Video (1:00:43): Co-curators Simonetta Fraquelli and Cindy Kang discuss Laurencin’s life and work on opening day of ‘Marie Laurencin: Sapphic Paris’ at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia from 10/22/23 – 1/21/24.
Category: Lesbian art herstory
Video (47:47): Anna O. Marley, Ksenia M. Soboleva and Jonathan D. Katz discus how Queer Identities and Histories have been encoded in American Art.
Video (3:49): Jenny Anger, Grinnell College Museum of Art, Iowa, USA, talks about two works by Swiss-American artist Sonja Sekula.
Video (1:45) A short biography about the life of Germaine Krull (1897–1985), bisexual woman, artist photographer, hotellier and buddhist.
Louise Catherine Breslau (1856–1927) was a German-born Swiss lesbian painter. Her partner was French artist, writer, decorator and painter Madeleine Zillhardt (1863-1950).
Video (1:13): Curator Meg Slater talks about a work by bisexual French modernist painter Marie Laurencin whose life and oeuvre now is explored from feminist and queer perspectives.
Chanson de Bilitis (1905) by Marie Laurencin.
Mariette Lydis (1887–1970) (born Marietta Ronsperger) was an Austrian-Argentine painter and illustrator famous for her lesbian litographs.
Photos by Bolette Berg (1872–1944) from the box labeled ‘private’ with glas negatives of the couple Marie Høeg (1866–1949) and Bolette Berg. The images are from ca. 1895-1903 all taken in their studio.
Video (1:09:46): Sarah-Joy Ford and Veronica Slater discuss the history queer art and their own queer feminist art projects.
Video (26:19): Tony Guida’s NY is a talk show illuminating the colorful corners of New York. His guest is Bonnie Yochelson, Art Historian and author of a coming book about the photographer and lesbian Alice Austen (1866 – 1952).
Leslie Lohman Museum of Art, New York, USA presents: Images on which to build, 1970s-1990s, MAR 10 – JUL 30, 2023
Video (15:18): Slideshow with works by bisexual, surrealist Czech artist, painter, drafter and illustrator Maria Čermínová. Watch the video on Youtube.
Claude Cahun: Under huden, February 10 – July 23 2023 at The Brandts Museum, Odense, Denmark. The large retrospective exhibition features 70 photographs and photomontages by the lesbian artist, or made in collaboration with her partner, illustrator and designer Marcel Moore.
Video (9:19): the creator of this video talks about the life of bisexual Indian-Hungarian modernist painter Amrita Sher-Gil and paints her portrait.
Painting: ‘Group of Three Girls’ by Amrita Sher-Gil, 1935.
Video (11:34): Amy Furness, Rosamond Ivey Special Collections Archivist and Head, Library & Archives, she offers a glimpse into the archives of sculptors Frances Loring (1887–1968) and Florence Wyle (1881–1968) at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada.
Video (7:18): In this episode of BALTIC Bites, queer feminist artist Phyllis Christopher discusses San Fransisco’s lesbian community in the ’90s and what it meant to capture intimate acts of queer sexuality and protest through documentary photography in the 1990s. See the virtual exhibition ‘Phyllis Christopher: Contacts’ on BALTIC Centre for contemporary Art’s website. The BALTIC hosted Phyllis Christopher’s exhibition in 2021.
Video (1:38): ‘Jess Dobkin is a performance artist based in Toronto, Canada. She is best known for her 2006 work The Lactation Station.’ – Wiki4All
Video (11:13): slideshow – ‘Berenice Abbott was one of the most talented and prolific photograpers of the 20th century. One major chapter in her photographic art works, was an extensive capture of New York City in the 1930s. This presentation is a collection of 100+ photographs, paired with a lo-fi ethereal soundtrack.’
Video (1:08:09): Historian Beans Velocci and Lori Waselchuk, Assistant Director of Public Programs discuss the life and art of Harriet Hosmer.