Slideshow: ‘Hide/Seek’ at the National Portrait Gallery

David Ward, historian at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery Washington, DC, USA, describes the motivation behind a current exhibition called “Hide/Seek,” which examines modern American portraiture through the lens of gender and sexuality.

Queer portraits at the Smithsonian

The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in USA announces that ‘Hide/Seek’ – Difference and desire in American portraiture is the first museum exhibition to focus on sexual difference in the making of modern American portraiture.

Outburst Queer Arts Festival November 12 – 20 2010

Outbust Queer Arts Festival programme cover 2010; cover image ‘Ginger Queers’, baked with love by Cakesbyjames.co.uk Belfast’s annual lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender arts festival starts November 12th, with 8 days of theatre, film, music, art, workshops, performance, discussion and much much more. I have taken a look at the…

Martina Minette Dreier – Female World

Martina Minette Dreier has studied painting and illustration at Fachhochschule Bielefeld in 1988 – 1993. She is currently living and working in Berlin, Germany.

QUEER COUTURE

Femina Potens, a queer non-profit art gallery & performance space in San Francisco, presents the group show ‘QUEER COUTURE’ August 2010.

Sif Itona Westerberg Makes Queer Animations

Sif Itona Westerberg (1985) is a Copenhagen based artist studying at the Funen Art Academy, Denmark. She Works mainly with sculptures, story telling, claymation, stop motion and animation.

A Queer Art Exhibition About Power

The queer Swedish art group Gardet: Kajsa Boklund, Elinore Lindén Strand, Frida Gustavsson, Julia Nilsson and John Erlandsson will be presenting their latest works of art durring the Stockholm Pride 2010.

Queer Arts Festival in Vancouver

Queer Arts Festival, Vancouvers multi-diciplinary Festival Celebrating Queer art and artists, July 27 – August 14 at the Roundhouse, Vancouver, Canada.

THE 2010 GREAT LGBTQ PHOTO SHOW

June 2010: Leslie-Lohman Gallery in New York presents The 2010 GREAT LGBTQ Photo Show. This group photography show includes a wide range of imagery—documentary, erotic, political, romantic and more.

CHRONOTOPIA, Queer Exhibition in San Francisco

CHRONOTOPIA, the National Queer Arts Festival’s annual visual arts exhibition explores the past, present and future of queer people that will permanently alter the way you think about queer art and history in America and beyond.

The Guerrila Girls Have Turned 25

The Guerrila Girls have turned 25 and they are still going strong and they are busier than ever now that the art world, which they have spent their whole life attacking suddenly embraces them.

Solo Exhibition By Zanele Muholi In Cape Town

The Michael Stevenson Gallery in Cape Town will be putting up an exhibition by photographer, Zanele Muholi, from April 22 to May 29 2010. Queer photographer and activist Zanele Muholi explores the implications of being black and queer through a range of different series and strategies.

Gestures of Resistance: Anthea Black

Gestures of Resistance artist-in-residence. Anthea Black talks about her project at Museum of Contemporary Craft in Portland, USA. Black was in residence a part of the duration of the show February 19 – March 10, 2010 where she produced a poster in collaboration with a printmaking class at the Pacific Northwest College of Art.

Sheila Autonomista Festival 2010

Sheila Autonomista is a massive indie, non-profit, queer women’s art and music festival held across 6 days in 3 venues in Marrickville, Australia in the Easter holidays. The art exhibitions, Scabaret, Film Night, and Scooter are open to everyone.