Memory of Bernice Bing (1936-1998), Monday, March 23rd, 2009, 7-9pm, Timken Lecture Hall, CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS, San Francisco campus, 1111 Eighth Street (at 16th & Wisconsin St.) Speakers: Moira Roth, Trefethen Chair of Art History, Mills College Kim Anno,…
The 4th Queer People of Color Conference will be hosted by University of California, Davis, USA. The conference will take place April 3rd – 4th 2009, and will focus on “Building Communities through Art, Action, and Resistance.” The organizers of the conference say: “With this theme, one of our many…
‘The soul entering the universe for the first time’, painting by Jina Wallwork Jina Wallwork is a writer, artist and medium living in England. She has studied art and has a BA(hons) degree in fine art from Staffordshire University. Jina Wallwork has just released a book ‘The complete explanation of death…
Queer Conversations on Culture and the Arts brings together locally and nationally renowned American artists, writers, filmmakers, and scholars for a series of conversations to discuss a broad range of LGBTQI topics.
To recycle magazines, photos and newspaper by using them as raw materials for creative photomontages and assemblage objects are a fine way of making the most of something that little value. It is great fun to see how artists can transform old waste pictures of now value and turn them…
Slideshow with Hannah Höch’s works of art Hannah Höch (1889 – 1978) was a German Dada artist. She studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule Charlottenburg and at School of the Royal Museum of Applied Arts in Berlin. In 1919 she became a member of the Dada movement. Hannah is best known for her photomontages,…