Lesbian art was on display in Fontanelle Art Gallery downtown Portland, Oregon, USA, during the Portland pride in June 2009. The exhibition ‘Lesbian Art show’, which can be seen on the Fontanelle Gallery’s website now, is made by the artists Mary McAlister, Azsa West and Aubree Bernier-Clarke. Mary explained recently…
Author: Havmoeller
Dyketactics & Other Films from the 1970’s by Barbara Hammer from Barbara Hammer’s video stream on Vimeo. Nitrate Kisses (1992) by Barbara Hammer. Nitrate Kisses is an essay documentary, which explores eroded emulsions and images for lost vestiges of lesbian and gay culture. First feature by a pioneer of lesbian cinema,…
Femina Potens Art Gallery invites you to the opening reception of ‘Show me your fantasy’, July 11, 2009, 7-10pm at Femina Potens Art Gallery 2199 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94114, USA. Femina Potens is a grassroots non-profit art gallery & performance space, which hosts queer art shows. For their july…
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…