Harriet was a lesbian, a staunch feminist and one of the most successful of the American artist working in Rome, Italy in the 19th century.
Category: Lesbian art herstory
Video (56:36): ‘in this performative lecture delivered at the Whitney on October 10, 2018, Barbara Hammer shares guidelines and film clips from her long-term art-making practice.’
Video (2:55) Watch the video, then plan your visit to “Clear Comfort”, the home of photographer and lesbian Alice Austen (1866 – 1952), now The Alice Austen House Museum.
In this informal interview with photographer and lesbian activist Cathy Cade she is talking with a friend about her life with the civil rights movement and her books.
Video (23:11): a video biography about Eileen Gray (1878–1976). With each passing year Eileen Gray becomes more important in defining the history of modernism.
Video (3:52): a short video about late lesbian photographer Laura Aguilar (1960-2018) by NOWNESS (2018).
Video (58:55): the documentary ‘ Gluck – Who Did She Think He Was ?’ about Hannah ‘Gluck’ Gluckstein (1895–1978) was originally presented by the BBC, when Tate Britain in London ran the group show ‘QUEER BRITISH ART 1861–1967’.
The sculptures ‘Minehaha’ and ‘Hiawata’ by black American artist Edmonia Lewis (1845 – 1911) who migrated to Europe to work on as an artist.
Selbstbildnis III, 1905 by Ida Gerhardi.
Video (59:07): a BBC documentary about author, cartoonist, illustrator, artist and lesbian Tove Jansson.
Screening and Conversation: The Female Closet by Barbara Hammer on October 30, 2017 at 18:30 – 20:00 at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Selfie with Tove Jansson. Birthe Havmoeller went to see the retrospective exhibition about the life and oeuvre of Finish lesbian painter, author and illustrator Tove Jansson at Gl. Strand in Copenhagen, Denmark. The exhibition runs through September 3, 2017.
Video (3:32): trailer about Packed In A Trunk – The Lost Art of Edith Lake Wilkinson (2015), a documentary film about American lesbian artist Edith Lake Wilkinson (1868 – 1957) co-written and produced by Jane Anderson (Edith’s great-niece) together with her wife, Tess Ayers.
Tove Jansson – Art, Love and Moomins
Dates: June 10 – September 3, 2017
Venue: Kunstforeningen Gl Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark
Video (3:32): Moving lesbians – interview with Ditte Wessels by Atria Kennisinstituut, Holland.
The exhibition by Lenore Chinn runs from June 9 through September 18 at the GLBT History Museum in San Francisco. An opening reception on Friday, June 9, from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. will feature comments from the artist and the curator along with light refreshments.
Claude Cahun: Beneath This Mask
Mar 1 2017 – May 6 2017
Sidney Cooper Gallery
Canterbury, United Kingdom
De intieme blik/The intimate gaze – an exhibition with works by Dutch photographer Gon Buurman. The exhibition runs through April 29, 2017 in Amsterdam.
American lesbian artist Florence Wyle (1881 – 1968) studied art at the Art Institute of Chicago, there she met her wife/lifelong companion Frances Loring (1887 – 1968).
GLUCK, 6 – 28 February 2017 at The Fine Art Society London, 148 New Bond Street London W1S 2JT, UK