Exhibition View: photos by Zanele Muholi

Zanele Muholi: Isibonelo/Evidence – Extended!

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

Queer Art Bites Salon

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,…

Photo by Zanele Muholi

Zanele Muholi’s Transformations

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…

Queer/Art/Mentorship Program 2015

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…

Do Queer Feminist Interventions at Museums Work?

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…

Mary Coble 2015

Berlin: Mary Coble – Performing Queer Resistance

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…

Ruth Bernhard

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…

Agnes Martin: Innocence the Hard Way (2015)

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…

Gallery Art Walks with Carrie Moyer

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…